One week has flown. It's insane that the first phase of our strike outreach is almost complete!
Our last 7 days have consisted of prayer and worship every morning as well as serving this base with whatever need is to be filled. Our purpose was to come and be Aaron's and Hur's for this base:
Exodus 17:11-13
As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.
We came to encourage them to press on. Because Jesus loves them and wants them to know they're running the race well.
Not only have we gotten to serve the base, but we were asked to go sing Christmas carols at a nursing home.
I talked with a woman who was an advocate for "The rights of the disabled" and I shared with her my heart for anti-human trafficking. She explained how she is becoming more open to Jesus, even though she came from a hindu and muslim background.
On Sunday our team is going to take the floor at a church in Ede, Holland. We'll do worship and I'm also going to be giving a word from the Lord to the congregation. Please, please pray for me in this. I'm going to be speaking to about 900 to 1000 people! I want it to be totally Holy Spirit lead and not my own words!
Next week we will be doing the Christmas of Service. I will be updating you all on how this goes :)
As we encourage this base to run the race well, I'm beginning to feel the Lord press upon my heart to do so too. To run the race well in Amsterdam.
Sometimes in these final stretches of outreach, we get so tempted to loose the vision, or the purpose. We check out early.We start moving through the motions of just going and not stopping to realize why we're doing it.
I have decided to say yes again.
To put the yes in my heart of doing it all from a place of love and devotion to the Lord.
A choice to go up from here and not downhill.
To agree that the last part of this journey will be even better than the beginning.
More photos!
the girls
christmas decorating
kitchen serving duty
me speaking about our teams heart for our time in Amsterdam at the corporate gathering.
