Sunday, November 29, 2009

NICARAGUA MISSION LETTER!!!


Dear Friends and Family,

I’m down in Redding, California attending another wonderful year at Bethel School of Ministry. It’s wonderful to see God moving so freely here in and through us and I’m very excited and very honored to be apart of it.
God has been doing a lot in me these first few months of school. A lot of uprooting, restoring, empowering and equipping. It feels like all of last year was packed into these last 3 months and turned up about 100 levels. It’s so good and I’m eager to give it back out now. It’s perfect since we get to partner together on the mission trips with Bethel. And I’m so excited that I get to go serve in NICARAGUA this year!

Our heart and passion here at Bethel International is to raise up a generation of world changers that will be known simply for their reckless abandonment to see that Jesus is Lord in all the nations. As we are building relationships with various regions around the world one of the main goals that we have is to make the nations look like geniuses. Our strategy is go to and raise up influencers in their own nations so they begin to run with the inheritance that God has given them to transform their nation. All of our Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry trips are partnered with Bethel International’s vision for transforming nations.

Here’s some more info on the heart of the trip:

Freely we've received, now freely we give! Why hold on to the Spirit filled life you've received or the miracles or the relationship you have with Holy Spirit? We've got to give that stuff away! This is an opportunity to share God's love and release the sweetness of His presence. It just wouldn't be fair if we didn't! We are going to do two weeklong schools of ministry to teach on the goodness of God and His heart to give the kingdom. This trip will be saturated in fresh encounters. The first time Bethel took a team into Nicaragua, God said, “the mountains are open, whoever can get there first, can have them!” Each trip we are overflowing with God’s favor through meeting and praying for government leaders, invitations to proclaim the goodness of our God on TV and the radio - more and more each time. We've felt from Papa that it's time to take the Nicaraguans out into the streets and share the love! A small part of this team will split off and take an adventure trip up a river, into new villages. We'll be able to spend time with dreamers who are taking ownership for their own nation! Ministry will include: lots of churches (some that are so large they overflow onto the street), a couple of nights with Georgian and Winnie Banov, power evangelism (the easy type where God shows up), teaching people and ourselves how to get into God's presence, building relationships with beautiful Nicaraguans, and telling God how beautiful He is. We will bring our child likeness and be ready to help bring the supernatural love of God to a nation of influencers that is on the verge of transformation!!

The trip dates are March 19 – March 29 2010. The initial deposit was $165 and is paid. The first trip deadline is $800 and is due January 6th. The second and final deadline is $685 due no later than February 24th. That makes for a grand total of $1650 due by February 24th. This will provide for airfare, lodging, food and the other menial costs involved in travel.

Financial gifts may be made online at ibssm.org. This gift is tax-deductible and you will receive a statement at the end of the year for your tax records. If you wish your gift to be anonymous, please check the anonymous box. This will allow you to receive an end of year statement, but will not allow the student to see your name. This gift is non-refundable, and if for any reason a team member or team does not go, the money will support another mission trip sponsored by Bethel Church.

If online payment is not an option, donations can be mailed to Bethel Church Attn: Bethel International 933 College View Dr. Redding, CA 96003. Please note somewhere that the donation should go to Krystle Wozniak, Nicaragua Trip.

I’ve just started up a blog meant to make it easier to keep in touch with everyone and let you all in on my life and experiences down here in California and to hear back from you as well. If you’re interested, want to drop me a line, or have any sort of prayer request you’d like me to partner with you on, or just have a testimony, please contact me. You can read up on what’s going on with me at krystlewozniakbethel.blogspot.com. Or feel free to email me at alexandrite_pearl15@hotmail.com.

I just want to thank everyone for all the love and support that’s been given to me while I’ve been down here on this huge God adventure these past two years. I couldn’t and still can’t do it without you. Thank you for any monetary donations you make and thank you even more for the backing in prayer you give. You partnering with me makes all this possible.

~Love and Blessings,

~Krystle Wozniak

Saturday, November 28, 2009

First Post

I'm starting this blog for the friends and family wondering what the heck I'm doing down here in Redding, California. This way everyone who wants to can see glimpses into my life down here.
I'll be honest and say I'm not that great at journaling, so I don't know how much better I'll be at blogging. Especially since my computer just died. (anyone wanna donate to the support krystle-buying-a-new-mac-fund?) I'll try my best to explain better what I'm learning in school. Gotta make people feel involved after all ;)

Speaking of which, I'm writing my mission support letters! Yay!
I got accepted to go to Nicaragua! My first choice :) I'm super excited about it!
We've only had 1 meeting so far, but it was awesome. I love it when the leaders wanna get whacked right off the bat haha! Ben and Sheena George are the leaders for the trip. Awesome people. A friend of mine, Milly, is on the trip with me, and I made another really good connection with a girl named Rachel. Everyone else in the group seems awesome as well. We're all a mix of 1st, 2nd and I think 1 or 2 3rd years too. I cannot express how incredibly stoked I am about this trip.
When I'm done writing the letter, I'll post a copy of it on here for everyone to see. On Facebook too, I think. Then of course I'm going to send it out to as many of you lovely people as I can in real time, old school, snail mail :)

I hope everyone had a awesome, incredibly stuffed Thanksgiving surrounded by loved ones. Mine was pretty low key this year. I opted not to drive down to LA to spend it with my moms side of the family. (I will be doing that for Christmas though). I ended up spending it with my AMAZING friend Ashley, who had been invited to a family's house to spend it with them. They were so lovely and wonderful and there was lots of good food and even more great deserts! mmm!
There were a few other Bethel students spending the holidays with the family and one of them, Elise, a lovely Norwegian maiden, made home-made ... dare I call them sticky buns?
Well, I don't know what they were called, but they were some sort of home-made pastry bun filled or topped with chocolate! They were my favorite by far :)

Nothing too new besides that. Waiting for school to start up again on Tuesday. Oh, I get to move sometime in the next few days. So I'm trying not to get too stressed about that.
(For those who don't know why I'm moving: Our apartment building is foreclosing, but we're getting paid to move out, Praise Jesus for the cash for keys concept! And my roommates and I have all found different housing situations to move into.)
So, with the lovely help of Chris and his truck, I will be moving all my things into a new situation on Monday. It shall be grand. It's gonna be great getting to know my new roommies :)

That's all for now. I should have posted my Nicaragua Mission Letter by the end of the night.

~Love and Blessings <3