my 100th post.

This is my June update. For those of you reading my blog who would like to have my monthly updates sent to your email, feel free to leave your email in a comment or email it to me at bekah29@yahoo.com or keep reading them here each month!

First things first everyone, I got my visa! Thank you for your support. It has been an awesome time of seeing G*od's power. So many people have told me they are pra*ying for me or they are waiting to hear what is going to happen and because of that I have again seen how being in need brings people to their knees and brings them closer to each other and G*od. So lovely, G*od knows what he's doing. So, I will return to Australia on Saturday.

Over the month, I have shared with the missions board at Northlake, shared in the ch*urch services, shared in the youth service and an inter*cession time in the junior high. G*od has been faithful (as always) to provide opportunities and brought gl*ory to himself through the stories of miracles and healings and through seeds that have been planted.

Well, this past month has been absolutely incredible. I have been able to see many of you and hear about your families and what has been changing over the year first hand. I can't tell you how refreshing it is to see your faces, store away what everyone looks (some people have changed) and refill my tank of new memories.

Thank you to everyone who came over to the Dinneen house. It is beautiful to see community here in Everett...loving together, eating together, sharing together. I hope that it was a time for you to look again at who our G*od is and how he is moving through the nations.

So there isn't too much to share about this month, my family has been relaxing together--Mariners games and days at the beach, but actually more like me relaxing and everyone else finishing school, working and vbs... I was able to meet Wisdom, our exchange student from Ghana, which was excellent because he helped me to adjust back to the culture :) ... and Dad and I got to share our first experience of jumping out of a plane.

Just a brief message about what's next...
I leave on Saturday to return to the new Birth Attendant School (BAS) of 18 students. I will be staffing for the next two years, which for the next three months look like: covering the school in pra*yer each morning, holding discussions for the students, leading small groups, correcting homework/tests, planning for outreach.
I also will be taking a leadership school while I am in Perth, that will continue as independent study on outreach. I am looking forward to stepping out into leadership and bridging the gap of once being a student to leading in the school. Once a week we meet in class and have a speaker and outside of class have weekly requirements to meet. Once our eight month outreach is upon us again, roles will look a little different.

I am still looking to cover my monthly living fees in Australia. I am about halfway there! In our organization, Y*outh with a M*ission, we are all volunteers, from base leaders to new staff like myself. If you are interested in donating monthly or a one time donation, you can reply to this email and let me know.

I am also interested in starting some kind of fundraiser to involve a wider group of people, extending the word of what G*od is doing from people in the chu*rch to those in our neighborhoods. If anyone has some ideas about this, I am anxious to hear!

Thank you guys for your continual support. I am grateful to know each of you and have been blessed to connect with you all over this month. Please feel free to respond because I love to hear from you!

Bekah

And as always, I am still blogging at www.bekah29.blogspot.com atleast once a week.