In Cambodia

Hello everyone! First of all, I would just like to say I'm so blessed by everyone's comments about this blog! It encourages me that I'm able to encourage others and that God touches your lives through me! Way to go God! Since its the summer now I know that everyone is just having so much fun in Sisters! I pray that you guys have as safe of fires as possible (because they are kind of necessary). I also pray that God continues to light a fire in your Hearts wherever you are! Seriously seeking God is the best thing ever! At the end of your life when you're at the Judgement Seat of Christ, nothing else will matter except for the things that glorified God! That's a very good thing to realize now while we still have more life to live.
So the team is now in Cambodia! Everyone is going through culture shock, which is good because it brings us closer to Jesus! It so amazing just how blessed America is materially! We are so blessed to have hot clean water, air conditioning and clothes washers!
We will be teaching english, which is one of the best ways to tell student about English actually! Thank God that I was born in America! I will actually get to be teaching bible with my friend, Min Young. Then in the morning we will be planting a church group and building a christian's cafe! It will be so exciting to see what God does!
It will be exciting to see if I can ever put pictures on here or even on Facebook. I hope that God just releases amazing internet here so thats possible (haha it could happen)! And I will only be able to update the blog about every Saturday, just so y'all know.
Well I really miss everyone and I'm super glad because that means it will be even better when I see y'all again!
Please agree with God that we will become closer to Him and be strengthened in the midst of new things and fun adventures!

Moving into the neighborhood

In Thailand, there is a cultural mantra: "To be Thai is to be Buddhist." So in a country that is completely covered with Idols, statues, and temples with humans putting their money, time and hope into, the gospel of Jesus Christ is good news! I just heard recently that if a Buddhist accidentally kills a mosquito (which may actually be a re-incarnated ancestor), that have to do penance for 3 weeks! how amazing is it that our glorious God who actually answers prayers is the one that offered the sacrifice for us? The bible says that Jesus made himself nothing, coming Heaven down to Earth, being made in human likeness and dying for us! God came into our neighborhood and showed us His love! Wow! And the coolest part is that all we have to do for a relationship is repent, receive His love and live our lives to be like him! How great is our God!

Another reason I like the verse above is because of who we're working with. We've been able to work with King's Kids, a ministry inside of YWAM. We've been going into a local slum and teaching the bible, praying for people, sharing the good news and doing mercy ministries like fixing houses. We were just recently told that the King's Kids team in Thailand is actually moving into the slum that they work at, just because God told them to! So inspiring!

I hope you all are stirred to move into your neighborhood with the love and Good News of Jesus Christ!

If anyone would like to help me and the team, you can agree with God's heart in the following areas:

• On monday the 12th we are doing an open air evangelism presentation
• The christians in the biggest university in the world
• The thai YWAMers and christians

Thank God He can do anything!

So this is just a crazy opportunity to say thank God for being able to do so much more than we could ever do! Right now we are positioned across the road from a satellite school of the biggest university in the world! It is an incredible chance to plant small groups and have a church planting movement just explode! So please pray for the Lord to continue to open doors into the campus, that we'll be able to get discovery groups together and for the movement to continue even after we are gone! Please continue to pray for the release of signs, wonders and miracles, not to entertain us, but to confirm the gospel that is being preached! We know that Jesus is a healer and can heal anyone instantly!

Also, a little Glory to God moment, we saw our first salvation yesterday! On the independence day for America, it was independence day for Peter from sin and death! And now he has total religious freedom, both because of Thailand and also because Jesus will free him of everything that binds! Praise God!

In Thailand, aka Jesus Land :)

So it was a great flight, even with 5 kids everything went extremely smoothly! Praise God it was awesome! We are all so thankful that God put his spirit inside of us, and that the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control, and that we always have the holy spirit inside of us. That means that by faith we always have those things! And as we continue to walk in a life led by the spirit and not by the flesh, the Holy Spirit will manifest (show forth) all the time.

It was a great first day! We went on a treasure hunt around the area of the YWAM base that we are staying at. We were able to meet a girl in a divine appointment at a bookstore, and able to find someone at a local university who spoke English and wanted a bible to study it and learn from it! Praise God!

God really showed me that if we don't know what to do or where He's calling us to go, all we really have to do is just walk outside. As we just pray for our location and for God to give us his heart, we will be given so many things that could happen in that place! God really is so good that all we have to do is just be around the people that He loves, pray for them, and obey Jesus's teachings and the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Another thing The Lord showed me today is that He really did put each one of us in the individual countries we were born in for a reason. I am so glad that God has allowed me to be an American. No matter what the world thinks and says about America, and no matter how bad some things are, God is just so good that He wants even my American citizenship to be used for His glory! By the way, most of the kids here are very excited about meeting Americans and practicing English. Praise God!

Whats next?

So in case anyone is wondering what God has on my plate after Thailand and Cambodia, I still strongly feel the Lord leading me to go to Haiti. Despite being distracted by so many different options in YWAM, the Lord has been relentless in telling me to go to Haiti. So as soon as possible I hope to apply to be on staff at one of the YWAM bases in Haiti, either at St. Marc or Port-au-Prince. Please pray that God opens the doors to do that, and also just pray for Haiti anyways!

He will always outgive!

At the beginning of this DTS, I was reading a really good book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan and the Holy Spirit. In it is a direct challenge to increase your giving, in faith that God will increase His giving. The passage he used is powerful: Malachi 3:9-11: ⁹ You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. ¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. ¹¹ I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty

God spoke to me through this passage, and since that day He consistently told me to give away little portions of my savings to friends for their outreach money, or maybe to congregations for an offering. Now I want you to realize that this was all His money anyway, that He was just letting me borrow it. So He tells me to give all of it away bit by bit. I came to DTS with about $600 in my savings. So then I literally have such little money in my bank account that I can't even take it out because it is so small, and for about a month I've had to trust God for everything. I trusted God for laundry money, for contact solution, for the money for my infection medicine. He always came through, by working miracles through friends and just taking care of every single need that I had the whole time!

Now, at the very end of lecture phase, I have received $1,256 from the extra money given to me for outreach. That is more than double what I came here with! It is so cool to see God let me borrow His money, and then after I put it where He tells me, He gives me back more than double! You guys the God's promises are legit! Praise God!

In case you're wondering, The Lord told me to take $200 on outreach, and then to specifically keep $1000 for the trip to Haiti that I hope to go on in the future.

Goodbye Hawaii!

It is now the end of the 11th week of lecture phase. We are leaving Hawaii on Monday June 28th at 6:15 AM! Thank you all for praying for me and the team!