MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!
Wow it’s been a crazy year…
I really don’t know how to sum it all up! But God sure has taken me on an adventure, if I stop and think about it its hard to believe that this has been my life. From being in beautiful Hawaii where God totally broke off all these things in my life that I had been holding on to that were really crippling me.
To Panama where I was so challenged in who I ‘thought’ God was what I thought missions was. He totally stripped off all these preconceptions and I had to start learning all over again. It really challenged me on how I lived out this life of missions. This made me realize that I couldnt put any box around what I thought living out my faith and love for God should look like that it had to be in everything I did that I express the love of God. Then to come to South Africa. To see poverty next to the rich. To see the destruction because of things like racism and prejudice but also to see these things in my own heart. It was really hard. A big part of that journey was relying on God for my needs. Also really seeing how I have to listen to him and talk with him about issues such as finances, and not just expect it to turn up. I was really shown a whole other level of intimacy God longs for. How he longs for me to discuss and make choices for him with him in him. After he challenged me where my heart was with staying on track or not, I decided that this is where I should be at this point in my life, even if it was hard and to be honest it would be so much easier to come home and a lot of me wanted to. He then provided the money I needed the day before the final due day of our finances. It was awesome.
So it been a journey. And im so glad I have been able to do it with you all. All your encouragements and prayers have been so good. Just knowing that I have people around the world who care and are passionate about these things that are on my heart is amazing. I am now going on to Cairo Egypt. Where I will be for 3 weeks and we will be doing an extensive study of the bible, we will be following the journey of Paul. We will continue into Israel, turkey…this will be an amazing experience, of course our ministry through photography will come into play. One of the things we want is to come into each different country with a true honor for their culture. So the correct dress etc. this will be very interesting when it comes to not looking men in the eyes when speaking to them and things like that. Another thing is that I wont be using facebook for the time that I am there. This is because of security issues and for the protection of people working their already. Also when it comes to talking about ministry and God or Jesus I will use other words such as father..or talking to my dad. So if you could all go along with that in any emails you send to me. Please don’t use any words like evangelism or missions etc.
It would be awesome if you could all send your email addresses to my email gold_fish_5@hotmail.com today is the last day I will be on facebook so please send them there asap.
Please keep me in your prayers. Money is still the issue at the back of my mind I have m next school fees coming up and im once again in the position of not having any money haha.
Much love and blessings
Naomi
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