Hello to everyone! :)
So, today I seriously had a really encouraging day with Jesus. I was reading the Bible and just learned so much! I realized that God is loving us and blessing us each and every day, but sometimes I just don't notice it and I just realized that I need to look to God each day and just look to see how He is pouring His love out. So today I asked God to show me His love and so many cool things happened!!!
First, a friend gave me 5 dollars just to go out and spoil myself with a coffee and it was just so from God. I don't know how to explain it, I just felt like God was just blessing me in this little way. And then I just had a really good chat to one of my friends here! She is visiting this weekend and we just talked about life and realized so much about God through this conversation!
We were talking about just persevering when times get tough and she was just saying to me that God is looking down on us when times are tough and just thinking, "Man, Erin just you wait....just you wait because I am going to use this struggle or this lesson for something so much bigger in your future that you can not even imagine." It was just so cool to look at every season in your life almost as a prep for something greater to come. So when we are learning or getting pruned or when life hurts a little bit, not dwelling on that, but realizing that you are actually being grown by God and He will use that time and that lesson and that hardship for something so amazing!
I don't know if that makes sense, but it was just so cool! I feel like God just filled me with so much joy and peace and just His love today it was absolutely incredible!!! :) So yeah, I just thought I would share that day with you! :)
But I also wanted to say that I am actually getting to go on holiday this next week! I am sooo excited to take a week off and be able to go away and just come back feeling so refreshed and ready to hit the pavement running! :) So yeah, my mom and sister and in town this next week and I am going to be able to show them around Sydney, which will be so much fun! :)
But I just wanted to let you know that I will be away from my computer and work for the next 10 days and would just love your prayer for refreshment in the Lord and that I would have an amazing time with my family! :)
Thanks again to you all...it means so much to me to be able to do ministry with you here in Australia! :)
Please let me know how I can be praying for you personally, or just share a crazy story with me! :)
Alright, many blessings to each one of you! :)
Friday, June 24, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
An encouraging day in ministry!
June 1, 2011
I just thought I would write you all about my day yesterday on campus...it was so amazing just seeing God working and just wanted to share with you the few stories that happened! :)
So I first met with one of my staff team and just chatted about the campus we are working at and different ministry things. This was definitely encouraging and we were able to pray for different students on campus!
After, I went to Sydney University and met up with one of my disciples Jenny. We started our time by going out on campus doing a survey with another student. We talked to a girl named Leann who was from China. We started just asking her what she believed and we asked her if she knew who Jesus was and her response was yeah I think I heard that name once, but I have no idea who it is.
This just opened my eyes to see that there are so many people who have just never heard about Jesus and she was so interested in learning more. It was amazing to be able to tell her that Jesus loves her for the first time. She was definitely interested in meeting up again so please pray that we would have a chance to meet up with her again and just be able to talk to her more!
After my discipleship time with Jenny, I walked over to University of Notre Dame to meet up with another girl named Reyabel. Reyabel was a new student who had come to a prayer hour earlier in the week. I met up with her to see how she enjoyed it and just to chat with her about life. She ended up telling me that it was so amazing going to the prayer hour. It was so cool to hear you guys praying and actually talking to God. I have never experienced anything like that.
This was so amazing to hear and it just made me realize that this is what God calls us to....to challenge people and just to see them taking steps forward in their faith and in their relationship with God. It was absolutely incredible to just chat with Reyabel and get to know her.
After meeting up with her, we had another prayer hour at Notre Dame. We had 9 people come to that and we praised God for what He has done at Notre Dame this year and we just prayed for the future of Notre Dame next semester! :) It was such an encouraging time and just to see how many prayer requests were answered through that.
We prayed for MYC and that students would go from Notre Dame and we currently have 4 students from Notre Dame registered which is absolutely amazing and we have another 4 students highly considering going. We also prayed for finances and God would provide for the students to go and one of the students went home from that prayer meeting to find a check in the mail that he will be able to use to go to MYC! This was so cool and definitely a God thing! :)
After the prayer meeting, Andrew (another staff team member) and I were able to meet up with Lyndon (the one student leader from Notre Dame) and just encourage him. So that was really good and encouraging! :)
After the meeting, Andrew and I went back to Notre Dame and we went and did a couple surveys and were able to talk to two more people about God and just hear their views on everything! It was so amazing to just hear how open students are and just hear questions they have.
Afterwards, we prayed for a little bit and then I stayed on campus and was able to do a prayer walk for Notre Dame and just realized how amazing God was and how much He has done on the university. So yeah, this was an awesome prayer time for me and I felt like God just really encouraged me and just built me up throughout this time.
I know God has big plans for this university and I am so excited to see a group of students from Notre Dame come to MYC. It was such an encouraging day with evangelism as well and being able to share Jesus for the first time with someone and being able to answer questions and see students growing in their relationship with Jesus. It was absolutely amazing!
So thank you to all of you who make this possible. God is moving so much in Australia and through students and it is such an encouragement to see! :)
I just thought I would write you all about my day yesterday on campus...it was so amazing just seeing God working and just wanted to share with you the few stories that happened! :)
So I first met with one of my staff team and just chatted about the campus we are working at and different ministry things. This was definitely encouraging and we were able to pray for different students on campus!
After, I went to Sydney University and met up with one of my disciples Jenny. We started our time by going out on campus doing a survey with another student. We talked to a girl named Leann who was from China. We started just asking her what she believed and we asked her if she knew who Jesus was and her response was yeah I think I heard that name once, but I have no idea who it is.
This just opened my eyes to see that there are so many people who have just never heard about Jesus and she was so interested in learning more. It was amazing to be able to tell her that Jesus loves her for the first time. She was definitely interested in meeting up again so please pray that we would have a chance to meet up with her again and just be able to talk to her more!
After my discipleship time with Jenny, I walked over to University of Notre Dame to meet up with another girl named Reyabel. Reyabel was a new student who had come to a prayer hour earlier in the week. I met up with her to see how she enjoyed it and just to chat with her about life. She ended up telling me that it was so amazing going to the prayer hour. It was so cool to hear you guys praying and actually talking to God. I have never experienced anything like that.
This was so amazing to hear and it just made me realize that this is what God calls us to....to challenge people and just to see them taking steps forward in their faith and in their relationship with God. It was absolutely incredible to just chat with Reyabel and get to know her.
After meeting up with her, we had another prayer hour at Notre Dame. We had 9 people come to that and we praised God for what He has done at Notre Dame this year and we just prayed for the future of Notre Dame next semester! :) It was such an encouraging time and just to see how many prayer requests were answered through that.
We prayed for MYC and that students would go from Notre Dame and we currently have 4 students from Notre Dame registered which is absolutely amazing and we have another 4 students highly considering going. We also prayed for finances and God would provide for the students to go and one of the students went home from that prayer meeting to find a check in the mail that he will be able to use to go to MYC! This was so cool and definitely a God thing! :)
After the prayer meeting, Andrew (another staff team member) and I were able to meet up with Lyndon (the one student leader from Notre Dame) and just encourage him. So that was really good and encouraging! :)
After the meeting, Andrew and I went back to Notre Dame and we went and did a couple surveys and were able to talk to two more people about God and just hear their views on everything! It was so amazing to just hear how open students are and just hear questions they have.
Afterwards, we prayed for a little bit and then I stayed on campus and was able to do a prayer walk for Notre Dame and just realized how amazing God was and how much He has done on the university. So yeah, this was an awesome prayer time for me and I felt like God just really encouraged me and just built me up throughout this time.
I know God has big plans for this university and I am so excited to see a group of students from Notre Dame come to MYC. It was such an encouraging day with evangelism as well and being able to share Jesus for the first time with someone and being able to answer questions and see students growing in their relationship with Jesus. It was absolutely amazing!
So thank you to all of you who make this possible. God is moving so much in Australia and through students and it is such an encouragement to see! :)
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