The summer has finally come to an end!
I just want to thank everyone who prayerfully supported me as I answered the call the Lord laid on my heart for Colorado. I experienced so many beautiful moments, and I feel so blessed to have been His hands and feet this summer. God is at work in Colorado, slowly changing hearts and mindsets and it was so cool to be apart of that.
I saw dozens of children and adults come to Christ, I saw people who had nothing gain everything, and I saw the dead in spirit brought to life. I saw traumatized children that struggled, laughing. I saw once once-drunk, once-lifeless, once-lost people growing in a merciful, healing Father. I saw lives changed and I saw eternities changed. I saw family where there once was only loneliness. Sometimes I sit back and wonder why He chose me to witness all of it. Such a humbling reminder He is more than enough, and that He is all the adequacy we need. He didn't choose me because of Kali, He chose me because He can - because He was glorified in all of my weaknesses.
Colorado is considered an unreached people group, astonishing isn't it? An unreached people group right in our own back yard. Only 5% of people in Colorado are Christians, and over 90% have never stepped foot in a church. When I first heard those numbers I thought they were joking with me. Here in the United States, we have one of the biggest mission fields in the world. Your prayers are so needed.
Thank you for being such a huge part of my summer, and my ministry. I am so thankful for the people God so purposely placed in my life. I am looking forward to starting my senior year of college and taking all I learned this summer back to my campus. My good friend Meagen reminded me that my journey is not quite over - I have a whole student body that needs the love of Jesus. And that is the call I am picking up for this semester at NSU - to spread Christ in a loving, articulate way. Please pray for my boldness, wisdom, and discernment in that. I am certain that this is only the beginning of God's plan for my life - I humbly and patiently await for Him to reveal the rest of it to me.
"But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, 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 and 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 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. " Philippians 3:7-14
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