Hello, and thanks a lot for taking time out of your day to read about the things happening in my life. I realize that you have so much to do every day, so I feel very honored and I hope that this blog will bless you every time you stop in. 🙂
My name is Angelika and for the year of 2018/2019 I am going on an adventure of a lifetime. I will be travelling the world across three continents, visiting 11 countries in 11 months, learning to worship Jesus in different languages, to see His majesty in the many cultures around the globe so different from my own. To learn to die to my flesh daily, so give up comforts and safety of my surroundings for the amazing safety of Christs love. Christ love, which indeed is a place to dwell in and not just a fuzzy feeling, but something much more secure, tangible and real than even this laptop I am typing on, or the chair I am sitting on while typing this blog.
I have always been created for this kind of calling. I have always enjoyed diving into cultures strange and other from my own, the beauty and smells of things unfamiliar to me, have always been an environment in which I have thrived. And from the moment of my salvation almost 10 years ago, I have known that I would travel in God’s service. In my journey with Jesus the lessons of waiting have always been the most daunting for me. But they have also been the most amazing blessing and I can see all the ways in which God used those years so mold me and work out many things inside my character to prepare me for this stage in my life.
I am currently working at a little coffee shop in Griffin, Ga, a place God hand picked for me and I have loved my time there. I enjoy the craft of coffee and how it brings people together. Just like music, art and food. They are all things I greatly enjoy. I play the guitar some but only for Jesus and my own enjoyment usually and I enjoy words that are put together masterfully and trying to capture them in cute calligraphy.
While I had the opportunity to serve God as Missionary before for a few years, I learned that Christ is in the midst of all the things we love to do. So I enjoy these things especially because I never do them alone. When I cook, I love inspiration from the Holy Spirit, without whom’s help I would never have been able to cook for dozens of people during my missionary experience. The fact that Jesus is involved in every aspect of my life, that He sees and hears every one of my thoughts, that He knows all my feelings and cares about each and every one of my needs, makes Him so much bigger and mightier to me, than a distant superior being somewhere on a cloud who is without compassion or mercy.
And over the past years I have come to realize that humans are all the same! We all come into this world wanted and created with God’s fingerprints all over our bodies and souls and then we are thrown into this place that is so alien from the wonderful place we came from. Some of us were placed in homes with loving Christian parents and that put a hedge of protection around us, at least to an extent…. But so many of us were placed in a really dark world, and we learn to fend for ourselves and to hold ourselves together and we really, really suck at it. We cannot protect ourselves it seems from hurt, without hurting others in the process. Loving and being generous is a threat to our very existence.
Yet there is another way. A person, Jesus Christ who is the light, all that is worth living for, all that is worth dying for and it is Him that we must bring to the nations. That there is a God who holds us together when we can’t, that He gives us so much when we give all we have to those in need.
Please help me to be molded more into the Son of Man’s image through this journey. Pray and believe with me. Your time that is given in prayer will fight spiritual battles for me and with me to open up doors of ministry and to prepare the way for Holy Spirit to draw the people to God.
And I also cannot go unless many, many of you also give sacrificially in financial ways. This journey is an effort of a whole body of believers – I am incapable of achieving this high goal alone. I am in need of your help and God’s provision, and in turn I have been praying for such a return of spiritual blessings to be poured out on you, that you will share in every foot that we will gain for the Kingdom of God on this earth. That anything for which I labor, you also receive the benefits not only in this life, but the life to come.
Thank you from the depths of my heart!
Isaiah 55:10-11 “10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”
