I have been in Guatemala for 5 weeks now. These last five weeks have been filled with a lot of laughter, an abundance of joy, many tears shed in the presence of the Lord and answered promises. I have seen the Lord with fresh eyes and I have been left undone by the reality of our returning King and bridegroom.

The days here have been long but the weeks seem to fly by. My team is with a ministry called “Hope” it is a branch off of another ministry here called “Worship Room”. Hope is a ministry set up to disciple children to be raised up in love with Jesus and crying out “Maranatha - come Lord Jesus.” We spend Monday - Saturday’s with our ministry, starting off each day in the Word or in intercession. The Leaders of this ministry birth everything in this ministry from intamecy with Jesus. They look at Jesus and operate from their beholding of His face. It has been a gift to come under the leadership of this ministry and be apart of all they do. In the afternoons we play with the kids that are apart of their program. We will worship, play soccer, teach music and teach them about the Lord. Hope desires to see these children grow up with knowledge and relationship with Jesus that they may be missionaries in their home and see their family transformed. They have many testimonies of the Lords faithfulness to transform children and families. It has truly been a gift seeing the Lord show up in this ministry and outside of it to!

The Lord has been doing lots here, in the last two weeks I have seen squad members healed and locals coming to salvation!!! Hallelujah what a joy it is to see Jesus at work. Since the start of the Race the Lord has repeatedly told me three salvations. He reminded me of this again recently. The other day my team and I were leaving ministry and we passed by our friend in the park. He was sharing the gospel and invited us over to share. A few of us shared about the Lords heart and our testimonies. As we shared about how Jesus delivered us from living for approval of others, insecurity, and striving these three young women began to weep. They were Catholics who knew the religion but not relationship. I began to cry as I remembered the moment where the Lord opened my eyes to the Man Jesus, when I first realized Jesus loved me and real communing relationship with Jesus was possible. It was in the moment that this clicked in my heart that changed everything. From that moment I have been different, because of that moment I was standing here watching these women be stirred by the Holy Spirit and respond to the gospel. We left rejoicing for the Lords faithfulness and kindness, undone by the way He still saves, encouraged by the way he used our testimonies for His glory, excited by Him answering His promise of three salvations and all at once - like come on thats good!! This moment was Holy and has left me in awe. If this moment was all the Lord had me on the Race for then it would all be worth it. But He has done exceedingly more, His kindness never fails to amaze me. He is Holy, Mighty, Worthy, and so much more but He is also just kind to His children. Yea I’m just in awe thank you Lord.

A few weeks ago my team and I went to a night watch at our ministry hosts home. From 9:00 pm- 6:30am we all stayed up worshiping, interceding and reading the Word together. The Lord showed up throughout the night in fresh and holy ways. He has marked this ministry with hunger for His presence and Hunger for purity at His return. I am encouraged and taken deeper into the reality of Jesus’ return in my time with Hope. They have seen the reality of Jesus and know He is coming and it motivates all they do. May we as followers of Jesus be awakened to His beauty and His worth and desire to see Him come again. There are far too many people asleep to the fact that Jesus is coming and not operating in a desire for Him to come. Shouldn’t we as a church long to see the return of the one we say has changed our lives, of the one we say we love? Yea Jesus may we flow and operate from first love and authentic intimacy.

The Lord has asked for authenticity from me since being here. He has asked me to truly let all that I do for Him and for others be from authenticity. From real and true hunger and love for Him. I think its easy when in a Christian environment to have the language and songs memorized, to do the right things because you’re used to it. But is it from authentic love - am I burning to love Him and please Him because I see His worth and have fallen in love? As I grow into the Lord He asks for more and right now He is asking for a deeper authenticity. What a joy it is to be in a relationship with the Lord of all, what a joy it is that there is opportunity to go deeper with Him.

We only have four more weeks here in Guate. We spend two more with our current ministry, then our parents will come and ministry will look slightly different, then a week of debrief. After this we go to Honduras for five weeks which is our last country. Then 2 weeks in the states before we are done. We have roughly 12 weeks left. It is still a long time but the end is in sight. It is an odd place to seem so close to the end yet still have months to go. It makes showing up and pouring out difficult when many of us desire to be with our loved ones and it seems so close. With this many questions arise of “Lord what’s next?” Yea be in prayer for endurance to finish well, to be present with each other and what the Lord is doing, as well as contempt and joy in where we are at now. The Lord can and will do so much in these next three months but sometimes it is easy to loose sight of that reality.

As always I love and appreciate the way y’all faithfully have parted end with me in prayer to see Jesus exalted. The Lord is at work and is so worthy, may we continue to be people submitting to what He is doing and preparing ourselves for His return.