Chelsea Dymond First Year Missionary - Serving The Kingdom

Update Week 7

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Soniboni! Yebo! (Hello, Hello in Tswati)

So this week has been crazy and stressful...So much has gone on, a lot of it I can't talk about right now but hopefully will know more by next week. Thank you for all your support and for reading through all my emails...Amazing things have been happening this week and its crazy because every time I go to ministry I have had nothing left, I have been completly emotionally, physically and spiritually drained, and I have walked into the hospital while praying to God, telling him that I have nothing to give and I am just a empy vessel that he can use if he so wants to...And he has been using me which is crazy, because I know that so many times I try to do ministry out of my own strength even when I don't realize I am doing it...I think we all do that sometimes, and God has been showing me even when I don't have the passion or the heart or even care because I am so worn out that He can still use me. Praise Him!

Anywho, I want to continue telling you about my friend Precious. On Wednesday we had a birthday party for Nyasha who turned a month and I brought a cake and Precious had us walk all the way up to the Nyasha's ward and take pictures with her and the cake...It was so sweet...Then we watched free willy and I told her that I wasn't sure if I was going to be back after thursday, and during the movie she turned to me with tears rolling down her cheeks and was just like, "when will you be back? You can't leave!" and somehow that turned into talking about how there is no goodbye in Christ, only see you in heaven, which lead to talking about Christ and us as sinners and our need for Him and on and on for about 40 minutes...and Precious was just asking me questions and telling me about her life and about how she wants to go back to school but she would have to go back to her parents in Zimbabwe and her husband says that if she leaves he will kill himself, and that she doesn't know what to do...and we talked for a long while...I also had written her a note and a note for her to give to Nyasha when she grows up, just all about God's love for us and how we need Jesus and basically just spelled out the gospels in both notes....and then today when I went to visit her she was just randomly asking me questions about the differences in beleiving in God and being born again, and how to be born again and still sinning and will you not be born again if you sin and mess up and questions like that. She also said that she was up all night because something crazy and awesome happened after she read my notes but she wouldn't tell me what it was because there were so many people around but she promised me she would tell me on wednesday...then right before we were leaving she told me that she wants to pray and be born again and that she wants to go to church and she was asking me about how to find a good church, and I had also given her a bible at the beginning of the day and she carried it around with her and treated it like it was a expensive piece of china that might break at any time, it was really sweet....and she was so hungry for God's word and to know more...when I was leaving she gave me a note that she had written to me because she had thought I was leaving....and I want to share the note with you...I about cried when I read it....

Beloved Chelsea

Friend, I've been wondering why two of us meet and a little did i know that you are not just a friend, but a messanger from God who was sent with words of eternal life to me.
Chelsea, I'm also glad to tell you tha throught the words, God has sent you to tell me, I had already opened my heart and I want you as well to pray for me, so that he can make me clean and his spirit will dwell in me forever.
No matter how far you will be away from me, you must join me in my repentance prayer and I really know God will tell you the day, date and time of my repentance, because he has created a great circuit between you and me. You must pray for that.
In addition, you left for me an unfulfilled pledge which we need to help each other in spirit so that I will be able to fulfill it. My friend, God had given you the work, to help me with prayers of repentance.
I had said so because now I'm feeling it in my heart, that I need to set clean a place deep down my heart so that my father's spirit will come and dwel in it forever, for no one likes to stay in a dirt place but a clean one.
I am just feeling that I must be with Jesus even in every breath that I would be taking. And I'm feeling it that he must be a part of me, a part of my life, that I will never be without.
Chelsea, the most thing which makes me happy is that we are not only sisters in flesh, but in spirit as well.
Don't forget to mention Nyasha, lencton or Constentain and me as well in every single prayer of your. I won't forget you as welll. Pray also for God to bring love and joy in my family.

From unforgettable friend Precious Maringire

I was so amazed by this letter because this truly was from Precious's heart and the Holy Spirit working within her...She hasn't been to church in a long time and doesn't really know much about the bible or about Jesus but the words she said were incredible and I just know that Jesus is moving in huge ways in her life. And I think its crazy because I knew for so long that I was supposed to be at the hospital and I know now that it was because of Precious...I love her so much and he has healed Nyasha and saved her life and now he is saving her mom's life as well. All praise to Him! God is so good!

So that is what happened in ministry this past week...Also another highlight was halloween...Here halloween in not some fun childrens holiday...it is very real and very satanic...They have human sacrifices in the surrounding squatter camps where we minister, so that started a day or so ago, and there is just some crazy stuff going on...so yesterday evening for halloween we celebrated at our house by dressing up as bible characters and having a party/dance/game night with lots of food that the leaders spent all day baking...and just being joyful in who God was and what he had done and we then, after, we spent a long time in worship and prayer...all this was on top of a 36 hour prayer time where everyone signed up for a hour of prayer so we were all in prayer for the whole of halloween...It was really cool and very fun. For my costume I was david and then Luke, who is 6foot7inches was Goliath...funny, I know....but it was a pretty awesome night and everyone had lots of fun....

So I can't think of anything else to write about...This week has been awesome and I just really want to emphasize that I have seen God work so much this week where I have had nothing to give. I have had NOTHING, yet God gave everything...and He used me and it really showed me how much of a honor it is to be used by God because there is nothing we can do and we don't deserve even to be used, yet God still works through us in our weakness. So praise to Him!

Oh sorry, I forgot, I want to tell you about another miracle...When I walked into the hospital on monday I found Melinda waiting for me...She is the woman with the torn achilles tendon who we have been praying with for the past week. She told me a amazing story. She said that over the past week her skin on her leg had grown back. When the last time we saw her leg, it looked like it was going to have to be amputated it was so bad...It was bleeding and pussing and it looked like a shark had taken this chunk out of her leg because it was so ulcerated...But throughout the week as we prayed it started healing...She was actually discharged from the hospital on Friday and she went home to her children and then couldn't beleive it and couldn't believe how much better her leg was because the wound had healed and the skin has grown back....As she was home though she said she started to get depressed and she knew that she had to come back and see us and tell us what God had done, so she checked herself back into the hospital and was waiting for me when I came in on monday....She also continued to tell me that her faith had been dead and she had lost faith over the seven years that her leg had been like this but now God had renewed her faith and she had it back stronger than ever before. Praise HIM! So just a update on her leg now, unfortuantly the nurses went in and scrubbed all the skin off because they didn't clean it properly, but even the nurses couldn't believe how much better her leg was and how much of a miracle it was, the doctors as well...but after they scrubbed her leg she was in a lot of pain and we prayed for her again and today she said she wasn't in pain anymore and the skin was growing back on her leg again and healing. Praise GOD!

So, God has been moving and working in huge ways...Its awesome because when I pray I pray now with faith, knowing that God is so alive and powerful and that when I ask for miraclulous things it is not asking without faith but asking with eyes that have seen and I know that God doesn't always answer those prayers the way I pray them and I don't know why but I do know that he answers prayers, whether he says yes', no' or wait'....so that has been my walk this past week....

I love you all,
God Bless,
Chelsea

Update #2

Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

(Just so everyone knows, I am just posting the same thing I write in my update emails)

Hey everyone!

So another week gone by! This week we have been in SwazilandIts been incrediblefor one, a Godsend, there are mountains here. Praise him! Ya'll know how much my heart longs for mountainsits beautiful here though.

Ok I don't even know where to begin. Firstly, thank you all for your prayersI have been learning so much more about how powerful prayer isand it means the world to me that you are prayingliterally

So I guess I will first tell about everything we have doneOne of the main ministries here is hospital ministryWe went to the hospital twice, and it was so intense. Just crazy, but I have been learning that God is just giving me a heart for the most broken among broken people because as much as so many people did not ever want to go back to those hard places that is where my heart yearns to be. The first day I went to the woman's ward and it was so so sad. There were woman whose arms were literally sticks and some had been there for so long and they were dying and in pain and it was just hard. But there was also hope and I met a girl, Thanazi and talked with her awhile and ended up writing notes to her and sending juice to her for the next three days and go to go see her for the last time yesterday. But mostly the ministry is just sitting with these woman and either silence or a little talking and meeting there needs whatever they are, bathing, water, food, etcUsually I was singing when I was there and yesterday I took my guitar and sat and sang and played for two hours. It was incredible the response, it was light in the dark places, the woman loved it and in the children's ward all the mothers started singing and the children were quiet when they are usually screamingIt was amazing, and I didn't play any songs I just sang prayers to the Lord and sang out his truth over his children.

Besides the hospital we have also been to two care-points, where orphans come to eat everyday (usually about 200 orphans and its their only meal)We just play with them and love on them. We also painted one of the buildings there last Tuesday

Finally there is the ministry at the squatter camp, and I know that I have told some of you about itI didn't actually get to go minister there but I was there for the feeding. Basically there are a lot of orphans and they are starving and in really bad home lives if they do have a home. Yesterday we did a feeding where we bought a cow, slaughtered it and cooked itWhen we first got there I saw this little boy standing on the edge of the little area just lookingso I went and I picked him up and carried him over. He was so scared. His eyes were huge but when you looked into them they were so empty. I could just tell he had seen and been through things that he should never have been through. He didn't talk. And he just stared at me with these huge eyes and would just go limp in my arms and I would just sing to himI got him some food and he just ate and ate and ate. He ate more than I could ever eat. I don't know when the last time that he had food was. But at one point he talked a word or twoBut I just held him for over three hours and fed him and his eyes never looked any less scared and I am about crying as I remember having to walk him back across the little path and set him down and he just looked at me and in his eyes was this confusion and then his mom came and grabbed him and walked away.He can't have been more than four years old

and I can't go on telling you about this without telling you about my heart. It is literally being ripped apart for these children. Two of the nights I have just broken down crying over them and over the woman at the hospital. But I have been praying to know the deep things of God and he has been showing me that. He has been showing me how much he hurts for his children. He has been slowly revealing his heart of compassion. And its crazy how much I feel for these children and for these woman, its like I feel and carry their burdens sometimes for them. But I also know that this can be a gift and it allows me to pray for them and interceed for themAlso God has been meeting my own needs, two nights ago it got to the point where I couldn't handle it and I just cried out to God and I said, "I know that you hurt for your children but I also know that you have hope for your people, Lord, as much as you show me your weeping show me your hope!" and a hour later we were in worship and God gave me this vision and he showed me in his arms and I was crying and just weeping and I looked up and Jesus was weeping too, tears were just falling and as they fell they turned to blood and I saw myself on the ground on my knees with a little child in darkness, dirty and huddled in a ball on the ground as the blood fell as it hit the places it hit became clean and the rain of blood intensified and became a storm and tore apart the tree's and just brought them down at their rootsand It was such a beautiful vision because it gave me hope and I know that God has hope for his people

So God has just been doing amazing things in my heart and he has been showing himself to me and I finally realized that God see's ALL of me ALL the time, that I can't hide anything from him and that even when I don't want him to see me or when I think he doesn't, he does, and its so beautiful because I just wake up and know that God is thereIts amazing

So please continue to pray for me, pray that God will continue to reveal to me the deep things of his heart. That he will continue to grow me in him and that I will see both brokenness and hope and that he will show up in his power

Another prayer requestThis might be kinda long, but last night one of the girls got really really sick. Her name is Martha and she was in so much pain yesterday. And we know that this is not physical, it has a lot to do with her past that I can't go into, but we know that it is satan's attack on her trying to keep her in these chains she has been living in the past two years. So last night we were praying and praying over her and I think God spoke to our whole team that we could pray and interceed for her but she was going to have to speak it, she was going to have to cry out to God and speak her identity over herself, and in the middle of our prayers she got really bad and had to be taken to the hospitalafter she left me and four others stayed up for hours praying and interceding for her, and I just felt her pain and I am so mad at satan because she should not be feeling this, she is a child of Godand at one point we all just felt this peace that something had brokenbut we haven't heard anything, we know that she is getting a ultrasound today and if you could all just be in prayer over her that she would be healed physically and spiritually.that would be incredible, please pray, thank you all so much that I can bring to you these specific requests!

So in all of this, Glory to God because it is only through him that I am here and that we have hope. Without him there would be nothing. So Praise him in all thingsI trust him and have hope in him

Thank you for all your prayers and emails, they are so encouragingif you would like to write me my address here is

Chelsea Dymond

AIM Johannesburg

P.O.Box 1284

Ifafi, South Africa, 0260

In Him,
Chels

p.s. next week I will post some pictures!!!

Week 1:Alabonza/surrender

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Quiamora, Sonibonani and Dumela

(Hello in 3 of the languages we are learning to live in South Africa....africanse, tswati, and Zulu)

Hey All! First week in Kenya!! Woot woot!!! its been awesome and its so clear that this is where God wants me...Thank you all for the emails, they were wonderful and i so enjoyed them and they were so encouraging...so let me see...we got here after 2 days of travel and that afternoon went out into the community on a cultural-dip...exciting...then we came back to Alabonza, were we stay...its so amazing...i feel like i am at a resort after being in Kenya...There is running water (most of the time) and hot showers (sometimes) and the food is amazing and there are flowers everywhere and huge mulberry trees that are pretty much bare from me eating them all :) I love berries!!! Its so beautiful here....So the first night we were there we prayed over the whole house (we stay in a house not inside the property and electric fence becuase there are so many of us) because the week before it had been broken into twice, and people here don't value life the way we do in America, so they kill for about anything, so we went and prayed protection over the whole house and that was intense for some people who had never really heard about spiritual warfare before..that night the guy came to break in but they chased him off and now know who he is and are in the process of arresting him, which is crazy because they have been trying to catch him for two years...but a lot of crazy stuff has been happening with this house...we can't walk alone at all, there has to be groups of three girls or two girls and a guy....
also I think that why the house has been under attack is that satan is scared, please pray for our protection, the third night we were there two of the girls got really really afraid and kinda freaked out, and girls have been having horrible nightmares and that same night the doors were opening and closing by themselves and lights were going on and off and one of the girls had a dream that there was blood all over the walls...so a lot of scary stuff but Jesus Christ has already won the battle and can NOT hurt us, he can not TOUCH us! So its cool to watch the girls learn that and there are a good number of us who know that there is nothing to be scared of and that we can claim protection in the name of Jesus Christ and others are learning that and its really interesting...also all this happened after our first day in ministry....so anyway, we have been praying through a lot of stuff, and please pray against nightmares because a lot of our team are having them, especially the girls...
As far as ministry goes, we split into five groups and went to all different ministry sites, the one i went to was about 45 minutes away and it was a children's daycare...the children there are amazing...we played with them and did childrens programs...and since i don't really like hundreds of kids rushing me it was a bit tough but the second day i decided to step even more out of my comfort zone so i went into this ittybitty room of 3-5 year olds and they just all rushed me and were climbing all over me and it was great...lol....
also the day before there had been a baby there, about 4 or 5 years old who was just crying and crying and crying and just wouldn't stop and it was more than crying, it was shrieking and she wouldn't let anyone near her except a girl on our team, Martha...so martha held her and they were trying to see what was wrong becauase she would be quiet for a little while and then look at something in the room that we couldn't see (we could see her eyes follow it) and then start shrieking again...and we found out that she was see something and was afraid that it was coming to beat her, and she would eat or drink because she said it had something in it from a songoma (witch doctor) and so the team and the leaders and Matha were just praying over this little girl and when we had to leave the staff said they were going to talk to her mother and see what was going on...and the next day we came back, and Praise God she was doing great and playing with all the other children....she was still shy and not completly herself but she wasn't crying and she seemed so much more peaceful...this kinda shocked martha because she knew she was going to be in the midst of spiritual warfare but she didn't expect it the first day...
to go along with this i will tell you about the chords they tie around the children...just as we have child baptisms, satan counterfiets that here and parents will take their children to witchdoctors for a right, basically claiming the child for satan, and the witch doctor will tie a thin chord around the child's stomach...so we have seen that and it just makes me sick that satan would sink so low that he would use innocent children who can't even choose...it just makes me sick and so angry....so as you can tell there is so much witchcraft here, we will be driving and see these cirlces of white stone that is basically people worshiping satan, its where they go for their "church" and also the witch doctors will leave stuff on the gates to our house like dead animals and stuff...so yes its real, but our God is bigger than all that and I know we are here for the purpose of bringing light into this darkness....

So there is still so much more to tell....tomorrow we are leaving to go into swazi land...i am so excited..i think that is where i will be when i go back in the spring...i was just sitting in the big room listening to Katy's talk about swazi and God was just speaking that that is the place...so who knows but i think so...there is hospital ministry and ministry with prostitues and a ministry in the trash dump and the carepoints of ophanans (60 percent of swazi is infected with aids) and I am just excited to bring God's light to swazi....so we leave tomorrow for that....

As far as the "awakening" part of the awakening...its awesome, we have so many amazing anoited teachers...every morning we have teachings and this week it was on surrender...and there has been so much inner healing stuff and so much brokeness...i feel that i have dealt with a lot of stuff and that i am definently here for the girls on the team ...there are so many different stories from all different walks of life and so many girls are being set free from bondage that they have been in for so long...Praise God! So please pray for continued freedom!

I have also been just digging into the word and seeking God and felt him speak and its amazing...i feel him just speaking into my life in amazing ways...i have been told to just praise him, God just wants my praise right now and just wants me to rest in him...But every morning I go out and will sit with God and just talk to him and he has just been telling me to listen to him and to hear his voice...and i don't know I have sought so long and so hard and all i want to do is to know him and its just like he has assured me that I will in all the ways i seek and that I can praise him today for what he is going to do tomorrow...i don't know if that makes any sense but that has been where my heart is...

I am trying to think of anything else...to sum it up, God has been moving in huge ways....I got to tell my testimony the other night as a testimony that God is so much bigger than satan and spiritual warfare is real but that we have authority in Christ and we can claim that!

The team is awesome, i love every one very much and we are getting so close.....

Ok well that is the jist of everything that has been happening...we are going into Swazi for the next week so internet is really slow there but in the next week or so I will get a chance to email out again....

Please email me back! I would love some encouragment...Of everyone I brought pictures of they are on my wall over my bed and I pray for you guys daily/nightly :)

The scripture that God has been taking me too is Psalm18 starting at verse 30....its really a awesome scripture...

I love you all and miss you....thank you for all your support... I wouldn't be here without you and I know that I am here for a purpose and that this is exactly where God has called me...so thank you for sending me....

God Bless,
Chelsea

Going to AFRICA!

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Hey ya'll today I leave on the plane for Africa, we leave in about ten minutes so this is going to be pretty short...My life and struggles this past week has been in having a passion for Africa and for missions because instead I have had such lazy desires to live in the world and not leave and go serve and also I have felt kinda burnt out from my past trip and also very guilty for all those thoughts because God has lead me so specifically here, but last night I just realized that all i need is a passion for God and to serve him wholeheartedly and the passion will come because as I am passionate for him I will become passionate for His people and His nations...and also I was thinking and I know I am not supposed to be in Boulder, or MO, or KY and that leaves Africa and I KNOW I am supposed to be here, so today is the first day that I have really surrendered this trip and this year and that I am excited to leave and I can't wait to get there and start ministry and it's amazing to see when we give up control and surrender to God how quick he works and in this case just giving me that Passion for his people...so, please pray for a continued passion and just that I will dive in with my whole heart to ministry and to my team. Pray for team unity and close friendships because our team is so big that its going to harder in that aspect...Thank you all for reading this and I hope to be hearing for all of you over the next year. Ya'll are so encouraging and I just want you to know how much that means to me...
God Bless, and I'm heading to AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!
Halleluia....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 days and counting

Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Hey everyone! So I as I am writing this I am sitting up in winter park contemplating the mess of this room that I have to fit into just 2 suitcases...lol....In only four days I leave for Georgia, where I will be at training camp for a week. I am very nervous but when I look at it from a different point of view I don't have anything to be nervous about. There is one thing in knowing something and another thing in believing it...I am working on the believing end of it. I was thinking though, since two years ago a reoccuring theme in my journaled prayers have been "God show me where you want me to go, send me, I want to go." and now in just four days I am going. God has made it so clear to me that this is his will for me right now and I feel so blessed to know that and be able to go and follow him. How many people actually get to follow their dreams, I wish everyone, but I know right now that this has been my dream my whole Christian life and I believe that this is only the beginning...So I am very excited. I have no idea what I am getting myself into...but hey, no expectations. Thank you so much for reading this and taking a interest in me and my life. God Bless!

God, give me a sign!?

Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

There have been so many things in my life over the past year that has lead me to the decision to do FYM this year and I would like to share them and my decision making process with you...

Last november when I signed up for messenger (the 2 month program) I really felt this strange hunch that I wasn't going to be back to CU in the fall, but I ignored this because I thought it was crazy, I only told my two closest friends and I also remember talking to my small group leader who had gone on the same Kenya trip 2 years before and she told me that some messengers stayed, but I thought that was crazy...

Fast-forward to Feburary, I didn't get into the Christian house (36 ppl) that I had applied for. I had been involved in the ministry and at the house all the time and I thought that I would for sure get in. When I asked the director why, all he would tell me was that he had prayed about it and the answer was NO. -Looking back though, I think that if I had had the whole of last semester to get excited about living with my friends in the Annex house I don't think I could of heard God's whisper of leaving CU for the year.

Then, the night before I left for Kenya a random friend who I had never talked to about all this stuff before was like, "so your not coming back are you?" and I was like, "what are you talking about" and he was like, "oh I just have a hunch you might not be back in the fall." I was just like, well thats crazy...

Then on the flight over to Kenya, I heard about FYM (first year missionary program) and I immediantly knew this was something that I needed to pray about...Which was crazy because I had never been on a mission trip before and I was like, "God what if I hate it?"

During the first week in Africa I had the same dream two nights in a row, and I dreamed that I was back at CU and I had come back from my trip too early, and I was online trying to find tickets to get back but I couldn't get back, and I woke up from my dream and was really freaked out that I wasn't still in Africa, until I realized that I was...

So then I was talking with my leader about all this and she was like, "Without even praying about it I know that this is where you are supposed to be," which was random...

And this whole first month and a half I had such a peace about things, usually when something new and exciting might happen in my life I get really excited but I just knew that if this what what God wanted for my life that it would all work out and I needed to focus on my time in Africa at the moment...

So then I was praying and I said to God, "God I won't go unless I have my parents support in this," and I sent my parents (My parents are not Christians and I didn't believe that they would support me in this) an email and when they emailed me back they said that they supported me in whatever decision I made. This was huge...

Then I had to find out about the deadlines for the time-out program, and all the deadlines worked out perfectly to be able to take a year off school...

Then later in the month I was praying and out of nowhere God gave me this crazy vision for my life. The vision was this huge crater and my life thus far had been this walk up this path to the edge of the crater, and now I was standing at a crossroads, and I could take the path down into the crater which started with returning to Africa, and down in the crater just represented living a life for God and his purifying fire in my life, or I could take the path around the outside of the crater which represented going back to CU and living a life on the outskirts of great faith...

So now it was the end of the two months in Kenya and this decision was becoming so real, I asked my friend to do listening prayer for me, without knowing any of my struggles with this decision, he came back and said that he had gotten Moses and being obediant...So I read through that and it was very similiar to me saying, "I don't want to go" to go and God saying, "but will you obey me and trust me in this?"...

Then my leader advised me to make my decision before I left Africa so I wouldn't be influenced by culture shock at all...(the ironic thing was that at the time all i wanted was to be back in the US and I had been really homesick for the past 2 weeks so I was questioning if I could even come back)...so the night before we left I decided to do it, emailed AIM and said, "ok im going, buy me a plane ticket..." and then I prayed that if this was truly God's will for my life that he would open all the doors as far as money to get me back there, but if it wasn't then he would close all those doors....so the first week back my dad said he wanted to give me a loan to be paid back either through work or support, and that was huge because when I told me Dad that I didn't want to accept his money if it was just because he didn't want me to be out of school for 6 months if God didn't provide (I knew the consequences before I made my decision), my dad said that he wanted to support me and support where I heard God calling me, so I said ok...God providided in a way I did not think possible...ironic huh....well anyway, thats the majority of my decision process...It got to a point where I was like, "God, I want to go where you are calling me, but I have to be sure," and God was like, "Chelsea, I have given you enough signs that you need two hands to count them, when will you just listen and obey."

Bwana Asifiwe

Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Praise God. Praise God again! I can't believe it...I mean I can but I am so amazed. I opened up my support account the other day and had over 60% of my funds raised, enough for me to be able to leave this tuesday. I no longer need to get a loan from my father because God has provided all the money I needed to be able to go. Praise him. I only sent my support letters out three weeks ago and it is so crazy how God provided. I prayed that God would open the doors and bring in support money if this was truly his will for me to go and he has. I am so amazed by God and by my friends, family and churches giving to this crazy journey that I am going to go on. Thank you all so much. Thank you.

Praise God for providing.

Prayer Requests, Sept 7th

Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Hey all,

Thank you so much for all your prayers. My hopes and prayers for myself this coming year is that I will know God so much more. THat I will learn who I am in Him. I pray that God will give me peace and comfort in him and him alone, no matter where I am that I can be content in him.

Please pray that I will go to Him for all comfort. That I will learn to depend on him daily. That he will use me for his kingdom purposes. That I will just learn to love and be humble and to live the way Christ lived. That I will love the way Christ loved. That God will work through me. That he will teach me what it means to fear God.

I know that some of these are pretty bold prayers and some a little scary. I mean what does it even mean to learn to fear God. But I want to learn, I want to be humble, I want to be used by Him.

Thank you so much for all your prayers. Any encouragment through emails or letters would be amazing. My address is

Chelsea Dymond, AIM Johannesburg, P.O. Box 1284, Ifafi, South Africa, 0260

and my email is chelsea.dymond@colorado.edu