Outreach

Ok so I don't really have much to say except that before I am 19 I'll have been to every contenant except South America and Antarctica because my outreach locations are South Africa and Thailand!!!

Confirmation:

When our outreach location were announced I was thought to myself, "Working with victims of human trafficing... that's... too intense for me thanks. Working in South Africa...scary."

I pretty much was like ok God... I'm choosing... for you. mmk? haha He didn't agree with that one. I asked him for 2 confirmations... in one day and he gave much more to me.

1. A T-shirt
2. ANOTHER T-shirt
3. Spoken Word

Those were on Sunday (announced Friday) and I was like well... I can't be supstitious about all this because God doesn't speak through T-shirts and I can't just buy into everything. I told that to one of the staff members and she was like, ok yah that makes sense but you can't just disreguard everything either because then you'll never hear anything. Ask God for specifics things that you need to see happen. Another staff member then said that it took 7 confirmations for her to come here to staff. So I went and prayed and was like ok God... I'm a copy cat and I wanna know where you want me to go... FOR SURE. So, I asked for 7 and he suddenly gave me this incredible peace about South Africa. I didn't understand it at all! I was like... I'm strangely not afraid of it. I wasn't even thinking about South Africa I was thinking about how much I miss Mac and Cheese, my pink and orange walls, playing wii with my siblings, musicing, mountains, seagulls who's heads are small (yah), normal chocolate milkshakes, and people who don't say "hey mate" to me all the time... and man it just jumped into my head out of nowhere.

4. peace

The next day I was walking with Janine to the train station and she started just talking. I honestly wasn't exactly sure about what... something about her brother and she goes, "He went to Africa... SOUTH Africa."

5. spoken word.... again

At this point I'm like... ok God, two to go. eek
And he did he gave me 6. peace and an 7. obvious picture in my head of where I was going to be... that same day. He's amazing so yah... I'm tired and need to go to bed. I'm sorry that these updates are often confusing and scattered and the spelling is messed up and the grammar is... well nonexistent but I've been up for almost 24 hrs. so yah gonna go now. I love you all and yah I'm heading to Thailand and South Africa!!!

Prayer Requests:

Please pray that God would strengthen me and give me patience. I'm growing in amazing ways and I'm also very frustrated at times. Ministry is the place where you get frustrated. Actually... the world is a place where you get frustrated. haha please just pray that God would give me his grace so that I can pass it on. As I said they run us hard here. I haven't had a day off in almsot two weeks and we ran hard from 7 a.m. to 9:30-10:30 p.m. everyday this week. I have bags under my eyes and I got dehydrated the other day because I had lost so much water through crying. Thank you for your prayers!

Also- if you guys could pray for Janine. She has asked me to write about this and ask for ya'll prayers. She and her boyfriend have been together for a year and half and his faith is "not active" as she says and she feels that she may have to break up with him. She has had a very difficult past in the romantic area of her life and she's really fighting some things that I can't possibly imagine. She's a strong girl and sweetheart but she asks for prayers.

Please write me and tell me how ya'll are. I love you guys so much and am SOOO glad I have this blog so I can tell everyone what is up. On outreach I will have very little contact with home... and that'll be during the holidays so I'm doing my best to contact now while I still can. :)

God Bless,
-Shanna