Oceans Calling

//  2015  // What a year. I am still unpacking what this year has held. Physically I still have a bag from Africa that needs to be emptied. But my brain needs some organizing as well. All the events and people running through my mind. 2015 feels a bit like a dream. God has done amazing things in my life and in the ministries I have been apart of. I have traveled over 40,000 miles this year, following God's calling on my life. Different time zones, cultures, languages, climates and people. I have felt more then ever this year how our lives can change quickly and sometimes God is my only constant. I am filled with thanksgiving and wonder as I think of all that has happened this year. Highs were so high and the lows were low, but God has been with me through it all. January - Michigan, USA I had been accepted to ywam Gold Coast's first School of Worship. It was to begin in February. I had just enough finances for a plane ticket and not much more. However, God was saying go

Some thing has been stirring in my heart since my transition from Mozambique to the United States. It is one of those vulnerable topics that there are many opinions about. I want to share a bit of what I have been processing, not to push my opinion or to bash on society, but to share a very real perspective many face.  I want to talk about Poverty.  I realize it is Christmas time and that there are more joyous topics I could address. However, it is the revelation of Christmas that is prompting me to dig into this. Jesus being born is the most humbling and selfless act of love. God, who is almighty and perfect, chose to become needy and dependant in hopes of loving this broken world. It doesn’t make sense. In the month of December I have seen the extremes. On one side, a village in Mozambique. People are suffering because of a lack of wholeness. Poverty. Physical and Spiritual poverty. I man outside his home with a toe that is half gone from infection and He is litera

Here are some moments from my life in Mozambique!! Going into villages means there are lots of new friends to spend time with. We sing songs and dance together. We paint their nails and they give us mangoes.  While leaving one of the villages, the locals were singing outside our caravan. So of coarse, being a Mozambican, this little guy started to dance!!! He was so cheeky but he had good moves.  As 250 people from 30 different nations came together for this season with Iris Global, Mozambican pastors from all over the country also came to get training at a Bible School Iris offers. We had so much fun coming together in the presence of God. Mozambicans have so much passion and joy. It is beautiful!! Life looks very different in the cities then in the village. Because we were a truck load of while people, many would come to sell us fruit, bread, cokes and fried food. Sometimes it was exactly what we needed to get through our road trips to the bu

Making New Connections!! After class it was rice and beans for lunch. Sometimes lunch didn’t happen because the presence of God left you plastered to the floor for hours. Afternoons were relaxed but full of options. Sometimes speakers would share on different things. Other days seemed like an endless stream of meetings. Outreach prep, project meetings, kitchen duty, setting up for youth group, buying boxes of water, reapply the sunscreen, ask Jesus what the heck I am doing, teaching guitar lessons to kids, and then there is the weekly town run. No simple task.  Because of flexibility there was also time to spend with our new families and our Mozambican brothers and sisters. You could spend time with the Iris kids, go into the villages, spend time in God’s presence, go to the ocean, play sport, go do ministry in hospitals or jail ministry and heaps of other things. Nights were spent together or with our families. It is an outside culture and so we lived in our student villa

Hello World!!  So 12 weeks ago I was faithfully updating this blog and sharing about how I was off to Mozambique, Africa. I did go, and while God was faithful, the wifi was not. #tia (this is Africa). So now I am on the other side of an amazing adventure with much to share!! So I will take the next few weeks to unpack my experience in Pemba, Mozambique and share what God is doing through Iris Global and in my own life. I do apologize to those who have been waiting for updates, I hope what I share now will bless you and challenge you.   I ask for a lot of grace as I share and for you to stay open. A few days ago I was in a completely different world, and now I am trying to find my footing. God has once again brought me into deeper freedom and Intimacy with Him. I have been pushed and stretched in every way. I have seen the pain of a broken world on a greater level and I have encountered Jesus to a height I hadn’t believed was possible. Nothing I share is inaccessible to you