Haiti

It has been over a month since I have returned home from YWAM Kona.  It was a little bit of a rough re-entry to "normal" life but God has been doing things to help me seek His face and presence in my daily walk.  Some of the things he has given me many opportunities to meet other believers that have similar heart after God.

Recently I was invited by a friend to dinner and I met some young adults who are hungry for God, to know him, to run after him, and to inspire others to do so.  It was so encouraging for me to see that God was inspiring hearts with the same message I was hearing and learning in Kona.  Another door God opened while I've been here is having a DTS friend, Aaron, fly in from California.  Aaron did DTS with me in the summer of 2008 and we have been staffing on the Kona base together for about the past 2 years or so.  This past weekend we took a trip up to Harrisburg, PA to visit some friends who are staffing a Fire & Fragrance DTS (if you would like to know what more about Fire & Fragrance click this link Fire&Fragrance), a YWAM Kona plant.  I had a chance to meet a lot of friends who staffed with me and staffed my DTS as well as the Fire and Fragrance phase 2 who were on outreach.  It was really refreshing to see YWAM friends outside of Kona.  

...So job-hunting has come to an end.  I just had an interview yesterday and this morning I received a call to come in and finalize the process.  At the same time, I have been invited and am currently in the works of trying to go to Haiti.  Right now Haiti is still recovering from the aftermath of the earthquake and the immediate crisis on top of everything else is the cholera outbreak.  Two teams from YWAM Kona, Fire&Fragrance phase2 and Awaken DTS, are in Haiti doing relief work and ministering to the people of Haiti.  They have been there since mid-September.  The leader of one of the teams, Jasen, had asked me before I left Kona if I would join him for part of the Haiti outreach.

The Vision

Along with helping the nation with the immediate needs of the cholera outbreak and whatever else is needed, I have the potential to be apart of a movement of prayer and worship that has been unprecedented in the nation of Haiti.  The Lord put it on Jasen's heart to do a 200 hour prayer time for 200 years of reclamation of the land of Haiti, glorifying the name of Jesus over the land of Haiti and crying out for his presence to rebuild a nation that has been destroyed.    There will be unbroken night and day prayer and worship from November 20-28.  Those dates were chosen because these dates lead to the Presidential elections for Haiti.  Haiti can truly be re-established very quickly in this time.  

As for me, I felt the Lord has been talking to me about Haiti.  I didn't think of it as a possibility at first, but my heart has been stirred more and more to see the Kingdom of Heaven invade Haiti.  I am becoming more sure that I am supposed to go to Haiti and partner with Jasen and YWAM with what God is doing there.  For me to go I need a plane ticket which is about $500-$600 and $300 for the 10 days I will be staying in Haiti which would cover housing and food.  

If you would like to partner with me to see Haiti change you can e-mail me at schoi19@gmail.com.  Any kind of partnering helps from prayer to donations.  I would love to know who would be partnering with me so that I may also be able to invest back with prayer and news from the forefront.  If you have any questions or would like to meet with me or anything at all please feel free to e-mail me as well.  Also if you would like to know more about the situation and work in Haiti you can go to www.jasenchung.com.

Home sweet home

It's been about 2 weeks since I left YWAM Kona and moved to Frederick, MD and its been an interesting adjustment.  My days have been mostly filled with praying, worshiping, reading the bible, staying fit, cleaning the house and doing chores, and whatever else is needed around the house.  Life is so different on the mainland, off of the YWAM base, "normal" life is definitely not everything I remember it to be.  Being with Family is nice and has its perks, home cooking and an open fridge, free laundry, no staff fees, no cell phone bill, my own room and so forth and so on but I miss being in community.

I feel as of late that I transitioned out of having a pretty full schedule into having a lot of free time.  It's hard to not be doing much but at the same time I know that this is where the Lord has led me to be.  As of now, I'm job searching, praying into schooling and which church to attend.  Life seems to be mundane and even the things I write seem pointless and without purpose.  It's hard to celebrate with my friends around the world who are on outreach at different locations

I miss the mission field, I miss training, the more I'm back on the mainland the more I'm realizing that I wasn't cut out for "normal life".  But even for this season I have to trust that the Lord knows what he's doing, because he does.. because he does.