The Mission DownUnder (Austarlia 06')

Farewell Song..

2007-03-06T15:31:00.000-08:00

DTS Granduation Song, by the Evangelism Team.
It brought us all to tears, it is a Fijian worrier song and prayer.

Tribute to Oz Land (Australia):

2007-01-18T12:48:00.000-08:00

Favorite Location: Palm Island (A tasted of paradise, full of chocolate faces that are hungry for truth and hope)
Favorite City: Sydney (Who wouldn’t want to travel by fairy every day!)
New Found Talent: Walking on water (if you had a water snake chase you, you would too)
Best new move: Playing with fire (known as Poi, cultural dance or fire dancing)
Favorite new drink that comes in fruit form: Lemonade Fruit
Worst Sleeping Arrangement: Floating (Sleeping in a tent, on a deserted Island, with stringently placed holes, with rain, lots of rain.
Worst Enemy: The infamous Green Ant (they come in packs! Supposable you can eat their butts but dear I ask why!)
When the discovery channel came to life: A 6in stick bug walked down the door way. And the Huntsmen spider crawled out from the dishes AND WAS THE SIZE OF MY OUT STRECHED HAND!
Favorite New Tune: Geckoes ( they saran-ate me to sleep at night.)
Most Serial Moment: Being the only white person in a tin boat, over shark infested waters, traveling at unspeakable speeds.
Most Mind Blowing moment: Watching over 300 people decision, to make a commitment to fallow Jesus.
Biggest Surprise: Having a good friend show up on my side of the world, to play for 9 days!
Most mischievous Moment: Scaling roofs, above a million people in Sydney, for a 360 view of fireworks on New Years.
Favorite Blast from the Past: An Aussie named Paul.
Favorite New Person: A beautiful women named Shirley, grandmother by disguise but really radical missionary.
Newfound Style: Tie pants (they are genius!)
Most Memorable Connections: Lauren and Amy (two beautiful girls that made Christmas in Australia memorable)
My experience being the necessity being the mother of invention: A Christmas tree made entirely out of notebook paper and crayons.
Weirdest thought: Santa in Australia- He must wear shorts here because anything else and he would have heat stroke.
Near death experience: Looking the wrong way when crossing the road, in a foreign country.

It is amazing what type of advetures the Lord will bring you on if you just make yourself avalible.

Impact Summer is Over.

2006-12-28T20:20:00.000-08:00

Christmas was amazing! For 2 weeks, 80+ kids and lots of fun, we had an epic food fight with caned baked beans, oatmeal, and flour! I am still getting it out of my hair.
We had a speaker named Arie from Perth; he challenged all of us on what it means to be a follower of Jesus. A lot of the kids really meet Jesus in that first week. Then we help Stable on the Strand, and a lot of the kids shared their faith for the first time. We also ended up in the town newspaper!
There was a walk threw stable were all of us dressed up and got to act out the storey in the bible as people walked threw. It was so much fun, I got to hold a small horse for a good part of one of the nights. It was so worth it to miss Christmas back home and be apart of Impact Summer and develop friendships with a lot of the kids. But the best part was watching them start to really understand how much they mean to God and how much they can make a difference in this world.

Whats Next!

2006-12-02T18:27:00.000-08:00

Well, I am back at the school and just got done with graduation. Now I'm saying goodbye to my family from all over the world, people I have spent the last 6 months of my life with that I will never see again. It is biter sweet moment. I would not change the last 6 months for anything. Getting a chance to share in the story of their lives and getting to be apart of the radical change that takes place in all us as we draw closer to our Maker.
It is amazing what God will do when we sit aside 6 months to draw closer to him. I know this will only be the start of many adventures I will take with Jesus.
I have gained freedom from lies and gained a clearer picture of who God really is. In outreach I have goten the privilege of sharing in His heart for the broken and lost. He has asked me to walk out in Isaiah 61 :
... 1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,...

By doing a prime heath care school in Oct of 07’ to prepare me to go to the hard places, to be a light in some very dark places in the world. Helping women and children discover that they matter to God and, that He dose care.
But for now I am going to stay at Reef To Outback for one more month and volunteer for IMPACT Summer: a summer youth camp of about 60 kids. They learn the character of God and how to share their faith with others during Christmas, at Stable at the Strand (huge event of 4 days were the waterfront turns into the story of Jesus birthday and bands play. The HOLE town comes to see the event.) I hope it will be life changing for the youth that are coming. Then I am head back to Seattle for 8 months to visit, work and then coming back to Australia in Oct 07’ to learn more of Gods heart for the poor and needy threw the Primary Heath Care School.
Thank you all who Prayed for me or sent money to support me. I could not have done it with out you partnering with me in this mistrey.
Over 3,000+ people have got to hear the gospel threw Impact World Tour, and the 2000+ Youth over the past 2 months of traveling Queensland, Australia. Lives have been changed because of your prayers and finances. Thank you for being willing to be used by God.
If you would like to help finacely for the next month my needs are: Visa 205$, Impact Summer 140$.
You can donate online at : www.reeftooutback.com
God Bless..
Ps. for all of you back in seattle I hope your enjoying the snow!!! I watched the Seahauks game and became really home sick.

Outreach Is Over

2006-12-02T18:01:00.000-08:00

Hello!
Sorry I haven’t updated my blog in a while. I have been in small farming communities with out Internet. But It has been amazing! 3 weeks ago I was in Charters Towers, staying in a place called the “Yak Shack” It was a Youth Center. We did school programs all over town sharing the story of Jesus and what he has done in our lives. Playing games and spending time with the kids. Then we did a big event on Friday night. Lots of Kids decided to make a choice to follow Jesus. The best part was they are in a drought and it rained that night.
The next town was Ayr, We stayed with families in the community. I stayed with a amazing family, they had a little girl that was my side kick for the better part of the week. It is a beautiful place, with Sugar Cain everywhere. I thing the best night we had there was at a trade school. We shared our stories about how we encountered Jesus and then hung out with them afterwards. I was able to really talk to two girls and pray with them. I believe they made a genuine commitment to follow Jesus that night.
Then off to another town, with a population of maybe 3000. We got to go into schools that had normally had their doors shut to Christians! Are last night there we hung out at a youth center with a lot of the rough crowd: 12-15y drop out kids from broken homes. It was so much fun. We played some games and talked, one of the girls on my team shared her storey and sang a song. That softened the hardest of hearts.
We will never fully know how much God moved in the lives of the Kids we spoke to but I know that a lot of them received a message of hope, love and freedom that Jesus Christ wants to bring.
Shoolies was on an Island called Magnet Island for Australia’s version of MTV”S Spring Break. But instead of 25y olds making fools of them selves it is 17y olds and about 900 of them! So we went in as damage control (the sober friend) We were called the Red Frogs a team of Chaplins, Youth Pastors, and us. It was a hard week, I really got to see how much we abuse our free will by hurting ourselves and how much insecurity can take over our lives. There were a few students that I really got to speak to about the hope and Love Jesus wants to show them. But I also had a few situations were the ambulance was called or I had to keep a potential rape situation from happening. I went to bed almost in tears every night. Because God showed me his heart and how much it breaks for us when we do not know Him and what happens because we try to find other ways to fill that hole inside of all of us, with sex, drugs and alcohol that just devalues are self worth.
Society has made it ok for these kids to let loose for one week after graduation and make, under- the- influence decisions that can have an affect on the rest of their lives. I a so grateful I was there I don’t even want to think of what could have happened if I wasn’t.

The biggest scripter that has impacted me during shoolise week:
Galatians 5
Freedom in Christ
“ 1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”

I was once in the bondage of the world: drinking, partying and loneliness and emptiness being ruined by my emotions and trying to survive in this world. But Christ opens the eyes of those who do not see the emptiness the world can bring and the destruction of our own decisions when we do not know the love that can free us and restore us to what God intend us to be. Free to walk in purity and in light, never in darkness and shame. Just Free.

Second Stop: Palorise Island!

2006-10-17T03:42:00.000-07:00

If you were stranded on a deserted island and you could bring 3 things, what would they be?

ME! I would bring a boat, bible and bus full of 9th graders!
We spent the last four days on a deserted Island with 35, 9th graders. Our team was camp counselors and the guest speakers for 4 days. It was so amazing! The topic was “God’s Love” with an enfaces on “Created for a Purpose”. We got to really have a chance to impact a little part of their lives. On the last night we shared life storey about how we encountered God. Some of the teens rededicated their lives others wanted prayer and some first timers got to meet God that night. With many other adventures like: We climbed to the top of the island and got lost coming down, that was an adventurer with 14 and 15 year olds! Or jumping off a cliff into shark infested waters! (it was safe we had a look out) All of them have such a special place in my heart. It was such a pleaser to speak life into them because I remember 9th grad and that was not a fun year. There was such confusion, the questions that pledged me: Who am I and why am I here and How to survive High School? The cool thing about God is He is all about showing us what He as made us to be and why we are here because it draws us closer to Him and others.

First stop on outreach: Palm Island

2006-10-06T06:34:00.000-07:00

I recently wrote explaining the need of $600 to go on outreach. A large part of the money was donated 2 days before we left, and I received the last amount just a few days ago! Everything is paid off for the next 2 months and the Lord came through again. Thank you all that gave and/or prayed with me.

I have been in Palm Island for the last 12 days. By Australians standards, this is a forsaken place. If you want to come to this island, you have to be invited. Palm Island is the largest Aboriginal community in the world. It is like stepping into a third world country, wild horses and children play in the ocean. The Great Barrier Reef comes right up to the edge of the island. This is truly a beautiful island, but this place is plagued by alcohol, violence and injustices. We learned as we hopped off the ferry there was a threat that there may be another riot against the white police officers. Two years ago, an aboriginal man was killed while in custody and a coronary report (re-valuation of the case) was going to be released in just two days. But the beautiful thing was that the churches were coming together to pray for unity. On the night that the report was released, the churches gathered and let there grievances go, by throwing flowers into the water as an offering to God, for peace. The island was peaceful instead of burning a police building down and chasing the white people from the island, like the last riot.
Our group did a lot of cleaning the naborhood and working at the PCYC (kids center).

Another women on my team and I volunteered almost everyday in the drug treatment center, sharing my story with the patients there. The Lord used me to bring hope to a few of the girls and salvation for one of the men. My heart broke for them, and the bondage they were living under. But the Lord gave me the key, a story of how he released me from the same bondage. I saw a reflection of me years ago in their eyes. One of the women on our team who is from Palm Island decided to stay on with the rehab clinic after we left. She will continue to work with a new youth program. It is so funny how we are all really the same, the only difference is culture and skin color.
A part of my heart will be left in this place and with the beautiful brown faces of Palm Island.

“They will be called the Holy People, the redeemed of the Lord; and you will be called Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted. “ –Isaiah 62: 12

Relationship Week!

2006-09-07T23:10:00.000-07:00

This week we were taught about relationships and what a Godly perspective is on dating. A lot of this teaching was review for me but the speaker Faith, addressed and issue with my thinking. I had a mind set of waiting to deal with the judgments and resentments and pain from past relationships once I am in one and God chooses him for me. This thinking is wrong. God wants to bring restoration in all areas of my life including; holiness from past relationships. It is also unfair of me to expect to bring that into a relationship, I want to be as hole as I can be before I allow another person to become part of my life. She also taught on the aspect of bondreys and why they are so important in every type of relationship. And staying above reproach in any situation single or married. In this time I choose to make a commitment to God that I wouldn’t kiss till marriage ( this is for me not for everyone) and I choose to ask God to start making me into “The One “ before I can even expect for Him to show me “The One” This teaching also just reminded me to treat the opposite sex as : Someone else’s husband or some else’s wife, until they say the words “I do”.

Outreach is approaching we are going to some of the villages were Impact World Tour was and are first stop is Palm Island (all aboriginal island with past history of the “The Stolen Generation” being out castes and ripped of any culture they possessed) we will be going into the schools and disciplining and Loving on the kids there.
I am hoping to meet up with the little girl that got saved the last time I was there. The other places we are going are: Charter towers, Townsville, Cape town and Maggie Island. In Maggie Island we will be assisting the safety and damage control of a wide spread celebration of kids graduation from High School. There are many horror stories about Schoolies : many suicides and kids dieing of drug overdoes. So I am excited to be there and maybe get to talk to these kids at such a scary time in there life and helping out with damage control, sense there isn’t a stopping of this wide spread celebration.
My prayer is to make lasting relationships with some of the people and speak turth into there lives and start the process of raising the new believers up and helping them be strong enough to live by God’s standards and not the worlds. To just speak life into them and addressing any need the town may need.

To to this I will need support for Gass food and other expences to go the total of 3 months on outreach comes to 1795$(AUS) about 1,351.31$ (US) and God has alrealy supplied 1000$ of the cost! Praise the Lord but I still need the 1095$(AUS) about 824.10$ (US) in the next 2 weeks. I trust that God will suppy because he is a faithfull God. If you feel you would like to parter with God in this time and donate you can go to : www.reeftooutback.com and click on finaces to donate, just say it is for Stacy Parker and for outreach fees.
This money is going to purely be used for outreach.

Thank You for your prayers and support.

Lordship Week!

2006-09-07T21:47:00.000-07:00

Hello All!
Impact World Tour (IWT) left 2 weeks ago and I went camping ...I just got back. I now get to go to the cities IWT went to for outreach, God is having me Disciple the new believers. There is about 12 people on our team, I am going to start this week putting video clips together to help lesson we mite teach to the cities. I get to go back to Palm Island and do schoolies(dunken party for one week-highschool kids right after graduation. Many kids getting hurt or hurting them selfs) in Maggie Island. There is also alot of other towns inbeween.
Camping was crazy..two hole weeks in the bush! so many spiders...grrr. but I got to see a platypuses in the wild and a bandicoot ( it looks like a small rabbit/ rat). And I got to push a bus out of the mud because it rained the last day and we got stuck it was great! We had Mark Parker speak, I had mixed feelings but it wasn't him it was all of the stuff going on inside me. I am not quit sure how to explain every thing. The theme was "Trust" that God was working on me. Mark's teachings are greatHe spook on Lordship( making Jesus Lord of your life) I got alot of quoits’ from him he is a very quotable guy...like my friends annies favorite " SUT UP AND SERNDER
"Forgiveness is setting a prisoner free, and finding out it's you."........
"You have all of the holyspirt but not all of the holyspirt is influencing you"...
"Don't worry about developing your charter, your ministry will develop your charter"...." “The only thing that needs to be senders is your will everything else was a gift form Him and never rightfully yours.".....
"The role of the sole is introducing spiritual with the natural.".....
"Many trust Him for eternal life but not many trust Him for today"....
"Many want to be deliver from the consquesess of sin rather than the love of it".......
"Jesuse cleans the temple (body) not us"(he referred to Jesus turning over tables in the temple in Mathew)....
"Every other religion is man coming to be with God, Christianity is the only one that God comes to be with man.".....
The teaching was a good week the spiritual stuff was hard......a couple of days before the big night (Friday last day of teaching) I when on a walk and God spoke to me saying I could trust Him and I saw a sidewalk sign, one older person holding another persons hand and crossing the street to keep them out of danger and then I come up to another sidewalk sign that said "one way" ....God spoke pretty clear then that night we had worship by the bomb fire and Mark prayed for me....lots of tears. It was the first time I cried out to God "I will Trust you" it was so hard to say those words my body had to almost throw them up. Then the big finally the last night of the week.....I left some things at the altar....a picture of all of my friends and my self (my shoes). It was one of the hardest things I have had to do. My friends were a gift and God wants me to learn how to trust Him and be intimate with Him the way I was with them but for Him to do that I have to not be home for a time. When I left my shoes at the altar I also left any and all of my plans for my life. because my life is to serve him and my heart wants nothing less . But God wants to establish in me that it is Just Him. I also left a prayer at the altar and the scary part is I know He heard it but my heart meant this prayer: Make me a women that trusts you, knows you, Lives by faith and a spirtfilled daughter to bring healing to the nations no matter what the cost. A woman that knows her Father and because of that has no fear of man.
I chooses you ....to trust you.
Your child.

This was hard because I feel I was at a crossroads and now I have chosen’s the " live by faith road" not the "live by sight road" and it is a one way there is no going back.
So that was camping.....lol.
Please pray for me about outreach money (795$ is still needed-but 1000$ has alrealy been dotated! Praise the Lord!) faith for outreach I never considered myself capable of teaching anyone but God things other wise. And for me to continue strong in this Journey of Trust. I need clarity from God on what the next steps are after outreach.

If you feel you would like to donate some money go to www.reeftooutback.com and click on Finaces.

Thank you for all your support and prayers,

Over 4000 Heard the Gospil!

2006-08-18T00:16:00.000-07:00

The IMPACT WORLD TOUR has come and gone…
God did amazing things! Thursday night TEAM EXREAM performed with a powerful message of how God can break any walls that we have place up that separate us from him. Walls of immorality (sex out of marriage or any type of impurity) Drugs, Hatred, and dough. Our job is to just take a chance and belive in Jesus. Bricks broke, cars were turned over and especially, Hearts broke and came back to God! Over a hundred people came forward answering the call of God and responding to their pounding hearts and the love of God. Freedom came for many that night!
Friday Death & Desire (hard medal band) Brought the message about Jesus to a generation that would never set foot in a church and one girl imparticular received the healing of Jesus Christ that night and if she didn’t come she would have taken her own life, but she felt the love of Christ! Saturday GX INTRNATIONAL danced and skated sharing that there is a heaven and a hell and the chains that satin places on us trying to keep us from being free! And Loved by God. This was a powerful night over 300 people came forward and desired to fallow Christ. ILAND BREZE came on stage Sunday with blazing fire throwing and reached out to the broken hearts of the Aboriginal community in Townsville, showing that Christ is not just a western belief but that the same God that created the west created the north and south and wants us to celebrate our different cultures and praise Him.

He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:3-6
But the best part about this is Christ provided a way for us to be saved it is a free gift open arms from our heavily Father threw his son Jesus Christ. If you could become white as snow and as pure as Gold why would you choice not to have a relationship with your Creator.

God is Saving Palm Island

2006-08-03T06:36:00.000-07:00

GOD’S WORK IN PALM ISLAND
Palm Island was a taste of paradise that God is taking back. You step off the fairy into a sea of chocolate faces. About a 1000 people live in this place, were horse run wild and the children fallow. Aboriginals eyes are filled, with curiosity of your presents, others hate and anger from past history that has destroyed this Island. About 40 of us step off the small fairly and set up in the PCYC (city center/ school) 400 locals show up to see the big men brake bricks and bend bars. To see Fiji and Hawaiian dances perform there tribal dances. But as they sat watching they heard the gospel presented threw music, presentation and testimonies of how God restores. How we should worship Him and not the things he has created. How the God of Bible is not just a western religion but the truth of the only true God and how there is power of his Name and His peace. An alter call was given and Children ran, teenagers waited tell last, as mothers and fathers walked up with tears filling their eyes, all feeling for the first time the love of this God we speak of really to accept the truth and come back to there creator, JESUS. People were counseled, given a bible and prayed for and freedom came. The next morning we had a united serves were all the churches came to worship together. As we blessed the village I had my hand on a little Girl maybe 8y old. As I told her how much Jesus loved her and asked if I could pray for her. She began to tell me she wanted to know Jesus and I helped her ask Jesus into her heart. She had many questions about how to get ride of the scary stuff she felt in her room and I began to tell her the power she has to tell them to leave, in Her Fathers (Jesus) name. I also told her there are angles around us that God places to protect us. Freedom is coming to this little place of heaven and hearts are coming back to Christ. My prayer for this place is that alcoholism be broken and witch craft be broken. That it’s beauty is found to be even more beautiful than its beaches. Thank you all that prayed for me and Palm Island.

IMPACT WORLD TOUR IS HERE!

2006-07-12T05:39:00.000-07:00

It’s the first week in and God has already started working. In worship to day He spoke to me and gave me a bible verse to embrace.

The Year of the LORD's Favor
1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,

2 to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn,

3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown of beauty
instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness
instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
a planting of the LORD
for the display of his splendor.
Isaiah 61: 1-3

This really hit me, I have given up the next 6 months to listen to Him and serve. And to find out what He wants but this is the work He wants for me! He also asked for me to sacrifice ANY plans I have for the future and wait on Him. I am a planer this is going to be hard but I only want to walk and be were He wants me.
IMACT WORLD TOUR has shown up (about 100 people) and we are starting to prepare for a four day concert in over 5 locations in Queensland, to tell people about Jesus. Thousands of people will hear about the Truth threw these performances and it is such an amazing way to touch the younger generation here. I cried as they played the TV add they are going to start playing on channel 10. God has given me such a heart for this Tour. I have started to ask how I can help and I am learning how to set up the sound for the School, not the concert but if they need me I am ready to help. The Tour is going to be part of are outreach right now because The Australian Government has told us (on student visas) that we can’t travel at the moment accept in Queensland. whitch came as a disappointment at first but now it makes so much since to stay in Australia because there will be so many young people that will hear the Gospel; and except Jesus and will need direction from there. And also there will be so many with questions about the Bible and what it means. God is preparing a great harvest here and I am just allowing Him to do a great work in me, so I can share The Truth about Jesus to set the lost free so they can begin to live, really live for Him for eternity and feel His wonderful Love. The Tour starts August 10th-13th visit the website: www.ImpactWorldTour.com (Check it OUT!)

I ARRIVED!

2006-06-29T22:10:00.000-07:00

So IM HERE! I can’t believe it. The lord is soo good - I have enough money for the first half of the school 3300 + 200 extra, 2000 of this came in the last two days before I hopped on the plane. Thank you all so much to those who gave, for listening to your heart and what the Lord was saying; amazing things happen. My Journey was crazy; I meet so many single serving friends (quote from fight club). I met another YWAM’er on my long flight. She is going to a school in Perth, Aus. I also had an amazing talk with another guy sitting next to me. We started talking about God and I shared the word with him. He told me later on in conversation that he was a Quaker. The beliefs all sound the same, but so off. It was nice to be able to learn what they believe and share the differences with him. I truly believe that God’s word dose not come back void and that are conversation about the word and who Jesus is will resonate in his heart. We talked almost the whole ride to Sydney. I had a lay over there for 6hrs and took the bus to downtown. The waterfront has the same feel as Seattle, but so beautiful. I also ordered a cup of coffee and got their version of what that was..lol. It didn’t hit me that I was going till I landed. I started to get tired and a little depressed at the last bit of my journey, but I got off the plane and there was a convoy of people to greet me - I loved it!
Everyone here is great; the language barrier is just funny. I am determined to catch the accent. But it is fun to discover that I have my own. A lot of people are from suburbs part of the world and for the first time I feel very urban. I haven’t seen any spiders or snakes yet. Jet lag it’s so bad; I am tired but it is getting better.
I still cant believe that the Lord got me here, but this is going to be such a huge jump start to some radical times of living by faith, it’s the only way to live!
I will write more soon I need a nap…lol
Good day mate.

I recived my Visa today for Austrailia...

2006-06-02T20:26:00.000-07:00

God is so good, I applied for my visa less than 72 hrs ago and I received it today! If that isn't the grace of God I don't know what is.
I have started to get really excited about leaving in 3 WEEKS on the 30th of June! I have officially moved home to save a little more cash and I have sold everything I own. I have clothes to fit in my new pack and my computer and a few small things in storage. My Jobs don't have me on the schedule for July and have started to hire new replacements. It is starting to sink in and I am starting to get really sentimental with everyone. This next few weeks I am going to have to really step out in faith. I still need a plane ticket (1500$) and the rest of the money for the school (3300$) I completely know I am meant to go and I am just excited to see how this all happens. The other thing that has been on my heart has been to pray about going to Indonesia for 3 months for the last part of my schooling ( the outreach part).

If this is your first time looking at my blog the school I am going to is : www.reeftooutback.com please look at the site it has a lot of good info about it. It is completely non-profit and non denomination missions school.
Also if you would like to help God provide finally you can donate online threw the website or contact me threw email: JustLovePeople@hotmail.com .

I am planning to keep a weekly journal of my adventure and would love for you to read it and respond to me. Thank you and I love you all.

God's Cool!

2006-04-23T17:13:00.000-07:00

I have just keep getting affirmation left and right, just two days after getting my acceptance letter I start my new job at a coffee shop, get a babysitting gig out of the blue and a call from my moms old work needing some extra help! I have to come up with the first part of the payments witch is 500$ plus the cost of a visa 300$.This will cover enrollment, health insurance and deposit for the school. If He provides this it will be just one, of many conformation to come.
I truly want to seek Him so much deeper and can't wait to see what he dose next!
"...going after God's heart and He will NOT let you fall" - Quote of the day!

I prayed it would get lost!

2006-04-18T20:56:00.000-07:00

Have you ever said one of these prayers..."God, if you don't want me to go have this happen_____." Well, I was really needing something, anything to happen to my paper work for DTS or for the school to not excepted my application. I asked for Him to have it get lost in the mail if he didn't want me to go to Australia. It's a lot of money that has to come in and only 2 months for it to happen! Crap! Now I really have to practice some faith in Him. Because this is definitely something the world will look at and say "this girl is crazy and irresponsible and jumping the gun". But if I am honest with myself, I know I'm not crazy. God doesn't work the way the world works. He works on faith, love and a willing heart to serve Him.
Well, the letter didn't get lost. I got a message on my phone. A sweetie girl from Australia ,Kim said" I have good news! I will try to reach you tomorrow!". So I am assuming I got excepted to the school. Now I am really trying to not concentrate on HOW this is going to happen and I am just trying to WATCH him work and lessening to see what he wants me to do next.

Random thoughts on God's grace...

2006-03-29T20:23:00.000-08:00

The latest thing I have been meditating on has been pretty intense. Paul's experience with "God's Grace" when Paul asked God to take the torn out of his side God replied " my grace is suffusion enough". That is pretty intense and most likely not what he wanted to hear. But true. If Paul didn't have the torn in his side, He would have leaned on his own understanding and not God's. It got me thinking about how I would feel if God said no, about going to a DTS. It would break my heart for a moment but if I really want to understand his grace I will need to ask myself "Why no". Because he know. He always knows exactly what I need. The biggest part about understanding His grace is...He saved me that should, and is enough.

"The plane come, praise God.
The plane don't come, praise God".
-famous quote form an Iland'er

I also love the other part of the book I am reading said.

"Why doesn't God make you more like him? He is. He's just not finished yet. Until he is, his grace is sufficient to overcome your flaws. The power is in the message, not the messenger."
- Book: In the Grip of Grace

I have looked my hole life from a sense of self in others. Looking for exceptions, worth, congratulations, affection and love. The only reason was, I didn't think I could hear it directly from him. I am being patient and now, I am trying to ask for those thinks from him when I feel I need them.

My journey to a DTS....

2006-03-23T15:46:00.000-08:00

I am 21y old and ready to go on an adveture with Jesue. My heart as been getting more and more pasionate about a DTS in Townville, Australa.