Update!

Aloha,
This last year has been full of adventure and changes. The year started off with staffing a Discipleship Training School (DTS) and leading a team of eleven to China. I returned to Maui in July and just two weeks later headed off to California and Montana where Kyle (my then boyfriend, now fiance!) and I met each other's families. After a month on the Mainland we flew to Scotland for two of our friends wedding. After an incredible summer we headed back to Maui to begin a new quarter on base. After being back in Maui for only a month Kyle proposed! It's been an incredible year and only now have things started to slow down.

I am now working as the Personnel Director for our base. I oversee our staff, short term volunteers, guests and base functions. Kyle and I are also leading weekly times of base wide prayer. This quarter has brought many challenges and stretched me in ways I wasn't expecting. I have had to rely fully on God in every area of my life, this does not always come easy to me. A verse I keep coming back to is Hebrews 12:1-3 " Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning it's shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him whoendured such oposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart". I've learned that all I can do is fix my eyes on Jesus and run after him.

I am nearing the end of my commitment here at YWAM Maui. I'll be returning to Eureka, Ca in the middle of March. While in Eureka I'll be working and wrapping up wedding plans! After Kyle and I are married we will be moving to Montana. While we are there Kyle will be working and I'll be finishing up school. We hope to invest into Kyle's home church and share with people what God has done in and through us during our time in YWAM.

Kyle and I both feel called to missions. We are still praying into where God wants us in the future but are excited about the plans that He has for us!

That about sums up 2008...I wonder what God has planned for 2009?