I promised to try to blog weekly, so here I am, a little bit late, but here nontheless.
We had two guest speakers, Dr. Michael Brown two days two weeks ago. I doubt I'd be able to do him justice, so if you'd like to know more about him, here's his website: askdrbrown.org
and this last week we had guest speaker Sy Rogers on friday. ( syrogers.com ) I got to hear him speak last year a bit longer and more in depth so I was super excited that he was coming back this year, even if it would be the same message for a shorter time period. Sy shares his testimony of coming out of homosexuality and how he has stayed on the path with his walk with God in a world that tempts you to do otherwise. It's a moving testimony and an awesome and eye-opening approach to witnessing and loving those with differing lifestyles. I encourage you to purchase as much of his material as possible! On top of all the goodness in it he makes it easy to listen to - he's very entertaining!
There's one more short week of school before Christmas/New year's break. I'm going to drive down to LA and stay with my cousin Tammy, her husband Kris and their two kids, Michael and Samuel. My Grandparents and Uncle Todd also live in the LA area so I'll get to spend time with them as well. I'm excited to spend a little time outside of Redding and have fun with family :)
On the note of travel, I have my second missions meeting tomorrow night. I'm STILL so super excited about my mission trip to Nicaragua I can't even explain it. I'll keep ya'll informed on how the meeting goes.
I think that's all for now. If I don't managed to blog before Christmas, Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
~Krystle
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Healing Testimony!
So Thursdays are outreach days at school. My particular outreach is called "healing outreach". They used to call it "pastor on call" but its kinda been an evolving thing as of late.
Basically people call the church asking for a pastor to come and pray for them for varying reasons. But since Bethel's congregation is SO big, it's completely impossible, and thats not counting the people who just heard of Bethel and want a pastor to pray for them. And since there are so many students being equipped with Kingdom ideals and are chomping at the bit to perform miracles, they came delegated things to this outreach. Most of the requests are healing related, hence the name "Healing outreach".
So this last Thursday we had been asked to go into a lady's home to pray for her daughter. We also pray for the person's family and friends that are there to encourage and lift them up.
This particular outreach was one of the easiest to minister to since the lady was very involved with Bethel and very open to us- so we pretty much had free reign to go for it and not hold back. In fact, she was right there with us praying over her daughter! haha
After we prayed for her daughter, we went into the other room and she asked us to pray for her back. If I remember it right she said it felt like, or she'd been having problems and pain because whatever supports the vertebrae in her spine was wearing down resulting in aches and pains.
She said she was in pain now and asked if we would pray for her. Those in our group who were close laid hands on her and prayed. We asked her if there was any change and she said not really, but she knew God was going to heal her and that she felt a lot of peace.
I remembered one of the leaders in school saying something like, whenever someone has back pain, sit them down and see if their legs are the same length.
So I asked and she said that recently she'd been prayed for and her whole right side had grown out. I just kind of backed down, not really liking being put on the spot and stuff, but of course Hamish (and Candace are my 2nd year leaders) asked if we could check it out anyway. She said yes and sat down and he motioned for me to check out her legs.
Everyone else backed away and I knelt down in front of her thinking, oh my gosh, what the heck am I doing?
I measured her feet up and sure enough, her right leg was about 1/2 inch shorter! as soon as I said that outloud to everyone she jerked and made a noise. I went to support her feet again, getting ready to pray, then entire time freaking out thinking, what do I pray? what if it doesnt work? what am I supposed to do? and then I notice and say outloud. . . oh, uh. theyre even now.
I just kept kneeling there in not quite disbelief while she stood up and Hamish asked her if her pain was any better. She started to bend and twist a bit and stood up saying, Thank you Jesus, the pain is gone!
I think I was still kneeling thinking, Oh my gosh, that was so scary! THAT WAS SO AWESOME! I DIDNT EVEN PRAY AND SHE GOT HEALED!
then I started laughing.
A lot.
haha it was the greatest thing EVER to know that I didnt have to DO or SAY anything. It was all God and it was SO good :)
All I can say is that made me feel sooooo much better about my mission trip because we are gonna go after healing so much in Nicaragua!
I'm so excited!
God is so good! yay! :D
Basically people call the church asking for a pastor to come and pray for them for varying reasons. But since Bethel's congregation is SO big, it's completely impossible, and thats not counting the people who just heard of Bethel and want a pastor to pray for them. And since there are so many students being equipped with Kingdom ideals and are chomping at the bit to perform miracles, they came delegated things to this outreach. Most of the requests are healing related, hence the name "Healing outreach".
So this last Thursday we had been asked to go into a lady's home to pray for her daughter. We also pray for the person's family and friends that are there to encourage and lift them up.
This particular outreach was one of the easiest to minister to since the lady was very involved with Bethel and very open to us- so we pretty much had free reign to go for it and not hold back. In fact, she was right there with us praying over her daughter! haha
After we prayed for her daughter, we went into the other room and she asked us to pray for her back. If I remember it right she said it felt like, or she'd been having problems and pain because whatever supports the vertebrae in her spine was wearing down resulting in aches and pains.
She said she was in pain now and asked if we would pray for her. Those in our group who were close laid hands on her and prayed. We asked her if there was any change and she said not really, but she knew God was going to heal her and that she felt a lot of peace.
I remembered one of the leaders in school saying something like, whenever someone has back pain, sit them down and see if their legs are the same length.
So I asked and she said that recently she'd been prayed for and her whole right side had grown out. I just kind of backed down, not really liking being put on the spot and stuff, but of course Hamish (and Candace are my 2nd year leaders) asked if we could check it out anyway. She said yes and sat down and he motioned for me to check out her legs.
Everyone else backed away and I knelt down in front of her thinking, oh my gosh, what the heck am I doing?
I measured her feet up and sure enough, her right leg was about 1/2 inch shorter! as soon as I said that outloud to everyone she jerked and made a noise. I went to support her feet again, getting ready to pray, then entire time freaking out thinking, what do I pray? what if it doesnt work? what am I supposed to do? and then I notice and say outloud. . . oh, uh. theyre even now.
I just kept kneeling there in not quite disbelief while she stood up and Hamish asked her if her pain was any better. She started to bend and twist a bit and stood up saying, Thank you Jesus, the pain is gone!
I think I was still kneeling thinking, Oh my gosh, that was so scary! THAT WAS SO AWESOME! I DIDNT EVEN PRAY AND SHE GOT HEALED!
then I started laughing.
A lot.
haha it was the greatest thing EVER to know that I didnt have to DO or SAY anything. It was all God and it was SO good :)
All I can say is that made me feel sooooo much better about my mission trip because we are gonna go after healing so much in Nicaragua!
I'm so excited!
God is so good! yay! :D
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The light at the end of the tunnel
My life has been pretty crazy right now because of having to move out! Oh foreclosure, how I loathe you. I really feel like I'm doing way more extra work compared to the rest of the girls, what with having to cancel everything and change addresses and move furniture, etc. And then add school into the mix and its just pure chaos. There just aren't enough hours in the day it seems.
But Hark! (haha) I see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Everything will be OVER and done with by friday. The apartment will be clean, the girls will be out, I'll walk through the place with the realator and she'll hand me the check and I never have to think about all this again.
PRAISE GOD! THANK YOU JESUS!
I moved in two days ago and am completely unpacked. Just gotta get settled into the groove of the new place and new roomies. I'm excited for the fresh start though. Everything feels really good. I feel really good. I'm regaining that sense of freedom I had just achieved before all this stress and confusion came and stole from me.
I fear this busy feeling won't go away for a little while though due to the holidays and school speeding up with the buzz of mission time approaching. I have to admit, I'm not sure if I'm too fond of the fast paced life. That, or I'm just not used to it at all. I did grow up in Fairbanks afterall, you can managed to live a slow, easy life there no problem.
Jack Taylor spoke at church this weekend, and at school today. He's great. I love hearing some of the old school power players preaching the new, good stuff, but still with their old school style. haha it's awesome. Makes me remember when my mom used to haul us around to EVERY special speaker in town!
ah memories . . . :)
Happy Holidays!
But Hark! (haha) I see the light at the end of the tunnel!
Everything will be OVER and done with by friday. The apartment will be clean, the girls will be out, I'll walk through the place with the realator and she'll hand me the check and I never have to think about all this again.
PRAISE GOD! THANK YOU JESUS!
I moved in two days ago and am completely unpacked. Just gotta get settled into the groove of the new place and new roomies. I'm excited for the fresh start though. Everything feels really good. I feel really good. I'm regaining that sense of freedom I had just achieved before all this stress and confusion came and stole from me.
I fear this busy feeling won't go away for a little while though due to the holidays and school speeding up with the buzz of mission time approaching. I have to admit, I'm not sure if I'm too fond of the fast paced life. That, or I'm just not used to it at all. I did grow up in Fairbanks afterall, you can managed to live a slow, easy life there no problem.
Jack Taylor spoke at church this weekend, and at school today. He's great. I love hearing some of the old school power players preaching the new, good stuff, but still with their old school style. haha it's awesome. Makes me remember when my mom used to haul us around to EVERY special speaker in town!
ah memories . . . :)
Happy Holidays!
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