E X C I T I N G N E W S!!
Recently I have been given the opportunity to live at “A
Place for the Heart� for an 8 month internship. “The Farm� in beautiful
North Carolina is where I spent this past summer as a student in the 18�
journey. The internship is a great opportunity
for me since I greatly honor and
respect Jonathan and Melissa Helser and the staff who run “A Place for the
Heart�. They dream for students from all over the world to start living from
their heart, one reason why it is called the 18� journey.
“Our
desire at “A Place for the Heart” is to liberate a generation into
the fullness of their destiny. This is a school like no other, designed
to unlock the greatness God has deposited inside you.
The 18 inch Journey Internship is a deeper dive into the
heartbeat and rhythms of “A Place for the Heart.” The
internship will consist of 8 months of community, discipleship, creativity,
servant leadership, and an invitation to carry the dream of the farm. “
A piece of the farm is the 18� journey held there every
summer. This school is broken into five core pillars of: Worship, Community,
Creativity, Inspiration, and Release. Since most of the core leaders are
worship leaders there is always the atmosphere of worship on the farm. While
living in community and pursuing new depths of creativity students are inspired
by those around them and by what is inside of them that is being found. Every
moment is an opportunity to walk in the 
releasing.
Personally for me the 18� journey was a safe place to step
out in new areas creativity. Most of the time we don’t want to step out in
things that we create because of the thought of being rejected, looking dumb, or
someone not liking it. Here I was able to step out in singing without being completely
comfortable with my voice, because they have developed a place of
encouragement. We all have a unique sounds that is released and they emphasize
on how important it is for your personal sound to be released. It may not
look or sound like anyone else’s sound, it is your sound. They have created a place to make it comfortable for anyone to
step out because you are not being judged, you are being you.
To read in more about the core values: click here
In the internship I will have 6 months of discipleship and
learning the rhythms, then 2
months of helping staff the 2012 18� journey. I am very excited to be living at
A Place for the Heart and partnering with them for this season. In this I am
asking for some help.
Please pray and consider supporting me on this invitation
they have offered me. As much as I would love to say that I would be able to
support myself in this venture, I can’t. I need a total of $4,000 for the internship and $2,000 before I start in January.
Please send checks to:
Sydnee Mela
13319 E 93rd Street
Kansas City, MO 64138
Or for those of you who would like to stay anonymous make the check out to A Place for the Heart, place
my name in the note, , and send your checks to:
A Place for the Heart
4228 Beckerdite Road
Sophia, NC 27350
(photos by Christopher Joel Miller)
much love to you all.
Sydnee
