Oh, I know quite intriguing... What does this mean?? Well, I will let you. As you may or may not know in YWAM when you staff a DTS you lead an outreach team. Your school leaders present you with a group of Nations that you then pray about and see where the Lord directs you. Very scary in some ways and totally exciting in others. So about two weeks ago the staff gathered and patiently waited (we were not patient at all it was driving us all crazy!!) as each nation was written up on the board. Our hearts were built up with so much excitement and then came the moment where our leaders said alright you have five minutes pray and see where the Lord wants you to go. Now this becomes a time where you have to totally trust God, all your insecurities come up about if you can really hear him or not, or that you heard him wrong and you have to trust that its not your flesh guiding you!! Needless to say you thought that this question ask the Lord where he wants to send you was some sort peace treaty being made in the Middle East that your life depended on and everyone else around you did as well (Maybe that is a little dramatic description but its also funny!!). I was freaking out hahahah... if you couldn't tell but at the same time I knew where He told me to go. Why do we always question Him??
With all that being said I put down Japan. Not really sure why but my heart was freaking out that this was where I was suppose to go! I put it down, handed my paper in and waited and let me tell you three days of waiting is so awful! hahahaha... Not really, but I hate suspence it kills me!! I have to know!! I wasn't in Kona at the time everyone found out the location because God blessed me so much by bringing my family for two weeks to the islands so I could spend some holiday time with them since I am not going to be home for the holidays. So I was in Maui at the time and I am not joking when I say this everything I ran into was about Japan I am not joking. I saw everything from Japanese cucumbers, (I didn't know they existed), from tv shows of people moving to Japan, and signs and history of Japan at a restaurant. I felt like God was clearly saying you are going! So I get the phone call on Friday, FINALLY, you are going to Japan and I was so excited!! I cannot wait. I will have a co-leader name Zak. It is going to be an awesome trip. My family was so excited for me and I was over joyed that they were able to be here to find out with me.
So April 1st I will along with Zak and a group of students to Japan to join with the YWAM base in Tokyo. What we will do I am not quite sure and what it all will look like I don't know because when you work with Jesus he always has lots of surprises. So if you want to know what you can pray for me is just that I stay focused and organized, that all the details we have ahead of us will go smoothly, for our team, we don't know yet what students will be going with us but just that God starts to create a strong unity and love in the students. The list could go in in prayer but mainly just pray for me and that I am attentive to what God is wanting to do in this time and in Japan. Another thing I need to voice is I do need to start raising funds for my outreach. They have told us to estimate about 3,000 for right now. If you are feeling like you would want to partner with me at this time I would love it. You can give several ways. I do have a mission account set up that you can make checks to YWAM and so your giving can be tax deductible. (If you are going to do that let me know because I have to give you my account number and what not.) If you are interested in giving before the end of the year let me know. Also if you would like to receive an more indepth updates this new year I will be starting a better informative updates for everyone who wants to keep up with me and or would like to partner with me and support me. ***Email me at katelandhilty@gmail.com
I would like to thank everyone to that have supported me this year. Financially and in prayer. It has meant the world to me!! I have felt your prayers time and time again. I know it was what kept me focused and never feeling alone. The financial giving has blessed me beyond words and I see this a you are apart of the fruit I have seen in the Nations. It is just as much mine as it yours. Thank you again and again! Many many Blessing on you I love you all!!!
P.S. I have a mailing address, if you want to send me anything or write me letters I would love it!!
Kateland Hilty
University of the Nations
75-5851 Kuakini Hwy. #68
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740 USA
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
11.11.11
I am still ALIVE!!!!!
Sorry to everyone for not keeping you all up to date better but I am finally settled in and am living here in Hawaii. For starters I want to say thank you for all who supported me finacially and with lots of love and prayers during the few days and weeks I was still at home. It meant the world to me and I appericated more then you will ever know!!
So, I am sure you are all wondering what in the world I am doing here and some days I laugh to myself wondering what I am doing to. Then, I remember I am living out something that I felt was only a mere dream. Have you ever got to do something you only ever dreamt about? If not I highly suggest you do because it brings this whole other view on life. It brings this sense of closeness to God because He is the biggest fan of our dreams but it also brings this satisfaction and joy to your life that makes you want to go further and dream bigger just to see what will happen. As you may or may not know I am working with YWAM (youth with a mission). I am on the Fire and Fragrance leadership track. There is a group of about 30 of us and we are here eager to learn and serve. Most days I serve in student services for the Fire and Fragrance DTS helping all the students that are preparing to come to in January. Then I spend about 2-3 hours four days a week in the prayer, praying and contending for the things that are on the heart of God. It is truly an amazing honor and exprience because there are so many great people I get to be with daily that I am learning and growing with constantly.
Being here so far I realize I am apart of something bigger then myself. A movement that is going to shape the world and that I am walking out the dreams of so many people who have gone before me. I can honestly say today I have seen history in the making. I got to pray over and see a piece of land that has been dreamed about 45 years actually start to be worked. It was amazing and as I was there listing to the visionary, the architecute, and the builders I realized that I saw history being changed, I saw a mans dream being fulfilled and God's heart making its way on the earth. I was inspired. I realized that I have a life time to see the things God placed in heart happen and also that I only have a life time to see the things of God take place and I don't want to waste it.
I know that this journey I am on has so much to offer and also I have so much to learn from it. I know it won't be easy but it will be beautiful I know. It is going to be everything I hope for and nothing I thought of. When I look at the future I have no idea what is going to happen, what it will look like but I can say this, I look at it with no agenda but excited to see what God will do in it. I feel like I have so many stories I could tell you of just the month I have been here and the way God did things and how he has provided. Seeing him move and love on and change so may peoples lives. I hope to share with many of you more about this. However, I just wanted to give you all a quick update and a little bit of a cliffhanger to draw you back to see what will happen next! So I leave with this that I will be back but with what news and new excitement that you will have to wait and find out what it is.
I do want to ask everyone to please give me your email address and also your physical address. I want to keep people updated in many different ways so please if you want to hear more from me let me know and give your information so that I can do that. I am so blessed to have all of you in my life!!
Have a wonderful weekend you all are amazing!!
LOVES Kateland :)
Sorry to everyone for not keeping you all up to date better but I am finally settled in and am living here in Hawaii. For starters I want to say thank you for all who supported me finacially and with lots of love and prayers during the few days and weeks I was still at home. It meant the world to me and I appericated more then you will ever know!!
So, I am sure you are all wondering what in the world I am doing here and some days I laugh to myself wondering what I am doing to. Then, I remember I am living out something that I felt was only a mere dream. Have you ever got to do something you only ever dreamt about? If not I highly suggest you do because it brings this whole other view on life. It brings this sense of closeness to God because He is the biggest fan of our dreams but it also brings this satisfaction and joy to your life that makes you want to go further and dream bigger just to see what will happen. As you may or may not know I am working with YWAM (youth with a mission). I am on the Fire and Fragrance leadership track. There is a group of about 30 of us and we are here eager to learn and serve. Most days I serve in student services for the Fire and Fragrance DTS helping all the students that are preparing to come to in January. Then I spend about 2-3 hours four days a week in the prayer, praying and contending for the things that are on the heart of God. It is truly an amazing honor and exprience because there are so many great people I get to be with daily that I am learning and growing with constantly.
Being here so far I realize I am apart of something bigger then myself. A movement that is going to shape the world and that I am walking out the dreams of so many people who have gone before me. I can honestly say today I have seen history in the making. I got to pray over and see a piece of land that has been dreamed about 45 years actually start to be worked. It was amazing and as I was there listing to the visionary, the architecute, and the builders I realized that I saw history being changed, I saw a mans dream being fulfilled and God's heart making its way on the earth. I was inspired. I realized that I have a life time to see the things God placed in heart happen and also that I only have a life time to see the things of God take place and I don't want to waste it.
I know that this journey I am on has so much to offer and also I have so much to learn from it. I know it won't be easy but it will be beautiful I know. It is going to be everything I hope for and nothing I thought of. When I look at the future I have no idea what is going to happen, what it will look like but I can say this, I look at it with no agenda but excited to see what God will do in it. I feel like I have so many stories I could tell you of just the month I have been here and the way God did things and how he has provided. Seeing him move and love on and change so may peoples lives. I hope to share with many of you more about this. However, I just wanted to give you all a quick update and a little bit of a cliffhanger to draw you back to see what will happen next! So I leave with this that I will be back but with what news and new excitement that you will have to wait and find out what it is.
I do want to ask everyone to please give me your email address and also your physical address. I want to keep people updated in many different ways so please if you want to hear more from me let me know and give your information so that I can do that. I am so blessed to have all of you in my life!!
Have a wonderful weekend you all are amazing!!
LOVES Kateland :)
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
...Keep going...
Hey everyone,
Don't you wish that the Mary Poppins scene where she snaps her fingers and everything cleaned and took care of itself was real. I mean it would be great we wouldn't have to worry, and life would just be peachy, and with that spoon full of sugar you are set!! However, this is not always how life rolls in fact through all of the trails, struggles we are to go through it says in the Bible that we are to remain steadfast as Job did. (Read James 5:11) Job went through HELL yes, HELL like no other in the Bible(not including Jesus okay for everyone who said accept for Jesus) because the Lord knew his heart would not be turned but allowed him to be tested by the enemy. Though it seems to be one of the strangest books of the Bible. I think it is to help remind us all who are walking in journey with Christ that it could always be worse.(hahaha...)That in the midst of our trials that when we choose God and not turn our backs on him because he is faithful to us! I mean Job got a double portion of everything he lost. (Not just 7,000 but 14,000 sheep come on!! :)) I feel like I am in a testing place of trust with the Lord and there is a wrestling in my spirit to keep looking at him and when I feel as it is all falling around me and nothing is going as I planned. I remember there is a great matter at work and that if I remain steadfast looking in his eyes then all the worries and fears I have start to fall away. It no longer is about me and my selfish desires but about him and what he wants to do on this earth through me. I am only here on this planet for a short while and though time is a strang thing. In one regard it seems so long and yet as you grow older it seems so short. If time is the thing that I am chained to then I will never go anywhere cause I will never be old enough to understand everything and I will never be young enough to go back and change it all to be right. So we just live in the moment today. I guess Jesus knew something about that when he said not to worry about tomorrow for it has enough of its own worries and will take care of itself or when in Matthew 6:27 it says, " And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life." Think about it when did you ever get more productive or get things done when you feared about everything. Though I find myself in this place a lot I hear a little voice reminding me that these fears, worries, and concerns aren't bigger then God. Of course it always easy to fear then to have faith because fear we can tend to control and faith we have to learn to let go. Man... I am not good at this always but I am learning.
With this all being said defiantly leads me to tell you that this next journey I am heading out on is not easy for me. Infact I find it easier to watch God provide in crazy ways for others then actually believe he will do it for me. I always like to tell Him, you know I can do this and take care of myself. Trust its one of the hardest things to do because in human nature anyone is capable of letting you down so we allow our understanding of human nature translate into God's nature. But that isn't who he is. He is a good father who provides for his children and that he will. I can't even believe that this is where life is taken and please don't take that in the wrong context. I mean that with all the joy in my heart that this journey I am is going to be filled with some of the greatest things yet in my life. I am so excited I just fear and worry of the things I can't see yet.
Today I really was wondering what I should do because i am still am in need of funds and I felt like simply letting you all know what I am need of. We are a body of believers all with our eyes on the same person Jesus and with that we all have a come goal to make Him known as we have known him. So I am still needing your help! I am doing everything I can from selling things to still working till I leave. I need about 400 a month which if I got about 20 people to support me with $20 a month that would help cover the cost. If you want to give one time that is always helpful as well and if you want to give more monthly that is great but I want you to pray and see what the Lord says. I appericate everything you all are in my life and I know that God is a the ultimate provider of everything for you and for me. So if you are interested in joining with me and have a few questions please by all means email or call me if you have my number. My email is katelandhilty@gmail.com I would love to tell more if you are interested.
"Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nore reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to this span of life? And wh are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the feild, which today is alive abd tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of Little faith? Matthew 6:25-30
This is where I have been and am being challenged daily. Its a good challenge learning to have faith in every circumstance in life.
Thanks for reading
Kateland :)
Don't you wish that the Mary Poppins scene where she snaps her fingers and everything cleaned and took care of itself was real. I mean it would be great we wouldn't have to worry, and life would just be peachy, and with that spoon full of sugar you are set!! However, this is not always how life rolls in fact through all of the trails, struggles we are to go through it says in the Bible that we are to remain steadfast as Job did. (Read James 5:11) Job went through HELL yes, HELL like no other in the Bible(not including Jesus okay for everyone who said accept for Jesus) because the Lord knew his heart would not be turned but allowed him to be tested by the enemy. Though it seems to be one of the strangest books of the Bible. I think it is to help remind us all who are walking in journey with Christ that it could always be worse.(hahaha...)That in the midst of our trials that when we choose God and not turn our backs on him because he is faithful to us! I mean Job got a double portion of everything he lost. (Not just 7,000 but 14,000 sheep come on!! :)) I feel like I am in a testing place of trust with the Lord and there is a wrestling in my spirit to keep looking at him and when I feel as it is all falling around me and nothing is going as I planned. I remember there is a great matter at work and that if I remain steadfast looking in his eyes then all the worries and fears I have start to fall away. It no longer is about me and my selfish desires but about him and what he wants to do on this earth through me. I am only here on this planet for a short while and though time is a strang thing. In one regard it seems so long and yet as you grow older it seems so short. If time is the thing that I am chained to then I will never go anywhere cause I will never be old enough to understand everything and I will never be young enough to go back and change it all to be right. So we just live in the moment today. I guess Jesus knew something about that when he said not to worry about tomorrow for it has enough of its own worries and will take care of itself or when in Matthew 6:27 it says, " And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life." Think about it when did you ever get more productive or get things done when you feared about everything. Though I find myself in this place a lot I hear a little voice reminding me that these fears, worries, and concerns aren't bigger then God. Of course it always easy to fear then to have faith because fear we can tend to control and faith we have to learn to let go. Man... I am not good at this always but I am learning.
With this all being said defiantly leads me to tell you that this next journey I am heading out on is not easy for me. Infact I find it easier to watch God provide in crazy ways for others then actually believe he will do it for me. I always like to tell Him, you know I can do this and take care of myself. Trust its one of the hardest things to do because in human nature anyone is capable of letting you down so we allow our understanding of human nature translate into God's nature. But that isn't who he is. He is a good father who provides for his children and that he will. I can't even believe that this is where life is taken and please don't take that in the wrong context. I mean that with all the joy in my heart that this journey I am is going to be filled with some of the greatest things yet in my life. I am so excited I just fear and worry of the things I can't see yet.
Today I really was wondering what I should do because i am still am in need of funds and I felt like simply letting you all know what I am need of. We are a body of believers all with our eyes on the same person Jesus and with that we all have a come goal to make Him known as we have known him. So I am still needing your help! I am doing everything I can from selling things to still working till I leave. I need about 400 a month which if I got about 20 people to support me with $20 a month that would help cover the cost. If you want to give one time that is always helpful as well and if you want to give more monthly that is great but I want you to pray and see what the Lord says. I appericate everything you all are in my life and I know that God is a the ultimate provider of everything for you and for me. So if you are interested in joining with me and have a few questions please by all means email or call me if you have my number. My email is katelandhilty@gmail.com I would love to tell more if you are interested.
"Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nore reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to this span of life? And wh are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the feild, which today is alive abd tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of Little faith? Matthew 6:25-30
This is where I have been and am being challenged daily. Its a good challenge learning to have faith in every circumstance in life.
Thanks for reading
Kateland :)
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
A new adventure awaits.
Life it is an interesting journey. We never quite know where it leads us or what adventures it takes on. However when you serve the Creator of all things who knows the beginning and the end of every life it makes the journey very intriguing. I have found myself on a journey that has been just that. I can't help it but to go where he leads my heart to. There is just a dissatisfaction when I don't go where my heart longs. So for all who are wondering where that adventure, journey, excursion, travels will led me to next I will tell you.
At the beginning of this year I had the pleasure to go to Kona, Hawaii where I did the Fire and Fragrance Discipleship Training School with University of the Nation YWAM (youth with a mission). There I did a three month long intensive training school where we sat and learned from many great leaders of the faith. They taught us countless truths, stretched us, challenged us to know the Word of God for ourselves, and stirred within us a hunger and desire to go into the world and to bring the gospel to the lost. It was an amazing three months and I learned so much from it. I would never trade that experience for the WORLD. After those first three months we were sent out! God so blessed me with the opportunity to go to France and Amsterdam. You may not think this at all but Europe truly is one of the hardest and darkest place to reach in this day. Honestly people there see no need for God or think much that he really exists. However, we did see people come to know Him and the conversations were radical that you knew that they would never question if God was real or not. We got to build a relationship with some of the most discrminated people groups in Europe Gypsie. Those were some of my favorite times was to be with that family. We also got to walk threw the Red Light District of Amsterdam and pray in worship the Lord in the House of Prayer there. I can say I have never felt the peace of God like I did in that place and I found it to be so interesting because of all the chaos that surrounds it did not shake the peace of God in that building! My outreach recked my life and created a desire for me even more to go out and to love the world for Jesus.
Fire and Fragrance has really grabbed the hearts of many YWAM bases and other places as well that the school leaders have been asked if they had staff to bring in so that they could start a Fire and Fragrance DTS in their YWAM bases as well. So the leaders of Fire and Fragrance have started a one year leadership track to raise up leaders who have a desire to bring the movement of Prayer and Worship coupled with mission works to other bases. My heart started to burn as I was one day presented this opportunity in class during my DTS. I knew that this was what I was created for. This was what God made me for. To be a part of raising up radical people who would change the world. Especially where people learn to be at his feet daily and that is where they would move out of to serve, seek, and save the lost. Its not a movement of turn or burn its a true movement of the heart. Where we are longing to see the true conversion of people and disciple them so they are not just saved but have a relationship with Christ. So with that burning in my heart I signed up!! I get more and more excited as I think about the things God is going to do with this.
Yet again I am packing my bags and leaving October 3rd to start this journey. Throughout the year I will spend the first three months serving the YWAM campus and preparing for the January Fire and Frangrance DTS. Then from January to March staffing the DTS, and building a relationship the students. Then we will be sent out for the next three months to do our outreach. After that I will continue on serving the YWAM campus in Kona and helping out with other school till next October. Since I know I will be going threw some life changing moments I don't know what the next year will look like but that is why I started my blog so I can keep you all up to date with that. With this I am also asking people to pray for me on this journey to partner along side with me in prayer. I am also looking for supporters. We will be kept pretty busy which makes it hard for us to have a jobs. My cost for the entire year will cost 7,200 and we are asked to get up to 600 a month. This helps cover my staff fees and my food and board, along with insurance. So I am asking you to pray about it and see if you feel led to be one of my supporters. I have thought about and come up with some ideas of ways you can help! If I could have 30 people partner with me in 20 dollars a month it would cover my costs, or if I had ten people to partner in with 60 dollars a month that could cover my costs as well, even if you would like to give a one time gift that is amazing as well. I have been able to work but have not been able to save enough for living expenses. So please pray about it and see where the Lord leads you. I know and I see the times we are in the economy is not so great but we serve a great God who is bigger and knows the needs of yours and mine. I can atest to people not having any money to having everything they needed paid for in our DTS class. So I know we serve a big God who cares about me and defiantly cares about you and your needs.
If you are ineterested in giving to me let me know! I have not set up and easy way for you to give but I will hopefully in the next few days. If you want to send a check you can do that. Send it to P.O. Box 876784 Wasilla, AK 99687 you can make your checks out to me. More then anything I desire your prayers. It is what I know has helped me threw out the years when you can feel the prayers of other over your life. Thank you so much it such a blessing to share with you all that has been going on in my life. If you have more question just email me at katelandhilty@gmail.com.
Proverbs 16:9 The heart of man plans his ways, but the Lord establishes his steps.
At the beginning of this year I had the pleasure to go to Kona, Hawaii where I did the Fire and Fragrance Discipleship Training School with University of the Nation YWAM (youth with a mission). There I did a three month long intensive training school where we sat and learned from many great leaders of the faith. They taught us countless truths, stretched us, challenged us to know the Word of God for ourselves, and stirred within us a hunger and desire to go into the world and to bring the gospel to the lost. It was an amazing three months and I learned so much from it. I would never trade that experience for the WORLD. After those first three months we were sent out! God so blessed me with the opportunity to go to France and Amsterdam. You may not think this at all but Europe truly is one of the hardest and darkest place to reach in this day. Honestly people there see no need for God or think much that he really exists. However, we did see people come to know Him and the conversations were radical that you knew that they would never question if God was real or not. We got to build a relationship with some of the most discrminated people groups in Europe Gypsie. Those were some of my favorite times was to be with that family. We also got to walk threw the Red Light District of Amsterdam and pray in worship the Lord in the House of Prayer there. I can say I have never felt the peace of God like I did in that place and I found it to be so interesting because of all the chaos that surrounds it did not shake the peace of God in that building! My outreach recked my life and created a desire for me even more to go out and to love the world for Jesus.
Fire and Fragrance has really grabbed the hearts of many YWAM bases and other places as well that the school leaders have been asked if they had staff to bring in so that they could start a Fire and Fragrance DTS in their YWAM bases as well. So the leaders of Fire and Fragrance have started a one year leadership track to raise up leaders who have a desire to bring the movement of Prayer and Worship coupled with mission works to other bases. My heart started to burn as I was one day presented this opportunity in class during my DTS. I knew that this was what I was created for. This was what God made me for. To be a part of raising up radical people who would change the world. Especially where people learn to be at his feet daily and that is where they would move out of to serve, seek, and save the lost. Its not a movement of turn or burn its a true movement of the heart. Where we are longing to see the true conversion of people and disciple them so they are not just saved but have a relationship with Christ. So with that burning in my heart I signed up!! I get more and more excited as I think about the things God is going to do with this.
Yet again I am packing my bags and leaving October 3rd to start this journey. Throughout the year I will spend the first three months serving the YWAM campus and preparing for the January Fire and Frangrance DTS. Then from January to March staffing the DTS, and building a relationship the students. Then we will be sent out for the next three months to do our outreach. After that I will continue on serving the YWAM campus in Kona and helping out with other school till next October. Since I know I will be going threw some life changing moments I don't know what the next year will look like but that is why I started my blog so I can keep you all up to date with that. With this I am also asking people to pray for me on this journey to partner along side with me in prayer. I am also looking for supporters. We will be kept pretty busy which makes it hard for us to have a jobs. My cost for the entire year will cost 7,200 and we are asked to get up to 600 a month. This helps cover my staff fees and my food and board, along with insurance. So I am asking you to pray about it and see if you feel led to be one of my supporters. I have thought about and come up with some ideas of ways you can help! If I could have 30 people partner with me in 20 dollars a month it would cover my costs, or if I had ten people to partner in with 60 dollars a month that could cover my costs as well, even if you would like to give a one time gift that is amazing as well. I have been able to work but have not been able to save enough for living expenses. So please pray about it and see where the Lord leads you. I know and I see the times we are in the economy is not so great but we serve a great God who is bigger and knows the needs of yours and mine. I can atest to people not having any money to having everything they needed paid for in our DTS class. So I know we serve a big God who cares about me and defiantly cares about you and your needs.
If you are ineterested in giving to me let me know! I have not set up and easy way for you to give but I will hopefully in the next few days. If you want to send a check you can do that. Send it to P.O. Box 876784 Wasilla, AK 99687 you can make your checks out to me. More then anything I desire your prayers. It is what I know has helped me threw out the years when you can feel the prayers of other over your life. Thank you so much it such a blessing to share with you all that has been going on in my life. If you have more question just email me at katelandhilty@gmail.com.
Proverbs 16:9 The heart of man plans his ways, but the Lord establishes his steps.
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