A new challenge

Never give up! Even when it’s really hard and you just want to hide from the world. Stay firm and bold. God will be with you he will never let you down. This gives me comfort and giving up all my rights for the kingdom of God. Mark 8:34,35 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. I am willing to give up my life and everyone who is dear to me and follow the Lord.
I am reading Making Jesus Lord from Loren Cunningham. This book has given me a new prospective on how to serve the Lord.
My new challenge is a young lady who I will mentor for the next 6 months. I am asking the Lord to giving me wisdom and humble me, so that only his will and not my will be done. Please keep praying for me!
On Monday our Discipleship training school starts and 12 new students have arrive. A new beginning and new challenges have started.



I’m making the welcome dinner tonight! Humus and whole wheat tortilla chips as appetizer and Greek lamb racks with Greek salad and brown rice. I have been to my first Hillbilly Football game on Friday and my first bluegrass concert on Saturday. My parents arrive in 2 days and I get to spend 2 weeks with them plus my sister in law is expecting her first baby any time soon.

So much has happend in the last month! I have been among people that tried to fill up there bodies with alcohol, drugs, fake love and lots of other junk. It was so hard not to judge them. I just wanted to go home and hide in my room and never talk about it again. But God showed me how much he cares for them and how much he wants them to know Him. We met so many people with christian background and ran away from it because people judged them by the way they looked! It broke my heart to hear their stories and how their hearts have harden towards God. I was just observing how my friends interacted with the people that came into our booth. I wish I would have talked to more people. It was my first time to evangelize. But it was nice to see that we where accepted by everyone. Not one person walked away that we talked to! God has so much planed for us.
I sold 2 of my purses and gave one to one of the vendors that I met there. Her name is Coco and she sews beautiful guitar cases. I wish I had time to pray for her before I left. So keep her in your prayers.
On monday I am going to find out if I am going to have a niece or a nephew!(so excited)
I am going to visit my family in Bald Knob AR and help them out for a month. Pls. pray for me that I will be successful in finding people that are willing to support me!

A God story

How to start? What can I say? How can I make this a God story?
I give praise to the king of kings and lord of Lords. I serve an awesome God!
I have seen miracles in my life…
I have seen Jesus provide for me when I needed HIM most….
I see His creation every day and every moment I say: “Praise God!”

Really I have been so blessed this month and I was able to see Jesus provide for me. Everybody who read my last blog knows that I have started sewing purses for this hippie festival. What do Christians like me do at a hippie festival selling purses? Let me tell you…
The Wakarusa (name of the hippie festival) is an annual band festival that is here to stay. We are setting up a small pilot program to learn the most effective ways to reach out to these participants. As an in-road to establish a presence at the event we are partnering with both local and out-of-state artists and craft-makers to sell God-inspired arts and crafts. This will provide a contact point for evangelizing, prayer, and giving tracts. Our staff and artists are trained to pray for and evangelize to those with varied worldviews. We are also ready to offer discipleship to new converts.
I am really excited to be a part of such an awesome opportunity. But not only that I have already experienced God’s glory in the preparation time.
When I started out I had borrowed a sewing machine from a friend and was really excited. But it didn’t last for very long until I had to return the sewing machine. I was really frustrated and bummed that I couldn’t continue my work. So I started to pray and asked God for a sewing machine under $25. I kinda looked around in Antique stores but couldn’t find one. The next day a friend and I stopped at our local thrift store and there it was a SEWING MACHINE. I asked if it was on sale and the lady at the counter said she didn’t know. I left my number and asked the lady to give me a call if she finds out. I was waiting for a call but it never came. So 3 days later I went there again w/ my brother and some friends and asked again for the sewing machine. Praise God for my brother and his girlfriend. Thanks to their friendship with one of the ladies that works there I was able to get the sewing machine for free!!!!

Part 2 of my Newsletter!!!

More about my life in YWAM Ozarks!

Preview
During my entire DTS I had a hard time deciding what to do after. I worked in the Kitchen as my work duty for the first 3 months. And I really enjoyed it! It seems like God instigated for me to stay here because the former Cook just had her second child. There was no way anyone else had the time or knew how to cook for 30 people every day for 2 meals. So I decided to stay. I have been working here as YWAM staff for 6 months now. I have made a year commitment……

Living in Community
….. Running a campus takes a lot of people to get the schools going. Right now we have 11 Staff plus 10 Students. Our Campus Directors (Jim and Barb Nizza), 3 School of biblical studies (SBS) Staff, 4 DTS Staff, 1 Hospitality Staff and me as Kitchen Staff. You’re with the same people everyday 24/7. And like everyone else I get annoyed by some people’s habits. Like for instance: Some of my girl friends here love Taylor Swift and like to play it EVERYDAY and I can’t stand it. Instead of going crazy about it and tell them how much I hate having to listen to it, I react in LOVE. I just mentioned it in a conversation that I don’t like listening to Taylor Swift but because I love them I will listen to it when they play it. It’s easier to enjoy living in Community if you respect and love the people you life with.

Our Goals and Projects
We are running a lot of little and big projects. A bigger one that we have been working on for a while now and really close of finishing is the Cafeteria. One of our goals here in YWAM Ozarks is reaching out to the Community (mainly the youth). So we started looking for some activities that we can offer. For instance we have Ultimate Frisbee on Sunday afternoon, a coffee house on Saturday’s, Mission adventure and more. We usually have 2 schools going during the year DTS and SBS.

What happened since last September?
DTS and SBS started on the same day! We had 2 week before to get everything done. We where all really excited to meet the new students.
So on end of Sept everybody came and so much chaos because everybody was trying to find there rooms and running around. I had some family here my dad came for a visit.

School began on Monday and everything began to schedule in again.
Ok so pretty much everyday was a busy day for me. I had to cook for 30 People (not counted guest speaker and other guests) everyday for 2 meals. I was glad I didn’t have to make the roaster every week. Jen my boss how is THE Kitchen chef told what to do. =) (by the time she was 8 months Prego)
But then it happened! After waiting for an extra 3 weeks the baby Ava Pearl Levin finally came. Jen decided to have the baby in the dorm. Guess who’s The Levin neighbor? Yes it’s me and I heard everything! (Totally weird experience)
Well time goes by so fast! Exactly 2 Months ago the DTS was going on Outreach to a Muslim Country in Africa.
That meant for me to be in charge of the entire kitchen. (It’s not that big) Decide what we will eat the next 2 Months, make sure everything stays clean you know all that stuff you have to do when you’re in charge of a kitchen.
Wow I can’t tell you how much I love my job! Not only get I to do it everyday I also make other people happy. Cooking is my passion and I thank God that he used my passion and made it into my ministry. What a wonderful God I serve.

God Provides
Right now I am working on another project. I am making purses and beat jewelry and try to sell them at a hippie festival. I’m also trying to sell some of them online so if you’re interested just let me know! I also crochet beanies and hopefully I get to start to make baby clothing. I started a group on Facebook (Angelina Kerns art and more) where you can see some of my Stuff that I made and also some of my somewhat art works. Since I have so much time after dinner I decided to do something with my time. I haven’t sold anything yet but hoping that will change soon.
Other than that I just enjoy being around my friends and loving God more and more everyday. Whatever it takes to live the life that God wants me to and that means trusting God to provide.

Be A Part Of My Ministry
All YWAM staff are required to raise financial support from friends and family. Who are interested in partnering with their personal vision and calling. I would like to stay and help out a little longer. I know God has so many awesome plans for me and I know He wants me here during this time.

Would you pray about being a monthly supporter?

Just contact me and I will give you further information on how to give.
Thanks for being a part of fulfilling God’s plan in my life!

Newsletter!

Ok after I have tried to send my Newsletter per E-mail. I had decided to just blog them because it's to much work and most of the people I have tryed to send them they could not receive them.

Hey Everyone!
I just wanted to give you an update, of what I’ve been doing in the last few years!
This is for everyone! People who know me really well or people who just know my parents or haven’t seen me in a while!
I am working with an organization called Youth With A Mission (YWAM). YWAM’s mission statement is to KNOW GOD and to make Him KNOWN. This ministry began in 1960. The main focus was giving young people opportunities to demonstrate the love of Jesus to the whole world, according to His command in Mark 16:15. Today, we still focus on youth, but we have members (known as “YWAMers”) of almost every age. Many of our short-term efforts have grow into long-term endeavors that have left an impact in lives and nations. YWAM encourages new vision and the exploration of new ways to transform lives through training, conveying the message of the gospel and caring for those in need. We are currently operating in more than 1000 locations in over 150 countries, with a staff of nearly 16,000. A prerequisite to joining YWAM staff or receiving further training is YWAM’s Discipleship Training School (DTS).
Now back to my Story!
I first heard about YWAM when I had just turned 5. A YWAM group came to stay at my parent’s guest house for a few months. When I was almost 18, I took a job at a guesthouse. Located inside the guesthouse was a small YWAM office, plus my boss was a former YWAMer. Isn’t it funny how God clears our path before we get there and prepares the way for us?
I still didn’t know much about YWAM until my brother Johannes, a YWAMer himself, sent me an email. He invited me to join a DTS starting at the end of February 2009. I had committed to work at the guesthouse until the end of March. “No big deal!” I thought, “I’ll just take the DTS starting in the fall.” But my brother insisted on me coming to the DTS in February. I am not a risk taker, but I took the challenge. I had 2 week to decide if I should go. This meant: praying about it, talking to my boss, buying an airline ticket, and getting over my traveling fears (I hate traveling on my own). God managed everything; he really wanted me to go! I got laid off, I found a cheap ticket and God gave me peace. March 1st I was in a plane on my way to Ozark Arkansas!

The first three months of my DTS I spent time learning about Jesus and the way He feels about me. What a time of transformation!
After 3 months of life changing experience, I went to a communist country in Asia for two months. A country where no one is allowed to teach the gospel. A place where people are stacked on top of each other, because there are too many people and not enough space to live. It was a hard experience, but helpful to see the world from a different point of view. Living in a different country makes you different. Now I see things through different eyes. Let’s just say God renewed me through and through. HE scrubbed me real clean! =)
After my DTS, I decided to stay and work as Kitchen Staff on the Campus in Ozark, Arkansas. During my entire DTS I had a hard time deciding what to do after. I worked in the Kitchen as my work duty for the first 3 months. And I really enjoyed it! It seems like God instigated for me to stay here because the former Cook just had her second child. There was no way anyone else had the time or knew how to cook for 30 people every day for 2 meals. So I decided to stay. I have been working here as YWAM staff for 6 months now. I have made a year commitment.

……….my Story is going to continue.
What you are going to read in my next letter is: My life in YWAM Ozarks as a Staff.

God bless you
Angelina

P.S: We, at YWAM Ozarks, would love to pray for you! Let me know if you have any prayer requests, and we will either pray for you during one of our campus intercession times or I will keep you in my prayers personally!

My Life!

After a long time of silence I have decided to blog again! (Finally) I have been kinda busy the last few months. I have been put in charge of the kitchen for 2 months because Jen (my BOSS =D)she left to go on Outreach with the dicipleship training school (DTS). I really enjoyed beeing creative and cook freely! But another respossiblity came up and that was having a 16 year old to be talking care of. Let me explain. My sister lilly came for a visit and stayed with us for a month. Since we are a Non profit organisation she had to work in order to life with me. Ok lets recap: 16 year old sister, working for a month= no freedom for her (that's what goes on in a head of an 16 year old). That's how it was! I mean I totally understand that when you're 16 you don't want to understand everything and do what ever you want to. I have been there and lived through it! Well I had to treat her like a grown up and she didn't like that although she said she wanted to be treated like a grown up. Lets just say it was a lot of work! On top of all this I had no brother that helped me out (he was on Outreach too). I was so glad that I still had somebody I had that lifted me up. Somebody that told me "you are not alone I am with you". God just comfort me and took me into his arms. Now everything is almost back to normal. I have my brother back which makes me really happy and we are about to move in to our NEW KITCHEN!!!!!!!! I'm so excited! See you soon!