This weekend, starting on Sunday and going until about noon today, we are having our outreach "retreats". Basically it is a time to bond as a team and learn a bit more about the culture and languages of the place we are going to.
As you know, I am going to Mexico for 2 months with a team of 5 other people- we added another member last week! On my team is Jack, Jeremie, Aaron, and myself, with the leaders Keisha and Michele (who are both my small group leaders, so it's great!). For our retreat, we are staying at a house on the outskirts of Madison. The owners of the house are YWAMers who are away for a week or so. I am sleeping in a king sized bed that sinks when you sit on it (its incredible!) with Keisha, so its pretty luxurious here!
Sunday, our first night here, we were just telling each other our stories. Only 3 people talked about theirs last night, though, before a discussion started about God and who we are to Him, and about wearing masks in life. Anyway, as a result of this discussion, we had a pretty amazing time of intercession for one of the guys in my DTS. It was so cool! Keisha was just giggling so much, full of the joy of the Lord, and I really couldn't stop smiling! I could just feel the joy of God inside of me... It was totally awesome! We ended the spontaneous time of intercession with some worship, during which we received even more to pray about for this one guy.
The last song we sang was Brokenness Aside. We sang the chorus over and over and over again, marvelling at the truth in the words:
"Cause I am a sinner, if its not one thing it's another
Caught up in words, tangled in lies
But You are a Saviour, and You take brokenness aside
And make it beautiful, beautiful"
It was a really amazing time of worship and intercession! We were all just so happy and excited and full of joy. We literally all could not stop grinning and laughing!
God is good! He is amazing!
Blessings,
Katie
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Monday, November 24, 2014
Outreach
As we come closer and closer to the time when we head out for outreach, we are beginning to think about funding for it. Outreach will cost probably between 3 and 4 thousand USD per person.
So, what we are doing is having a local outreach on December 5. We are going to go downtown to the University of Madison campus and there, we will be handing out free cups of hot chocolate. Our goal is to hand out 1,000 cups. They have done this event in the past, and never have they not reached their goal.
The way that this helps us with outreach is we are asking you if you would be willing to sponsor this event. Anything you want to donate would go to helping my pay for my outreach to Mexico. One way you can donate is by pledging a certain amount per cup. A pledge of 1 cent per cup would come to a total donation of $10 for my outreach. 2 cents would come to $20, 10 cents per cup would total at $100.
Any way you could support me financially would be awesome, if you would like to donate. But even if you cannot support me that way, I would really appreciate your continued support through prayer! We are really excited for Mexico, and we know that it is going to be a pretty intense time. During a time of intercession over the Mexico outreach, God really communicated how important it will be for us to walk in the opposite spirit. So your prayers are another really awesome way that you can support me!
If you do want to support me financially, either by sponsoring the hot chocolate event or just giving me a donation, please just let me know through email (katieroest92@gmail.com). After thanksgiving break, we are hoping to buy the plane tickets to Mexico, so they are asking us to have at least $500 in our outreach account by then.
Thank you all for just supporting me and what I am doing here! I really appreciate all of you! And goodness, do I miss everyone at home! I can't wait to see you all!
Blessings,
Katie
Saturday, November 22, 2014
2 Months, Destiny, and Life
I can't believe that yet another week has gone by! Yesterday, we celebrated our 2 month anniversary of DTS and becoming a family (and by "celebrated", I mean we got really excited and that is about it). We only have one month left until Christmas break, and then we go on outreach! It's crazy! And next week is already American Thanksgiving, so we have 5 days off. No one is staying at the TC, so those of us who don't live nearby are going to different people's houses. My friend Rachel has told me from day one that I will be going to her place, so I didn't have much of a decision! ;)
This week was a crazy week, and I don't even really know why. It was a pretty typical schedule. We learned about destiny, and it was really good. But I was just in such an anti-social mood all week! I just wanted to be alone! It was weird. So I spend a good bit of time in the basement, which is kind of like a dungeon, because no one goes there. Except now people know about it so there always seems to be someone there, and if someone wants me, they know exactly where to find me. Like last night, for instance. I went down and Megan was sitting on the drier (which is the spot), so I went across the stairway to the tiny paint room and sat there. Not five minutes later, Anna came downstairs looking for me, and she dragged me upstairs to "do homework" (we really just hung out in the staff lounge and talked more than we did the work).
This week, we added another member to team Mexico! There are now six of us going, four students and two staff. The students are me, Jeremie, and Jack, which it always was, and now our German, Aaron, is also coming with us :)
So. Destiny. It is God's adventure for our lives! Destiny is an intimate relationship with God, from which a ministry and action will flow from. Destiny is a matter of the heart. A person of destiny, our speaker Wick Nease told us, is not someone who is great, but someone who is yielded.
Wick and his wife Jan have been in YWAM for years. Then, 12 years ago, they felt God calling them to begin a ministry that supports orphanages around the world. They began an organization called Streams of Mercy (www.streamsofmercy.org), and people donate while Wick and Jan give the funds to Christian orphanages, ones that they have carefully screened. Wick and Jan are the only staff of Streams of Mercy, and they are missionary. They raise support and are not on salary for the organization. All the funds go to the orphanages. Wick and Jan's goal is to someday have 100 orphanages that they support. They currently just added on their 31st. Their stories of how God provides the funds are really amazing! Streams of Mercy does not have abundant funds available to them. They rely on people faithfully donating each month. And Wick and Jan themselves will go to visit the orphanages regularly. They are older- their first great-grandchild was born just over a year ago.
One thing that Wick said that really stood out to me -since I have always had a heart for orphans. Really the whole reason I am here is because I wanted to volunteer in an orphanage but I didn't know how to- was how today, there are 143,000,000 orphans in the world. And there are more than 143,000,000 Christian families in the world. "If every Christian family adopted just one orphan, there would be no more orphans," Wick said. He said that every time he teaches, he challenges the students "Have as many biological children as you want. And then adopt just one. You don't have to stop there, but just adopt at least one." Then he told us a story of how one day, we went out to get the mail or something and he saw a woman walking down the sidewalk pushing a stroller. In the stroller, there was a black baby, and on each side of the stroller was a young child, one Asian and one white (I don't actually remember the ethnicities here, so let's just pretend. I just know that there were 3 different ethnicities). And the woman, when she saw Wick, pointed at him and started yelling "This is all your fault!" He was very confused, until she came closer and he recognized her as a YWAMer, who had once been a student in his class. And he had given that same challenge to that class. Only once she adopted one, she couldn't stop. :)
Yesterday, we ended class by splitting into small groups and praying for each other. But rather than praying what we wanted, we would listen for God and then pray that. It was so encouraging! It made me laugh when someone go Micah 6:8 for me- I definitely know that verse well, thank you GEMS :) There were other things, and it was super cool.
Tonight I am going out to dinner (Anna wants steak) with a few of my friends, which should be fun! Then tomorrow, we begin our Outreach Retreats. Basically, we are spending the next 3 days with out outreach groups (Tuesday we come back to the TC and everyone is free for Thanksgiving break). The 2 Uganda teams are staying here at the TC, since there are a lot of them. My Mexico team is going to some person's house in Madison- should be interesting!
Blessings,
Katie
This week was a crazy week, and I don't even really know why. It was a pretty typical schedule. We learned about destiny, and it was really good. But I was just in such an anti-social mood all week! I just wanted to be alone! It was weird. So I spend a good bit of time in the basement, which is kind of like a dungeon, because no one goes there. Except now people know about it so there always seems to be someone there, and if someone wants me, they know exactly where to find me. Like last night, for instance. I went down and Megan was sitting on the drier (which is the spot), so I went across the stairway to the tiny paint room and sat there. Not five minutes later, Anna came downstairs looking for me, and she dragged me upstairs to "do homework" (we really just hung out in the staff lounge and talked more than we did the work).
This week, we added another member to team Mexico! There are now six of us going, four students and two staff. The students are me, Jeremie, and Jack, which it always was, and now our German, Aaron, is also coming with us :)
So. Destiny. It is God's adventure for our lives! Destiny is an intimate relationship with God, from which a ministry and action will flow from. Destiny is a matter of the heart. A person of destiny, our speaker Wick Nease told us, is not someone who is great, but someone who is yielded.
Wick and his wife Jan have been in YWAM for years. Then, 12 years ago, they felt God calling them to begin a ministry that supports orphanages around the world. They began an organization called Streams of Mercy (www.streamsofmercy.org), and people donate while Wick and Jan give the funds to Christian orphanages, ones that they have carefully screened. Wick and Jan are the only staff of Streams of Mercy, and they are missionary. They raise support and are not on salary for the organization. All the funds go to the orphanages. Wick and Jan's goal is to someday have 100 orphanages that they support. They currently just added on their 31st. Their stories of how God provides the funds are really amazing! Streams of Mercy does not have abundant funds available to them. They rely on people faithfully donating each month. And Wick and Jan themselves will go to visit the orphanages regularly. They are older- their first great-grandchild was born just over a year ago.
One thing that Wick said that really stood out to me -since I have always had a heart for orphans. Really the whole reason I am here is because I wanted to volunteer in an orphanage but I didn't know how to- was how today, there are 143,000,000 orphans in the world. And there are more than 143,000,000 Christian families in the world. "If every Christian family adopted just one orphan, there would be no more orphans," Wick said. He said that every time he teaches, he challenges the students "Have as many biological children as you want. And then adopt just one. You don't have to stop there, but just adopt at least one." Then he told us a story of how one day, we went out to get the mail or something and he saw a woman walking down the sidewalk pushing a stroller. In the stroller, there was a black baby, and on each side of the stroller was a young child, one Asian and one white (I don't actually remember the ethnicities here, so let's just pretend. I just know that there were 3 different ethnicities). And the woman, when she saw Wick, pointed at him and started yelling "This is all your fault!" He was very confused, until she came closer and he recognized her as a YWAMer, who had once been a student in his class. And he had given that same challenge to that class. Only once she adopted one, she couldn't stop. :)
Yesterday, we ended class by splitting into small groups and praying for each other. But rather than praying what we wanted, we would listen for God and then pray that. It was so encouraging! It made me laugh when someone go Micah 6:8 for me- I definitely know that verse well, thank you GEMS :) There were other things, and it was super cool.
Tonight I am going out to dinner (Anna wants steak) with a few of my friends, which should be fun! Then tomorrow, we begin our Outreach Retreats. Basically, we are spending the next 3 days with out outreach groups (Tuesday we come back to the TC and everyone is free for Thanksgiving break). The 2 Uganda teams are staying here at the TC, since there are a lot of them. My Mexico team is going to some person's house in Madison- should be interesting!
Blessings,
Katie
Team Mexico (when we took team photos- now we have one extra person)
We had our Thanksgiving Love Feast on Thursday night, so we all had to dress up and look nice :P Here are most of the girls.
This is LaShanda, Anna, and me. Roomies, bunk-mates, friends!
Sunday, November 16, 2014
I Didn't Cry
I don't know if you know this, but starting a blog post is so difficult! I never know where to start- I have so much happening in my life these days that it is nearly impossible to remember it all, let alone write it down. Trying to decide what to include in a post and what not to is also very hard. And making the time to do it! That's probably the hardest part of all. With nearly 50 people living in one building, there is always something interesting happening, and you just don't want to miss that! Plus there is an absolutely adorable 4 year old who always wants to play.
But today is Sunday, and most people are still out doing laundry after church. So I can focus.... but who knows for how long! I was about to start this yesterday when suddenly there was a trip out to Madison for the Olive Garden. And there was no way I was going to miss that! So here is my 2nd attempt...
Two weeks ago, we learned about the Holy Spirit. Our speaker's name was Mike and he was one of my favourite teachers so far. He put a lot out there for us, but what I really appreciated was the way that he backed everything up with scripture, and if it was just his opinion, he made it clear that it was so.
The Holy Spirit is the part of the Trinity that is most argued about. Different people have different opinion on who the Spirit is. One thing Mike said that really made me think was that (and this was only his opinion) it could be possible that the reason for such confusion about the Spirit is because He is our greatest weapon as Christians. When we focus so much about arguing about who He is, we don't know how powerful we truly can be with the Spirit inside us. He is our greatest weapon, and an enemy will always try to disarm the greatest weapon first.
Jesus, before He could begin His ministry on earth, had to first be anointed by the Holy Spirit. If Jesus Christ Himself, who is God, could not enter ministry without being anointed by God, what makes us think that we can do it on our own? We can do nothing and achieve nothing without being filled, led, and empowered by the Holy Spirit.
We also talked about the gifts of the Spirit, focusing mostly on the gift of tongues (and prophecy), since it is the most talked about one. The gift of tongues is not bad. It is from God, but not everyone has this gift. Tongues literally means languages. This can be a heavenly language, but it could also just be another language in the world. The purpose of the gift of tongues is to edify yourself. It is a line from you to God; unless there is an interpreter, there is no reason to use this gift in front of others, since it does not edify them. The gift of prophecy, on the other hand, edifies the church. Prophecy is for the people, not the individual. If you have one of these gifts, you must be careful to use them properly (just read 1 Corinthians 14). You have the control.
Basically, Mike told us that we need to let people express their spiritual gifts, since it is of God. We shouldn't be suppressing the Lord.
At the end of his time with us, Mike prayed for the Holy Spirit to come upon all of us. We were worshipping, kind of gathered into our small groups, and Mike went from one group to another and just prayed over them. It was really cool, because he was praying different things over different groups, and each person later said that it seemed to speak exactly to them. In my small group, he really focused on God's gentleness, and how the Holy Spirit can come in gentleness, yet still just as deep and powerful. And he also prayed a lot about the fear of man, which is something that a lot of us struggle with (though Mike did not know this). Nothing really crazy happened during this time (other than some extremely heavy breathing from Annika, and she enjoys laughing at it now)
This week was the week that, back at the beginning of DTS, Kenzie and Keisha predicted I would cry during. Roots week. It is the week that we look at our family and history and get to the root of all of our issues and problems :P Our teacher was Gayle Keapproth; he and her husband, Warren, started YWAM Madison. Gayle is intense! She is so filled with the Spirit!
Here is how our first day of class went (class is about 3-4 hours): Gayle went from one person to another and asked their name, Then she asked why they came to DTS. Then she would continue what we call the "interrogation", asking different questions of different people. And they weren't just light questions. There was one girl, Kayla, who would avoid eye contact every time Gayle was choosing a new "victim", so eventually, Gayle chose her. "Kayla," she said, "What is it that you don't want to answer?" And this was our entire class, by the way. She didn't even get through everyone- the next morning we had to go through the last 5 or 6 people.
Gayle would spend about 5-10 minutes talking to each person. And at the end, she would tell them a word or a verse that God had given her about them. See, the night before, when she arrived at the TC, she went through the book of students and prayed, asking God about each of us. And He would give her words or verses. And they were spot on. Like one girl talked about how the main thing she has learned in DTS so far is how she should really be more thankful to her parents. And the word Gayle had gotten for her the night before was gratitude.
When Gayle got to me, pretty early on in the process, I knew exactly what question she was going to ask me. She was asking the questions based on what the Holy Spirit was telling her to say. And I knew that this was a big thing for me in DTS, so I just knew that God was going to get her to ask me about it. And sure enough: "Katie, so, what has God really been showing you so far during DTS?"
So I told her -how God loves me, which I had thought I knew. But it turns out that His love for me is a really, really big deal! And I never realized how much He loves me!- and she nodded. She asked me a few more things -like why this was such a big thing for me, how God had been communicating His love to me, and so forth- and then gave me some homework. "I want you to read 1 John, specifically 1 John 3," she told me. This was the Bible passage God had given her the night before. So I said I would, and she then told me that the next morning, class would begin by me telling everyone what God had taught me through the passage.
You have to understand that many many other people also got "homework" from Gayle. But I was the only one who had to share with the class. And I do not like sharing with the class. I do not speak in classes- I never have. I later asked Gayle why she made me tell everyone, and she said that she didn't make that decision, God did.
Anyway, so I read 1 John 3. And you should read it- it is all about God's love. Like, exactly what I talked about in class to Gayle. So the next morning, we got to class, and Gayle was like "And today we were going to start with..." and everyone cried "Katie!" So much for them forgetting...
So I explained in two sentences what I had learned (and I had learned so much more than that), and then Gayle made me stand up and she hugged me for literally like 5 minutes while she spoke about God's love for me. It was so awkward because there were like 40 people just staring and I was looking at the row of staff in the back, all watching me. Plus Gayle is significantly shorter than I am, so I was trying to keep my bent legs from giving out :P So while everyone else was extremely touched by that (I had several people tell me that they almost cried), for me it was more uncomfortable and distracted.
Last week was a really tough week for a lot of people. And we only had about 2 days of actual class. On Wednesday we were having worship, when the Holy Spirit led a whole repentance movement and people were confessing unconfessed sins and such. It was really a powerful, amazing time.
So it was a good week, but Kenzie and Keisha were wrong! I did not cry! Apparently I didn't have any deep deep roots of trauma... what a surprise :P
So that is a very, very quick summary of my last two weeks! Yeah... I'm sure I missed a lot, and I didn't even really get into what Gayle spoke about but that's okay!
Oh, one last story before I go. On Friday night, at about 3 in the morning, we all suddenly awoke when our bedroom lights were turned on (this happened in the boys dorm as well as both girls rooms). An airhorn sounded in the hallway, and we all saw a chicken walking around our rooms. The GMC DTS had snuck in, grabbed 4 of our chickens, and did this. So at 3 in the morning, I found myself running across the frosty grass, with just socks on my feet, holding a chicken to put it back in the coop. I did this twice. It was a pretty entertaining night!
Blessings,
Katie
But today is Sunday, and most people are still out doing laundry after church. So I can focus.... but who knows for how long! I was about to start this yesterday when suddenly there was a trip out to Madison for the Olive Garden. And there was no way I was going to miss that! So here is my 2nd attempt...
Two weeks ago, we learned about the Holy Spirit. Our speaker's name was Mike and he was one of my favourite teachers so far. He put a lot out there for us, but what I really appreciated was the way that he backed everything up with scripture, and if it was just his opinion, he made it clear that it was so.
The Holy Spirit is the part of the Trinity that is most argued about. Different people have different opinion on who the Spirit is. One thing Mike said that really made me think was that (and this was only his opinion) it could be possible that the reason for such confusion about the Spirit is because He is our greatest weapon as Christians. When we focus so much about arguing about who He is, we don't know how powerful we truly can be with the Spirit inside us. He is our greatest weapon, and an enemy will always try to disarm the greatest weapon first.
Jesus, before He could begin His ministry on earth, had to first be anointed by the Holy Spirit. If Jesus Christ Himself, who is God, could not enter ministry without being anointed by God, what makes us think that we can do it on our own? We can do nothing and achieve nothing without being filled, led, and empowered by the Holy Spirit.
We also talked about the gifts of the Spirit, focusing mostly on the gift of tongues (and prophecy), since it is the most talked about one. The gift of tongues is not bad. It is from God, but not everyone has this gift. Tongues literally means languages. This can be a heavenly language, but it could also just be another language in the world. The purpose of the gift of tongues is to edify yourself. It is a line from you to God; unless there is an interpreter, there is no reason to use this gift in front of others, since it does not edify them. The gift of prophecy, on the other hand, edifies the church. Prophecy is for the people, not the individual. If you have one of these gifts, you must be careful to use them properly (just read 1 Corinthians 14). You have the control.
Basically, Mike told us that we need to let people express their spiritual gifts, since it is of God. We shouldn't be suppressing the Lord.
At the end of his time with us, Mike prayed for the Holy Spirit to come upon all of us. We were worshipping, kind of gathered into our small groups, and Mike went from one group to another and just prayed over them. It was really cool, because he was praying different things over different groups, and each person later said that it seemed to speak exactly to them. In my small group, he really focused on God's gentleness, and how the Holy Spirit can come in gentleness, yet still just as deep and powerful. And he also prayed a lot about the fear of man, which is something that a lot of us struggle with (though Mike did not know this). Nothing really crazy happened during this time (other than some extremely heavy breathing from Annika, and she enjoys laughing at it now)
This week was the week that, back at the beginning of DTS, Kenzie and Keisha predicted I would cry during. Roots week. It is the week that we look at our family and history and get to the root of all of our issues and problems :P Our teacher was Gayle Keapproth; he and her husband, Warren, started YWAM Madison. Gayle is intense! She is so filled with the Spirit!
Here is how our first day of class went (class is about 3-4 hours): Gayle went from one person to another and asked their name, Then she asked why they came to DTS. Then she would continue what we call the "interrogation", asking different questions of different people. And they weren't just light questions. There was one girl, Kayla, who would avoid eye contact every time Gayle was choosing a new "victim", so eventually, Gayle chose her. "Kayla," she said, "What is it that you don't want to answer?" And this was our entire class, by the way. She didn't even get through everyone- the next morning we had to go through the last 5 or 6 people.
Gayle would spend about 5-10 minutes talking to each person. And at the end, she would tell them a word or a verse that God had given her about them. See, the night before, when she arrived at the TC, she went through the book of students and prayed, asking God about each of us. And He would give her words or verses. And they were spot on. Like one girl talked about how the main thing she has learned in DTS so far is how she should really be more thankful to her parents. And the word Gayle had gotten for her the night before was gratitude.
When Gayle got to me, pretty early on in the process, I knew exactly what question she was going to ask me. She was asking the questions based on what the Holy Spirit was telling her to say. And I knew that this was a big thing for me in DTS, so I just knew that God was going to get her to ask me about it. And sure enough: "Katie, so, what has God really been showing you so far during DTS?"
So I told her -how God loves me, which I had thought I knew. But it turns out that His love for me is a really, really big deal! And I never realized how much He loves me!- and she nodded. She asked me a few more things -like why this was such a big thing for me, how God had been communicating His love to me, and so forth- and then gave me some homework. "I want you to read 1 John, specifically 1 John 3," she told me. This was the Bible passage God had given her the night before. So I said I would, and she then told me that the next morning, class would begin by me telling everyone what God had taught me through the passage.
You have to understand that many many other people also got "homework" from Gayle. But I was the only one who had to share with the class. And I do not like sharing with the class. I do not speak in classes- I never have. I later asked Gayle why she made me tell everyone, and she said that she didn't make that decision, God did.
Anyway, so I read 1 John 3. And you should read it- it is all about God's love. Like, exactly what I talked about in class to Gayle. So the next morning, we got to class, and Gayle was like "And today we were going to start with..." and everyone cried "Katie!" So much for them forgetting...
So I explained in two sentences what I had learned (and I had learned so much more than that), and then Gayle made me stand up and she hugged me for literally like 5 minutes while she spoke about God's love for me. It was so awkward because there were like 40 people just staring and I was looking at the row of staff in the back, all watching me. Plus Gayle is significantly shorter than I am, so I was trying to keep my bent legs from giving out :P So while everyone else was extremely touched by that (I had several people tell me that they almost cried), for me it was more uncomfortable and distracted.
Last week was a really tough week for a lot of people. And we only had about 2 days of actual class. On Wednesday we were having worship, when the Holy Spirit led a whole repentance movement and people were confessing unconfessed sins and such. It was really a powerful, amazing time.
So it was a good week, but Kenzie and Keisha were wrong! I did not cry! Apparently I didn't have any deep deep roots of trauma... what a surprise :P
So that is a very, very quick summary of my last two weeks! Yeah... I'm sure I missed a lot, and I didn't even really get into what Gayle spoke about but that's okay!
Oh, one last story before I go. On Friday night, at about 3 in the morning, we all suddenly awoke when our bedroom lights were turned on (this happened in the boys dorm as well as both girls rooms). An airhorn sounded in the hallway, and we all saw a chicken walking around our rooms. The GMC DTS had snuck in, grabbed 4 of our chickens, and did this. So at 3 in the morning, I found myself running across the frosty grass, with just socks on my feet, holding a chicken to put it back in the coop. I did this twice. It was a pretty entertaining night!
Blessings,
Katie
13 of us went to the Olive Garden for Megan's birthday last night. So good!
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Freak Fest!
Freak Fest was on Saturday, November 1. I think I told you before, but it is a big even held by the City of Madison every Halloween. They close off all of State street, and they have 3 big stages with bands playing throughout the night. This year, on the stage near us, the American Authors were performing, so its a pretty big deal. This is right in the area of the University of Wisconsin, so lots of students go out and there are a lot of booze and drugs. YWAM Madison has a student house for about 21 students, and it is one street over from State Street. This was our headquarters for Freak Fest.
For us, though, Freak Fest began on Wednesday, when we had our weekly gathering of all the YWAM Madison folks here at the TC for Worship and Warfare. During this time, we always worship -duh- and then spend some time in intercession for a specific place, event, or person. This week, our focus was Freak Fest.
We split into groups of 3 or 4 to pray over Freak Fest. We asked God to speak to us about what He wanted us to pray about. People got verses and pictures and words. I got an image of people dressed up, walking around, and angels walking among them, as well as with us. Another guy in my group got a similar picture. It was pretty cool. And on the night of Freak Fest, people again got images or a knowledge that there were angels among us, just as there were demons among the party goers.
I already kind of told you about my experiences at Freak Fest. I didn't get to hand out the hot chocolate or hot dogs, but when I was holding the signs for the first 2 hours, I did get to interact with some of the people. A lot of the people, as they walked by after getting a hot dog or hot chocolate, said thank you. One of the YWAM people later said that this year, she heard so many thank you's, while in the 2 previous years that she has done Freak Fest, she hardly heard anyone say thank you. We also had quite a few people ask us why we were doing this. Mostly they asked as they walked by, so we would just call out that it was because Jesus loved and served, so we wanted to do the same, or something to that effect. One or two people actually stopped, though, and so we had a short conversation with a couple of them. Still nothing in-depth, but it was cool!
At midnight, I went inside, grabbed a quick snack and coffee, and then went upstairs to the intercession room. There were about 4 or 5 of us in there, including Aaron, a guy in my DTS who, for that week, had chosen to take a talking fast. From Monday through Sunday, he didn't talk. It was cool though, cause at the beginning of intercession, he opened his mouth and spoke, saying that God had just given him a verse. I don't remember what the passage was, but basically, it said "You may speak for the sake of Zion" or something. Which was super cool. So Aaron spoke that night, because God told him that he could. And throughout intercession, Aaron would get very specific things from God about what to pray for. For example, he said that he saw a girl, and the paramedics were with her. And then they started doing CPR. Aaron knew everything that was happening there. He knew her name. He knew what was wrong with her. It was really cool. So we prayed for her for awhile. He also got other names at other times, knowing where those people were.
I eventually went outside, like I said, and stood by the question board. And just prayed and sang and claimed the territory as God's. It was a good night.
During the first 2 hours of intercession, someone got the name Rachel and that she would be wearing a black and grey chevron skirt. We didn't know what this meant. And at the Wednesday intercession, someone got the image of a rose. We didn't know that those connected, but it turns out that they did.
Basically, Kayla was walking around praying when someone handed her a rose. She didn't know what to do with it, so she decided to give it to someone. She asked God who she should give it to, and in the end, she gave it to a girl with a black and grey skirt. We don't know for sure, since we never heard it, but we all believe that her name was Rachel.
One of the girls in my DTS, up until recently, struggled with drugs and alcohol. So coming into Freak Fest, she was really nervous. She knows that this is a temptation for her, so she asked us all to be praying for her throughout the night. Well, at one point during the evening, Kayla was holding signs. Suddenly, she felt the urge to pray for this girl. Immediately to go to her and pray. So she ran across the street to the Phos House, where the girl was handing out hot dogs and hot chocolate. She looked everywhere, running through the house and everything, until she found her, and she prayed. And it was needed at that moment, because that girl had just decided to take a break from handing out the hot dogs to just eat one, and as she did so, a guy walked by with a bottle of her favourite alcohol. And she just got all these desires to go back to that, just as Kayla ran up to her. So that was pretty cool :)
There were a few other stories from Freak Fest, but I don't really remember them anymore. It was too long ago :P So I shall leave it at that!
Oh, and I know, I took longer than I thought to get this post done. I was busy, and then on Friday night, at about 1, there was a barfing party with a few people. And Saturday morning, I woke up sick, too. And ever since then, we've been dropping like flies. The few healthy people left were spraying Lysol like crazy and using hand sanitizer every five seconds. Basically over half the school was sick yesterday. But it seems to be just a 24 hour stomach virus, so most of us are feeling better today!
Blessings,
Katie
For us, though, Freak Fest began on Wednesday, when we had our weekly gathering of all the YWAM Madison folks here at the TC for Worship and Warfare. During this time, we always worship -duh- and then spend some time in intercession for a specific place, event, or person. This week, our focus was Freak Fest.
We split into groups of 3 or 4 to pray over Freak Fest. We asked God to speak to us about what He wanted us to pray about. People got verses and pictures and words. I got an image of people dressed up, walking around, and angels walking among them, as well as with us. Another guy in my group got a similar picture. It was pretty cool. And on the night of Freak Fest, people again got images or a knowledge that there were angels among us, just as there were demons among the party goers.
I already kind of told you about my experiences at Freak Fest. I didn't get to hand out the hot chocolate or hot dogs, but when I was holding the signs for the first 2 hours, I did get to interact with some of the people. A lot of the people, as they walked by after getting a hot dog or hot chocolate, said thank you. One of the YWAM people later said that this year, she heard so many thank you's, while in the 2 previous years that she has done Freak Fest, she hardly heard anyone say thank you. We also had quite a few people ask us why we were doing this. Mostly they asked as they walked by, so we would just call out that it was because Jesus loved and served, so we wanted to do the same, or something to that effect. One or two people actually stopped, though, and so we had a short conversation with a couple of them. Still nothing in-depth, but it was cool!
At midnight, I went inside, grabbed a quick snack and coffee, and then went upstairs to the intercession room. There were about 4 or 5 of us in there, including Aaron, a guy in my DTS who, for that week, had chosen to take a talking fast. From Monday through Sunday, he didn't talk. It was cool though, cause at the beginning of intercession, he opened his mouth and spoke, saying that God had just given him a verse. I don't remember what the passage was, but basically, it said "You may speak for the sake of Zion" or something. Which was super cool. So Aaron spoke that night, because God told him that he could. And throughout intercession, Aaron would get very specific things from God about what to pray for. For example, he said that he saw a girl, and the paramedics were with her. And then they started doing CPR. Aaron knew everything that was happening there. He knew her name. He knew what was wrong with her. It was really cool. So we prayed for her for awhile. He also got other names at other times, knowing where those people were.
I eventually went outside, like I said, and stood by the question board. And just prayed and sang and claimed the territory as God's. It was a good night.
During the first 2 hours of intercession, someone got the name Rachel and that she would be wearing a black and grey chevron skirt. We didn't know what this meant. And at the Wednesday intercession, someone got the image of a rose. We didn't know that those connected, but it turns out that they did.
Basically, Kayla was walking around praying when someone handed her a rose. She didn't know what to do with it, so she decided to give it to someone. She asked God who she should give it to, and in the end, she gave it to a girl with a black and grey skirt. We don't know for sure, since we never heard it, but we all believe that her name was Rachel.
One of the girls in my DTS, up until recently, struggled with drugs and alcohol. So coming into Freak Fest, she was really nervous. She knows that this is a temptation for her, so she asked us all to be praying for her throughout the night. Well, at one point during the evening, Kayla was holding signs. Suddenly, she felt the urge to pray for this girl. Immediately to go to her and pray. So she ran across the street to the Phos House, where the girl was handing out hot dogs and hot chocolate. She looked everywhere, running through the house and everything, until she found her, and she prayed. And it was needed at that moment, because that girl had just decided to take a break from handing out the hot dogs to just eat one, and as she did so, a guy walked by with a bottle of her favourite alcohol. And she just got all these desires to go back to that, just as Kayla ran up to her. So that was pretty cool :)
There were a few other stories from Freak Fest, but I don't really remember them anymore. It was too long ago :P So I shall leave it at that!
Oh, and I know, I took longer than I thought to get this post done. I was busy, and then on Friday night, at about 1, there was a barfing party with a few people. And Saturday morning, I woke up sick, too. And ever since then, we've been dropping like flies. The few healthy people left were spraying Lysol like crazy and using hand sanitizer every five seconds. Basically over half the school was sick yesterday. But it seems to be just a 24 hour stomach virus, so most of us are feeling better today!
Blessings,
Katie
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
War!
So. Last week.
Our teacher was Lea, who also taught us a few weeks ago on Clean Conscience. This week was Spiritual Warfare, though. I was super excited to the teachings this week, because I don't know much about spiritual warfare (or should I say I didn't know much!)
I honestly don't really know where to begin. There are a few things I want to touch on.
During our classes on spiritual warfare –and all the time, really-, Lea really depends on God for what to say. She always had kind of a plan for where class would go, but she didn't do much preparing and even when she did have ideas, quite often that wouldn't happen because God would lead her in another direction. That seems to happen rather often with our DTS, actually… our teacher for this week was ahead after yesterday’s class, but today he went off on side trails that the Spirit lead him on, and now we’re behind! It’s great, though… I love it! I'm learning so much!
Anyway, so I learned a lot last week. The main thing was that I have so much power! As a daughter of God, I can command things in Jesus name and the enemy will listen. But I must follow God in what I say, of course, and not do this lightly. But I do have the power of God in me to stand against the enemy and win. At the end of class on Monday, Lea had us all read Romans 8 by ourselves and figure out what it was saying about us each individually. The next morning, we each stood in front of the class and declared what God had told us, speaking it out loud as to cement it and just declare to God –and the enemy- that we believe it and are taking it as truth.
One thing that Lea said that sticks out to me was that when we are talking about spiritual warfare –which is happening around all of us. Even though we don’t typically think about it here in North America, it is definitely happening!- was that we can’t just be all in. We must be always on. Every time we pause and just take a breather, the enemy gains ground. As believers in Christ, we have a red target on our backs: “The dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring- those who obey God’s commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.” –Revelations 12:17. We already know that in the end, Jesus wins. But that doesn't mean that we can be complacent. We are in a war, and we need to be prepared for battle at all times. The devil doesn't take a vacation, and neither can we. To live in spiritual warfare is to live victoriously. We've already won the battle (see Revelations 12:10), so when we choose to walk in that victory, it will become our reality.
Lea talked about what weapons we have for our spiritual battle. First of all, no matter what, we must follow the lead of the Spirit. We must listen to what God says, because in the end, it is He who wins the battle. His name is the name that has the power. Our responsibility is to hear and obey God- the results are up to Him! We need to walk in that humility. We don’t need to be afraid, because we have the authority of Jesus. God takes us seriously, and so does the darkness. The enemy considers you a threat more than you realize. You have so much power in you because you have God, and the enemy fears that. He likes it when we don’t realize our power and authority.
There were several spiritual weapons that Lea talked about. I'm not going to go into detail about them (most are quite self-explanatory and don’t even seem like weapons!). The weapons included things like Scripture, living a life of integrity, walking in an opposite spirit (if someone is angry, respond with love and peace), resisting temptation, declaring who God is, resting in our relationship with God, preaching, praying on location, physically claiming territory for God, setting captives free, fasting, giving, signs and wonders, acts of service, acts of faith, and endurance.
It was a really intense week filled with learning by all of us. Lea also had quite a few really cool stories about her personal experiences with spiritual warfare. One that really stood out to me was when she was on her DTS outreach in Haiti. They were evangelizing in a gazebo, and there was the really, really loud music. Too loud to hear people speaking. Lea and another person felt like they needed to leave the place where they were doing their dramas and just walk around praying. As they passed the house where the loud music was coming from, they prayed over it. Lea saw the image of angels standing with their wings open, blocking the sound, and so she prayed that out. Finally, they felt like they were done praying and decided to head back to the gazebo. They took a couple steps forward and suddenly the music was muted- they could hardly hear it. They looked at each other, then stepped back a couple steps. The music was blaring loud again. They stepped forward a couple steps- muted. They were so amazed that they kept stepping forward then back. Loud, muted, loud, muted.
Lea had some other pretty amazing stories, but I think I’ll leave it at this for now. And I shall talk about Freak Fest another time. Maybe tomorrow, cause I don’t have to do a CR, since I made dinner for Christine on Friday, and she still has to clean for me. J But I also have a one-on-one with the speaker for this week tomorrow, sooooo…. We shall see.
Blessings,
Katie
Monday, November 3, 2014
Freak Fest and... Other Things
This past week was so busy! We had something going on every night except for Friday. Only half of our group came back from the Go! Conference last weekend; the Rescue Ops crew went to Arkansas for the week to become search-and-rescue certified. Here at the TC, it was a LOT quieter than normal! There were only 16 students, plus a few staff. We had a lot of fun with our smaller group. We were able to hang out in the hall with everyone and all be involved in the same conversation- normally, it is so loud that everyone has their own conversations out there. It was so nice! We are all glad the Rescue Ops half of our family is back home now, but at the same time, we wish they would just go away, because it is so loud and crowded now! Kenzie put it quite nicely: we missed the individuals, and we love them, but we did not miss the group. It sounds bad, but really, its true. I love all of them, and I'm glad to see them again. I just wish that... it weren't so loud. And so many people :P
So, last Tuesday afternoon, all of us Children at Risk travelled to the nearby town of Sun Prairie to have orientation for what will be a regular local outreach. It is at a local apartment complex, where an elementary school teacher has started a homework club called Club Tuesday. We are going to be going every Tuesday from now on and being mentors to the kids. Some of us will be one-on-one with a child, helping them with their homework each week, and others will be going to the actual school and leading different groups, such as sports, arts and crafts, and music. I'm looking forward to it! It should be a really good ministry!
Last Tuesday there were only about 6 or 7 children at the club, since it was the first day. Therefore only some of us got to actually spend time with a child, and we did so in pairs. I was one of the ones who did get to spend time working with a child. I paired up with Anna and we were getting to know Tevin, a 5 year old boy. At first, he wouldn't say a word. He wouldn't even shake his head yes. Anything we asked him he would answer with his head shaking 'no'. His mom was there, and she would let us know the actual answer. So when we learned that his favourite animal was a horse, we each drew one and asked him what we should name it. We ended up drawing all sorts of different animals (and trust me, neither of us have much artistic skill when it comes to drawing!) and he would help us come up with names by the end. When it was time to go, Tevin was laughing and engaging with us, and talking. It was great! So when we were then told that we had to choose the one of us who connected to him the most, so that they could stay with him as his one-on-one, Anna and I couldn't decide. We talked to the leader, and since English is Anna's second language, and she doesn't feel 100% comfortable helping a child with homework in English, we get to stay together and work as a pair, so we both get to continue working with Tevin! We will possibly have a second child with us, but we're excited to work together :)
On Wednesday night, we all went out for a fun night of bowling. I am terrible. I definitely... yeah. I'm just not a bowler (let's just say that I had the lowest score of all of us... and it was not very high. Like, at all :P). But it was fun!
Thursday night we had worship night with the GMC DTS coming here to the TC to join us. We finished the time of worship with a screamo song that one of the leaders got from God for our DTS before the school started (if you are interested in hearing what the song says- cause its totally cool!- it is called Army of the Chosen One by Sleeping Giant. Or you can just look up the lyrics).
Friday night was our only night off last week, so it was good to just relax. :)
Saturday was an awesome day. In Madison, every year, they have a Halloween even called Freak Fest. This is a big festival on State Street, downtown, where they have music and lots of partying. YWAM Madison has 3 locations- the GMC (Madison's headquarters), the TC (where I live) and the Phos house (Phos=light), which is student housing for the University of Madison. The Phos house is located just beside State street, so every year, we have a ministry during Freak Fest. So we got to participate in that, and it was awesome!
Saturday morning was spent working on my costume -Kayla, Kenzie, and I were minions. I was in the last car to leave the TC. Anna, Kenzie, and I spent a few hours hanging out in Madison, eating lunch outside of the capitol before heading to the Phos house for our 7:30 orientation. Our ministry began at 10pm.
Basically what we do is have free hot chocolate and hot dogs for all the partiers. This year, we also had some couches and games on the porch, and big heaters so that people could get warm. Another thing that was new to the ministry this year was the question board. Basically, we had large plywood sheets each with a question on it (What is your greatest fear? What is the purpose of life? etc) and we would ask the people if they wanted to write an answer. This could possibly lead to deeper discussions.
We had two shifts -the first was from 10 to 12, and the second was from 12 to 2. During the first part of the night, I held signs with my friend Amanda, advertising the hot chocolate and hot dogs a little ways down the street. It was really cool, because I got to interact a bit with people. A lot of people would ask why we were doing this, and we would respond with "Jesus loved and served, and He wants us to do the same:" or some variation of that. A lot of people also thanked us. It was great!
Out of the first 5 or so people to walk by, though, one tried to kiss me ("Oh, do you have free kisses, too" as he grabbed my face) and one literally picked me up and started walking away with me. That was not so enjoyable, but I wasn't about to quit! Other than that, things were pretty normal.
During the second shift, I was on intercession. I started in the prayer room inside the Phos House (it was certainly nice to warm up! The temperatures were below 0!). After awhile, I felt like God wanted me to go outside, so I did. I stood by the side, in between the question board and the food station. I talked to a couple people at the question board, but mostly I just prayed as people walked by. At one point, I started singing, and I ended up singing a few songs that I haven't even thought of in years! It was cool :)
Freak Fest ended at 2am (old time, not new, thank goodness!), and so that is when we shut down, too. Its also when we ran out of hot dogs and hot chocolate, so that's good! We had a quick debrief, and then we headed for our cars. Kenzie, Anna, and I had parked on the other side of downtown, about a half hour walk away. So we walked in the dark, with lots of drunk and high people around us, praying the whole time for invisibility. And I honestly felt invisible most of the time! It was cool. We made it home by 4am old time, 3am new. We were all exhausted and just collapsed into bed.
Except I felt like God was telling me to get up and continue praying. So I didn't get to bed until about 4 new time. And since the Rescue Ops people got back home on Saturday evening, and they started getting up at 8 on Sunday (which woke me up), I didn't get much sleep!
So that's about it for what's been happening here! Our classes last week were about spiritual warfare (yay!) so I'll write a post about that soon. I hope :P
Oh! Funny story before I go. Because the Rescue Ops folks were not around, Christine, who sleeps on the top bunk across from me, slept in the other room, on a bottom bunk. One night, I dreampt that I woke up to her trying to grab something out of her purse, which was hanging off of her bed post. But she couldn't reach, so she was about to climb down.
"Don't worry about it, Christine," I told her, getting up, "I'll get it."
I got out of bed and walked over to her bed post. There, I felt for the purse, since it was dark. I couldn't feel it. I sagged against the post, suddenly exhausted (I think that this is when I woke up), and just then, Anna, who couldn't sleep that night, turned on her flashlight to grab a paper and pen. She saw me standing by Christine's bed. "What are you doing?" She asked me.
"I... have.... no idea" I said, feeling a bit dazed.
"You should go back to bed," Anna told me.
So I did, while Anna just cracked up laughing for like 5 minutes.
It was quite amusing. The next morning, when I saw Anna, I asked her if it had actually happened, and she just keeled over laughing again, because yes, it had.
So yeah. Apparently I sleepwalk now :P
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Katie
So, last Tuesday afternoon, all of us Children at Risk travelled to the nearby town of Sun Prairie to have orientation for what will be a regular local outreach. It is at a local apartment complex, where an elementary school teacher has started a homework club called Club Tuesday. We are going to be going every Tuesday from now on and being mentors to the kids. Some of us will be one-on-one with a child, helping them with their homework each week, and others will be going to the actual school and leading different groups, such as sports, arts and crafts, and music. I'm looking forward to it! It should be a really good ministry!
Last Tuesday there were only about 6 or 7 children at the club, since it was the first day. Therefore only some of us got to actually spend time with a child, and we did so in pairs. I was one of the ones who did get to spend time working with a child. I paired up with Anna and we were getting to know Tevin, a 5 year old boy. At first, he wouldn't say a word. He wouldn't even shake his head yes. Anything we asked him he would answer with his head shaking 'no'. His mom was there, and she would let us know the actual answer. So when we learned that his favourite animal was a horse, we each drew one and asked him what we should name it. We ended up drawing all sorts of different animals (and trust me, neither of us have much artistic skill when it comes to drawing!) and he would help us come up with names by the end. When it was time to go, Tevin was laughing and engaging with us, and talking. It was great! So when we were then told that we had to choose the one of us who connected to him the most, so that they could stay with him as his one-on-one, Anna and I couldn't decide. We talked to the leader, and since English is Anna's second language, and she doesn't feel 100% comfortable helping a child with homework in English, we get to stay together and work as a pair, so we both get to continue working with Tevin! We will possibly have a second child with us, but we're excited to work together :)
On Wednesday night, we all went out for a fun night of bowling. I am terrible. I definitely... yeah. I'm just not a bowler (let's just say that I had the lowest score of all of us... and it was not very high. Like, at all :P). But it was fun!
Thursday night we had worship night with the GMC DTS coming here to the TC to join us. We finished the time of worship with a screamo song that one of the leaders got from God for our DTS before the school started (if you are interested in hearing what the song says- cause its totally cool!- it is called Army of the Chosen One by Sleeping Giant. Or you can just look up the lyrics).
Friday night was our only night off last week, so it was good to just relax. :)
Saturday was an awesome day. In Madison, every year, they have a Halloween even called Freak Fest. This is a big festival on State Street, downtown, where they have music and lots of partying. YWAM Madison has 3 locations- the GMC (Madison's headquarters), the TC (where I live) and the Phos house (Phos=light), which is student housing for the University of Madison. The Phos house is located just beside State street, so every year, we have a ministry during Freak Fest. So we got to participate in that, and it was awesome!
Saturday morning was spent working on my costume -Kayla, Kenzie, and I were minions. I was in the last car to leave the TC. Anna, Kenzie, and I spent a few hours hanging out in Madison, eating lunch outside of the capitol before heading to the Phos house for our 7:30 orientation. Our ministry began at 10pm.
Basically what we do is have free hot chocolate and hot dogs for all the partiers. This year, we also had some couches and games on the porch, and big heaters so that people could get warm. Another thing that was new to the ministry this year was the question board. Basically, we had large plywood sheets each with a question on it (What is your greatest fear? What is the purpose of life? etc) and we would ask the people if they wanted to write an answer. This could possibly lead to deeper discussions.
We had two shifts -the first was from 10 to 12, and the second was from 12 to 2. During the first part of the night, I held signs with my friend Amanda, advertising the hot chocolate and hot dogs a little ways down the street. It was really cool, because I got to interact a bit with people. A lot of people would ask why we were doing this, and we would respond with "Jesus loved and served, and He wants us to do the same:" or some variation of that. A lot of people also thanked us. It was great!
Out of the first 5 or so people to walk by, though, one tried to kiss me ("Oh, do you have free kisses, too" as he grabbed my face) and one literally picked me up and started walking away with me. That was not so enjoyable, but I wasn't about to quit! Other than that, things were pretty normal.
During the second shift, I was on intercession. I started in the prayer room inside the Phos House (it was certainly nice to warm up! The temperatures were below 0!). After awhile, I felt like God wanted me to go outside, so I did. I stood by the side, in between the question board and the food station. I talked to a couple people at the question board, but mostly I just prayed as people walked by. At one point, I started singing, and I ended up singing a few songs that I haven't even thought of in years! It was cool :)
Freak Fest ended at 2am (old time, not new, thank goodness!), and so that is when we shut down, too. Its also when we ran out of hot dogs and hot chocolate, so that's good! We had a quick debrief, and then we headed for our cars. Kenzie, Anna, and I had parked on the other side of downtown, about a half hour walk away. So we walked in the dark, with lots of drunk and high people around us, praying the whole time for invisibility. And I honestly felt invisible most of the time! It was cool. We made it home by 4am old time, 3am new. We were all exhausted and just collapsed into bed.
Except I felt like God was telling me to get up and continue praying. So I didn't get to bed until about 4 new time. And since the Rescue Ops people got back home on Saturday evening, and they started getting up at 8 on Sunday (which woke me up), I didn't get much sleep!
So that's about it for what's been happening here! Our classes last week were about spiritual warfare (yay!) so I'll write a post about that soon. I hope :P
Oh! Funny story before I go. Because the Rescue Ops folks were not around, Christine, who sleeps on the top bunk across from me, slept in the other room, on a bottom bunk. One night, I dreampt that I woke up to her trying to grab something out of her purse, which was hanging off of her bed post. But she couldn't reach, so she was about to climb down.
"Don't worry about it, Christine," I told her, getting up, "I'll get it."
I got out of bed and walked over to her bed post. There, I felt for the purse, since it was dark. I couldn't feel it. I sagged against the post, suddenly exhausted (I think that this is when I woke up), and just then, Anna, who couldn't sleep that night, turned on her flashlight to grab a paper and pen. She saw me standing by Christine's bed. "What are you doing?" She asked me.
"I... have.... no idea" I said, feeling a bit dazed.
"You should go back to bed," Anna told me.
So I did, while Anna just cracked up laughing for like 5 minutes.
It was quite amusing. The next morning, when I saw Anna, I asked her if it had actually happened, and she just keeled over laughing again, because yes, it had.
So yeah. Apparently I sleepwalk now :P
Me, Kenzie, Anna, and Kayla. Minions, plus Anna was the Grumpy Cat (she just doesn't have her mask on right now)
This is the whole group of us Children at Risk! All dressed up!
Annika, Britta, and Kayla holding some of the signs
Handing out hot chocolate and hot dogs
We had a movie night on Friday, as usual. We also have a lot of ice cream, and so we decided to skip the bowls. This gallon was done pretty quickly- BUT I was also not the only one eating it!
We woke up one morning to Bible verses on our mirrors in the bathroom! It is so nice!
Just the sky at sunset one night!
Blessings,Katie
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