So, this is the New Year... and I DO feel VERY different. Not accredited to a new resolution or a self-willed blank slate, but from divine release. I got a deep passion, stirring ever deeper, and I am seeing the blessings, living in the reaping. Dreaming, sowing, investing and wrestling with the calling, and seeing the release, it's happening (*see below! <3). The harvest is indeed ready. Understanding and agreeing to the work of reaping. A cup of suffering and along with blessing. It's all amazingly worth it. My heart is at home in the Kingdom of God.
YWAM Honolulu has been my home for the past 2 and a 1/2 years. Running the Hospitality Guest House, leading worship, involved with local churches, partnering with community outreaches, and a part-time M.A. at a local hospital. Jesus is my Savior and the cause of this life of adventure.
...so, there was my three sentence resume.
Here is my heart in bullet points.... <3
<3 Family
I continue to see my perspective change from victim, widow, failure, and orphan, to; victorious, beloved, successful, and adopted. My family runs deeper then blood, it runs in Spirit. I am honored to do life with these people; the close community at YWAM Honolulu, the realness of humanity at PS150, the relatable friendships through Triple S, and the changing face yet solid grounding of the local church -looking forward to setting roots at NewHope Town.
Praying to learn and live love.
<3 Ushering in God's Presence
Music Worship leaders styles can often can be defined or detected by observing their natural direction of leading, their way or form of expression. It can be seen by the individual, or others, by seeing the places and times that fits the best for each leader's God-given uniqueness. Some worship leaders lean towards large church settings, some in small living-room home-groups, children's clubs, youth groups, healing rooms, in structured conferences, or around a campfire, ect. Though I enjoy and have partaken in quite a variety, my heart has increasingly gravitated to leading worship in the places of oppression, with those in need of deliverance. My heart is for ushering in God's presence into the poorest and the darkest.
Praying for Holy Spirt led effectiveness.
<3 Chinatown Oahu
I got this longstanding love relationship with Chinatown Oahu. I see such beauty in the ashes. Somewhere over the years the people of the streets now all have faces, names, and stories. Here I have met those with the deepest longing and needs; for belonging to a family, and finding rest in God's presence. Chinatown is no doubt a spiritual disneyland. A poor and dark place here in the Hawaiian islands. Homeless population out the roof. Boarded up buildings, and urine stench on the streets. Beggars and strippers, drugs and brothels, game rooms and temples, bars and clubs, the list goes on. Bustling multi-cultural open-marketplaces during the day that you walk around and feel like your in a foreign Asian country. At night, it's the kind of place people roll up their windows and lock their doors as they drive through what would appear to be a post-apocalyptic handful of city blocks. This place of bustling, and hustling, is far overdue for the love of God to move in and change history. Casting vision. Yes, I'm all in.
Praying for the reality of revival.
"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to those who are bound. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God. To comfort those who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion. To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit
