departure

it's 9:31 pm and i leave with my class in the morning for two weeks of stateside outreach. we meet together to load the vans at 5:00 am, pack lunches and pray and then head out at 6:00. we'll drive ALL day and spend the night at a ywam base in nashville. then another day of being sardines in a moving vehicle before we get to washington dc. we'll spend a week there interceding for our country, leaders, judicial system, abortion laws, etc. taking our cues from Isaiah 62:6, "on your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent You who remind the LORD, take no rest for yourselves ..." we'll be splitting our team up throughout the week to cover 24/7 prayer shifts, around the clock prayer watches. God has been speaking some very specific words of revival to His church and it is our desire to meet with Him in prayer to invite Him to breath fresh fire into america. i'd invite you to join us as we pray for God's purposes to be accomplished and new revelation to be brought to His people of His heart and mind for revival in america.

after that week we'll be heading to chicago for a week of urban outreach, learning about the various cultures and religions right around us. we'll be visiting temples, mosques and other places of worship, learning about the spiritual strongholds in our cities and spending time in intercession. we'll be practicing how to be sensitive to what's happening in the spiritual realm so that we can be more effective in spiritual warfare, as we pray for our communities.

i'm really looking forward to heading back north again for a little while, as the midwest is caribou-land (coffee) and i've been missing it dreadfully. the small things in life are usually the most missed when absent.

after two weeks of stateside outreach ..... whoohoo - ROMANIA!! i can hardly contain my excitement to finally be going to this country i've been praying about for a couple of years. our departure date is september 30 and we'll be overseas until november 5. your prayers are always so appreciated as my team prepares to go. i hope to post again when i have more specific prayer requests to pass along. thank you for reading, caring and praying.

another prayer point is my fundraising for romania. my tuition is now paid, but i still have yet to cover all my expenses for romania. i still need about $2250 to go. so if any of you would pray about whether or not God would have you support me with a a one-time gift i would be very appreciative. thank you for praying! - erika

scavenger hunt

the school of evangelism girls did a scavenger hunt for small group. good times. we needed a pic by an unlucky piece of roadkill. a has-been, as it were. this one happened to be a skunk, which kindly left some of its aroma as something by which to be remembered.

our school leader is from canada. here we were required to pay homage to the stone that graces the front of his home.

one final group shot with stu, our "fireman".