The call and confirmations

Every Summer since I was 11 I have been to this Christian camp called Newday. It was here that God revealed some plans he had for my life.

Like I said I felt called to go and mission somewhere but didn't know where or what I would be doing, so I prayed about it and a few countries came into my head because I was trying to think about where it could be, then when I stopped thinking about it The Ukraine popped into my head. I had never heard of it before so I researched it on the internet. I found out where it was in Europe, the main religion, about the culture and the people. It all sounded like a pretty decent place to live, the main religion was Christianity, the people didn't look  that poor, I thought 'well, I don't know why God wants me to go here, it doesn't seem like anything needs changing!' Typical me not to look at the whole country, I was only looking at the 'comfortable' places in The Ukraine. The Ukraine, like most countries, have their poorer areas and their more affluent areas. Also, mission work doesn't just need to be helping poor people, richer people have needs as well and it's not just the poor who don't know Christ. So I prayed and asked God to show me if The Ukraine is definitely my "mission" ground. The answer came back quickly, a few weeks later, I went to my nanny's (grandma's) house and turned on the television and there was a programme about the world's strongest boy- who was a Ukrainian!!! Then, within that month, I was in my car and I picked up a book which belonged to my dad, the first sentence said something about a Russian-Ukrainian church!!! THEN, I was in my school assembly and they were talking about leadership and a picture of the Ukrainian Prime Minister came up in a power point slide!!! So that's how I knew.


Then, this January, I started to have doubts about it, even after those confirmations so I prayed again, on the internet I typed in the definition of "The Ukraine",  I clicked on the second thing that came up, it said " The earliest translation of The Ukraine means 'The land chosen out for us by God'. Well, if that didn't convince me I don't know what did!


So that's how I knew the place, although I still didn't have a clue about what I would be doing there, until a few weeks ago. I went to this camp, Newday, and I was in a meeting one evening and the preach was about church planting and going to the nations, a lady came up and prayed with me, I wasn't paying much attention t what she was praying because I was praying my own prayer but the one word that I did hear was "Orphans". Upon hearing that, I burst into tears, wanting to reach out and help little children who had no one to look after them. When the worship was over, we sat down and someone in the meeting of about 7000(!) threw a paper aeroplane at me and my friend, it read 'Jeremiah 49:10-11' It is a really random verse which wouldn't make sense if you randomly picked up a bible and hadn't read the whole of Jeremiah, and even though I haven't read the whole of Jeremiah it made sense to me because it said something about taking care of your orphans. So I am pretty sure I am supposed to help in an orphanage or help orphans or something. I don't think it's saying that I'm supposed to adopt though, but hey, who knows. Anyway, that's the latest on the Mission on Ukraine, but right now, I have a mission field right here at home. My school. With no names attached because I won't be giving out personal information, me and my friend will be praying for Conversations with our friends and opportunities to help people. So I will keep you posted on that as well as any updates on The Ukraine and my life, which at the moment is really boring because I am stuck at home in the countryside, while it's pouring down with rain and I have seen the same people for the past 3 days!! Bring on the Sunshine!!!

Prophecy

I realised I was writing a bit about prophecy but maybe someone reading may not know what that is so here goes;


Basically Prophecy is God speaking to us through pictures, words, impressions, visions, dreams, messages and bible passages. God never stops talking to his people but some times we don't know how to "tune in" to what he's saying.


Prophecy has been quite a big part of my life, especially recently when I felt God speak to me through Prophecy. The thing with prophecy is that God doesn't pick out the most holy people to speak to, he speaks to everyone, in fact the bible says "In the last days, God says, I will pour out my spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophecy." This means that in the last days (from when Jesus first came- to when he will come again) all his people will prophecy, although some churches don't want it because they are scared that it isn't reliable.


I beleive God speaks to us more often than we give him credit for.


Anyway, this is how I knew that God was 'calling' me to go to the Ukraine. Through prophecy.
Let me tell you the whole story...

13th May 2007

Well, On this particular day, I was at church a lady I knew came up to me while I was being prayed for and said that God has some amazing plans for my life, and a man said that God wanted to give me the gift of prophecy. As a younger child I loved reading books about missionaries such as "10 Girls Who Never Gave In " and " 10 Girls Who Made A Difference". I went into my own little world with Florence Nightingale, Susannah Wesley and Maria Taylor, handing out bibles, teaching children and helping the sick. I've always been a bit old fashioned in liking old Victorian era films and American west books so I also love the idea of helping the poor and living in a little mud hut. I was very naive about it all, not realising the work and the effort it takes. Well it turns out I haven't been "called" to go to a third-world country but to The Ukraine. (ADDED: Which I found out now that it is actually a poor country!)

More about that coming up...

The begining..

Okay, I was going to write a book but there's too many pages to fill out and not enough exciting things have happened to me to fill them up Yet so I decided to write a blog.


Basically, I want to record things that have happened from about 2007 up until now and then I will continue writing things down as they happen. I am in the last year of school and am hoping that it will be an amazing one... me and my friend are praying for amazing opportunities and conversations with other people.


Oh, did I tell you? I'm a Christian, but don't worry, this blog isn't supposed to be an "in your face" telling you to become one :) that's fine if your not, I just want to share a few things that have happened to me and some things which I believe God has told me about my future.. I'm not a psychic or anything, I just believe that we can have a two- way conversation with the creator of the universe and he can talk to us! Isn't that amazing? God loves us so much that he even wants to talk to us- as someone once said.. "Jesus doesn't just love us, he really likes us too!"


So here is me and my story, starting with May 13th 2007...