Here We Go

The 5^th week of our DTS is at an end. Ridiculous! It is like we are on a roller coaster and have been steadily climbing to the top of the drop.

These blogs are always so hard to write. I never know what to say exactly. Words can’t possibly describe all I have experienced. I definitely need to meet with you in person so you can see my facial expressions and my hand motions.  So you can hear the excitement and awe in my voice. More than ever, in these last two weeks my mind has been blown.

Since I arrived on the Herrnhut base my prayer has been that God redefine who he is and what my relationship with him looks like. He has been more than faithful. These last two weeks in our core groups we have been reading the book of Acts. Holy cow do I love this book! Have you ever read it? Have you really thought about the stuff that goes on in this book? People healed by Peters’ shadow, buildings shaken, earthquakes, hearts changed, crazy church community, people killed, people beaten and then run off full of joy and pray for more. What the heck?!

After reading this I can’t help, but ask God how come I don’t see these things? First of all, I didn’t realize how little of questions I ask regarding my faith. I didn’t realize just how much my treating this God thing as just a bunch of rules and a religion to claim for the majority of my life suppressed my curiosity and ability to think for myself and really ask why. To make my relationship with God, an actual relationship. You know, in relationships people talk. You ask a person a question and they answer back, unless they’re totally rude and choose to ignore you. God isn’t rude and he loves when we ask questions, because he loves answering them!

So yeah, if I believe that this God that I am reading about and did all these crazy things through the apostles is the same God that I believe in and pray to now, why don’t I see people healed and all other cool stuff? God answered me and he said “because you are afraid. Your fear is robbing you of complete faith and trust in me. So you only ask me for things that are within your idea of who I am.” I worked some courage up and asked God to break my ideas of who he is and what he can do. And he answered! Beyond anything that I have ever experienced or could imagine, he answered me. He broke any stereotypes that I placed on him and instead of this God that can fit in my head, he has become this enormous infinite God that I can’t even begin to explain. So I encourage you to ask God for yourself. Be bold, question and expect an answer.

With all that said, I am incredibly excited to see how he is going to break my idea of who he is during our mini outreach these next two weeks!! On Sunday morning we will leave Herrnhut and travel to Nurnberg, Germany by train where we will be staying the next two weeks. At the end of last week we only had 60 “beds” for our group of 120 in our DTS. We have been praying and God has provided the other 60!!!! Now when Y.W.A.M. says “beds” it is a little tricky. We will most likely be sleeping on the floors of a couple of churches. Haha. I seriously cannot wait! We will continue our lectures while in Nurnberg with one hour sessions every day, as well as worship and of course prayer. Most of our time will be in the streets talking to who ever God leads us to and using our art to establish relationships. The two biggest things we will probably encounter in Nurnberg is the incredible amount of homeless people and the red light district.  These are two really heavy things. I am incredibly inspired and blessed to be surround by 119 people of my generation who approach this with such boldness, passion and love! Every evening we will have a night time service to invite people we meet to hangout. We are so ready to put into practice what we have been learning. To be led by God and be used to give freedom to prisoners and shine light in the darkness! I expect my next blog to have some pretty awesome testimonies of how God moved in Nurnberg!

Keep the faith family friends! It is worth it.

Prayer requests

Mini Outreach

-Safety and protection in travels and while on mini outreach (October 6-21)

-Prepared and focused hearts

-Creative ideas in our art work to share with people in Nurnberg

-Unity within our DTS

YWAM Herrnhut MOTA DTS

-Provision in finances. Tons of students who need lots of financial support

-Visas. A few students have been sent home due to Visa trouble and there are more that are in the air

-Big outreach teams will soon be announced and locations of teams.

-Lots of new YWAM projects and schools are being started!! Both overseas and in the states. If anyone is interested in more info let me know! =)

-Good health! It seems like every week a stomach virus or cold is sweeping through our DTS

Personal

-Finances. I have paid off my entire lecture phase, but will most likely come up short once outreach fees are due.

-Need photography equipment, outreach necessities and living necessities.

-Continue revelation of who God is

-So many options through YWAM and back home regarding future plans once DTS is over.

-I have crazy knots in my shoulders, neck and back that causes pretty intense pain.

-I think my body is kind of run down and I am getting sick

Highlights!

-I received my first letter in the mail this week! Congratulations Megan Tucker aka Roomie!

-Thanks to my Mexican amiga Fernanda I had home made tortillas this week!

-We are beginning to work with film and studio lighting in our photo track

-I got to see Liz and The Lions perform live in our lecture tent! They’re awesome! I definitely recommend it!

-New YWAM base in Florida is opening soon!

-I went on an awesome 8 mile run last week, took a wrong turn and became very lost! Good prayer time though =)

-I made an awesome friend from Ireland who is in the Y.W.A.M. justice DTS