Week 6

Dear Friends and Family,

Every time I sit down to write there is so much that has happened, that it is impossible to tell all. So like every time, I will just tell the highlights. It’s so hard to pick those though. Oh Well, here I go.

Our speaker this week was Barbara Sandiford. She is a really great speaker. We were blessed to have her speak to us. She talked about ‘The Divine Plumbline’. The author of ‘The Divine Plumbline’ is DR. Bruce Thompson.

A plumbline is a simple instrument made of metal used by a bricklayer to keep the wall straight. God has his plumbline for our lives. If we follow that line, our walls will be built straight, on the cornerstone of Jesus. A lot of time though, we build our walls not on Jesus, and they are crooked, they do not follow God’s plumbline. We build our walls out of Rejection or Rebellion or sometimes both (A swinger). She also talked about how we needed to forgive those people who are the reason we built our walls.

Monday through Thursday we talked about all this stuff (and more). On Friday (today), we had a ministry time, where we all tore down all the walls that we had built. This is a continual process. It’s not something you can just do once, it’s something that you have to work on and maybe do again. But speaking from me, it felt so good doing it. Some bricks on my wall I didn’t know they were even there, others were quite obvious. It felt so amazing to get rid of them. They were hindering my relationship with Christ, and needed to be gone. This doesn’t mean all my bricks are gone. I am sure that I have a few still there. But I am going to be working at getting rid of them as well. Something she said is “Focus on God and we become like him”. This is the whole reason I am here at YWAM. To focus on God. There have been some tough weeks here, but I can see myself changing. All the hard times here have been good for me, a time of growth.

One of the bricks that I dealt with was fear, fear of the unknown, fear of man. I have so many fears. And they did not come from God. 2 Timothy 1:7 “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control”. This does not mean that I have no fear in my life, but that I am dealing with it. I am still afraid of things but God is bigger than my fear. And with Him I can get rid of my fear.

Update from Homework Helpers. We had less 4^th & 5^th graders this week. Only three of them. But they worked hard and completed their homework. It was a good and fun time.

On Saturday we had an event called the Howdy Hoedown. It was so much fun. My cousins Andrew and Tasha came. We did square dancing, that was awesome. After that was over the school had its own little dance party. We had a great time. :)

We went to a conference called Daybreak. It was about human trafficking. It talked about a lot of the things we learned last week and served to reinforce my opinion that one cannot just sit around. Find out what God would like you to do about it and then do it. You can do something, it is possible. If we sit around and do nothing, than we are helping the enemy. I am still figuring out what is my spot, where is my role, to play in ending human trafficking. But rest assured, I am not gonna sit and let the enemy when. If all you can do is pray, you are still playing an important role.

Prayer requests: That more kids show up for Homework Helpers, that the kids that come will be diligent with their work, Funds will come for outreach, Growth, the ending of human trafficking, and that God’s love will just shine out of us.

I love and miss you all. Thanks so much for supporting me. You can’t imagine how much it means to me. I am sending to you all, love that I have received from the Father; I am giving it to you.

Love,

Haleigh