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4th April 2010

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The lady sweeping….

I have now been in Hawaii two months, and wow has it flown by! I have had full days preparing things for the DTS (discipleship training school) I will be staffing, and preparing for the students to arrive. I can’t believe the time has come, and the students arrive next Thursday! I have read the students applications, talked to many of them on the phone, and have been praying for them for 2 months. I am excited to meet them! For the first month it was just John, Jenni, and I (John and Jenni are a Godly couple that is leading the Call2All DTS I am staffing). The first month I was here, John, Jenni, and I prayed and asked God to bring in more staff…and He did!

For more info about “Call2All” please check this out- http://uofnkona.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=452&Itemid=658

We now have seven more people on staff! We have Aaron and Rhonda-they are a couple from Tacoma Washington and they have three adorable children; Carissa-is also from Tacoma, WA; Kim-she staffed Call2All last quarter so she really carries the vision of Call2All; Aaron-this is his second DTS he has staffed, Neil-he has been with YWAM for a while but this is his first time staffing, and Young Baek- he has staffed a few DTS schools, so we will all learn a lot from him. I will be telling you more about this amazing group I get to staff with in blogs to come! 

So you are probably wondering about the title of my blog…. Every Tuesday night we go on community outreach into Kona. We pray and ask God to show us specific things to point us to the people He wants us to find so we can pray for them, or just talk to them. So a couple Tuesdays ago I got to go in a group with my brother Calvin (him and his wife Camille had just got back to Hawaii from their outreach) and a few other people.  We prayed and I got a picture in my mind of someone sweeping. Weird I know, I thought it was too. They got a few things too and so we all went out to see what God had in store.

Calvin had a specific place he felt we were to go so we headed there first. This place was a stone wall by the ocean, back behind a shopping plaza. As we approached the area we did not see anyone, it was dark because it was about seven at night. Then I saw someone over to our right sitting on the stone wall Calvin had felt we were suppose to go to! So we started walking casually her way not wanting to scare her. As we approached her we said hello and began to chat with her.

She had a bunch of little plastic containers with her so she was probably eating her dinner. We found out her name was Lilly, but not much more because she was pretty shy. We asked her if she needed prayer for anything, but she said no. I think we all were feeling a bit defeated when all of a sudden my brother Calvin started speaking life to her. She had been very timid the whole time we were there but suddenly Calvin had her full attention. He began to tell her how much God loved her and just speaking life to her. She had her gaze fixed on Calvin hanging onto every word he said. It was amazing! 

After Calvin finished I told him and the others I would catch up to them, and I stayed a bit longer to chat with Lilly. She did not open up to me much, and after a few minutes I felt it was time to go. So I set out to look for my group. I walked down toward the pier, but no luck. I was starting to get discouraged and began to ask God for direction. I felt I was supposed to turn around and head back towards where we meet at the end of our outreach. Right as I started walking back I saw a women sweeping in a shop across the street!

I darted over and walked in the shop. I began to make small talk with the women and found out her name was Jade. I noticed she had a brace on her wrist so I asked her what was wrong. She told me that she had Carpal Tunnel so she had to wear the brace when it got bad. She said she was on prescription medicine so it was not painful at the time, but when she does not have her brace or medicine, she said it was very painful. So I asked her if I could pray for her. She said yes right away! I began to speak healing to her and pray with the authority Jesus has given us. After I prayed I told her how God had showed me a picture of someone sweeping, and how it lead me to her. She was really encouraged. I want to go back and see how her wrist is doing, but I believe she will not need to take medicine anymore because Jesus healed her. 

       Thank you for reading! This is just one of the many ways God has shown His faithfulness and blessings here in Kona! I will be sharing many more stories in my blog entries to come! Please pray for the other staff and I, and for John and Jenni as leaders. Pray that God will give us more grace, wisdom and love, so we can pour it out onto the students that are coming! We know God has placed us in this season to disciple the students, by following Jesus together with the students.