Hey guys!
Since the last post, a lot has been going on! We just finished Camp Lokahi Hawaii! (If you click on the link there is a video from YouTube with Pictures from the camp!)Which was an awesome/ exhausting week! Lately I have really felt the Lord challenging me on perseverance, you know when things get hard thats when I need to persevere, that is when I am going to grow. So lately we have been running and the Lord is using running to challenge me with perseverance, its been hard but its been good!
I also have a prayer request. This August my 2 year commitment with Holoholo Ministries will be up. Right now i am not really sure what the Lord is calling me to do or really asking of me. I am not sure if I am supposed to recommit with Holoholo ministries, if i'm supposed to come home for a season, but also i've felt a real excitement to do another secondary school called Principals of Redeeming Cultures or if the Lord might have something different that I might not even know about yet. Right now I'm not feeling pulled to any of them more than another. So I'm just really asking for prayer during this time. If you get any words or feelings or anything please let me know! Thanks guys!!
Friday, March 19, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Stop
So far 2010 has been a challenging year, we had to cancel our Discipleship Training School because we only had 3 students. Its a bit disappointing, I was really looking forward to taking on these new tasks and stepping up as staff. I guess the Lord has other things for us as staff, new things. When we prayed about canceling DTS and the Lord told us to stop it was very challenging especially for me. It's really hard for me to just stop, I kept finding myself trying to figure out what it is I'm supposed to do now. I kept asking.. "ok stop and do what" and really the Lord just wanted me to STOP! Which doesn't sound hard.. but for me it is!
We are still planning on doing all of our camps, Camp Lokahi Hawaii and Camp Lokahi Philippines. Camp Lokahi Hawaii is March 14th- 17th. I am not exactly sure when Camp Lokahi Philippines will be though.
Honestly right now, being a missionary is hard. I feel really dry. I don't know how to explain it. Like I don't want to be negative, I want to stay positive, I know the Lord provides and will provide. But my support checks keep getting smaller which is making me credit card bill go higher... which is making me start to doubt and really wonder did the Lord really call me here. Which I guess when things get hard, the enemy really wants you to start doubting and take you out of where the Lord has you.
I guess I am asking for your guys' prayer. To stay strong in these financially difficult times, I know everyone is having financially difficult times and I know this too will pass. I hope you will all stand with me in prayer. Thanks Jess
We are still planning on doing all of our camps, Camp Lokahi Hawaii and Camp Lokahi Philippines. Camp Lokahi Hawaii is March 14th- 17th. I am not exactly sure when Camp Lokahi Philippines will be though.
Honestly right now, being a missionary is hard. I feel really dry. I don't know how to explain it. Like I don't want to be negative, I want to stay positive, I know the Lord provides and will provide. But my support checks keep getting smaller which is making me credit card bill go higher... which is making me start to doubt and really wonder did the Lord really call me here. Which I guess when things get hard, the enemy really wants you to start doubting and take you out of where the Lord has you.
I guess I am asking for your guys' prayer. To stay strong in these financially difficult times, I know everyone is having financially difficult times and I know this too will pass. I hope you will all stand with me in prayer. Thanks Jess
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Group 180
So once a week, I run a 7th grade small group with another girl Summer. We named our small group "Group 180" like 180 degrees, we're praying that the Lord will change us and we'll turn around 180 degrees. The girls were saying hey why dont we have it "group 360" and we thought about it and said humm we'd be right be where we started.. so we named it "group 180" :)
Anyways Summer and I started this group in August 2009, our first group 180 small group started with 3 girls and two of them were Summers sisters. haha After a lot of praying and seeking the Lord and being faithful with the few girls the Lord gave us; now on average we usually have about 8 girls. Praise the Lord!!
A few of them are already Christians and the others for the most part have heard about God and Jesus, but don't really know what it means to have a real relationship with the Lord. So its been cool and exciting being able to plant seeds and water them and really see them grow! We are praying for transformation in them and there friends and there schools.
Yesterday we got to talk to them about Love and what the world says love is and we got to discuss what the bible says Love is. We told them about 1 Corinthians 13 and also 1 John 4:16 how God is Love. We gave them an illustration, where we have a whole bunch of rubbish which can be lies, gossip, sin.. and that sometimes we go to our friends, or family and tell them our problems or whats going on in your life and your friends, family, boyfriend etc. are like a flashlight, they give light and some heat and make you feel better, but all the rubbish is still there. But if we go to God with our problems and stuff we find the fire. Then we talked about how do we keep fires going, we need sticks. And then asked them what they thought sticks could be, they came up with reading your bible, praying, patience, kindness, encouraging and lots more. So we had the girls write down what the world says Love is and the lies they believed about love and then we had them crumple them up and put them in the small hibachi grill thing and we started the fire and then had them add sticks. It was over all a very awesome night, they asked a lot of questions and were very tentative and interested. We ended the night having a prayer time for the girls schools and families.
After group 180 Summer and I took the girls home, and on my way taking a few girls home I got a call from Summer. One of the girls that comes to our Small Group is new, this was her second week coming, which she had been a prayer request weeks before, her mom was sick and ended up passing away a couple of months ago. So before we start Summer and I take the girls cell phones, or else they're texting people and being distracted the whole time. But the parents have our phone number incase they need to get a hold of the girls. So we forgot this girls father did not have our phone numbers, so her father had been trying to call her and couldn't get ahold of her. After our group was finished she called her father and he was super mad, but Summer and I had no idea this was going on. We found out because after her father picked her up and he cancelled her birthday party, she called Summers sister. So Summer called her back and apologized and then asked to talk to her father to try and apologize to him and explain it wasn't his daughters fault and just explain why we take their phones away. But he didn't want to talk to anyone. So Summer and I then prayed and we really feel like the enemy is trying to steal what God is doing in these girls lives and especially this particular girl. Her father is not a believer. So right now we are just giving the situation back to the Lord and praying that he will work all of this out for good and his Glory.
So if you can be praying for this particular girl and her family as well as the rest of our group 180 girls, including Summer and I just really for the wisdom. I SO would just like to go back and wish we had given this girls father our number so none of this would have happened, but I know that God is growing us and I trust everything will work out.
I am so blessed that he is using me to speak into these girls lives and hopefully make a difference in there lives and help them get a solid foundation in Christ early.
Anyways Summer and I started this group in August 2009, our first group 180 small group started with 3 girls and two of them were Summers sisters. haha After a lot of praying and seeking the Lord and being faithful with the few girls the Lord gave us; now on average we usually have about 8 girls. Praise the Lord!!
A few of them are already Christians and the others for the most part have heard about God and Jesus, but don't really know what it means to have a real relationship with the Lord. So its been cool and exciting being able to plant seeds and water them and really see them grow! We are praying for transformation in them and there friends and there schools.
Yesterday we got to talk to them about Love and what the world says love is and we got to discuss what the bible says Love is. We told them about 1 Corinthians 13 and also 1 John 4:16 how God is Love. We gave them an illustration, where we have a whole bunch of rubbish which can be lies, gossip, sin.. and that sometimes we go to our friends, or family and tell them our problems or whats going on in your life and your friends, family, boyfriend etc. are like a flashlight, they give light and some heat and make you feel better, but all the rubbish is still there. But if we go to God with our problems and stuff we find the fire. Then we talked about how do we keep fires going, we need sticks. And then asked them what they thought sticks could be, they came up with reading your bible, praying, patience, kindness, encouraging and lots more. So we had the girls write down what the world says Love is and the lies they believed about love and then we had them crumple them up and put them in the small hibachi grill thing and we started the fire and then had them add sticks. It was over all a very awesome night, they asked a lot of questions and were very tentative and interested. We ended the night having a prayer time for the girls schools and families.
After group 180 Summer and I took the girls home, and on my way taking a few girls home I got a call from Summer. One of the girls that comes to our Small Group is new, this was her second week coming, which she had been a prayer request weeks before, her mom was sick and ended up passing away a couple of months ago. So before we start Summer and I take the girls cell phones, or else they're texting people and being distracted the whole time. But the parents have our phone number incase they need to get a hold of the girls. So we forgot this girls father did not have our phone numbers, so her father had been trying to call her and couldn't get ahold of her. After our group was finished she called her father and he was super mad, but Summer and I had no idea this was going on. We found out because after her father picked her up and he cancelled her birthday party, she called Summers sister. So Summer called her back and apologized and then asked to talk to her father to try and apologize to him and explain it wasn't his daughters fault and just explain why we take their phones away. But he didn't want to talk to anyone. So Summer and I then prayed and we really feel like the enemy is trying to steal what God is doing in these girls lives and especially this particular girl. Her father is not a believer. So right now we are just giving the situation back to the Lord and praying that he will work all of this out for good and his Glory.
So if you can be praying for this particular girl and her family as well as the rest of our group 180 girls, including Summer and I just really for the wisdom. I SO would just like to go back and wish we had given this girls father our number so none of this would have happened, but I know that God is growing us and I trust everything will work out.
I am so blessed that he is using me to speak into these girls lives and hopefully make a difference in there lives and help them get a solid foundation in Christ early.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
BENTO THURSDAY!
So today we did a Bento Fundraiser which is a Japanese Plate Lunch it has rice on the bottom, Teri Beef, Spam, Hotdog and Fish Cake. We start off by getting up at 5:30 AM, I cook the Spam.. YES I cooked 100 Spam this morning!! haha So total made 98 Bentos today but our directors kids each took one to school and so we sold 94 Bentos! Praise God! So we go to the different businesses in the area and we sell them for $7 each. Last week it was very hard to sell so it was a total relief and blessing to sell out by 10:15 AM! Tonight I have a small groups with my 7th grade girls! We're talking to them about Love<3
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Winter 2009 Looking Forward to 2010
From December 22nd - January 18th I got to go home and spend time with my family and my church family. I was so blessed! I got to share with the 4th graders at Wakarusa Missionary Church and they are collecting money for a Camp we run in the Philippines for the kids that live in the slums. It is so awesome to see kids from my own church get excited to help kids they don't even know go to Camp! Thanks SO much Wakarusa Missionary 4 Graders, You Guys ROCK!
So since I've been back here in Hawaii, we as holoholo have been doing fundraisers for various ministries we run in the community and over seas, really trying to get the community involved in what we are doing. We've sold a lot of Bentos (japanese plate lunch) and we a car wash this last Saturday, we have another Bento sale this next Thursday and a Cafe night where we're inviting people from the community and at the Univeristy of the Nations to come out and there will be live entertainment and some "ono grinds"!
GREAT BIG THINGS FROM A GREAT BIG GOD IN 2010!!
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