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“I thank my God every time I remember you!”
Philippians 2:3


Let me start by saying a huge “Thank You” to each and everyone of you for supporting me through the last 5 months of my life! I can not even begin to tell you how grateful I am for your overwhelming support, both in prayer and financially. Let me just take a few minutes to share with you some of the many things that God has done in and through me.


Discipleship Training School (DTS)
I spent the first 3 months, from September until December, in Tyler, TX going through the lecture phase of the school. I never would have imagined the amount of transformation that the Lord was going to do in me. I accepted the Lord into my heart as a child, but it wasn’t until this school that I really got to KNOW God in a new and powerful way. One of the most important things that I learned was what it means to truly be STILL before God and to listen to His voice. The name of our school was “His Redemptive Glory.” I believe that God really did and still is redeeming my life. I was able to lay my life down at His feet and allow Him to take the ashes, that was my life, and turn it into beauty in His eyes! The Tyler base is located on a beautiful ranch which allowed for many quiet times sitting in God’s creation and listening to all that He has made. The sunsets in Texas were absolutely beautiful as well, so often times I got to bask in His glory at the end of the day.


Outreach, Here I come!
During the outreach phase my DTS we spent the first 2 and a half weeks in Houston, TX. We worked in soup kitchens, did many different prayer walks, had cookouts in the projects, and prayed around abortion clinics. We also did several different church services on the streets of Houston, as well as a few in different churches around Houston. We went to Galveston, TX and helped with hurricane Ike relief for a few days. After that our school split into 3 teams, one team went to South Korea, another to Chicago & San Francisco, and my team headed of to Uganda. We spent 5 weeks in Uganda and visited 3 different cities during our time. We spent time in soccer fields, playing with the kids, building relationships, did our dramas and dances for them and shared the gospel with them. We delivered food to some widows who had AIDS and prayed for them. We spent a few days working in an AIDS orphanage and just holding and loving on these precious babies. We would travel for hours and go to villages to share the gospel, during one of those times we were able to pray for a woman with cancer and watch God heal her. We did many presentations at local high schools and other churches. In each city we took time and prayed around the city and around the base we were staying at. We helped the one YWAM base by building them a foot bridge, and cut grass with machetes. God did so many awesome things through us, I could write a whole book on just the 5 weeks that I was there. If you would like to hear more stories or see more pictures, feel free to ask me, I would love to share what the Lord did! Thank you again for your prayer support while I was there!

What’s next?
So to answer the questions that everyone asks, “What’s next?”“What am I going to do now?” “Will I go back to YWAM?” The answer: “Only God knows!” For now, I am home, working and just being with friends and family. What the Lord has next for me is still unknown, and when the Lord decides its time for me to know, then I will let you all know, but for now...I am devoted to living this life to the fullest! Christ deserves 100%, even when I am home! As many of you know, I came home with not only a new passion to live for Christ, but with a new look. I got dreadlocks! While many people think that a gross and nasty, it is a constant reminder to me of how Christ took the ashes that were my life and He is continuing to turn them into beauty. In the same way that God took the gross and nasty stuff in my life and made it beautiful, I am taking the knots and tangles of my hair and making it into gorgeous dreadlocks!