Let me just start with this:
I am blessed beyond what I can comprehend.
I am currently sitting on an airplane in seat 29F, flying over the ocean with an absolutely breath-taking view as the sun is barely peeking above the horizon.
I just got served hot coffee.
And I am surrounded by amazing people.
Amazing men and women of God.
I am slightly partial to 6 of them.
We call ourselves ‘Kingdom Unleashed.’
We are a team made up of 2 men and 5 women.
Travis. Jake. Stephanie. Micah. LaShondra. Shari. & myself.
We have a team dynamic that is so unique.
I literally have visions of our team dancing into places and seeing chains being broken and freedom being brought. [we are pretty good dancers]
I don’t know how many of you have seen the movie “Finding Nemo” but there is a particular part where Dory and Marlin are so deep in the ocean that it is pitch black. They are surrounded by darkness when Dory then notices a small light [which later happens to be an anglerfish]… She was so intrigued by this light—so she went after it. She got as close as possible to this light, she gasped, and as she was in a daze staring into this one little light surrounded by darkness, she whispered “its so…pretty.”
That’s a vision I see a lot.
We will be in places where people are so deep in darkness or surrounded by darkness that they can’t even see what is in front of them. But I pray that we can always be the light we are called to be so that when our light is seen, people gasp, they stand in awe, and they will be drawn to what we have.
We have love. We have hope. We have freedom. We have Jesus.
A quote last night from Ryan Hughes,
“Hurt people hurt people. Free people free people.”
Luckily, there are 7 of us walking in freedom.
We will bring freedom to the broken.
We will bring light to the darkness.
We will bring kingdom to earth as it is in heaven.
We will unleash the kingdom.
It starts from within.
Its not just talking the talk.
Its walking it out.
Its being vulnerable.
Its loving & loving fervently.
Yesterday Jake said powerful words that quickly became our team motto.
“From within. To each other. To the nations.”
WE ARE– Kingdom Unleashed.
Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we start our ministry and bring freedom to the people of Guatemala. We just found out that starting tomorrow our team will be working in the prison ministry this month. We will continue to do our best to keep you informed. Thank you for your prayers and support.
