Hawaii or Bust

Well, its official. In 31 days, I will be leaving for Kauai, Hawaii! I found out a little over a week ago that I got accepted to the YWAM base there and am SO PUMPED! I'm sure I'll be staring out at scenery like this every waking moment. :)

Ha I wish. I'll be in Kauai for 3 months. I have tried many times to tell people what I'll be learning while I'm in Hawaii and totally failed, so here is what the website says, "The Discipleship Training School (DTS), is designed to encourage students to develop in personal character, to cultivate a living relationship with God, and to identify their unique individual gifts and callings in God. Cross-cultural exposure and global awareness are special emphases throughout these courses, preparing the students to reach current and future generations and answer the call to… “Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations” – Matthew 28:19."  

After my time of learning and serving in Kauai, I will travel with the other students in my school to another country. The country we go to will be decided once we're all together, but I know it will be one that deals with an injustice. 

INJUSTICE: violation of another's rights or of what is right

The base I will be going to has a heart for injustices in our world. Things like unclean water, human trafficking, women in Africa, the adult industry and child soldiers are what this base longs to see ended. I love that I'm going to a place where God has given people the same passions as me. I can't wait to learn more about the injustices our world faces and act against them. Tonight I went to a wedding and heard this scripture. It really defines what I long for the YWAM experience to be for me:

                                          ¹⁰ if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry 

                                              and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                then your light will rise in the darkness,
                                                and your night will become like the noonday.
                                            ¹¹ The LORD will guide you always;
                                               he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land 
                                                         and will strengthen your frame. -Isaiah 58

 I pray that I would learn what it really means to spend myself on behalf of the needy. 

Tonight my heart is breaking for the drought crisis that is happening in East Africa. THIS article really opened my eyes to the devastation. These are the things that I so long to see ended.

I really pray that this time will be so sweet for me and my Father, that I would go with a moldable heart and opened ears. Please be praying for me as I spend my last month in Knoxville. Its crazy to think that I won't be back here for 8 months. Pray that I would prepare my heart for what God wants to do and the goodbyes that must take place. I know that September 6th will be such a bitter-sweet day for me. 

p.s. please excuse the random white high-lighting, I can't figure out how to make it go away :)