Be back here in mid-September.

WORSHIP

Worship is powerful here. Radical, intimate praise is called out of us. We raise our hands, dance around, and shout because our God is worthy.

Everybody Jump Around.
Note worthy moments: Child dancing at 1:05. Danny showing it how's it done at 2:20.

LUAU

Mahalo to the people of the Principles of Redeeming Culture School who organized the luau as a fundraiser. Tribal dancing, ukulele sounds, Hawaiian singers, fire dancers, good food and pretty people. 


  

TEAM RETREAT IN JURASSIC PARK

Top photo courtesy of H. Knight.

Last weekend the team went to Polulu Valley, the very same place where 30 sec. of the movie Jurassic Park was filmed. Didn't find any dinosaurs, but we did climb a mountain and fell off a tree. 

OHANA

My ohana (Hawaiian for family) in Hawaii are my beautiful roommates: Emma, Susan, Kat, Mido, and Hannah. We live in #78, which isn’t the most beautiful room on campus, but we are blessed in another way – we love each other! It’s been six weeks and we still enjoy each other’s company. Everyday I feel so blessed to live with these sisters – they teach me so much about our Lord.

Hannah: Cat whisperer, papaya-holic, prayer warrior. From South Korea, Hannah was in Honolulu as a Mission Builder three months prior to arriving in Kona. Just one week before DTS started, God told her to come to Kona to do her DTS. She came with great faith, without any money for tuition or even a camera. Her willingness to live her life for the Lord is a strong testimony that God provides. She is teaching me so much about hearing and trusting God. Graduated with a fashion degree, Hannah has dreams of starting a social enterprise in the fashion industry. In her spare time she trains our room cat, Tricky, how to give high-fives and shake paws. She will be going to Mozambique for outreach.

Kat: Dancing spirit, chocolate lover, aspiring ukulele player. Kat is from Germany and moved to the states for college six years ago. Kat has an enormous caring heart with a great love for people and always shares a lovely big bright smile. Growing up in an atheistic environment, she came to the States and found freedom and love in the gospel. She is interested in everything – and has been an actress, ballroom dancer, worked in new media and is hoping to do her masters in Germany. In her spare time she hula dances and goes on long explorative walks and photo excursions. She will be going to South Africa for outreach.

Susan: Speaker of four languages, lovely spirit, joyful worshipper. Susan was born in Paraguay so she is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and English. She shows a great maturity in her faith that amazes me. She always expresses her thanks to God and is always delighting in His presence. Always so sweet – she calls me grace of God. Susan also teaches me about faith in God’s provision. She arrived with complete funds, but one day she knew that God was telling her to give away $1000 to someone in need. She is now praying for funds and earning money by teaching English and Korean. She will be going to East Asia for outreach.

Mido: Drummer, smartie, hidden athlete. Mido was born in New York and raised in South Korea. Her Korean name “Mi” is the same word used to describe America in Korean and it also means beautiful. She has a degree in Chemical Engineering and is always looking to learn – Kat and I have fun teaching her idiosyncratic North American phrases. Her favourite is “gotcha” and “spectacular”. She likes to call everything spectacular. Always inviting and easy to hang out with, Mido and I both grow vegetables during our work duties. She will be going to East Asia for outreach.

Emma: Generous, long locks, good taste in food. Emma is from South Korea and before all five us arrived in Kona she was doing ESL classes before starting DTS. She is studying public health in South Korea and is a little bit fearful of cats. I can understand because I used to be terrified of animals too. She will be going to East Asia for outreach.

Tricky: Our room cat visits us in the evening looking for food and love. He likes to eat egg, meat, cheese and papaya. A smartie cat that gives high-fives and shakes paws.

I am treasuring my time with these girls because soon it will end. In three weeks Susan, Mido and Emma will be leaving for outreach and in five weeks the rest of us will separate to go to three different countries. 

FACING GOD FRIDAY

"Face God instead of Facebook.” – Hannah Jung, northside roommate

Every Friday, I will sum up some things I’ve been learning in the Discipleship Training School lectures.“


KNOWING THE FATHER'S HEART
Penni Patau is a Samoan with the gift of prophecy. A list of our names and pictures were given to Penni weeks before he came to our class. Penni prayed over each of our names, asking God to reveal His heart to each of us. All fifty one of us was given a bible verse, letter and lei. There were many tears and it was beautiful to hear everyone's prophecy. How good our heavenly father is!


This is my prophecy:
Matthew 11:26-30
"My daughter, expect an acceleration of favor this year. And once you get into this acceleration there will be a momentum like a Snow ball that rolling down the hill. And you will begin to collect more favor and more goodness of me in your life. I really love you. This year is going to be so different because of what I am doing in the world today. You are going to see my glory manifest in the way that you never see before. How to you get there my daughter, is for you to get in the secret place and you read the word. Read my word and study it my daughter. Train yourself to know my word and understand my heart for you life. Believed in my power my daughter, and don’t doubt my power to restore you and use you.  I love you my daughter so much, and I hope you will believed me. What you feed yourself with, is what is going to come out of you. So my daughter feed yourself with my word. You are my daughter and I have bigger plans for your life. I love you very much."


It sounds like I really need to read the bible! A few of us have plans to spend two weekends reading the entire bible while doing a fast (water and juice allowed for this fast).

Facing God Friday

"Face God instead of Facebook.” – Hannah Jung, northside roommate

Every Friday (sorry so late!), I will sum up some things I’ve been learning in the Discipleship Training School lectures.“

GOD AND SEX

Why does God care about what happens between the sheets? Why would this even matter to God?  These are the kinds of things we talked about in week two of our Discipleship Training School (DTS) lectures.

Randy Jackson led us into a series of lectures titled Kingdom Sexuality. At the core of his message is a call to change our world and he believes one of the most profound ways to change the core of society is through marriage. The center of many of today’s social issues - human trafficking and prostitution – comes back to sex. Study after study shows that how we relate to the opposite sex is reflected on how we relate to our mothers and fathers and how our parents relate to one another.

Have sex with anyone you want, however much you want - this is the norm of today's society. How did the world’s sexual culture get to where it is today? Jackson claims the person responsible is Alfred Kinsey - the father of the sexual revolution. The Kinsey Reports are two books on human sexual behavior - one book about the guys, one book about the girls. The findings caused shock and outrage when the books were released in '48 and '53 because the report challenged conventional beliefs about sexuality and because they discussed subjects that had previously been taboo. Critics have raised concerns about the methodology used to collect data, including that data in the reports could not have been obtained without collaborations with child molesters. The Kinsey Reports paved the way for free love in the 60’s, birth pills and abortions in the 70’s, and allowed people to come out of the closet in the 80’s and 90’s. Good or bad? Moral or immoral? That depends on your sexual philosophy.

Before I go any further, I should mention something in the talk What about sex?  by Erwin McManus. McManus says, “Historically, Christians have been arrogant, judgmental and condemning of people about these issues. However, the most difficult, intense, and confronting conversations in the bible are directed towards those who identify themselves as His people. So if you are [reading] this and do not identify yourself as a follower of Christ then all you need to know is that God passionately and unconditionally loves you. However, if you have entered into a relationship with God then you have to begin to grapple with how God sees you and designed you and what that means for your life”.

When you enter into a relationship with God, God will change you from the inside out. In your freedom, you will begin to live out how God created you to live. So what is God’s picture of sexuality? How has God designed us to relate? What does God think about how a marriage should look like? What does God think about sex before marriage, homosexuality, and pornography? 

After doing some of your own praying, thinking, and research you may agree with Jackson that to change our world, we need to change our society’s perception of marriage. Jackson wants to counteract the sexual revolution Kinsey started; Jackson wants to start a Sexual Reformation – if you have skills in film, new media, or website design you can contact Kenny at info@kingdomsexuality.com. If you do not have these skills, but what to get involved in the reformation, the best things you can do is simply honor and respect the ideals of love and commitment in marriage. 

Links:

Kingdom Sexuality: kingdomsexuality.com 

Setting Captives Free: www.settingcaptivesfree.com

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More notes on God and Sex:

An excerpt from What about Sex? by Erwin McManus:

“Historically, Christians have been arrogant, judgmental and condemning of people about these issues. However, the most difficult, intense, and confronting conversations in the bible are directed towards those who identify themselves as His people. So if you are reading this and do not identify yourself as a follower of Christ then all you need to know is that God passionately and unconditionally loves you. However, if you have entered into a relationship with God then you have to begin to grapple with how God sees you and designed you and what that means for your life.

God created everything good in relationship with one another. In Genesis Chapter 1, God uses the word good seven times. When God created humanity, God said it was very good. The universe was created as an act of goodness from God. The universe is a declaration of relationship; everything relates just perfectly – the moon, planets, stars, cosmos. Up until now, everything was in the perfect balance to create life. When God created the universe, God created it so that the unifying theme is relationship. So it shouldn’t surprise us that when God created humanity, God created man and woman unashamed; God told them to be fruitful and multiply. God has given us permission to have sex in the context of community, relationship, intimacy, and commitment. This kind of relationship is the perfect picture of how God relates.

In order to engage in a conversation of why God should care about morality, about our sexual activity, we have to understand that God created everything as a moral universe and God created everything in relation to one another. God created us as an expression of His character, of His essence as God - the relational God, the God who is love. Your relationship with God has a direct correlating effect of how you treat people. As you connect to God it changes how you value people. As you connect to God, people become the highest value, the highest priority. At the same time, the way you treat people is the only true evidence of whether you actually connect to God.  As we severe our relationship with God, we begin to severe our relationship with humanity … God says this is the true evidence of your relationship with me: How you care and love other human beings - if you love me then love each other.  The central principle of the universe and the mind and heart of God is how we treat each other. God doesn’t need our worship. He is not a dysfunctional divine diva. He says, if you love me then love one another. … 

If you’ve met God, there is going to be a transformation inside of you. It is said in the scriptures that two will become one body. When you are joined with Lord you are in one spirit. Your body are parts of Christ. When you enter into a relationship with God, everything that you do, you bring Christ in. Everything you experience, you bring that experience with God.  You are the most sacred creation of God. You are the temple of God’s spirit… You are bought by God for a price, so honor your God with your bodies.  You may want to think of yourself as an animal, but the scriptures won’t let you think that way. God looks at you and declares you to be created in his image and likeness. He declares you to be your ultimate creation.  You are to be the most beautiful expression of who he is”.

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Kingdom Sexuality – Randy Jackson

-       A Kingdom is a monarchy government. The Kingdom of God is wherever it is welcomed. In Luke 17:21 it says that the kingdom of God is within you.

-       Is there one biblical standard for how society should function sexually? Matthew 19:5, Mark 10:6-9, 1 Corinthians 6:16, and Ephesians 5:31

Matthew 19:5, 1 Corinthians 6:16, and Ephesians 5:31 all refer back to the beginning of time in Genesis 2:24 “A man leaves his mother and father and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh”.

- Pattern of the world: Individualism, Independence. This is also reflected in the church. ex: “Jesus is MY personal savior”. We lead INDIVIDUALS to the Lord.

Pattern of the Kingdom: Connection to family and community. Leading FAMILIES to the Lord. Joshua 24:15; somewhere in Acts: Believe and you and your household will be saved.

- Is sex a need? Sex is needed to continue the human race, but is it a basic human need like food, water, shelter, oxygen? If it is a need, then one is justified to do whatever one can to get it. Sex is a privilege, a gift, not a need.

- 50% of marriages end in divorce. We don’t know how to commit. Our society conditions us to no absolute truth, no need to commit. Malachi 2:6 “I hate divorce” says the Lord – New American Standard Version. Why does God hate divorce: Malachi 2:15. 

What Jesus says about divorce: Matthew 19:3-10

-       How did the world’s sexual culture get to where it is today?

o   Roaring 20’s: Generally, the norm of people’s sexual philosophy adhered to the bible.

o   60’s: Woodstock. Music, love, drugs, anarchy for 1 week.

o   70’s: More sex = more babies. Birth pills came into the market. Abortions made available. Pro-rights.

o   80’s & 90’s: Homosexuality; coming out of the closet. “Philadelphia” – first time in a movie where the protagonist was a homosexual.

 - Alfred Kinsey – Father of the sexual revolution: Have sex with anyone you want, however much you want. Sex is not a moral concern. There are no consequences to sex. Made observations of orgasms in children. No such thing as pedophilia.

- Hugh Hefner – playboy magazine

- Larry Flint – Hustler. Sexual philosophy: it is a bad thing nto suppress ourselves. It is normal to cheat. Signed a deal with 7 Eleven to sell pornography magazines, before this deal pornography was underground.

- Dr. Judith Reisman wrote a book called Sexual Sabotage. www.drjudithreisman.com

Since the 60’s there has been an exponential spike in sexual crimes. Her conclusion is b/c of the Kinsey Report and the rise of pornography.

- Hebrews 13:4

- Rutgers Univeresity study on Cohabitation and Marriage found that “Moreover, children living in cohabiting unions are at higher risk of sexual abuse and physical violence, including lethal violence, than are children living with married parents.” http://www.smartmarriages.com/cohabit.html

- In order to change the world, we need to change how we do marriage.

The World

Nations

States/Provinces

Communities

Families

Individuals

*Marriage

- Train individuals in the ways of the Lord and they will not depart from it

- Strengthen our commitment muscles. If we can not keep a small promise, how can we keep the lifetime commitment to marriage?

- If you say ‘I’m going to keep my word’ to something – be expected to be tested. God will be training you to be keeping your commitments. 

- Three parts to a marriage: The guy, the girl, and the marriage/relationship. The marriage is a living, breathing thing.

- The Marriage Fuel Guage: Marriage needs to be fueled up like a car. If the fuel runs out from a car, you don’t  throw out the car away. You refill the car with fuel. You don’t throw out the car b/c the car still has value.

- This may sound narrow minded, but it says the gospel will seem foolish.

- Do you know everything? Is it possible that God is in the realm of everything you don’t know?

 -       Your sexuality is not just about you. It’s about legacy. A father’s sins lasts for 3-4 generations, but blessings last 1000 years.

8 Steps towards Sexual Sin

(Magnet, Metal Illustration – as you get closer, your decision can overtake you)

1)    1) Attraction – We see and we like what we see. (By the way attraction doesn’t go away when you get married. You can still sin. Attraction doesn’t have to be sin. Lust is sin. Lust is when we see and we like what we see and we let our imagination take over.

1)    2) We choose to engage in casual communication or conversation with the person we’re attracted to.

S.U.D. Seemingly Unimportant Decisions

2)    3) We choose to spend time together publicly (People that you know are around the both of you)

3)    4) We agree/decide to spend exclusive time alone together. (is it sin? – not necessarily. Is it wise? – not necessarily.)

A disciple isn’t someone who bases their decision on ‘what is sin’, instead they base their decision on ‘what is wise’

4)    5)We communicate or somehow confirm our attraction for each other: “I love you”. We tell others that “We are officially boyfriend/girlfriend”. We decide to act on our mutual desire for touching and closeness (handholding, shoulder draping, hugging)

5)    6) We choose to agree to act on our mutual desire for more intimate touching (kissing, caressing, petting)

6)    7) A switch inside both people takes place in which arousal begins to lead our actions more than reason and rationale. Hormones and sexual response reflexes are now (almost) in total control of our behavior. Stopping at this point is not impossible but extremely difficult, unnatural and frustrating. Something in our mind says, “Well, we’ve gone this far, we might as well go all the way.”

7)    8) We go all the way. Sexual intercourse. (If stopping at step 7 was difficult, un-natural, and frustrating, stopping here is as close to impossible as you are likely to get). 

* A Kingdom is connected to community. (Acts 5. Ananaias and Zepheriaph) If the church was corrupt at the very beginning, do you think the gospel will be here today?

            - What you do has a spiritual impact on the body of Christ

- Psalm 133. Blessing of unity

- make a choice of what team you want to be on

- “Hold every thought captive to the obedience of Christ”

- Our society constantly reinforces self-focus

RISKS OF SEXUAL SIN:

- Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)
From webmd.com

By age 25 if you are sexually active, you will have an STD

Many STDs can be passed from mother to child during birth.

-       HPV (Genital Warts)

-       Pubic Lice (Crabs) – condoms cannot protect against this

-       Scabies – tiny mites that burrows into human skin to lay eggs. Not always transmitted sexually.

-       Gonorrhea – spreads easily and can lead to infertility in men and women if untreated. Often there are no early symptoms.

-       Syphillis – without treatment leads to paralysis, blindness, death

-       Chlamydia – symptoms are vague/absent. If untreated, leads to infertility

-       Herpes simples virus I – spread through kissing. Can be spread to genitals. Not always transmitted sexually.

-       Herpes simplex virus 2 – highly contagious, spread through intercourse, no cure

-       Hepatits B – spread through blood/bodily fluids. No cure.

-       HIV/AIDS – spread through sex, infected needles, infected mothers(there is medicine that can be prevented if administered at birth).

-       Trichomoniasis – caused by a parasite that spreads during sexual conduct

-       Chancroid – common in Africa and Asia. Spread through contact with sores on an infected genitals

-       Lymphogranuloma Venereum (LGV) – type of Chlamydia

-       Pelvic Inflammatory Diseases – not technically a STD. Untreated Chlamydia/gonorehea

PORNOGRAPHY

Definition of addiction: the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes sever trauma

- Social Scientists argue if pornography is addictive

- Ecclesiastes 1:8 “the eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear of hearing”

- Pornography promotes satisfaction that it can never deliver. A counterfeit of reality. An illusion. A 2-dimensional airbrushed, back-lit, silicon-enhanced portrayal of reality.

- Psalm 101:3

- photon: the smallest particle o flight. Light travels 186 000 miles per second.

- If your eyes are full of light, your whole body is full of light. *Light is physical

- Ephesians: Armor of God.

Defensive Weapons: helmet, breastplate (actions: not watching porn)

Offensive Weapons: sword of spirit (going to porn conventions and having a booth with t-shirts printed with “Jesus loves pornstars”

- San Fernando Valley, California: where the most porn is produced

PATHWAY TO FREEDOM

John 8:35-36

Two traps to be a slave to sin: as a 1)Victim/Target or as a 2) Pleasure Seeker

Victim/Target – became someone’s prey. Not a willing participant. Sex acts were forced on you. Introduced to sex in a violent way, at the wrong time and under the wrong circumstances

Response can be 1) ungodly or 2) godly

            - Ungodly: Passive or Aggressive (controlling so nothing bad can happen again. Bypassing the help of the Lord. Hate the person/people who victimized you. Take out your pain on others. Hate God for not being there. Choose to become a pleasure seeker or victimizer yourself).

            - godly: forgiveness. Matthew 6:14. Absolute, wholehearted, unconditional Romans 12:14. Your attitude is different, not going to hold it against you – “I’m going to release you and put it into God’s hands”. Forgiveness does not mean pardoning consequences, justice can still be done.

Pleasure Seeker – Driven or led by your desires and appetites. Your sexuality has been stimulated or awakened somehow. Exposure to porn. Masturbation. Some other non-married sexual experience.

Response can be 1) ungodly or 2)godly

-       ungodly: when faced with temptation you usually choose to act out

-       godly: know the TRUTH of the word of God

speak the TRUTH of the Word of God

True repentance: 2 Corinthians 7:10-11   1 John 1:9

www.settingcaptivesfree.com

kingdomsexuality.com

FOUR CORE NEEDS OF A WOMAN AND MAN

Woman:

1)    She needs to feel loved – it has to touch her heart; a heart thing. Subconsciously, if someone of the opposite sex doesn’t love her, she starts thinking she isn’t valuable and starts thinking “I’m not pretty enough” and wants to do things like getting a nose job or breast implants

2)    She needs to know she is cherished – a head thing. She knows there is lots of fish in the sea but she wants to know that she is the fish you want to be with.

3)    Needs Confidence that her environment is safe and secure

4)    She needs to know that her loved ones have what they need

-       A girl should get these needs from her father who loves her mother.

-       No man can meet all your four core needs all the time. Turn that search to God.

-       Psalm 23

Man:

1)    He needs a reliable, consistent male role model (needs good people to copycat early in life)

2)    Consistent discipline and accountability in his life

3)    He needs the appropriate respect of those around him

4)    Mothering – knowing his mother loves him, knowing that his mother will do anything for him (ex. Mary searching for Jesus and found him at the temple), someone that supports him. If he doesn’t have that, he gets the wrong perspective women, sees women as a convenience.

- Isaiah 49:15

God always Provides.

Four people in our PhotogenX DTS class needed a combined total of $10, 000 by Thursday 3pm in order to continue on with the program. We had an offering tonight and the total came to $15, 624.28. There is only 60 people in our program, including staff. In order for that to happen each person would have needed to donate about $260. Or there is someone who is very rich. I kind of wonder if God multiplied the money? In any case God is good and I see that there is great faith in our PhotogenX DTS group. There are still 10 other people who need money in time for June.

One of the four people who received God's provision is my roommate Hanna. I am learning so much from Hanna about depending on God when it comes to finances. God had told her to come to Kona, Hawaii for PhotogenX DTS one week before the program started. She arrived without any tuition money or any camera, but time and time again God has provided for her. It's amazing.

Wildlife Wednesday

This Wednesday, I bring you a picture of insect eggs laying on my roommate's bed. We are guessing that they are ants or termites. This might be the reason why there are ants everywhere in our room even though we have no food out in the open! There are ants on the bed, on the desk, on the fridge, on the counter. I'm pretending that I'm camping to keep myself from getting too grossed out. 

Rebuilding Haiti on God’s love and truth

A Haitian, German, Canadian, Korean, American, and Indian are sitting around a table. It sounds like a beginning to a bad joke, but sharing a meal with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ from all over the world is an everyday thing at YWAM (Youth with a Mission). By everyday I don’t mean it is like brushing your teeth everyday; rather, I mean it is more special, like seeing the sunset everyday.

As I was chewing on the salad that was overstepping its boundaries of my plate, listening to Jude, the Haitian, talk about the vision God placed in his heart, I felt an enormous pull towards this man’s story and call to rebuild Haiti with the foundation of God's love and truth. 

Hearing this young man speak with such warmth and joy, it’s hard to believe that Jude grew up as a slave. As the second youngest of nine children, Jude's family sold him because they were too poor to keep and raise him. Jude was sold to his uncle and spent most of his childhood hauling buckets of water. Managing to buy his way out of slavery, Jude helped other children to do the same. To this day, Jude’s heart is still with the children and like a pied piper he brings the children into God’s love with music and laughter.

Growing up, Jude's heart was hardened towards the gospel, thinking that the gospel was not for him. Like a lot of young men he competed with his friends, vying each other to see who could sleep with the most girls. There was a void in his heart. When he was twenty, Jude was invited by his friend, Peterson to church. Jude started to regularly attend Sunday worship/ Week after week Jude saw how kindly the people in church treated one another and how joyful their worship was. Over time Jude decided to want to devote his life to Christ and eventually Jude became a worship leader and a pastor for children and youth.

About three years ago, God provided the money to allow Jude to complete a Discipleship Training School here in Kona, Hawaii. God placed it in his heart to pioneer a YWAM base in Haiti. As the plans began to develop, the 2010 Haiti earthquake happened. Despite all the chaos, Jude and his friend Peterson forged ahead, receiving the word from God to rebuild Haiti on the foundation of God’s love and truth.

Since the earthquake, Jude has seen people from Haiti turn away from the gods of voodoo to the love of Christ. Even the president, who in years past would always publicly proclaim his support for voodoo, has now (although unlikely an believer himself) sided with the body of Christ because he sees the power and influence a revived church can have.

They are now seeking volunteers to come and help rebuild Port au Prince, Haiti on the foundation of God’s love and truth. Ask the Lord if He is calling you to come to Haiti. Jude and Peterson need all kinds of people to help. You can contact them at info@ywamportauprince.com  For more information you can go to the YWAM Haiti website to take a look at current projects. 

The first Haiti DTS  (Discipleship Training School) is starting on June 11, 2011. 

Wildlife Wednesday

Every Wednesday, I will bring you a photo of a creature in Hawaii.

A Gecko hiding on the side of a table in the Natural Farm. Kona, Hawaii. 

Vote!

Like a good citizen, I applied for a mail vote weeks ago. Tomorrow I will stick a stamp and cross my fingers that it will get to Ottawa on time. 

Out of 23.6 million electors in the last election, only 5.2 million voted for Harper's Conservatives. That's 22% of eligible voters, and 16.2% of the total population. There are 5.65 million Canadians aged 18-29. In the past, this age group has voted so little that politicians don't bother with them. If all of Canada's youth voted, they would rock the whole political system!

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday Sunrise Service at Old Airport Rd. in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. April 24, 2011.

Praise the Lord! He is risen! We have freedom because of Him!

Praise God for Korean Food!

This past Wednesday, the Natural Farming work duty team was treated to a homemade Korean supper! What a treat! Now I know what real Korean food tastes like. 


Before the supper we were granted the pleasure of hearing Dr. Park speak. He is one out of two people in North America who is certified in Natural Farming. Dr. Park spoke to us about the importance of Indigenous Microorganisms in the soil for good farming. There is one organic farmer on our team and even he says that Natural Farming is revolutionary! It's funny how the old way of farming (before chemicals and machines) is new again. I will post more about Natural Farming soon. There is just so much good stuff to share!