Missions Outreach/Plan

Thank you all for supporting me and continuing to follow my progress. Over the last few weeks God has confirmed in me what direction I am headed. I am going to return here to Germany providing that everything works out. I want to work with a ministry here called Pick-a-pocket. I cannot explain in detail what they do, but their mission is to eliminate extreme poverty using photography and the arts. I do not know quite what all this will look like on a time scale. I will be back in Colorado for a season after finishing my DTS and outreach. I know that there is so much that God is leading me towards, I could not have reached this point without your prayers and support. I am putting together more information that will be given at a later date. I wanted to Post a few photos of the base to give you an idea of where I have been.

The Leading...

God has been showing me a lot of new things here, about myself and about the world around me. I have already learned many facts about missions and the need in the world outside of the "civilized bubble," but there is a concept that has become very real to me.

Head Knowledge:
When we learn valuable facts, and new information we take notes and go back over them and we can be very aware of whats going on.

Heart Knowledge:
When we have an epic or driving first hand experience where somehow that knowledge is driven home. When we truly feel what we have learned.

God has been working in me, in and on these things. In times of community worship and prayer, God has been preparing me and teaching me what it means to be a leader. I have lived with a self conscience nature for many years, always wondering what people think about me. I have walked with a lot of pain and miss understanding.

All these things, God has freed me from, I spent about an hour on my face weeping as God worked in me. As the staff prayed for me I continued to feel God's leading. A quote from one of the one of the staff is, "You stood up looking like a new man, a completely different person."

I am happy to report that I made a puddle of snot and tears that was over 3 ft wide, it took 5 min to clean up. When God works in your lives and moves in our hearts we change, and He can continue to shape us. I call these times, "Holy Puddles"

When we spend time, surrendered in the presence of God. Truly abandoned, we find that our heart issues are very small in compare to the power of a loving and almighty God.

I have known these things for years, walking with God, but distanced due to my own attempt at controlling my future.

God still has a lot to show me, I know that I am called to missions. I have an opportunity to work with an organization on base here called Pick-a-pocket. The have been given the mission of eliminating extreme poverty through Art.

On my missions outreaches I would go out to places of extreme poverty and begin to document with photography the depravity that exists there.

I truly feel that this is the next step that God has called me to. I will still continue to prayerfully consider this for the rest of the DTS. I ask that you would keep me in your prayers. Please pray that God will continue to give me direction and wise council as I move forward in this vision for the future.

I appreciate all the love and support I have from you, I can feel the covering of your prayers.

I encourage you, in your own quite times, to seek God on what He wants to move from head knowledge to heart knowledge in you. Be blessed.