Kelsie Lynn

Praise report! Theres a storm right now, so patong is a bit flooded, business will be pretty slow till the storm lets up. Also - because of the rain the veg fest if off for today. Its not the kind of fest thats all peace love & tofu, ha its actually super gnarls. google it. Keep praying for our team, love love 

Take my love; my Lord, I pour
at thy feet its treasure store;
take my self, and I will be
ever, only, all for thee

oi I need prayer. 

By 2030 26.4% of the world’s population will be Muslim. Less than 2% of Christian missionaries are going into the Muslim world.

This week is so full on. I’ve got a heap of homework to finish my friday so that I can get certified for staffing here in Australia. The DTS has been here for over a week and they are amazing girls. I’m still having trouble with visa stuff, that I need to sort out this week as weel. But I did get an appointment for my medical examination. Please pray that they wont make me have to do a chest x-ray. Also I had to re-apply for medical insurance and that is costing over $800. Please pray for provision, for long term supportors. And for peace. I need encouragement and grace.

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm

What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

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Hey guys, I miss you all so much. Can you believe its already been almost 7 months? Crazy. Well as most of you know I’ve made the commitment to stay here on the Sunny Coast to come on as DTS staff. The new school started a week ago and it has already been an amazing blessing to be apart of. I need a heap of prayer though. Last week started some drama with applying for a new student visa. I had to make a trip down to Brisbane last tuesday and fill out an application and pay a heap of money. I was hoping that should have been the end of my drama. But since I had broken my ankle a couple months ago and the fact that I’ll need another surgery makes it my application process complicated. I’ll need to make another trip down to Brisbane to get a medical examination. Basically this means more money and time that I dont have when I need to be up here giving 100% to the DTS. And in all reality, with the expenses that I’ll be having in the months to come, finances are not adding up. But that simply means that I need you to partner with me in praying. I’ve seen things that dont make sense work out heaps of times. He can sort me out. Thanks family I dont know what I’d do if I didnt have you. Love

“We can make our plans,
      but the Lord determines our steps.”  

                    Proverbs 16:9

“When the king smiles, there is life;
      his favor refreshes like a spring rain.”

                                 v.15

“Better to be patient than powerful;
      better to have self-control than to conquer a city.”

                                 v. 32

So originally I had a ticket to fly home from Australia on June 5th at 6 in the morning. That didn’t happen. I broke my ankle here back in March and I still need to get a second surgery, so I’m scheduled to get that done here some time this month. If the hospital ever gets back to me with when my appointment is. Also, I believe the Lord called me to join staff here at the Sunny Coast base. So I applied, and officially got accepted on as staff yesterday. Thats a 2 year commitment, but I will be able to visit home in between staffing schools. And I had to change my flight, as of right now my new return date is September 21. That date could very easily change to November, but I should be home for the holidays until I think February.

Out reach teams started coming back a week from last thursday, and all last week was debrief. It was so good to be able to connect with everyone again. You could just see on everyones face how much more they love the Lord. We all graduated dts on Friday, it was a really great night. I realized how much we all really are family and that made it even harder to say goodbye. It was really rough saying goodbye to family like that, some of which you really don’t know if you’ll see again. Either way I’d do it over and over again, I honestly think that every one should do a dts. 

I just flew down to Canberra at 6 this morning. Had to wake up at 3:45 to catch my flight in Brisbane. I’m running on like 3 hours of sleep. ha.. I’ll be here for two weeks doing Cert 4. The warmest it gets is like 6 degrees. I’ll be back on the Sunny coast on the 18th, then starting staff training. 

Prayer points:

1. To continue to fall more in love with the Lord, to get poured into, for fresh revelation, that I would continue to hear the Lord daily. That He would build me up into a leader, that love for others would pour out of the overflow of intimacy with Christ.

 2. I need to get a solid support system going, I’m figuring that I’ll probably need to raise something like 400 a month, and then money for airfare for the out reach that I lead. God’s provided thus far, so I’m not tripping, matt 6:26, hey? 

3. I’m praying to get a super cheap car. It would make ministry opportunities a lot easier, with my foot I cant walk far so its been a bit harder to stay super intentional and regularly meet up with people I’ve been meeting. 
4. For rest, and to hear back from the doctors about when my next surgery is. 
- For surgery, that it would go smoothly and for a speedy recovery. 
5. Against the lies of the enemy. I know I’m not “good enough” to staff, thats why Christ has to do it through me, apart from Him I really can do nothing.

My heart is so heavy. Revelation my human-ness and my sinful depravity is just strait up gnarly and humbling. Praise be to God, that in Him there is hope. That one day and even currently He is and will bring together to completion this work He has begun in me and maybe I wont suck as much. I am so blessed, that even though I am just an ugly clay jar; I have a treasure of infinite value inside of me, that is to permeate out of me as a fragrance of the knowledge of Him. And this is why I must decrease, so that He may increase. 

Psalm 62:5-8
For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence,
   for my hope is from him.
He only is my rock and my salvation,
   my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
On God rests my salvation and my glory;
   my mighty rock, my refuge is God.

 Trust in him at all times, O people;
  pour out your heart before him;
   God is a refuge for us. 
                         Selah