Overview of My DTS Experience
First, I want to start by thanking every single person who said yes to God and helped make this opportunity possible for me.
Topics for this Newsletter!
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The Last 3 Weeks in Italy
Covering our “Debrief” portion of DTS
How God Moved Overall
What God did overall these past 8 months of my life during DTS with YWAM Cultivate in Italy.
What Is Next?
What God has spoken, the vision God has given me for this next season, and what that means for you!
My Last 3 Weeks in Italy
“Debrief”
The last 3 weeks of my DTS program in Italy were designed to help us transition back out of the mission field and how to integrate back into a normal environment and pace of life. We participated in one week of processing lecture phase and outreach as a whole (week by week), one week of internal self processing with directed debrief questions on how God has moved over the past 7 months and one week focused directly on ‘RE-ENTRY” into a more normal pace of life and worldly environments off of the mission field or to enter into what God has next for each of us.
Welcome to my next newsletter, Beloveds.
Debrief
Week One: Processing the Last 7 Months
What specific moments during DTS made me feel closest to God and what did I learn about His character in these moments?
There were moments that showed me I wasn’t close to God, moments I was brought closer to God, and moments where I felt the closest to Him. Chronologically I suppose I can attempt to recall such moments over the past 8 months.
The first moment I can remember, feeling so close to God, was the first weekend I arrived in Italy. I has woken up early due to jet lag and made an Italian coffee to sit outside on our balcony and watch the sun rise. I was sitting there and God asked me to read 2 Samuel 7:18. And in one moment surrounded by rolling Tuscan hills, on the brink of my dreams of art school only a few days from coming true, and the rising sun of the best artist i’ve ever known, I was transported into the closest presence of God as I read, “Who am I, O Lord Jehovah, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?”
The second moment was week one of lecture phase, I had also been feeling stirred to grow secrecy with the Lord but feeling obligated to be vulnerable with the people in this program. I felt like I was at a crossroads. How can I keep things secret with the Lord yet still be open, honest, intimate, and vulnerable with others. They seemed to oppose one another. However, I was also experiencing some anxiety due to previous trust issues with corrupt leadership and was asking God how I could know that the leadership of this program was trustworthy. This week we began learning what it looks like to invite God and Holy Spirit into our creative process and co-creating with the creator. This week we were asked to create with God, ask Him what medium to use, and basically just see what happens, using no references, no outside sources, pulling our inspiration from only Holy Spirit and ourselves. I had wrested for two hours and hit a wall where I told the Lord, “I know you’re a good artist and all you create has to be good because you are good…. but I want to like it.” I came to the realization that I was desiring something “great” over the goodness of God. When God created the entirety of every beautiful thing we can ever see, yet He called it “GOOD” not great, not phenomenal, not perfect, not outstanding, but “GOOD”. This opened a door to explore this “goodness” that I must be misunderstanding and drop expectations of performing at a level of greatness that was not set for me. I closed my eyes and the Lord gave me a picture, a beautiful picture of a tower, surrounded by hills, with a stream coming out from behind the tower and from the stream sprinkled sheep drinking from the water and set at the top of this tower was a bright star. This is what I painted. As I was done, the Lord ‘spoke this verse over the painting, Songs of Solomon 1:8, “Listen my radiant one— if you ever lose sight of me, just follow in the footsteps where I lead my lovers. Come with your burdens and your cares. Come to the place near the sanctuary of my shepherds.” I realized what I had painted was a place made solely for me, hidden aways by beautiful hills, and from this secret place a stream of living water where sheep of the Lord drank. The Lord was showing me that secrecy with Him is not selfish but SACRED. He was showing me that building secrecy with Him would not steal intimacy away from the community He has set for me they are near but I also have a separate sanctuary I can enter to be alone with the King of Kings. Most importantly, He was showing me that those who dwell with the Most High and drink from the streams of His living water are safe.
The third moment I felt closest to God was week two of lecture phase. This week was focused on the character and nature of God. Right before this lecture week started I had prayed to God asking if there was anything from the previous season I had left behind that I was supposed to bring with me or that I had brought but was meant to leave behind. God reminded me of my relationship with my dad but spoke no further. Going into this lecture week with this on my mind, our speaker for the week asked us, in Genesis when Adam and Eve eat the apple and our hiding from God in the garden because they were naked, “how do you hear the voice of Father God when He asked, ‘Where are you?’” We had to go somewhere for 15 minutes and process this question and come back with an answer. I did so and when I came back she asked if anyone wanted to share their answer. Someone shared that they heard Father God in a tone as if a da was playing hide and seek with their little kids and knew exactly where they were but still played the game because He loved them and playfully asked, “Where are you?” This was the moment I realized I had been seeing Father God incorrectly, because I heard, “What have you done?” He revealed my heart feeling a connotation of shame and I had been receiving a narrative of disappointment from Father God that He was not actually giving me. Here, I received an invasion to get to know the true character of Father God and what His true thoughts are for me.
Debrief
Week One: Processing the Last 7 Months
What specific moments during DTS made me feel closest to God and what did I learn about His character in these moments?
The fourth moment I felt closest to God was when I began the journey of getting to know the character of Father God. I had hit a wall of tension in my relationship with Him where I came to a realization. I did not want to know what He thought of me, because no matter what He said, I* would not believe Him. I was letting past, mistakes, and the handprints of others, define who I am. But— Jesus met me here, the familiar beautiful Jesus. He gave me an invitation to once again bury all of the past, all of the mistakes, all of the sin He chose to die for, all of the accusations and evidence I nailed to the cross built up against me, any reason the Father may have in my mind to be disappointed with me. Jesus invited me to bury it all once again and put it to death so that I can put on the new ressurected self that has been raised to life with Christ. The new self that has been covered by the blood of Christ and restored back to the design of daughter, one who could now receive the narrative the Father has for me.
The fifth moment was week five of lecture week. I had started this DTS journey because the Lord spoke, “I am ready for you to dream with me, again.” This week I was sitting in Italian church and Jesus spoke, “You don’t have a problem dreaming, you have a hope problem.” Shortly after, a lady came up to me I had never met before speaking Italian, my friend translated, “God sent me over to you to tell you that He wants to give your heart a hug like you’ve never experienced before.” She proceeded to huge and kiss my cheek. Then during our lecture week with Pastor Dante, prophetically spoke over me, “your heart is ready.” (Without knowing anything about the lady and what she had said). This was a week where God felt extremely close through these multiple encounters.
The sixth moment I felt close to God was eight. God began through prayer ministry healing my heart. He took me through old memories and past painful experiences and showed me where He was and covered them in truth that took away all narrative of the enemy. I walked through tremendous forgiveness and God revealed His character as a God who is safe despite the circumstance and situation around you. Like Peter when Jesus calls him to get out of the boat during a storm and walk on water towards Him. It doesn’t say anywhere in the Bible that Jesus calmed the storm before Peter got out of the boat. Yet— Peter still got out amidst a chaotic storm and did something absolutely unpredictable and scary, because He knew who Jesus was, He knew Jesus was safe.
Debrief
Week One: Processing the Last 7 Months
What specific moments during DTS made me feel closest to God and what did I learn about His character in these moments?
The seventh moment was week nine of lecture phase during Father heart of God week. We were given an assignment to write a letter to our father figures in our life forgiving them for what they didn’t do well and thanking them for what they did do well. We had to stand up in front of the room and read our letters out loud. After I finished reading my letter, Chris Tempero, our base leader and speaker for this week, heard from the Lord and asked me if he had permission to do something a little unorthodox. I permitted, and he proceeded to pick me up like a baby and spoke what He had heard, “you have been expected to walk on your own for so long but God wants you to know that He has seen you the whole time, and He has been with you the whole time, and when you can no longer stand on your own, He will carry you.” Then my other school leaders began to prophesy and pray over me, one saying, he saw a bird in a nest and God said “I will not push you out, you can stay as long as you’d like, but do not forget you what you were made for, you were made to fly.” Another, saw a field of tiny white flowers, Father God spoke, I am gentle that I would make even tiniest petals on the smallest flowers of the field. God began speaking more about His character as Father God, that He is one who is gentle.
The eighth moment is in the same week as above, I reached another wall of fear in my relationship with Father God. I realized I was scared to be His daughter. In this moment of honesty, the Lord gave me a flood of childhood memories I had never had before with father figures in my life, a dance recital where my dad brought be a bouquet of flowers but then Father God was front row in the crowd big and proud of his tiny dancer, receiving a art easel set as a little girl from my dad but then Father God putting every single drawing on His fridge, some with my grandfathers… He spoke, “These memories with your fathers are where they did their best, I will fill in the rest, I will complete them, I have been here the whole time.”
The ninth moment I felt close to God was week ten, Holy Spirit week. God revealed my heart even more. This was the week before leaving for outreach. God had been using the birds (my former biggest fear) to speak to me and about me. I had a vision of me being pushed into a pool by God. God explained this was how I had been feeling about going on outreach. He reminded me about the picture of the baby bird in the nest and that He would not push but not to forget what I was made for: to fly. He presented me with a choice, to continue the program with Him and go on outreach or to return to comfort. SO— in response Holy Spirit put on my heart to act. I decided I was to jump off a cliff into the ocean in response to the picture of me being pushed into a body of water, I would choose to go WITH God. The last few days before our team left on outreach we all jumped off a cliff into the Mediterranean Sea to mark the beginning of us going WITH God to share the Gospel.
Debrief
Week One: Processing the Last 7 Months
In what ways has God challenged you about your beliefs about Him?
God challenged me tremendously this season. However, He challenged my beliefs about Him that God is gentle, that He really cares about my dreams, my feelings, my opinions, and my heart. He is a God who sees me, is moved for me, who delights in me, who is Immanuel God WITH me, He is safe, a God who truly forgives all and is NOT in any capacity disappointed in His children, in me. He is a God who promises and keeps HIs promises, and He is a GOOD Father.
The most thing I was challenged by with God’s character is that He is the God of Hope…
The God of Hope
How God moved overall throughout the past 7 Months in my life…
Below are two essays, assignments given to me during DTS, that does a beautiful job at summing up this concept.
Hope
At the beginning of this Discipleship Training School journey, the Lord told me that He was ready for me to dream with Him again. During Lecture phase, God told me I didn’t have a problem with being someone who dreams, but that I had a problem of being a person of hope. This is the word spoken from the lips of heaven that began all of my questions on outreach.
So naturally I began asking them. How do you define hope God? Is hope something that is grown or given? If hopelessness is the absence of hope then can you have hope in the face of hopelessness? Can you have hope in the face of the friends of hopelessness: despair, dread, disbelief, doubt, pessimism, uncertainty, fear, despondency, dishearten, discouragement, disappointment, dispirit, dejection? If those things are present in any capacity is that proof of lacking hope or false hope? In that case, have I ever seen hope? Did I at some point lose sight of hope or was I ever even in possession of it? Or was it stolen from me somehow? You can see my internal thoughts stirring with hesitation. In response I began to search for answers.
First, I had to ask myself a question, what do I think hope is? How would I define hope? Up until this moment, I would have said, hope is the power that gets you out of bed in the morning, gives you purpose in your actions, and keeps you from folding your cards. But—if I was to look at that more closely in my life I would say the feeling of obligation has dragged me from my slumber, the name of obedience is driving my actions, and the truth is I don’t even want to hold my cards or play the game. I would love to say when I came to the river of reflection that I would be the daughter of Jehovah Tikvah who breathes in hope’s fresh air and stands with her head tipped back and her chin to the sun as joy fills her lungs and her laugh kisses the air. But—in the face of authenticity, I’m one who has to remember not to hold my breath, I desperately need the Lifter of My Head every morning, and the sliver of joy that shines through the cracks of my soul I have to fight like hell for.
Therefore, standing on the brink of this river bank, there’s an invitation to a journey with God. How God do you define hope? Into the shallows I step.
Hope. I found that hope is mentioned 129 times in the Bible. The Bible describes hope as a confidence in what God has promised. The Greek word for hope is Elpis, which means, a hope that is steadfast and certain. This is not a hope that is based on uncertainty or wishful thinking. It is often translated today as expectation or anticipating with confidence. This is a hope based on trust and that carries expectation for deliverance.
Romans 15:13– “May the hope of God fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
This implies hope is not from God as something that can be given and then taken away but OF God. The hope of God should fill me with joy and peace and belief so that that hope will exist within me in large quantities.
Psalm 62:5-6— “For God alone, oh my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from Him. He only is my Rock and my Salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.”
This implies hope is something that’s given from God.
Romans 5:3-5— “Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
This implies that hope is grown and produced.
Titus 2:13, which says, "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ".
This implies that hope is Jesus Christ.
Proverbs 23:18
"There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off".
This scripture says that once you have hope it will not be taken away or ended.
On this quest to get to know the thing of hope, I found a few answers but not full understanding. Hope is a confidence that God will do what He says He will do. A steadfast certainty that He is who He says He is. It is having full trust and expectation that He is with you and He is for you. Hope somehow is God, Hope is from God, Hope is of God, and hope can grow and multiply and diminish but hope will not be cut off.
The Lord told me I don’t have a problem with dreaming. I have a problem of hope. I let the enemy convince me in that by believing that my hope had been cut off or that I never even found it in the first place. The enemy came to steal, kill and destroy and he has been trying to steal my hope. God was warning me. He wants me to hold onto Him and the hope I have and invite me to abound in hope so that I can dream with Him.
The two Hebrew words for hope are “yakhal”, which means “to wait for” and “qavah”, which means “to wait”. Hebrews 11:1— “Hope is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Then to hope means to wait in confidence that God will—fill in the blank. When you do and He does—fill in the blank, then your hope will multiply and increase your faith?
I can’t say that I’ve made it all the way across the river but I feel like I’m headed in the right direction and instead of discouraged I feel inclined to find out more.
Isaiah 40:28-31, is the scripture of my conclusion,
“Don’t you know? Haven’t you been listening? Yahweh is the one and only everlasting God, the Creator of all you can see and imagine! He never gets weary or worn out. His intelligence is unlimited; he is never puzzled over what to do! He empowers the feeble and infuses the powerless with increasing strength. Even young people faint and get exhausted; athletic ones may stumble and fall. But those who entwine their hearts with Yahweh will experience divine strength. They will rise up on soaring wings and fly like eagles, run their races without growing weary, and walk through life without giving up.”
If depression, despair, dread, disbelief, doubt, pessimism, uncertainty, fear, despondency, dishearten, discouragement, disappointment, dispirit, dejection is present in my heart—hopelessness…. It doesn’t mean that I do not have hope because my hope is God, is of God, is from God, and cannot be cut off. It means that hopelessness is trying to overtake my hope but it won’t ever because my hope is of God and is God.
Therefore, I feel an invitation in this season, from the Lord. Romans 5:3-5— “Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” I have a battle to fight in hope against hopelessness and his friends.
Recently, I was given a word. “I saw a picture of you as a fierce fighter. But you didn’t have a hilt or handel on your sword. You were grabbing it by the blade. It made the battle very painful as you were hurting yourself. To the point you were not wanting to fight the battle in front of you because the sword would cut and hurt you. I felt like the lord said you were sacrificing what didn’t need to be sacrificed. That the hilt of your sword was called trust and the gard was called protection. I felt that the Lord knew where it had been broken off and that he wanted you to go back and retrieve it. To take the broken peices and to rebuild the sword.”
I want to venture into the deep rivers of trust with the Lord and rebuild my sword of hope, knowing and believing that I am safe with Abba regardless of what has happened, what will happen or what I feel.
I know that there are—In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.
His hand will always be there to guide me and He is the light to my path no matter how much darkness the enemy tries to surround me with.
The God of Hope
If you would have asked me what the theme of my outreach would be, I would have told you something entirely different then what the Lord had planned. However, the truth of the matter is that hope is something I haven’t been able to escape. It has surrounded me at every turn, at every location, and with every battle I’ve fought on this outreach, I have come to the gates of hope. One could say I have been hemmed in before and behind by hope. So much so, that hope has brought me to a question that I perhaps can finally answer. What is my biggest hope?
This isn’t a question that originated from my own heart. This is a question proposed to me by a man named, Paolo. For starters, the door to this DTS started with the Lord speaking, “I am ready for you to dream with me again.” Fast forward to near the end of lecture phase, he spoke, “You don’t have a problem dreaming, you have a problem with hope.” This began a journey that I mentioned in my last letter, “Where did my hope go and did I ever really attain hope?” He has been teaching me that my hope is never cut off because it is of God but for some reason I stopped holding it towards my dreams. Dreams have felt exhausting and far out of reach. One could say, I began to believe dreams were illogical and not worth the effort. I have come to realize that is because I had no hope for them. Without hope, everything is exhausting. I didn’t believe that God also cared about my dreams, that God would help me reach them. I believed that if I wanted them I would have to achieve them on my own. It’s always been that way. Paolo helped change my mindset towards this belief.
Paolo works for the search and rescue team with Our Calling and goes out every week in search for the 1 that God wants to reach on the streets of Dallas. He goes out and loves on the unhoused community hidden across Dallas Fort Worth. One day Sarah and I got placed on his team to go out with him. We began talking and he asked me what the Lord has been doing in my life here in Texas. I shared about how important it is that God sent me back here to Dallas, of all outreach locations. How all outreach this far God has been stirring my spirit to come back to Texas and make my family my first ministry after this program. Which if you know me, would never be my first or last option. I shared why this is and how the Lord has been healing a lot of areas in my heart. Finally, I shared that the main thing God has been doing in my heart is guiding me towards the topic of hope and how I apparently have a hope problem.
Paolo asked me, “Well—What is something you are hoping for.” I answered, “I am hoping to be close to my dad.” I told him about how my dad has always been a very busy man. Paolo asked, “Is your dad a workaholic?” I replied, “I guess you could say so, he just is always doing something, it’s where I get it from.”
Meanwhile, we are driving and I asked Paolo what the radius he drives was and mentioned my dad is from South Dallas, a neighborhood called Pleasant Grove. Paolo offered that we should go that way!
Paolo began to prophesy over my dad and said, “I see the Lord breaking the leg of your dad. I have this picture of a shepherd breaking the leg of a sheep who has wandered off in order to keep the sheep safe and bring him home. I don’t know what that looks like in your dad’s life.” Amazed, I answered Paolo, “Well, what you’re saying is spot on because a few days ago my dad just got laid off from his job that he has had for the last 20 years.”
We ended up in the neighborhood my dad was born and raised in and where my great-grandparents used to live and my grandparents (where I lived at 5 years old). To me this was random, I didn’t wake up knowing this would happen nor did I plan/ask for it to happen, however, Paolo insisted it was indeed not random but very specific of the Lord. As we are at my grandparents and great-grandparents houses where I stayed at 5, (they were neighbors), I began sharing with Paolo the word I received from God at the beginning of this outreach, “I am going to lay a new foundation upon the old.” How originally I thought this was just for me, but somehow now standing at the physical foundations of my great-grandparents, my grandparents and my father, I realized this was far greater. The Lord wants to lay a new foundation upon the old that goes back 4 generations of my dad’s family line, of my family line.
As we drove to our final destination on Paolo’s mind, the house my father was born and raised in, he again begins prophesying. He doesn’t speak this time, instead he has a song on his spirit. He begins to play a song by, Jason Upton, called “First Language.” A song where the entire time this singer is prophetically singing the words, “I feel like a newborn baby, trying to say your name. Aaah Dahhh Ahhhh Dahh Ahhh Dahhh. I can hear it coming, finally on my lips. Dadda Dadda Dadda Dadda. Cause my lips and my tongue have been trained by this world I live into say many things. But I want to cry out to You and really believe that You hear me. Oh such a wonderful revelation. A much needed education. To learn the language of Heaven. Dadda Dadda Dadda Dadda.” Paolo explains, that this song has a story. Jason Upton was playing this live in concert where he met a stubborn hard hearted man that was confident in his own ways and had a bad history with his earthly father. This man stood in the crowd. As Jason sang these words over the crowd, he offered to them, “Don’t be afraid to cry it out!” And at the end of this recording Jason included a recording of this man in the crowd as he cried out… “Daddy! Daddy! Daddy! Daddy! I love you Dad! I love you Daddy!” Over and over and over with all his lungs and all his spirit. This man cried out to Abba. And as the song finished, Paolo to the brink of tears, spoke, “This will be your dad.”
I have never experienced such a hopeful and confident man of God, take time to listen to me and pray for the things dearest to my heart and things actually shift in the spiritual, but today things shifted and I heard the words, standing on the ground that raised my dad, “I’ve brought you here as proof that I am doing it. I am bringing you close to your father. I have brought him from here, I have brought him this far, I will not abandon him now.”
The following Wednesday, we had a free sabbath day. I asked my dad, “would you like to hang out with me today.” My dad accepted my offer excitedly. He picked me up and we drove to Main St. in Dallas and spent the entire day talking about his heart, the things Paolo had shared and spoke over him, the fears and thoughts he had spilled out, and my dad was present. He listened to every word, every question, every encouragement I had to offer.
The Lord is moving in my family. He is having my dream with Him again, He is restoring the hope in my heart, He is setting me on a journey to build vision with Him in order to continually walk towards this dream of closeness with my family, while holding the newly restored hope the Lord has placed in my spirit.
My family will encounter the God of Hope in a deeper way then every before.
WHATS NEXT?
The Lord revived my dreams, restored my hope, and taught me about vision.
God used the story of the 3 wise men to draw a red string through this last season. They had a dream to see the savior of the world be born, they had hope that this star in the sky would lead them to where He would be born and that He would really be there, but they walked in vision that when they got there He would be who He said He would be by bringing gold, frankincense, and Myrrh with them (Gold was given to kings, Jesus is the King of Kings, Frankincense was given to priests, Jesus is the Holy Priest, and Myrrh was used to embalm dead bodies to keep them preserved, Jesus was the crucified and risen Christ). Having vision with God helps us hold onto our hope and walk towards our dreams with God. He has placed dreams and gifts inside of us and has called us to high and holy places with Him.
Vision
God has given me vision for this next season, literally and metaphorically. Over the past 16 months of my life, my heart grew into a posture of, “Send me anywhere, God…China, The Philippines, The Himalayas…” When I got to a place of asking God what was next after this program, He spoke loud and clear. I am to go spend time with my family where they live in Texas. The last place I expected God to send me after all of this. His humor is perfect, however, it’s also in line with his character with promises He has made me. My dad is still unemployed and there is ample time to spend together. God’s timing is absolutely perfect. I will be moving into the guest room of my family’s home and serving them. I haven’t lived in this house before, nor with them in four years. I am so excited to be around them again and able to love them well and get to know them again. I will be interceding for them, starting family dinners to honor them and spending intentional time with each one of them. I will be co-creating with the Lord going further to create closeness with them.
Missions
The Lord is challenging me and calling me into a season of dreaming and hoping with Him. I will be pursuing my dreams of being an artist and making that my mission field with Jesus. I’m not sure where it will lead me but all the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness. I will start by building a series inventory of paintings and commission work. I have three businesses interested in buying inventory stock from me at a flat rate and selling in their stores, a couple people interested in artwork to hang up in their businesses, and a few artisan events and markets booked for the upcoming new year. I will be formatting a schedule for available commissions and completing current ones this month for ordering/booking any artwork from me. I will be co-creating with the Lord on how to use my art unto evangelism and where that leads us in the future, whether that may lead to working alongside christian non-profits, missionaries, volunteer positions, or just simply meeting an loving people through the door of art—who knows!!
During my time on outreach in Dallas, I met lots of people and worked alongside organizations who verbally proclaimed they wanted me back when I came home after DTS. I will be praying about where to volunteer and serve: Our Calling, YWAM Wylie, Church Eleven32, or other organizations and churches in the area.
Bringing my mission with Jesus home is so special because He could have sent me across the globe somewhere. My biggest dream is to work towards becoming an art therapist and work alongside churches, schools, homeschooling organizations, etc. Maybe the Lord will open doors to starting my own art therapy like business. I am so excited to see what the Lord builds in the future.
Work
The Lord has specifically spoken that I will be working while here and that there is someone who I am to be a light to a this job. I am further praying into what this may be and what this may look like. I have an opportunity to be a long term art teacher sub for a school district nearby that I will be applying to.
I am currently unemployed and having to support myself while here so time is of the essence— I know, I am waiting on the Lord and I know He has something so good for me.
For now, I am taking commissions for artwork, if anyone is needing Christmas presents, or artwork in general.
Over the past month I have been hand painting and writing over 45 thank you cards to my financial partners who have donated at any capacity these past 16 mo the of being on the mission field. It has taken quite the time but has been fully worth it.
Thank you!!!!
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