To Distant Lands!

It has been a blessing to come back to Missouri for the holiday week and see my family and friends.
I loved to be able to talk with people and share what God has done in my life and update them on all that is going to happen in the next two months. Having my fellow student Nick along was really a blessing as well. He was a part of YWAM coming back with me.

Nick and I learning to do balloon art for
ministering to kids on outreach.

We leave tomorrow, Saturday the 28th to return to Ozark, Arkansas, then after last minute preparations we jump onto the wings of the wind and soar to distant lands, South East Asia.
A big THANK YOU to all who have supported me and taken part in this outreach. More than anything I request your prayers. There really is a huge difference when God's people pray, it can be the difference between a powerful outreach and a poor outreach. I don't ask you to pray that God blesses "our" endeavors but...

    Pray that we have wisdom to see how God is working and join Him in "His" endeavors.
    Pray we are sensitive to the people and their culture. There are a lot of customs we will have to get used to.
    Pray also for confidence and wisdom as we have teachings and sermons we will be presenting and many of us have never done anything like this before, much less in another culture through a translator.
    Pray for wisdom and patience in dealing with each other, since we will be living close for 8 weeks and may get on each other's nerves.
    Pray that none of us get sick and we love the food.
    Pray we learn and grow. We are bound to make mistakes, but it would be good if we can bounce back up and keep going. Humility is key in this.
    Pray we are a blessing to the people there. Short term outreaches tend to be more of a benefit for the one going, but lives of the people we reach out to can be touched also if we genuinely show concern for them and who they are, and not just try to impose western ideas on them.
Also please keep our other DTS outreach team that is going to Paraguay in your prayers.

Outreach is such a huge part of a  DTS. It's when our whole world view is challenged, and when we see God in a new way. God has been in the business of missions since calling Abraham out of Ur to a new land. He wants to reveal His deep love for all peoples of the world and what He is doing in those places.
This life we live is about discovering more of God, and I don't think we can have a significant grasp of who God is without stepping out of our comfort zone and letting Him sweep us into a whole new world where He is working and doing things in ways that we couldn't imagine, the world of cross cultural missions.
I so desperately want to get a bigger view of who my God is, so that like Isaiah in Isaiah 6, I can fall before Him and say "Here am I! Send me."
I believe we won't have a heart for the Kingdom until we have had a revelation of the King.
That is what I want to have.

This is our South East Asia team!

Here is video about what is already going on in Cambodia.