Breaking News!

So if you are a facebook afficiando you would have seen the following post today..

I can now officially tell you that I have been accepted for Mission Training School in Micronesia in August and thus will be resigning from my teaching job at the end of term and selling/giving away all I own. From there... AFRICA bound baby!! So excited!!

Going back to Africa has been on my heart since my amazing adventure in December/January this year. I really don't think I ever really forgot the experience and found it a little difficult to adjust to life in Australia again. I realise that reverse culture shock is normal but in some ways this was more than that- I realise now that this was the beginnings of a major pulling on my heart to return.

I had come home with the strong conviction that I was meant to apply for A training school in a different location and go this year. In fact, I had applied for leave from my job last year to attend even before I went to Africa! This leave was denied which was really difficult to accept but kinda figured that this just meant my timing was wrong and that I should reapply for 2014. After being in Africa though and speaking to some valued people I realised that maybe indeed that I should take a step of faith and just go. I came home strongly convinced that this was to be my course of action. However I had a number of people including my parents who were strongly convinced that I should wait til 2014. This was super hard and I realised now that it caused me a great deal of angst and confusion.

Through a series of what I can only now term God ordained events I was able to take a couple of weeks leave to go home and really assess what was going in my heart. The night before I went home I was trolling on the Mission website and discovered that there was had information about the school in Micronesia. I read the information and just knew it was perfect! I applied on the spot and then kinda forgot about it in the wake of travelling home.

One night lying  in bed a couple of days later I remembered my application and prayed that God would clearly open or shut the door according to his will. I woke up the next morning and read my emails to discover that I had been accepted!!!

Talk about God clearly showing me his will! What was even better was Mum and Dad were excited for me and agreed that this was definitely a God thing. I did some journalling and really felt that Father God was asking me if I was ready to go to the next level with Him. Where I would be willing to only listen to his voice and his direction and not depend on people (no matter how Godly, wise or mature they were) to confirm what he was saying.

The plan for now is to work part time til the end of the term, in the meantime have a garage sale and sell some stuff, give away other stuff, then with help from my amazing Mum clean and pack up my house and drive back to Brisbane. Then between June and August see if I can do some relief teaching as well as some other work before I leave for Micronesia... after 2 months in Micronesia am praying for enough finance to go back to Africa... Maybe in South Sudan maybe... well let's just take it one day at a time for now :)

I have so much peace about this decision and have had a lot of divine favour already- I have some lovely friends who have offered to take some of my belongings that I want to keep back to Brisbane, plus 2 people who have told me they are keen to support me financially. So stoked!!

I am looking for some more supporters both prayer and financial, if you are interested please let me know. I would value your support on this crazy adventure!

God is so good and I give him all the praise and the glory for the journey so far and the journey still to run!!It's going to be epic!!