Life Update!

Hello friends and family! Being back in the water winter wonderland has been a blessing! I have been meeting up with friends, and family. I started up work again at South Haven Pier Creamery, an ice cream shop in downtown South Haven Michigan, I had worked here last year to help raise money for Circuit Riders and had the honor to be accepted back (if you're ever in the area stop by!). I have also been babysitting on the side and as the summer approaches will be working part time in Gobles Michigan at a summer school program. As I give you this update, you might be wondering, “what's next?” To tell you that I would have to give a little of my why. 

My heart has always been for fulltime ministry and my time at Circuit Riders has certainly allowed me to step into what that looks like. In the beginning when God called me to Circuit Riders I was skeptical: social media portrayed them as a bunch of young people living in California all about the “hype of the Lord.” Surely You, God would not call me there?! I asked. I remember exactly what God said  to me on that day. He clocked me for taking upon myself what was not mine to take, which was to pass judgement. I remember the Lord expressed to me that how other peoples responded to Him was none of my business; my only business was my response to Him, and my yes and obedience in ALL things. So with that solid call to lock in, I said yes to His call to Circuit Riders. And as I was also called to daily lay aside my judgments, it allowed space for God to graciously show me what He was doing in the hearts of His people through the Movement of Circuit Riders. 

Having now been a part of Circuit Riders for the past six months, I have witnessed their part in the Great Commission. They do not solely make it about people's eternal destination being changed from hell to heaven, but for disciples to be made and sent, for soldiers to be equipped and activated, and believers to step out of complacency into action. Now if you have read my equipnet missions bio you would know that from a young age God has marked me with a passion for global missions. Over the last couple of years I have been discovering and growing in  understanding His heart for me to help activate nations and people willing to say yes to being disciples who make disciples. Circuit Riders are doing this in real time. This brings us to the beginning of my letter of what is next, and the long term plan.

  Witnessing all this and seeing beyond the surface, I stood with a new found gratitude of how God used this season in an unexpected way to reveal to me what He had put on my heart to be a tangible reality possible to live out and after prayer and counsel, I applied to be a full time staff member with Circuit Riders, and I am honored to have been accepted! So as I say yes to this faith-filled venture, I hope and pray that all of you would be a part of it in some way! 

What's Next? And how can you be involved? 

The next step of this journey is to raise money and build partners to pray faithfully, financially give and willingly embark on this journey with me! 

Prayer:

-Finances 

• As Iook to raise $3,000/month

• As I seek and ask churches and organizations willing to partner with me in whatever 

capacity.

-Personal:

• As I learn and grow in what it looks like to be a full time missionary

• As I partner with Circuit Riders to see what specific positions and leadership roles 

look like for me 

• That I build a community of warriors willing to say yes to this with me 

Continual daily surrender of it ALL to the Lord

-Giving

• Anything goes a long way!