Hopeful and Encouraged

May 23

Hello prayer team and friends!

This week has been amazingly encouraging. I was starting to feel a little worn out, a little irritable with the lack of comforts from home, a little discouraged in my teaching, and yes, a little frustrated wtih cultural differences. Then after i wrote the last email i started feeling built up and encouraged, so i know that i am receiving strength and encouragement from YOUR prayers! thank you!

Becka and I sat down and planned out the rest of the English course, and I am feeling very hopeful about it. I think by the end of the course the students will have been challenged, discipled, and equipped. I know that not all of them will reach an easy conversational level of speaking, but i also know that God will have fulfilled a purpose in each one of their lives. I think living on the base at YWAM will have given them really valuable fellowship and spiritual disciplines, and I think they all will have been exposed to basic English. Their experience at YWAM is so holistic, we have provided so many different ways of learning and have tended to their minds and hearts, so i think everyone will have profited from that. Their final is going to include a ten minute presentation on a researched subject, so i think walking them through this will take them steps ahead in their learning.

God also put it on my heart to make a website with teaching materials, tips, and sermons for ESL teachers! How fun does that sound? Becka told me i must be a natural teacher if that sounds fun to me! So pray that God will bring that vision to fulfillment and give me discernment on when to start on it. Also, the outreach pastor for the YWAM LA team came to check up on the DTS group that has been staying on our base, and he invited me to come teach a seminar on teaching English overseas in LA! their base is about 20 minutes from Fuller, so i'm excited to be involved with them. So please keep that in your prayers as well.

I decided not to go to Loliondo (Maasai land) this weekend because i didn't have a peace about it. So no lion hunts for me!

During my time here I have felt really excited about starting Fuller in the Fall, so if you feel so inclined please pray about this for me! The main areas I need prayer in are:
1. Financial Aid and housing
2. For God to open an obvious door for me to work in a church in Pasadena

I hope you are all well and growing in your understanding of God's love towards you daily!
God bless,
Christina