Hello everyone!! My team & i made it safely to Ireland on Sunday. We have been enjoying a week of worship, fellowship, mind-provoking teachings, re-charging, & exploring Dublin! This is the first time in the last 2 months that i have used my tent, so im excited & enjoying it! I must say that my body went into shock the first few days that i was here: going from 100 degree temperature & lots of humidity in Haiti to highs in the 50s & 60s here in Ireland! (im grateful i bought a warm sleeping bag!
We just found out our ministry for the month of September…..drum roll…………….. homeless ministry!!!!! Yay!! Most of you know…this is a HUGE passion of mine!! We will be serving at a shelter/mission in downtown Dublin. From what we’ve been told so far, it sounds like we will be feeding them daily, giving clothes/necessary items, & spending time with them & hearing their stories. Being Jesus to them. Learning their names & listening to them, praying for them, building friendships, & sharing the best news ever….that Jesus loves them & values them & has a purpose & a plan for their lives! Im not sure about all of the details yet, but ill fill you in once i get more info! We will be moving to our new location around Sunday. There’s a possibility that we may stay in a hostile….which would be another mission field in itself. I look forward to exploring more of Dublin also! Please keep me, Blake, William, Alison, Sara, & Krystel in your prayers this month. That we would stay safe & healthy, & continue to grow close as a team together & closer to Jesus, our Savior. That our unity,love & compassion would be seen in Dublin & that God would get the glory!
Something extra to keep in prayer about for me: I know i still have 9 months left on the World Race, but i am still praying about where God wants me AFTER the race. Maybe fulltime homeless ministry somewhere?! Who knows….. may His will be done! Wherever you call me Lord, i will go! (that’s a dangerous prayer to pray!!) Ive been praying for God to break my heart for what breaks His……and He has been. That is also a dangerous prayer.
WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS PRAYER FOR HIM? I challenge you to think about this….what would be YOUR dangerous prayer for God today? A prayer that, if answered, would ROCK your world & ruin you to your very core. Would break you. Would challenge you to a level you’ve never been before. If answered, you’d be a bit terrified & scared, and definitely uncomfortable. I double dare ya.
These last 2 months i have become more dependent on God than ever before. Leaving the comforts of home & family & friends has forced me to lean & rely on Him every moment of my life now. This is how it should be & needs to be. But yet sometimes we resist it & refuse to budge from our comfortable nest. He is showing me what it means to truly walk by faith. He is there to catch me. He is there to pick me back up if i fall. He has my present & my future in the palm of His hands & being in His will right now is the safest place to be. Even if i was in the most dangerous place in the world….if He has called me there & i am in His will…THAT is the safest place to be.
Lord…..break my heart for Dublin, Ireland. Break my heart for the people here. Give me insight into their lives & culture so that we may reach them. Let us be a light here & disciple those who are thirsty for You. Give us Your grace & love each day so that we can do the good works that You already ordained for us to do. Help us to break the chains of religion in this country. Let us share that its all about a relationship with You…not dead religion that man made up.Prepare the hearts of the homeless who we will be meeting & prepare our hearts to meet them. May we see them through Your eyes, not ours. Man looks at the outside, but You, Lord, judge the heart.
my studio apartment/tent
