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Published: March 6th 2010
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YWAM Mpls Fall DTS Graduates!
L to R: Nate, Rob, Len, Benn, Jono, Josiah, JuRa, Tierney, Kelsie, Jordan, Rachel (SOE Internship Graduate), Kirstin, Hayley Well, I have graduated from YWAM Discipleship Training School. It is so strange and hard to not be at the YWAM Minneapolis base anymore and not living in community anymore. It has also been hard to not be in India anymore. Even though it was hard emotionally and spiritually, I would go back in a heartbeat. Who knows if God will call me back there, I am unsure about that. But there is one thing that I am very sure and confident about, the next step I am supposed to take.
The month of March will be a month of processing and adjusting back to American soil for me. It is extremely hard to come back from India to the United States. Seeing the things that I saw and experiencing the things that I did, it just doesn’t make sense to come back here to ALL of this, America. I am experiencing culture shock for sure and it is a strange feeling, sometimes one that can’t even be explained. Throughout the month of March, I will be spending lots of time processing the outreach with Jesus. What was it that I learned and that he did through me, and what can I take away from those two months that I can apply to my everyday Christ following life? Reading through my journaling that I did everyday will be one very key thing. I will be taking my experiences from there and sharing them twice a week to show you a little glimpse of India through my eyes and many things that Christ did through me and my team to show his glory and power to the people around us.
April to June, I am prayerfully considering about jumping back into working again. Where, that is still in the works. I have a possibility with Feed My Starving Children and being a Teamleader there again, which I absolutely love! Starting on June 27th, I will be taking part in the School Of Evangelism (SOE) with YWAM Minneapolis. Jesus finally gave me the “thumbs up” to do it and this is how it came about.
Before and after the outreach, Jesus really wanted me to focus on what was at hand, which was India and being used by him there. Numerous times I would bring up “Lord, I really would like to do SOE. But do you want me to do SOE? Well, never mind, I am in India and need to focus on that. Ok, I’ll stop asking about that.” I could just see God smiling a little and just waiting for me to get AGAIN what he was trying to teach me-focusing on the present wholeheartedly. It was a battle. So many times I just wanted to say, “Ok Lord, this is what I want to do and I am going to do it and not focus on India at all.” But I didn’t, I fought and focused. One day though, it was different. I felt like the question was literally pushed out of my heart to Christ. I was sitting on the front steps of our guesthouse in Kolkata (Calcutta) spending some much needed time with Christ. It was Thursday and we were leaving the coming Saturday. “I need a sign if I am to do SOE.” I asked, then I stopped and paused. “But I think that you are letting me make the decision. You are letting me make the decision?” That is the sense that I received. Twice, two people have said to me “Kirstin, sometimes God lets us make the decision in what to do next if what we desire to do is honoring to him.” Then I remembered 1 Corinthians 13:1 “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” “What do you want to do Kirstin?” That is really what I felt like Christ was saying when I asked him about SOE. “Who am I that you would let me make the decision?” I replied. “What do you desire to do Kirstin?” is what he kept saying back to me. “I would like to do SOE.” “Ok, then go!” That is how I knew I was doing SOE, pretty incredible and God just blew me away with letting me make that decision. Who am I that he would let me make the decision about a step in my life that belongs to him? But at the same time, what could be more honoring to him than a school where I learn about spreading his name?
I am so excited for the next journey that I will be on with Christ. In SOE, it is the same format as DTS. There is a three month lecture phase in which we learn about Evangelism as well as helping organize and possibly lead short term mission trips with Mission Adventures, YWAM Minneapolis’ summer mission trip program. Then, for outreach there are a couple different options. There is the internship. If I took part in the internship, I be staff for the next Fall DTS and lead their two month outreach with one or two other staff members. The other option is doing my own two-month outreach. For example, if God is calling me into a certain ministry in a certain country, I could do that. I have not gotten anything yet from Christ as to which one I am suppose to do, but that is ok. In his time of growing me, he will reveal it.
In the mean time now and during SOE, I will be raising more support and know that God will be so faithful as always to bring it in, in his timing. Since I am unsure as to what kind of outreach I will be doing, I am not sure of the total cost of the school. The Lecture Phase is $3,250 so that is what I feel from Christ I need to raise at this moment. Again, I know that Christ will be faithful to in his time, bring this amount in.
Prayer Requests:
1. Continue to adjust to the life back here in the states emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
2. Trust Christ with the job at FMSC knowing that if he wants me to work there, it will all work out by April if he wants me to work.
3. Guidance in what outreach to do for SOE, the Internship, or my own personal outreach.
4. Provision for the months to come as well as for SOE.
Thank you all so much for ALL of your prayers in this time. Let me know if you have any questions or comments! Blessings!
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