Lecture Phase Over...

After nearly 3 months of classroom instruction, lecture phase of Discipleship Training School is over. I have learned so much, I don't think I could even describe everything. So tomorrow we leave for Wichita, KS to spend a week ministering there. We later move to Oklahoma City, OK for another week. After THAT...we go to Costa Rica. I look forward to telling you so much. I need to remember to take my camera with me though...I'm so bad about taking pictures.

Many blessings to you! Please keep me in your prayers.

Kelley <><

Esther...

So last week I was having a hard time having quiet time, just so much going on. My evenings and mornings were being consumed by things, people and everything else but alone time with Jesus. But this morning was so good, and I feel so much more refreshed and ready to take on the world! Well, at least Costa Rica for a month. But okay, back to Esther. God told me to read Esther, a story I have read before, watched a movie about before, quite frankly, I knew a lot about. But isn't that how God is? He loves to show us new things in the things we think we know a lot about!

So Esther Chapter One. King Xerxes calls for his beloved queen, Queen Vashti. He wants to promenade his beautiful, gorgeous, out-right hotty-totty wife to his friends and community. But she refused. WHAT?! Refuse the king? NEVER! He conferred with counsel, and they said in a few short sentences to banish her from his sight. Ooh. Ouch. Gotta find a new queen now.

Okay, but stop. Before you go thinking about Esther and everything she did for "such a time as this"...we can't skip over what the allegoric reference (big words-I know) in the first chapter.

God, OUR King, is calling for us to come out and promenade before His friends and community. But we're refusing...so what does He do?! He finds a suitable bride, a new queen to take her place. Do you see it? Really? Do you see how God wants to brag about us? He wants to show us off in all the decadence that He knows how...but we refuse. Ouch. Humans can be so dumb sometimes.

God is calling us to be His. To be in His Royal Family. To wear the Crown of Life! Wear it, and wear it proud.

I hope this blessed you today.

Blessings,
Kelley <><

Ah! The Possibilities.

So we're getting ready for our outreach trips to both Oklahoma, Kansas and Costa Rica. A lot has been on my mind lately, lots of things happening, but all good! I'm thinking and praying about the ministry that I'll be involved in - but also thinking about what I'm going to be doing afterwards for ministry. I'm not really sure, I have a lot of opportunities, just waiting for God to open the right doors. Here are some things I could possibly be involved in:

1. Medical Missions to Honduras
2. Help ministry to India
3. Reservation work in South Dakota
4. Zimbabwe Africa medical outreach

So there are a lot of things going on, please pray that I make the right decision.

BUT...all the while these things are going on in my life, I need to take one step at a time and focus on Stateside and Costa Rica. I am so ready for what God has in store for me. I'm excited to share with everyone too.

Please keep me in your prayers. I love all of you!

Blessings,
Kelley <><