I will be leaving so soon it’s unreal! My launch has started a little bit earlier than every other squad before us. God has chosen us for a huge project and a special blessing of attempting to make a documentary/tv of our entire Race. I came into “story-telling training,” as they called it, thinking why in the world do we need to go three days early for that? I know how to tell stories.
But BOOM, was I wrong. Gray Media and Adventures in Missions made the decision to trust us and God even more.
There are 8 teams within K Squad and each team has been given such a unique opportunity to share our stories, we were given a bag full of goodies to accomplish this. Including a fancy-named video camera, go-pro, MacBook Air, and other little gizmos to accompany them.
My first thought is Whaaaaaaaaaaaa?! How are we going to be able to do this, more specifically me; I just used the word gizmo, come on. So after about 2 days of full on film school my brain was fried; I felt like I’ve never needed alone time more in my life. I had no idea where in the heck I fit into this or where God wanted me to. All I know is that my squad, this media team, and myself were all made for this moment in time. We were all born to live an epic adventure with our King and at this moment it is this special project. We were born to live out now and that means living out this Race with an extra little something to it.
So I finally got to sit down and just be with God, my comforter. He reminded me
Psalm 46:10
“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Know matter how much I or we as a Squad try to make this documentary great it won’t work. We are going to have to look towards God to guide us. I am so glad I wasn’t chosen as one of eight “field producers” on the field, but I am totally confident in those who were chosen. God will absolutely guide them in telling His stories of brokenness and redemption. That’s what this is all about, exalting God among the nations we visit and then having the special chance of exalting him in the whole earth through this medium.
I’m still finding my place amidst this documentary process and even amongst my new family of 54 people. But I am fully confident this all is God’s timing and his hand and love is in this.
So on the other topic of actually leaving…… I am so stoked!! It’s almost unreal that we are leaving within a few short days after some launch events in Atlanta. With this I actually have some new for you all! The tentative/full/chronological list of the 11 countries we’re going to
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Philippines
Vietnam
Thailand
Cambodia
Nepal
Botswana
Swaziland
Ukraine
Albania
Isn’t she beautiful?! I was so excited for one of the changes and finally hearing the last two countries we’ll be serving at. I am so absolutely blessed to be going out with this group and serving alongside of them. To hear so many special stories and just give out as many hugs as I possible can, cheesy but true.
As I had some more free time today I went outside to just sing to God with my iPod, classic move here. But as I was sitting there it started to thunder. If you’ve read the blog I posted a few weeks ago you have the knowledge that God is speaking to me through physical, loud storms recently. I couldn’t help but smile and laugh so hard. I still don’t know exactly what he is telling me through this but I’m learning to love a good storm on the horizon. I’m really looking forward to some in every country. God is really speaking to me through the Psalms and Isaiah lately and today this had a huge specific message for me.
Isaiah 45:8
“You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, The Lord, have created it. “
I pray this for the year. God let the storms come, bring restoration to the nations, to your people of every shape, size, and color.
PS. The picture up top is the picture God painted for me today. How beautiful can our creator be?!
