Blog 004
I’m going on outreach! You already knew that 😅 but now we know where I’m headed! ✈️
It has been an incredible journey of joining an outreach team. Honestly, I did not imagine that I would end up on the team that I’m on. I had a very different vision for how I thought things were going to go but most of us have discovered by now that the Lord works in ways we never imagine and His ways are higher than our own.
We had the opportunity to request our top two choices of outreach locations and then the leaders would pray and place us on the team that they feel we should be on. I remember writing down my top two choices and just being so convinced that I would go to my first choice and then writing down my second choice with just one word swirling in my mind - ‘pioneer’.
I still have not fully wrapped my mind around why I actually wrote my second choice but the more I think about it, it must have been God because the next day, one of the staff leaders for my second outreach location choice approached me to have a chat. As soon as she asked to chat, I knew where this was going.
God was partnering me with the pioneering team…going to England then the Philippines! 🇬🇧 🇵🇭
I felt like my world had flipped upside down.
Although I wrote down the second choice, I just did not expect this to be happening.
But it really is a beautiful thing when the Lord shows us that His plans and His ways are so much better than our own. I was so challenged to release my need for control and truly trust in the Lord with all my heart (Proverbs 3:5-6). 🤲🏽
The Lord has been kind to me as I grieved the death of my control and detailed imagination of how my outreach was going to go and the beautiful birth of all the things God dreamed up for me.
For now, all I know is I will be on a team that is pioneering a brand new YWAM base in Canterbury, England then continuing on to serve in the islands of the Philippines. More details to come! Your prayers are so appreciated!
Thank you so much for being on this wild and wonderful journey with me - much love! 💛