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DTS ( Discipleship Training School & SOMD ( School of Ministry Development)

We try and take good care of the map God has given us.

I have been sending out paper updates and neglected my blog.  Oops.  Well  I am getting pretty excited about the upcoming outreach to Europe happening very soon.  We here at YWAM Louisville have been busy beyond belief.  Quick update... we traveled to YWAM Charlotte, another base that is also training up missionaries.  They held a conference and a few other bases joined us as well. It was such a blessing.  The speaker  really challenged us to seek out the truth about God's character and trust His goodness.  I enjoyed him because he was defiantly well prepared and shared many great thoughts, facts, and challenges.  We also were challenged in our prayer time, hearing the voice of God as well as obedience.  We as the Louisville base were able to bring out 20 foot by 30 foot map.  YEP  a huge map and we used it to pray for the nations.  People were able to stand on the nations they were praying for.  It was a powerful tool.

We are going this weekend to help prepare a youth group and church  for a missions trip to Peru!  And soon we will be heading up Short term missions here in Louisville.  Then off to Europe.  Some of you may know the exact names of the countries but I would prefer to just say Europe for now.   Anyways one of our girls made a video about the places YWAM Louisville is sending people to.   It was very inspirational to me and thought it might be for you too.

It takes about  3 minuets,  watch it you won't regret it.  

It will help you to know how to pray.

• It touches on  Europe and the large needs there
• Nicaragua the issues there
• Germany- the sentiments and emotions of women and the red-light district
• and Thailand's needs
• The reality of our souls seeking their creator. ENJOY

A song to enjoy that we sing here at YWAM and it always reminds me of truth.
Well SOMD - School of Ministry Development has started... Days have been whizzing by, ministry has been getting personal. But as I was joking with a friend I said " too le - jitt, too le - jitt to quit" remember that song from the 90s.... :) haha

The Lord has been doing so much.. how does one recap. I am working on an update that I am mailing out in a week or so. Be looking in your mail boxes with anticipation... :)

in the mean time I hope you had a great Sunday remembering and celebrating - Christ is Risen from the dead... He rescued us. I am so thankful for Him saving me from so many things but mostly saving me from myself!
Love, B

INDIA - 2012

Teaching and speaking at schools! Unique every time! My eduaction courses came in so handy!

I was asked to preach at a pastors conference!

Let's just say I have a new level of tolerance. My lips might still be n fire, or they might be numb.

Just too funny and honest not to share!

Prayer was vital !

AHHH. I am back from India. I truly didn't imagine ever saying those words. Of course one dreams of going there, but to actually get the chance to go and sit in the slums really happening is a dream. Okay Okay, maybe not all dream of going there. but let's face it, I am a tad bit weird to some of you anyways. So I do dream of things like that. But the fact of the matter is God had plans for it. I am so excited He did. I am not gonna lie, when I arrived I DID NOT like it. It was hot, I was sticky, it was smelly, I was mad that mosquitoes thought my legs were a regular hometown pizza buffet. No matter what I told them they thought my ankles were open for lunch. The Food well we won't state the obvious.

BUT BUT BUT, probably should work on growing my vocabulary. I will get right on that. In the mean time... God was irritating my flesh to give me a chance to choose who I want to live for in the rough moments. Die to Flesh or die to the spirit. After a sermon butt whoop-in on my ipod, He gave me the right perspective. I can choose joy in that I GET TO ( not have to ) but GET TO SHARE THE GOSPEL. With people who have never heard, people who don't understand or are just plain confused about who Jesus is. We got to share the gospel morning and night. Any fear of witnessing gets old if you do it ever and over and over! And everyone gets a little anxious no matter who you are, right! But after while my anxiousness was overcome by the need for them to know my good news I get to share!

I got to choose to let God be my joy ----- not let a comfy couch be my joy (since they didn't exist), a yummy meal, comfy clothes, being able to covnersein my own language, ect. all that was gone. But God gives joy! He also spoke to me about surrender. Asking is He worth it? To surrender all to Him, is He trustworthy. Is it worth it, my discomfort for others to know about Him. You may be thinking but she has done this beofre. Yep, but my flesh still rears it's ugly head like yours does.
All I can say is He met my challenges, and gave JOY!

WHAT DID WE DO:
We got to witness in a land with lots of people and few missionaries ( at least we didn't see any). We got to preach about Jesus in schools to kids from Hindu homes. So they can hear about Jesus. We got to sit on the floor of dirt homes, in a village that had never been evangelized to! We got to do Matthew 28 - Go in to all the world preaching the gospel and teaching them all I commanded you...!!!!!

There are YWAM'ers in Madurai and Combator India, that will continue on their ministry and follow up in these villages.

If you asked me one word to describe my time in India. Privileged.
Privileged to get to be apart,
to share,
suffer,
to sacrifice my body,
my time my money.

Remind me of this when American commercialism in creeps in my mind. Please!
Seek for HIM to be your only JOY today. It is such a good exercise to see where we do actually find joy. I am asking myself with it everyday.
I would love to catch up more if would like. write or call and we will share a cup of CHI Tea. :)

UPDATES:
Well India is just around the corner.. a few days away. We have been traveling and speaking at churches before we leave. In hopes to encourage, share more about missions. It has been a blessing to me to meet other brothers and sisters in the family of Christ! The band of misfits I travel with are show below. they have been such a great team, crazy at times but great :)
One more thing I am not sure if I noted before on here. But Amazing Grace Bible Church who is fielding my support has changed their address. And I wanted to make sure that info was made available for your records:

P.O. Box 436254

Louisville, KY 40253

Thanks for your prayers as we have needed them traveling can take it out of you but God has been good to us. He is teaching me more and more about surrender. I will probably be learning this till the day I die but they are still good lessons non the less.

So I probably won't have an update for a while. Thank you for your prayers and support that make ministry possible. My His Kingdom come, May His Will be done!

Prayers prayer prayers :)

My own mother asked "So why are you you going to India, what are you gonna be doing?" I LOVED MY simple answer. "Because they don't know about Jesus. We're be sharing Jesus." It's that simple. LOVE IT

Prayer requests:

• $ 1,600 funding - still needed for this trip.
  
• Good Health, food, skin and sun, overall protection
  
• That God's will would be done
• Fruitfulness
• I really want to see God do some miracles! (God' been challenging in this)
  

Humilty

I was marveling at the way God chose to send His son to us in this Christmas season. How He humbled himself to come to us, to be willing to float around in a womb for 9 months alone, when you are the creator and king of the universe. This has been a season of God showing where I can grow in humility.

Anyways I was also thinking about Hos God has been teaching me about humility during my discipleship training school. It is a good thing, not always fun but so so needed. I found my self relating the donkey in the Christmas story. As God can use the humble. I have been learning to lay down more of myself, my life, my rights to Him. The relation to the donkey.... Well if you were to ride a donkey, you would want one that was humble that could be steered and is yielded to it's master, obedient to any command and not obstinate. That rider can do so much more with that Donkey, than one who won't listen or is concerned with his agenda verses the riders agenda.
I can say this is a first I have related to the donkey in the Christmas story.

I hope this Christmas season comes alive for you, and God shows new mercies to you.

Youth with a mission is going great. I have loved learning, our ministry outreaches around town and most of all speaking in to he girls lives here in the class. This is discipleship and so exciting to be able to love on these girls and grow in Christ together. The class was mix of 20 somethings that have not all had easy lives. Some were coming out of some very hard stuff and here at DTS have been finding their identity in Christ, and learning to fallow Him. I am so excited to be a part of this. My heart thrives in seeing Christ renew people's hearts. He is the hope of glory after all.

We are all heading out in January to encourage some church in the USA about missions. And then to India. I am so excited to be in the slums of India loving on kids, doing open air preaching, and encouraging some women groups. And much more. WE are all excited to share about God to a land that is prevalent in the Hindu religion. I am sure it will be humbling there too, as upon arrival buy a our clothes in India to be culturally appropriate, wear no (very little make up, must have hair up or braided, and no jewelry). I am excited to be streched in new ways for Christ sake.

Philippians 3:7-9

⁷But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

Love and peace to you -B

Ministry in YWAM UPdate

So one of the major reasons for my transition was more ministry opportunities. And many Has God blessed it!
So this is my small group above. Cute little bunch aren't they! We are going through training together and learning. We also have the opportunity to process the things we are learning and being challenged with. I have loved getting to know these girls and speak into their lives as they do mine.
We also make it a priority to be praying about the Nations. We recently were able to use this huge world map to help us focus on the WHOLE world. IT WAS SO COOL.
I love to see us becoming fervent on seeing the world flourish and be blessed with Christ.


Another cool update is that we get to do local outreach here in Lou. This one of the joys of my time here. It is not one of the nicest neighborhoods yet never ceases to suprise me. As we were walking my friend ( in photo) asked "you want to talk to that guy" I thought No. (am shy too folks). and He was TALL!! But we did. It turned out to make my week. We encouraged Him, he had knowledge of the bible, but he is still struggling to walk out what he knows, but we were excited to get to know one another and pray together. You can continue to pray for him.

Just before that.... we were able to pray for a lady who was in visible pain in her back , legs, hips, and numbness in her feet. We prayed over her, not once but 3 times. Eachtime it was getting better. The last time she was stomping her foot saying " I can feel my feet! I can feel my feet!' then She bent over streched and touched her toes, where before she could barley wiggle in her chair without pain. I loved begin a part of God's offering of healing.

Last great update . I don't have a picture. We had some time to do some evangelizing. While we walked around and offered to pray or talk with people. Some were not open and some were. But I got to pray with a Young girl maybe 20 years old. To revive Jesus and her savior and forgiver and start to walk with her creator!!!

SO that is a bit of ministry with YWAM Louisville! It has been a blessing and encouraging walk alongside the other people I get to do ministry with.... See their blog.