Right Now Ministries

There is this website that is used for the training of church and christian leaders. It is amazing. It is called rightnow.org and has podcasts and amazing resources to use. one thing i found today was a short video on a progject they have called "traders" people who trade simple things for more of the kingdom. watch this video it is only 2 minutes and it is great..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mhsjoTmnY0&feature=relmfu

fun fact: my roommate and my boyfriend wear the same brand of deodorant. old spice fiji.

Revelation

So today was another day of training and podcasts and laughter. I had a revelation today when we were talking about characteristics of christian leaders. We were talking about being people of prayer and we were looking at scripture. We read Luke 6:12 where Jesus goes to the mountain top to pray and spends the day in prayer. We also read Mark 1:35 where it talks about Jesus going to a quiet place on his own to pray. I was blown away and conviction with the revelation that Jesus took time and made it a priority to pray, that he would pray for the entire night. He is God yet he still prays. wow. How much more do i need to pray if the Son of God spends time in prayer. wow. Country of prayer today: Bangladesh. 88% unreached, 0.7% Christ-followers. Also i thought i would include a picture or two that my lovely friend Thea took at the runway show i was in on saturday. Thanks thea for taking these amazing pictures!

This is me on the runway modeling one of the lovely outfits i got to show (above)

Here is a picture of my friend Teaka who is one of the designers who i also did a photoshoot for (above). I want to end with a quote. "I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. This is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love." Henri J. M. Nouwen

SABC the beginning

So camp has started and the past two days have been full of training for us leadership staff. We are doing a podcast series on this guy called Britt Merrick who is a pastor in Southern California. He is young and a surfer and his story is incredible. If you get the chance to check him out go to his website www.biggodbook.com and his podcasts are on there. Britt shares a story about his daughter getting cancer. The podcast is a sunday morning service where he is sharing with his congregation about how he found out his daughter had cancer that last monday. wow. so this is still very fresh. His daughter is 5 years old and she had a tumor in her abdomen the size of a football. He was talking about how faith is proven even stronger in suffering, and how him and his wife are experiencing that when after they prayed for immediate healing they didn't see it. i could go on about this man and the amazing way that he sees suffering and the amazing way that he is dealing with the most tragic event in his life but i just want to say one thing that really stood out to me. The night before his daughters surgery he was praying and he said to God "God i love my daughter, but i love you more. If she dies tomorrow in surgery nothing will change between you and I." wow. can you imagine saying that? Being so confident and trusting in God your father that even the death of your own child could not change your attitude towards Him. James 1:2 talks about having joy in troubles and suffering. Joy. Joy. Joy because we know who our Father is, Joy because we have faith, Joy because we can't fix it so what else can we do, Joy because happiness isn't an option. our country to of prayer for yesterday was Afghanistan where 93% is unreached. where there are 29,074,395 Muslims and 0.05% are christians. They definietly need prayer. There is so much learning going on more to come......