September 2010

***From now on I will not be sending out monthly newsletters. I will be updating this blog site monthly and will send you links to the blog instead. The newsletters are nice, but they take a lot of time J

I’m Back J

WOW, it’s hard to believe it’s October already! School started back at the end of Aug and it has been incredible! Every day we reach new levels in the Lord. This is an accelerated season and the Lord brought the best of the best students to us this year! Every one of them desire to reach the fullness God created them for and have laid down their lives to pick up His. What an honor to be a part of what God is doing right now!

Generally Speaking

This month has mainly been getting to know everyone and getting into the groove of how things work. We started out getting all the basics down: core values, mission information, outreach info and of course vision for the year! We started our outreaches this Wed where groups of our students will be going into the city to worship, impoverished neighborhoods to love, the sex trade businesses to shed light in the darkness and the public schools to mentor. Of course our main goal in all of these outreaches is to LOVE with the supernatural love of Christ and to be the hands and feet of Jesus to a hurting, desperate community.

I am working on the adopt-a-block outreach this year where we go into an impoverished neighborhood to love on the kids. The very first year of school the Ft. Worth police department came to convergence and told them to work in this neighborhood. They have experience a lot of breakthrough these last 2 years and we look forward to building on their foundation! Many of these kids are from single parent homes and often are left alone. On Wednesdays we get to minister to them in the park in front of the school. They come to be loved, encouraged and equipped as sons and daughters of the Lord. Our heart is to see this community change and become radical lovers and world changers for the Kingdom.

This year for missions our school will be going to Guadalajara, Mexico, Pattaya, Thailand and Kenya, Africa near the end of March! I will be going back to Mexico where we will work at an orphanage serving them in whatever they need, minister to those who live on the streets and are addicted to drugs and minister in prisons to offer the hope of Christ. In Thailand they will minister to those who are caught in prostitution or other sexually oriented businesses, worship in the streets to bring freedom and work with Tamar center who pulls girls out of prostitution. In Africa they will be putting on a pastor’s conference where they will teach, encourage, prophesy and serve. The interns also have the opportunity to go to Israel with our leaders! I am totally pumped for this; we will be going the week of Passover and will be working with some people Matt and Sonja know. Missions is my absolute favorite part of the school year so I’m really excited!

Personal Matters

There have been MANY changes in my life over the summer! I am so privileged to be back at Convergence as one of nine amazing interns this year! I have been chosen by the Lord to run with some of the most amazing leaders I’ve ever seen. Their passion and pursuit of the Lord is an inspiration and I one day aspire to a person of high integrity like they all are! Our leaders have laid down their lives to help bring others into the fullness God created for them and to see His glory cover the earth. I am interning with the Transformations Inner Healing and Deliverance ministers at Convergence. Tom and Wendy are amazing people who have a lot of wisdom to impart, and I get to SOAK it up! I have a great passion in this area and look forward to what God will be doing in and through me this year! I was blessed to be able to move to Fort Worth in an apartment not far from school with my amazing roommate, Sam. It will be a huge blessing to not live 45 minutes away from school anymore, though I do miss the family I was staying with. The Lord also made a way for me to get a car and I am SO thankful for that. I am in awe of the faithfulness of God in my life! He rocks my world J!

For now I am basking in the new levels of peace and rest! Currently I am praying for the right job for this year and also praying into my future. I am hoping to plan a trip back to STL for one of the holidays and also may be there at the end of this month… we’ll see about that one! I want to thank all of you who have supported, loved and prayed for me! You are all SO appreciated and dearly loved. I pray the Lord’s blessings over you and look forward to hearing what the Lord is doing in your lives! Miss you all (those back in STL) and I send many hugs!