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May25

Patience and Open Doors

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Patience and Open Doors

Rebecca was on the Dream Tour in Fall 2011. Thought it was time to catch up with her and see what is happening…

Rebecca

Last year after spending the summer in Haiti with AIM, I came back to the States ready to go out again.

It’s kind of a common occurrence.

Over the last ten years, I’ve headed out on more than half a dozen short-term mission’s trips. It seems like I always have to come back to America too early. It never feels like coming home. I find myself wondering why God didn’t send me out for longer.

Last fall, I wanted to move back to Haiti for longer. I love creativity and kids. What better way to combine the two than at camp? So, I started planning. Meeting, budgeting, outlining, strategizing. Trying to get a team together to go to Haiti with me.

Moving into this year, I had as much of a plan as I could muster but no team. In fact, I got to a point where I couldn’t move forward any more. So, I asked God about it. He said something to this affect:

“You’re standing on your side of the room, and you’ve got your great plan and your outline. But if you want to know what I’m doing . . . you’re going to have to ditch your plan. Cause I’m not on your side of the room. I’m over here, and I’m not going to join you. I want to know if you’ll join Me.“

So…

I gave up the idea of starting a camp in Haiti. Which kinda stunk cause I was really ready to get into something long-term, and small-town Nebraska isn’t exactly known for its . . . exoticness.

I wasn’t quite sure what to do with myself. Should I get a second job? Should I start something at home? Should I get more involved with my church?

I didn’t do any of the above. Instead, I started reading. Books about the history of Central Africa, a place that’s been on my heart for a while now. I wanted to know what had happened in that area of the world, how it had affected people, what was happening now. And God began to break my heart for the kids – the street kids, the former child soldiers, the orphans.

Day and night, I couldn’t get them off my mind.

Then, very quietly, He opened a door. A wide, unexpected door that looked like a plane ticket to Africa and three weeks in the part of the world that feels like home to me. I just got back from that trip a week ago. God says, “See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut.” I say, “Amen!”

I still don’t know what I’m doing. I’m not even trying to get a plan or an outline or a budget together this time.

Apparently, those are not gifts God has given me.

But through disappointment and long, grating-on-the-nerves times of waiting, He’s taught me that His timing is better than my own. And I don’t need sight because He will be my eyes. And His faithfulness more than makes up for the long list of things that I lack. And if this means that He becomes greater and I become less, then it is so, so worth it.

You can follow me in this journey at my blog, The Lost Bohemian.

Apr21

24 Hours in the Life of God’s Bohemian

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24 Hours in the Life of God’s Bohemian

Rebecca

Rebecca was part of the Dream Tour Team of Fall 2011. She’s headed out tomorrow on another wonderful and crazy journey to bring a bit of Jesus to the world. Please pray for her!

I suppose I ought to be more careful about labeling myself. Apparently when God heard me say the word “Bohemian,” He took it very literally.

I’m leaving America on Sunday.

Again.

It all happened in 24 hours. A little, insignificant hiccup of a turn of the globe that will most likely change my life forever.

It started with Clint Bokelman’s newsletter. “We have a brand new team of missionaries in Kenya, and I will be visiting them in April and July. Want to join me?”

Oh, how nice, I thought. Kenya is next to Uganda which is next to the Democratic Republic of Congo which is where I want to buy a one-way plane ticket to. Maybe I can go with Clint in July. April won’t work. Isn’t it already April?

That’s what I was thinking before I talked to Clint. Clint is what is known as a visionary. An entrepreneur. One of those spur-of-the-moment idea people. I understand completely. I’m like that too. So, we started talking, and then Kenya came up, and then April came up, and suddenly it sounded like I could go. Like, seriously, get on a plane eleven days after the conversation we were having and fly to Kenya.

I decided I better ask God about it. And He said, “See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut (Rev. 3:8).” And I could see the door all big and glowing in my mind with the angels singing around it. “Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” Just like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Well, that was it then.

I got on my computer and looked up airplane tickets. (This all happened a few hours after my conversation with Clint.) Plane tickets to Africa usually run around $2,500. I didn’t have half that. If God really was opening a door that no one could shut, He was going to have to convince the plane ticket people to come down in their prices. That’s what I was thinking when the first set of ticket options popped up.

First on the list: Grand Island, Nebraska, to Nairobi, Kenya: $1,300. That’s with tax.

If I wasn’t quite sure about God’s open doors, I most certainly am now.

I bought the plane ticket the next morning. In Kenya, I’ll be visiting an IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camp for the first time after all the stories and pictures I’ve seen from other people who have gone. And then I have a couple extra weeks where I’m hoping to fly over to Uganda and see what that country is doing with its child soldiers.

Over the last several months, I’ve read nearly a dozen books about how war is affecting Central Africa’s children – long before I ever heard a word of Clint’s trip to Kenya. My travel dates are April 22 – May 14. But that’s all the concrete details I can give you at present. God’s planning the itinerary. Apparently, He’s pretty good at it.

Besides, I think this is what God’s Bohemians are supposed to do.

If you’d like to keep track of me during this journey, I’ll be updating my blog as often as possible.

But be prepared. You might not have much warning before something amazing happens.

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Mar23

Catching Up with Pei Yee

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Catching Up with Pei Yee

Thought you might like following the dream journey of one of our own, Pei Yee.

She’s off to Ecuador to meet up with Jennifer Toledo of Children’s Global Movement and begin her internship.

Here’s what’s happening in her world:

I cannot begin to tell you how faithful God has been. Every time I ask Him for a confirmation, He gives it to me. When I decided to go to Ecuador, I told God, “If you really want me to go, please confirm this by somebody giving me money without me asking.” The next day I was handed a check of $100.

Last Sunday when I announced to my parents’ church asking for donation items to bring to Ecuador, I did not mention anything about raising support. But in my heart I prayed, “God, show me that you are faithful and that You will provide by sending someone who will ask me about support raising.”  Now you should know that I don’t know very many people in the church and I usually do not talk to anyone at all, but this lady came up to me and ask how this trip is funded. So I told her that I’m support raising.

Read more of how God has faithfully provided for her here…

God wants us to ask.  He wants to show us just how well he can answer.

Pei Yee is finding that out in a big way.

Continue to pray for her as she pursues the next steps of her dream.

Feb28

Katherine

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Katherine

This is Katherine.  She has child-like faith.

She loves Disney and the ocean and laughing.

She also loves to build stuff.

Her passion is to build homes to help end homelessness. 

And to bring hope and healing to those who need it.

Her next steps are to get plugged into a home-base community and some ministries who are doing similar things.

She’s checking out Florida first.  That place feels like home to her.

Please pray for her as she travels, seeks, and asks for a home base and partners to walk along beside in this journey to bring homes, hope, and healing.

Check out this short video about Katherine.

Check out her journey on her blog.

Feb27

Pei Yee

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Pei Yee

This is Pei Yee.  She is a thinker.  She has faith that will mountains.

She’s a teacher.  She’s an excellent listener.  And she loves to jump.

She is fearless.

Her passion is to see children and youth in the most
unreached areas of the world come alive to Christ. 

Pei Yee has been accepted to an internship with Jennifer Toledo in LA for the Global Children’s Movement ministry.

Jennifer Toledo is igniting, equipping, and activating kids all over the world.  Pei Yee will serve with and learn from her for three months.

Please pray for Pei Yee in her next steps, for provision, for faith, and to move mountains.

Here’s a 1 minute video about her dream.

See Pei Yee’s blog to follow her journey!

Feb24

Sarah’s Dream

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Sarah’s Dream

Our Dream Tour is over, but the dreams of the team are on-going.

We’ll be highlighting each team member and their dream in the next few days.  God will change the world through these ladies.

This is Sarah. She’s a giver.  She’s alive.

She will pray for anyone, anywhere, anytime.  Her laugh is contagious.

Her spirit is vibrant.

Her passion is to see people free in Christ.

Her dream is to bring revival to London through prayer and worship.

Sarah has been accepted into an internship in Germany with the founders of the Burn 24×7 ministry.  She will learn from them for a month and then she’ll go to another internship with Burn 24×7 in London for two months during the Olympics.

Please pray for Sarah and for London.

Please visit her blog to follow her journey. 

See the 1 minute video below about her dream.

Jan13

Make Room For More

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Make Room For More

Teri

Before I left Iowa to come to Georgia, I kept seeing an image in my head of the side door open on the van.  I felt like God was saying to leave the door open and make room for more people to come on the team.

So, I made the decision to leave all the camping gear and put in the back bench seat.  There would be room for more if someone else wanted to join the tour.

Well, it happened this week!

Through prayers and seeking and God opening up some doors, Pei Yee has joined out little troop.

Sarah, Katherine, Lily, Teri, Pei Yee

We’re heading out tomorrow morning for Jacksonville Florida.  With no camping gear.  With a full tank of gas and a couple hundred bucks.  And lots of faith that God is going to take our offering of five loaves and two fish and do something amazing.

Please be praying for us.

May God be glorified… 

Jan13

Meet Pei Yee

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Meet Pei Yee

Pei Yee

What animated character would I be?  Take a guess what my World Race teammates would say………. MULAN! Duh… ’cause I’m Asian!  But I guess it fits (besides the Asian part). I’m known to have a fearless and non-conformist spirit. My secret ambition is to drive a big truck, talk into the radio with other truck drivers, and pull on the horn scaring all the other cars on the road. Another more serious secret ambition is to be the first person to discover a new species of jellies way deep down in the ocean.

I’m from Malaysia and my name is Pei Yee (if you can’t figure out how to pronounce that it sounds exactly like ‘payee’. And yes, I actually flew from Malaysia to go on the World Race and am now going on the Dream Tour). I love adventure and taking risks. I’m usually very quiet and like to be on my own because I hate small talk. If things doesn’t make sense to me, I dig deep trying to analyze and understand it.
I am extremely honest with myself and others (sometimes too honest). I also love children and their simple faith and I think we have so much to learn from them.  I love to teach. Youths especially in the 10/40 window are on my heart. My dream is to ‘awaken’ the youth to their true identity in Christ, that they are sons and daughters of the Most High King and have been given power and authority by Him. I want to empower them and then they in turn, stand up and empower others.
Check out her blog here…  http://peiyeesoon.theworldrace.org
Jan9

The Tour Team – Winter 2012

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The Tour Team – Winter 2012

We have our team and we’re ready to travel!

Meet Dream Tour Team 3:

Katherine, Sarah, Lily, and Teri.

We’re currently at Project Searchlight training here in Gainesville, Georgia.  We’ll head out on Saturday for Jacksonville Florida.  We’ll speak at our first church on Sunday.

We are still looking for more connections in Florida and Texas.  Please email me and let me know if you have contacts of churches, ministries, or small groups who would like to be encouraged into their Kingdom dreams.

Please join us in prayer for safety, provision, and powerful encounters with dreamers.  You can make a tax deductible donation to keep the Dream Tour on the road here.

Happy Dreaming in 2012!

Jan8

Who is Katherine

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Who is Katherine

Katherine

If I were an animated character, I would be Woody Wood Pecker (because when I laugh no one would say that is was fake.. because I really can do the Woody Wood Pecker laugh when I laugh just not on cue)

An over the top, secret aspiration I have is to do one thing in one country and then do the same thing in a different country on the same day at the same time. (it can be done… but the “thing” would have to a out of the world ordeal- (skydiving, bungee jumping off the highest points in that country,) (I have been thinking about this for a long while.. so if you have any suggestions that are wild please let me know. I would love to actually do this).

HI! My name is Katherine. I love to travel, lay on the beach, be in hot weather, watch palm trees, play with gadgets and read books. I desire to love God and love others. I want to be a part of the bigger story that God is writing and bring and see Kingdom on earth. My passion/ dream is to be a short term missionary (3 to 4 months at a time) in Asia and Africa partnering with other ministries doing construction work and playing with orphans.

Then when I am in the states I would like to have a part time job and find a ministry to be a part of. I want to work with other ministries, catching their dream and just help in any way I can. As that is not happening at the moment my prayer is that God will show me what His plans are and that He will use His willing servant to execute them.

Check out her blog here… www.katherinenewcomer.theworldrace.org