After my Discipleship training school
I had several schools I wanted to do, but due to covid none of them worked out. During my time in South Africa, God has placed it on my heart to spend a time to study the Bible and although I’m not able to yet God has opened up another door for me at this time and I could not be more excited. I’m going to volunteer at Door of Faith Orphanage for six months in La misión , Mexico. it’s been such a long period of uncertainty but God is faithful and I am extremely grateful to be able to spend an intentional season at a place that I hold so dear to my heart. I do still plan to do a School Of Biblical Studies with Youth With A Mission in late 2022. However I’m excited to be spending these next six months living alongside some amazing people and giving back to a community that has done so much for me. Even though I wouldn’t want to relive this past year, I am very grateful for the way things played out. Amidst a Global pandemic my mom got diagnosed with cancer. You hear so many stories about other people going through similar things but you just never expect it to happen to you or someone close to you until it does. In late 2019 She underwent a surgery and soon after did six months of chemo to treat it and although our journey with cancer still isn’t exactly over she is doing so much better and things are looking up. I know I had my own plans but I’m happy that I got to be home with my mom during her treatment. With all of that being said my family and I are extremely grateful to have such a supportive community around us, your thoughts and prayers mean the world. While being home I was also able to work and save up money to be obedient in the next thing that God called me to do however I am still in need of a few more monthly supporters and would ask that you prayerfully consider partnering with me in that way. Thank you!
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Better late than never am I right? Any ways happy new year! I haven’t written a blog update since last year so it’s been a while! Outreach has been insane to say the least but in the most hectic yet beautiful way ever! I feel like I have so much to say but I will try and keep this very short and sweet...
One of the biggest things that God has been speaking to me in just the month of December is what it truly means and looks like to not rely on your own strength. We started off our outreach phase in Greece for 3 weeks.. those 3 weeks was kind of like a wake up call for our team, it wasn’t the easiest time... we were desperately seeking worldly structure in everything we were doing rather than allowing God to move how he wanted to move. We held too many expectations and ended up being very disappointed. Greece was a very humbling time for me personally as well.. I realized that no matter how hard I try I really can’t do things on my own, I’m not strong enough and I don’t have to be.. if you follow me on social media you are already aware of the financial situation I found myself in, how wonderful it is that we have a God of deliverance because I have all of the funds that I need. Thank you so much for your prayers and being obedient to the Holy Spirit in your own personal lives. This is just one of the ways that God has been showing me that he is a good shepherd and a good father! After our time in Greece we spent two weeks in Durres, Albania where we did a ton of street evangelism and got to spend the holidays! That time was immensely needed, it was a time of recharge for many of us. It set us back on fire and we felt like God really showed us his heart for Albania and it’s people and how he’s been using us as a team... they recently had some pretty big and scary earthquakes and it put the country on edge but wow, God has so many big things in store for them! Many of you have probably never heard of Albania or probably wouldn’t know where it is without looking at a map. That proves how overlooked this country is in many people’s eyes. Albania was nothing like I imagined, the people are so welcoming and open to having conversations and spending time with random strangers. They are definitely seeking affirmation and validation but have been looking in all the wrong places.. I truly believe that the lord has his people there in a season of refining while showing them that they are more than enough. That is something that God has been reminding me of recently as well.. I am enough. I am enough because he has equipped me with everything that I need when I need it. We are enough and will continue to always be enough because everything that we aren’t, God is!! He is strong in and through our deficiencies! The story of David and Goliath, that many of us have probably heard in Sunday school as a child, has had a very powerful and impactful imprint in my life recently. Every little detail in this story has a very important meaning. Yes David fought the giant but Jesus was the giant slayer! David was able to defeat the giant because of jesus... I’ve been trying to walk in this confidence that I am enough because jesus simply says I am. We just arrived to our new location today, just an hour away from durres.. we will be here for 8 more days until we fly back to South Africa for the final stretch! Please continue to pray for us that we just allow the Holy Spirit to move in us. That we be bold and step out into faith. I love you all, thank you for loving me! I don’t know but I just really feel like someone needed to hear/read/ be reminded of this, take it or leave it: YOU ARE ENOUGH BECAUSE YOU HAVE PUT YOUR TRUST IN THE ONE THAT’S BEEN ENOUGH! Everything that you’re doing does not need to be validated or co-signed by MAN!! Let’s learn how to walk in freedom together this new year:) so much for being short and sweet.... Hey, it’s been five weeks since we have last spoken via blog and let me just tell you a lot has happened! If you read my last blog, I wrote about how lecture phase has been so emotional for me and that statement still remains true. These two and a half months of lectures have probably been the hardest months of my life and yet God is still so so good. In my first S.A. Update I talked about being transparent before the Lord, its so cool being able to read back and reflect on How God has been unfolding and revealing how he has been working in my life in what feels like such a short amount of time.
This has been a season of tremendous breakthrough for me full of sometimes unbearable growing pains but I’m so thankful for it all because I didn’t have to go through it alone and i know God brought all of this up because He wanted me to have healing and complete freedom in Him. “This is why, for Christ’s sake, i delight in weakness, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when i am weak, then i am strong.” (2 Corinthians 12:10) I’m so beyond excited to see what God does during outreach! Speaking of that, my team actually flies out tomorrow afternoon... we will be in Athens, Greece for the first three weeks working with a ministry called “streetlights” (which is an organization/day care that works with child refugees)and then from there we will be going to Albania for a total of three weeks, serving in two different locations!! After our time in Europe we will be traveling back to the Muizenberg base and than heading to the Eastern cape for our final stretch of outreach phase. I can’t wait to see how God shows up and moves through these nations! Please continue to keep us all in your prayers! Once again, thank you for wanting to do life with me! We have a relational God and the all time greatest calling on all of our lives is to be in relationship with Him and each other! *I ALMOST FORGOT* throughout this whole lecture phase i have felt like God has been calling me into a more in depth season of training and he has actually just recently opened a door for me to do a secondary school with YWAM! I Have been accepted to a three month children at risk course here at YWAM MUIZENBERG , starting in April. Please intercede in prayer with me about this next step in my Journey with God! With all my love, Liz. Maddi: Season of RevelationsOh man, SBS keeps you busy! My time here so far has been challenged mostly with the loads of work and trying to keep up but i’ve been growing so much in my journey with God! In each book that we have read so far, I have been learning and encountering something new about God’s character and his heart behind the people in the Bible. All of this can get quite overwhelming at times but I’m finding comfort in the fact that i have already made such great friends with the people in my class and being intentional to branch out and also make friends within the community around Muizenberg... Jesus just hung out with people for the majority of His time here on earth so I have really been making an effort to find an even balance to study the word and stay on track with my assignments but to also live it out and make time to serve and love people well! Some prayer requests: -For Encouragement when it comes to school work and Energy! -For God to continue to touch me and bring revelation in my life! Miss and love all of you guys. See you all at Christmas! Wyatt: Soaking It All InHey everyone! I’ve really been enjoying my time here in South Africa. I’ve learned so much in such a short time. Every time we start a new book, I get excited because it feels like I’m reading the Bible for the first time! I love seeing God’s heart in a unique way in every book. As frustrating as it could possibly get, I am actually finding a sense of peace in knowing that we have a multidimensional God. We will never fully know God because there is just so many layers and we don’t have to rush to stuff ourselves with knowledge because we have an eternity to keep on learning about His character and nature, with Him. We should be able to live our lives with a teachable heart. This is only one month in, I can’t wait to see what else God has in store! Thank you for all your prayers and words of encouragement... see you very soon! Some prayer requests: -pray for continual and renewing excitement/joy towards reading the Bible -pray that I continue to have an open mind and an eager heart DTS has made me an Emotional wreck! |
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