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Hi y'all

So its been a crazy month. We've been all over the place now. We went to Vermont then came back to Albany and made lunches for 700 kids for a whole week. Then we left and went to this little town of maybe 20,000 people called Gloversville. We didn't know what to expect because it was a home church but it turned out to be a great time of serving and rest. We felt like we were on the real world because the house us girls stayed at was so nice and our host was so easy going and our age so it made it fun!

Then we came back for a night to homebase then left again to Ravenna for a night service where we got to minister and share our hearts. It was really awesome. Then we planned to leave the next day for Charity's church in saracuse but God had another plan. Our van got broken into over night and Camaron's wallet was stolen and Auna's iPod converter. So we had to stay in town an extra night but it turned out good because it gave us one last chance to hang out with the Toronto team that was here for 3 weeks with us.

The Toronto Group is a bunch of people our age but they are from all over the world LITERALLY (Australia, Holland, Netherlands, Canada, France etc) They were really cool and on FIRE for GOD! We had a great time tag teaming with them in ministry during our week of solid revival services. So that night we had to stay we all went lazer taging which of course was fun, and we found a kids club in the back of the building with Hip Hop music and no kids so we dominated the place and all 30 of us danced on the dance floor and it was so fun just to get to dance with Christians and have fun.

So the next day we finally got to leave to Charity's. Now let me describe Charity to you...hmmmm......she is AWESOME!!! She's outgoing, will talk to anyone, yells in tongues all the time, and has a great heart for people just getting set on fire for the Lord. She has a goal to save at least 1 person a week and kill some demons along the way! We had so much fun in her church for a week. We had a service almost everynight which always ended with some good ol' dancing in the Spirit!!

I got to preach there as did most of the team. Then we left reluctantly and came back to Albany where we will be for another week. Sunday we have a WOW Jam which is in a park and about 2,000+ kids come out and its an all day festival/outreach. Its suppose to be a lot of fun. Then Monday we go to New York which I"m totally excited about!!!

So I have a story before I let you go.

The other night...our first night back in Albany, I was in the kitchen all by myself making hot cocoa. When I heard these noises right out side the kitchen door which leads to a really dark alley type drive way. I heard 3-4 guys and they were laughing and making fun of somebody and I heard this other voice who was grunting and telling the guys to stop. I heard like chains and punching and kicking noises. At first I just prayed in tongues for the guy but then it really scared me, so I ran downstairs and told the girls and then it hit me that that is really freaky and I started bawling!! The girls ran to David and told him and the boys and they ran upstairs ready for battle. But we told them not to go out there so we called the cops and prayed HARD!!! It was the freakiest thing and has totally changed my thought patterns. 20 minutes later Auna was in the kitchen alone and she saw this demon right by the kitchen door with chains and he was making grunting and laughing noises. David saw the same thing so we've just been praying over this place and declaring authority through Jesus Christ!! We don't know if it was a real fight or it was just the enemy trying to freak me out.

Welp, that's it. I will let you know how NYC goes!! Love you all. Pray we finish strong as we only have a week and a half left of touring. XOXO

Feeding the kids of New York

On Monday we started handing out lunches to the kids of Albany, Cohoes, and Troy in New York. We make about 700 lunches in the morning and then we pack them in coolers and send them out in 3 different vans with about 4-6 people in each. Each van has about 7 or 8 stops. We greet each kid and give them a milk and a choice between Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches or a meat sandwich (ham or turkey).

We go to parks, churches, the YMCA and neighborhoods to hand out the food. Its fun just getting to see the little chunks and talk to them.

Yesterday my team was in Troy and we went through the neighborhoods and there was a kid who is deaf. His family used to be pastors so they let us pray over this 15 year old boy. He had the best smile and a countenance of love and compassion. Although, he wasn't healed yesterday, we know that that boy WILL hear and WILL be a witness for God soon! Amen

We have made a lot of connections with the children here and will have many more. Tomorrow we are going to the City pool to swim with the kids and play with them before and after the vans come. It'll be a blast.

Each night we've been having Revival services. There is a ministry team from Toronto, Canada here and they are from all over the world (Australia, London, Austria, Holland, France etc). They have been preaching and ministering each night which has been awesome. Their main focus has been on Matters of the Heart and inner healing. Aperture, a christian rock band, has been here as well and have played once. Their fresh sound and fervor is breathtaking. They are playing again tonight and our team is going to be ministering. God is going to do amazing things as we bust through the heavenly doors and allow the Holy Spirit to ROCK our Hearts!!

Chew on this verse as it will be the next topic I write about in a couple days... 2 Timothy 2:10 "I suffer for the sake of the whole body." said Jesus. Is that just the suffering on the Cross or did he suffer in many ways?

Well of living water

I had a vision today that God gave me a revelation to for a whole hour. There was a girl in a meadow of rolling hills and sparatic trees that were enormous and their branches reached down to the earth and you can climb on the branches. This girl lived in this beautiful meadow full of Heather and Daisies, and she held it dear to her heart even though she knew that it wasn't fully satisfying her. There was food but not a lot, and every day to just get a sip of water she had to walk miles to an old well that was deep with fresh water.

Everyday during her walk to the well she wondered why there wasn't an easier way to get a drink in such a beautiful lanscape. One day in her frustration, she reached the well once again and a gentle man was there under a tree close by. In shock she blinked since she hadn't seen a single person in years.

The man said, "Hello, is this your well?" She replied, "No, but it is the only place to get fresh water for miles." He said, "Oh well I know you desire a substance that were closer and that wouldn't bring so much frustration and dissappointment in each of your days. There is someone who has made a great sacrifice so that you can drink living water anytime and with that water you will never thirst again. Your heart ache, lonliness, strife, uncertainty, poverty, dissappointment, discontent, and fear will be covered and put under the feet of Jesus. Jesus, your savior who paid the ultimate price so that you may be free from these things and just enjoy His love and grace.

---There are springs of living water that can satisfy our innermost needs. We may be in a place that's OKAY, its comfy, and even beautiful and there's enough to keep you alive and living day to day. But I don't know about you, but I am tired of living day to day with "just enough" I want substance, I want something that will get me through the days I just wanna throw life out the window. When I can't take it anymore. When another family member gets sick, or when another financial bind comes along, or when abandonment or betrayal sneaks in again. I've gotta have something in me that tells me that I am accepted, I am well loved, and my future is in the King's hands not mine (thank God!).

This was my download that I wanted to share with you. I hope it helps you get through your tough day. Just remember God is right there with you saying, "I am well pleased with you and my thoughts are with you."

John 4

Serving in love

Today we served a lady in Vermont. She was a fragile lady with the heart of an angel. We built her 5 shelves that are self standing (not attached to the wall). She made us lunch and her daughter came too. We pulled weeds as big as bushes in her backyard. We had a huge pile of weeds at the end of the day and some great shelves that held all of her stuff and more!

I started reading the book The Inward Journey by Gene Edwards its about the Road to Transformation. It talks about how we have an inward being and an outward being. Our inward being is our Spiritual realm, where Christ resides. Our outward being is our emotions, will, and intellect. Those 3 things will make a God-like being in you that tells you that God is boxable, sweet, definable. But what we have to do is move our outer being out of the way and listen to our inward being. Only God can transform us, not our knowledge, our ambitions, nor our compassion. We have to let God work inside of us, unfortunately or fortunately (however you look at it) the way God does that is through our sufferings. We have to go through bad times to grow stronger and closer to Him.

Last thought: Rose petals falling on a rock doesn't make it a precious stone. Constant joy never produced a transformed heart.

Love you BIG,

H

A Father's hug

Today I was soaking in His presence and the song I was listening to by Kim Walker was talking about being embraced and held tight by the Father. I was thinking about this and realized that's why my father should hug me as much and for as long as possible.

A dad needs to hug his children for long periods of time and tell them and express to them just how much he loves them. This way it is easy for us to imagine how much God loves us. Its hard to imagine someone can love you as much as God when everyone on earth rejects us and abandons us. I don't know how to be enveloped by God because I've never been enveloped by someone on earth.

You can't get this from a boy because it's not a pure love, its not an unconditional love, its not complete accepting love. God accepts us and wants to wrap us in his unconditional love that has no end.

Below is a song that depicts exactly just how much God loves you. Listen to it after you read it, its powerful. And then go find your dad and get a good hug from him. http://searchservice.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=sitesearch.results&type=Music&qry=Kim%20Walker&musictype=1

Here's the lyrics to How He loves Us by Kim Walker
He is jealous for me Love's like a hurricane, I am a tree Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory and I realize just how beautiful You are and how great your affections are for me. Oh, how He loves us so Oh, how He loves us How He loves us so. Yeah, He loves us Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves. So we are His portion and He is our prize, Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes If grace is an ocean we're all sinking So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss and my heart turns violently inside of my chest I don't have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way That he loves us, Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves He loves us, Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves [Whispered]: Well, I thought about You the day Stephen died and You met me between my breaking I know that I still love You, God, despite the agony ...they want to tell me You're cruel But if Stephen could sing, he'd say it's not true, cause...[voice breaks]... Cause He loves us, Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves Yeah, He loves us Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves us Woah, how He loves

Vermont!

We are heading to Vermont on Friday morning. It's goin to be crazy! We just had another girl sign up for the whole summer so now we have 10 full timers, 11 for the Vermont trip in a 12 passenger van.

We will be staying in a 10,000 sq ft house in Binghamton, Vermont. This guy lives there and he has no kids or a wife and has committed his house to doing ministry. A house church meets there, several retreats and conferences are held there and its a great oasis.

Our work there is to be of service to him in getting the house in shape. We'll be painting, weeding, constructing, etc etc. It will probably be a lot of hard work but I'm excited because we've been sitting in this church for the last 3 weeks and I can't wait to get moving again.

When we get back in Albany on July 3rd we'll have the 4th off and will go to the Hudson river and watch fireworks. Then we'll be helping the church get ready for feeding the children which starts on July 6th.

Our particular job will be to wake up early and get to the feeding center around 7:30am and start making the lunches. Then at noon we'll pack the ambulance and 3 other trucks full of food and head out to parks and neighborhoods to hand out the food. The ambo has a PA system to announce in the streets that food is here "Come and get it"!

I can't wait to play w/ the kids and minister to them. Its going to be Poppin!

I'll leave you with a thought we downloaded today in class.

Endure the trials in your life because they are what launch you into your destiny.

"Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that sffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character, and character, hope and hope does not dissappoint us because God has poured out his love into hearts by the Holy Spirit." Romans 5:3-5

Miracles!

We have seen a lot of miracles while on this trip.  We saw a ladies leg grow about an inch.  Migraines left immediately.  A ladies shoulders were pain free the second she got to the alter (we didn't even have to pray over her)  One of our teammates has suffered from asthma all her life and now can run long distances without feeling any tightness.

A man came to us with shoulder pain and Jesus healed him and he's told us that he's still pain free.  A lady named Judy came with an ear ache and she was healed and she told us that she's had that pain her whole life.  Another ear ache was healed as well that night.  

We are only in our second week and have seen several miracles, breakthroughs and deliverance for many. 

We are taught that God loves to do miracles and healings but sometimes first there must be deliverance and bondage breaking.  Those wounds go much deeper than just the sharp pain in their body...there's a pain or issue that needs to be resolved in the heart first.  Often there will be a short term healing but because the person still has matters of the heart to deal with, the pain returns which is sad and hard to watch.

Take care of your heart like you would your bathroom.  If you use your bathroom a lot, you gotta clean it a lot, so if you use your heart a lot, then you've gotta clean it out a lot too.  I suggest the book "A tale of 3 Kings" by Gene Edwards.

Some prophets, some teachers, some evangelists, others perform miracles...

The things that mark an apostle—signs, wonders and miracles—were done among you with great perseverance. 2 Cor 12:12

Happy Father's Day!