Knowing I need and its great!

Hey everyone!!

So I am not going to lie my last blog writing was inspiring to me. I couldn't believe how much I had enjoyed writing and missed it. So here I am to write again. It is truly a gift to write. I love sharing and I feel like this is one way I can have a little conversation (sort of one sided obviously unless you email me about it later.) that we are having and I can let you in and you can know what is going on.

I am into the forth week of the school the 18 Inch Journey here in Sophia, NC and am in Awe. I mean I knew it was amazing but being around for it as a second time my heart is dreaming again. Watching 32 people get transformed by the love of God I mean WOW!! Its like I am seeing life in full color view and watching others see it in full color to. I can see the beauty of what is possible in of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The beauty of it all is that there is no end to God. About six years ago before I left for YWAM or did much ministry, I remember thinking I have sat under so many people, heard so many messages I must know everything there is to know. Prideful, however honest and I was 19 at the time. I was determined to find God, complete my destiny(or at least get it started), do all the amazing things I thought I was suppose to do so God would love me more. So my quest began. It began by living in North Carolina and being with awesome people and learning about God there, and then into YWAM and the mission field traveling the world and learning about God there. Then being with my family and learning about God there. Now I find myself in North Carolina again and learning about God here. There is no end to God and no matter what I do He loves me fully and always loved just me. I have realized that youth is a period of growth. That Jesus had it too. He sat, he learned, He worked. He did everything. His thirty years of life before ministry were him learning about the father and fleshing out what he believed and knew to be true about the father and growing in knowing that the father loved him before he did anything else. I have realized that I have not come to my end of knowing God and will never come to an end.

I love being apart of this school so much and these last five months have transformed me. I have come to this place and have realized more then just learning about God I need him. He has the way to every lasting life and knowing him and needing him never has stopped at salvation. He wants to be there every day of my life to show me, to help me and to teach me. He wants to transform me by love and so that I can love. So that I can see people the way he does. I often thought that I should just know these things and know how to do it but how can I if I never talked to God and listen to Him. If I never talked with him, I would just be doing works upon works trying to figure it all out on my own. That isn't a present Father God that is a distant god who doesn't love. There is a neediness for God and it is a great thing. I have a need and its great cause its JESUS! Even now I am still letting this just sink in to my heart. We all do and that is the awesome thing. He didn't just create us then to just let us be he created us to have relationship with and then with relationship with each other. Its quite a beautiful picture that God didn't want to be alone and then he created us to not be alone. He created us to need him and need eachother. I LOVE IT!

I love sharing and thanks for reading. As I sat down to write I realized that I am still facing a need, one that is of financial needs. I am still need to raise about $500 for over then next two months for a plane ticket to hopefully two beautiful weddings one in Alaska and one in Boston and also to cover my expenses over the next few months. I am asking for peoples loving support in getting there. I believe in what I am doing and have felt the loving support of the father, and my family, and friends to step out of working a 9-5 job and living and serving here at A Place for the Heart in this season. If you would like to help me reach this goal you can email me at katelandhity@gamil.com or you can go to PayPal www.paypal.com and type in my email address and give the amount there you would like. Thank you so much i am always humbled by people and how they give to me and support me in this time. Your prayers so valuable to me and I am thankful for all who have covered me over the years. It has been such a beautiful blessing to be apart of living life with so many different people.

Loves to everyone,

Kateland Louise Hilty

25: I am coming ALIVE!

I have never seen life full of color like I do right now. About five days ago I turned 25. Not huge for some but for me this birthday was a big one. As I look back at my life, My 25 years, I find myself astonished by how it is so different. So different from how I imagined it, how I planned it, how I had determined it to be. Now don’t misunderstand me that is not a negative statement but one of maturity and the realization of how different life truly can be. Five years ago if you asked my perspective on life I would of given you an answer, not one of experience but one of ideas. I didn’t fully understand the pressing of the world around me, the struggles, the responsibility, the joys, the adventure, the unknown of life that I now see. I just didn’t, it wasn’t wrong, I was just young and learning. I find that I haven’t left that place by turning 25.

Just one the edge of this new year ahead of me I feel a calming of old waves and on the horizon I see unknown in front of me. I see that I cannot predict the a storm, bad weather or calm seas, the sun coming out today but what I do see is hope. Hope to lead me, to guide me and to anchor. Hope that says with everything I am with you. Really I am opening my eyes to see the father standing next to me saying I am with you every step of the way. And that is why you never have to be afraid of what you can’t predict today. So at 25 I am ready more then ever to let life come and to sail even in the unknown because I have an anchor in my soul and His Name is Jesus.

So where do you find me today? Well I am currently living in Sophia North Carolina, where I am apart of a community led by Jonathan and Melissa Helser. Where I have been an intern for these last 5 month. I did the 18 Inch Journey last summer while I was still apart of YWAM and in August of last year I decided that I would leave YWAM and come and work in a town right next to Sophia called Asheboro so that I could work and be close with my amazing and wonderful boyfriend Joel Case. He is also has apart of the Helsers community and has been with them for the last six years. After doing their school and being with the community in the fall I would be invited to apart of the Second Phase school they would be doing in February as an intern. I felt a lot of joy on and I wanted to grow and learn more from all who are in this community and it has been so worth it. So in January I would leave my job and I would come and be apart of the Second Phase school. This school is amazing and I have got to see 12 lives be radically changed before my eyes. I have learned so much about God and leadership and serving and ministry. It has forever changed my life. Now in just a few days we will be starting our 18 inch journey (which is the school I did last summer) which has 32 beautiful students coming to it. They have no idea what is about to happened and my heart is full of anticipation and excitement for what is about to come. Truly God the father is about to show up and changes peoples lives and I am couldn’t be more excited. I can’t believe I get to be apart of it all.

This is where you find me today in Sophia North Carolina. I love it here. The woods bring me back home to Alaska and I feel like I have come alive in such a beautiful way being here. I love the woods and I don’t think I realized how much I loved them till I moved away from them. I guess you could say that when you a girl from Alaska the woods are in your blood.

I am so glad I was able to write everyone and tell them where I am at. I also wanted to ask you all to join me in two ways as I help with the 18 Inch Journey. One is through your prayers. I always need them and love. The second is through giving. I have all my housing and food paid for but I am in need of about 1000. This money would cover the cost of an airplane ticket to Alaska [for a beloved friends wedding I am in along with seeing my family (who I desperately long to see),} with some living expenses and some bills. If you feel led to you can give through my paypal. It is not tax deductible but it is for an amazing purpose. I have been richly blessed by so many people through the past five years of ministry that I have done and I am beyond grateful for it. I also know that God is a good father who loves to provide in mysterious ways. As I was walking up to my room tonight I realized the enemies greatest lie that he wants us to believe is that everything is impossible. That statement goes against who God is. SO I am believing that this is possible. If you have any questions you can email me at katelandhilty@gmail.com. (this is also the email for my paypal.) Thank you so much for catching up with me again if you have any questions or like to know more I am doing email. I would love to tell you!

**TO GIVE PLEASE GO TO PAYPAL AND ENTER MY EMAIL ADDRESS. katelandhilty@gmail.com**

Lots of love

Kateland Louise Hilty.