Sunday, October 23, 2011

Hello everyone! Last Saturday, I went to a beach called Magic Sand, and it was so beautiful! I can't even describe how wonderful the ocean is.. the water is so clear and blue... you can see everything! And out of NOWHERE I looked down and there was a enormous sea turtle underneath me and it was AWESOME! The turtle was so close to me that I could of touch it. Besides that....as you can see I boogie board on a wave for the first time in history! It was intense. :)
Weekends are our only free time and my beloved friend Sara, who is on my outreach team, birthday fell on Saturday. So a bunch of us got dressed up and went out for dessert to celebrate her 19 birthday.
I'm sure all of you are wondering what I have been up to these last two weeks and I just want to inform everyone that I'm having a lot of breakthroughs! So many lies that I believed in are being exposed into the light and I'm about to repent and move on. Today I rediscovered (in my heart) that the Gospel is simple, but we make it so complicated. Our job as Christians is to wake up every morning being convince of God's love for us and to respond to it throughout the day. AHHH How amazing is that?!?!? We can't do anything earn or prevent God's love for us. Its a gift! I'm so sick of Religion... We need to live by God's love in order to bring the Kingdom of God, but instead we live for God's love and it causes us to strive.

Exciting News: My total outreach cost is 5,500 and the remaining balance I owe is 1,400. I have until November 27 to raise that money and this is the first time ever that I'm not even worried about how I'm going to get it. God is so real and if I truly believe in the Gospel...it would be a slap to God's face thinking he can't provide that little amount!!!!! He is sooo faithful and I'm thrilled to see where or how that money is going to get to me. Please keep me in your prayers, and if you feel like you want to partner up with me, just let me know! Thank you all for your support and prayers! Praying really does change reality...He hears us!

-Kimberly

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

EXCITING NEWS

Hello EVERYONE! SO this picture to your left is my outreach team. The two people, who don't have paper on them, are the outreach leaders and they are a young married couple! I don't know them too well, but they're fantastic leaders.
oh yess...how can I forget?!?!? I'M GOING TO SOUTH AFRICA!!!!!
It wasn't my first pick, but as the week progressed my heart changed, and I had a strong desire to only go to South Africa. I knew I made a huge mistake when I put Mozambique/South Africa as my first pick. I'm so thankful that I'm on the team who is only going to South Africa!I have so much peace about this team! I love it so much!

Random Statements from the guest speakers:

"You do the possible and leave the impossible to God." -Sean Murphy

"We didn't bring Religion, but brought the kingdom of God." unbelievable story behind this....a city in the Philippines was transform by the Gospel...the whole city dedicated itself to God.

"You will always think you cannot do whatever God calls you to do unless you take a risk. You just need to take that first step and grace will fall in place." -Sean Murphy

"We base what we do to describe who we are, but we should look at ourselves in Jesus Christ to see who we are." -John Bills


Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Outreach locations

So today we find out all the possible locations for our outreach.
1. Myanmar
2. Japan
3. Cambodia
4. India/sri Lanka
5. Columbia/chile
6. Us virgin Island
7. Mozambique/south Africa
8. Rwanda
9. Cambodia/vietnam
10. South Africa

I felt like God told me to pick these three countries
1. Mozambique/South Africa (Mozambique is the poorest country in the world)! hahah this would be my first choice!
2. South Africa
3. Columbia/Chile

I find out where my outreach is on Monday....
I know I told everyone I wanted to go to Rwanda and I still do, but God directed me in a different way.

This week is Corporate Week and this means all the dts have lecture and worship together. The reason for this is because Loren Cunningham and his wife are here teaching the lecture. Its amazing! My favorite thing Loren said in the lecture was, "Your cross is when you give up your rights for the sake of Gods love." The areas I felt called to give up my rights were reputation, money, and marriage!
Also for this week the United Pursuit Band is here to lead worship and this band is fantastic. When they sang the song, "Break every chain," I literally felt like all my chains broke off. I felt so much Joy, Peace, and freedom as I worship the Living God. I was dancing and jumping and shouting, and the best part about it, I didn't care what anybody thought of me! It was awesome!
Fun Fact: Loren Cunningham, founder of YWAM, has been to every country in the World! AMAZING!

Friday, October 7, 2011

I have so much to say right now, but I don't even know how to put what I'm feeling at this moment into words. SO much had happen in the last couple days, it's so overwhelming. It's only been a week and I have grown in my faith, my relationship with Jesus, and my character. My entire perceptive of the Gospel has change and I feel so free. It's really embarrassing to admit this, but I have been so religious about everything, but I'm proud to say I'm set free and will not live like that anymore. I'm so excited to say... the Kingdom of God will come, and I'm able to be apart of that story!

Yesterday I found out Maggie, a leader of compassion, is my small group leader. We have small group on Thursday every week. A small group is when a couple girls come together and discuss about what the guess speaking spoke about and ask any questions that you had. Its a time we go over the Bible and to just have fellowship. I'm thrilled to get the small group going and to build close relationship with seven other girls and my leader.

So every year Ywam has an opportunity to volunteer at the event, the IRON MAN! And I'm soooo doing that! My shift is at 6:00pm-12:00... so I'm going to be at the finish line cheering on the athletes and passing out water to them. And I get a free t-shirt!!!! haha I heard most people cry watching them finish and I will def. be one of those people!

Today we got to choose what workshop we wanted to be apart of and I choose Basic Health. I'll be in a 8 week class to be train to recognize and preform health care in the third world countries. Speaking of countries, in four days we find out what all the options are for outreach. We have 15 mins to pray about it, and then we have to pick the top two places we feel like God is calling us to go. At this moment, I have no idea where I want to go! I realized that it doesn't matter where I go because God cares about all nations. I'll keep all of you updated!

Love Kimberly

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The life of a YWAM student :)

I'm sorry if I don't write a blog everyday...they sure keep us busy! Anyways, today was the second day of our lecture and this week our speaker is Don Stephens. He is speaking on Biblical Worldview! You can check out his website to see what we are learning www.donstephens.wordpress.com. One of the main thing I have taken from the last two days of his talks is everything reflects who God is, therefore, everything brings him glory. It brings God glory when you clean your house or when you sing/dance/work. When you have romance in your life or when you study science or English. The list goes on... This all reflects who God is. Its AMAZING!

On Tuesdays my entire class goes to the prayer room and we are lead in Worship and intercession. Intercession is when you focus on a issue and pray for it. So today we focus on Sex Trafficking and it touch my heart. The reason why we focus on this issue because the organization, voice of the voiceless, was here this week. This organization travels the world to get footage on this issue sex trafficking.

Today we found out what our work duties are and hahah my work duty is construction. They are building more buildings for housing and I get to prepare everything for the workers! Its pretty sweet!

Anyways Here is the schedule for Monday:

Monday- 6:30-7:15 Breakfast
8:00-9:00 Campus Worship
9:00-12:00 Lecture
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Workshop
3:00-5:00 Work duty
5:00-6:30 Dinner
6:00-8:00 Open Worship
I would list everyday but they are very similar...only a couple things change. I just wanted everyone to see that they keep us very busy!!! On top of everything, we are required to read some books. At this moment, we are reading Is That Really You, God? by Loren Cunningham (Loren is the founder of YWAM). The other books we are reading during the dts are Crazy Love by Francis Chan, Royalty by Kris Vallotton, Foreign to Familiar by Sarah Lanier, and Compassion by Henri Nouwen.

Prayer Request: I want to drive in and rely on God for strength!

Saturday, October 1, 2011
















Today was fantastic! My entire DTS went to the beach for the day. I was able to make many connections with people through the games we played (capture the flag & football in the ocean).

I'm sure your wondering about what happen to my foot. Ha funny story behind that! We all were headed to a place to go cliff jumping. As I was swimming to the spot, a BIG wave came crashing on me and my foot hit a rock. It started to sting really bad so I went back to shore. I discovered my foot bumped into a sea urchin and I was told that urine would release the pain. AWESOME! lol

Aloha!

Aloha!!!
I would put more pictures up, but for some reason my camera does not seem to work. However, the picture to your left is called, "Plaza of the Nations (flags). Its so beautiful! This morning we had a welcome ceremony where each school presented gifts to the Native Hawaiian people and they welcomed us to their land. I have only been here for one night and I'm absolutely in love with the diversity that takes place here in Kona. The beautiful part about it is everyone respects each others culture and tradition. I had never seen anything like it before!

Today was the first day that we had lecture, and there I was able to meet all the students and staff/leaders. I was completely blown away! I cried every time when someone opened up and shared their struggles. It touched my heart. SOOO I decided I'm not wearing anymore eye makeup because the first day is nothing close to what it will be like in a couple weeks. Its going to be very difficult for me, but freedom will be the outcome as we, the students, face all our fears and addictions.

Here is the theme for Compassion
1. Restore
2. Rest in my love
3. Bring my River of life and hope to the hopeless