What a year indeed! I have spent these past few days settling nicely back into life in the States… although I did drive on the wrong side of the road the other day! There are not enough words to describe this past year. The people I met, things I witnessed, places we lived, the growth in others, the growth in me, there is just so much to be thankful for. Having an opportunity to help ministries all over the world, to pour into them as they poured into us and to share the love of Christ, was just incredible. We experienced life and ministry in the jungles of Ecuador, where we worked with the small communities and the children, to living in the suburbs of Japan, where we shared the light to the overworked and spiritually deprived, and the mountains of Swaziland where I got to love on the orphans and bring Jesus into the classroom of a community that desperately needed Him. One of the coolest realizations I had was just how we all worship the same God, that He is everywhere. From the slums in Thailand to the cities in Bolivia, He is the same, He is there. Seeing the community of followers, the fellowship, the network, how we are all bonded and no matter where you are in the world, there will always be a home provided is incredible. God is cool!
I began the year knowing of Jesus, but not knowing Him. Throughout the year, my relationship has become a deep, strong, powerful one. I learned more of a loving, compassionate, just God. A God that can’t be put into words. A God bigger than anything you could ever imagine. A God that knows me by name and calls me His daughter.
I am a new person from the beginning of the race to the end of it. God does in fact make everything new. I have seen how through God I have overcome so many obstacles that once held me back. I have seen how He works not just in myself, but also in others. I see now where there was once darkness, there is now Light and joy. I now know my purpose on this Earth – to share the person of Jesus, to expand the Kingdom, to bring Heaven to Earth, and to change Eternity.
Since my experiences at training camp, I have heard a whisper of the steps I should take following the race. It was in Cambodia where that whisper became a shout. I know without a shadow of a doubt that I am supposed to go to G42 Leadership Academy, a discipleship school, beginning in October. Here is their mission statement:
“The G42 Leadership Academy is a six month program created for discipling, inspiring and equipping young men and women to locate their passion – whether in business, the non-profit realm, church planting or the arts – and to develop a strategy to use that passion to bring the Kingdom to the earth.”
My mission on Earth just got started on the race, but my race has not ended. I am going to this program to learn how to live out that mission and to discover how my talents and skills can best be applied, as well as discover the direction of ministry that I am being called to. Along with that, I am going to learn. I have an insatiable hunger to continue learning about God, and the Word of God, and this program will take me deeper into that knowledge. I will learn how to live out Christ on Earth and would love for you to partner with me as I take this next step.
If you would like to partner with me financially for G42 please visit their website:
http://www.g42leadershipacademy.org/donate
Under Leadership Academy Intern you can write my name in the appealed by section. You may also send a check payable to G42 with my name in the memo section to:
G42
PO BOX 17
Fredericksburg, TX 78624
Thank you so much for your support and prayers throughout this year!
“Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you” Mark 5:19
“Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples” Psalms 96:3
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age” Matthew 28:19-20
