Laugh from the Past Month

Could I?

Could I just sit here a while
Know that there’s nothing that I need to say
Safe in the knowledge that You know my ways
Love me completely no need to hide a thing
       
Could I just stay here a while
Letting You melt away all of my fears
I feel Your comfort when You are so near
I’ll hide myself in this shelter You’ve made for me

Could I
Could I

Could I just kneel here a while
Doing what I was created to do
Bowing in reverence I long to adore You
Willingly giving all that I can surrender

Could I just rest here a while
Letting You whisper my burdens away
In all of my journeys there’s no other place
Where I find refuge strength for my weary heart

June Newsletter

Since I am home from New Zealand (and finally over jet lag ), this will be my last newsletter.

Please continue to pray for the students and staff as we have all come home and some are still needing jobs and places to live. The Devil is out there coming against us strongly with confusion, depression, old habits, no jobs, etc. Please pray that we stay steadfast in Gods Love to fight the devil off and remain thankful!

Even with these powers coming against us, the Lord is good!!! He is providing our needs.

--
Kandi

For I am the LORD, your God,
who takes hold of your right hand
and says to you, Do not fear;
I will help you.
Is. 41:13

May Newsletter!

Prayer Requests:
Wisdom on next steps for all students & staff......

--
Kandi

For I am the LORD, your God,
who takes hold of your right hand
and says to you, Do not fear;
I will help you.
Is. 41:13

Risky Business

Then the time came
When the RISK it took
To remain in the bud
Was more painful
Than the RISK it took
To BLOSSOM.

~ Anais Nin

A Poem

Time is up, time to go
Back to where I once called home
Back to my fears and failures.
But Jesus is with me,
New strength He provides
To stay close beside Him
To grow as He guides.
A new home He'll provide me
A job and friends, too.
Because He is living
And loves me, so true.

~ Kandi

April Newsletter from Kandi

Praise God!!!!
The weather has been gorgeous for break - and the trip that Janet and I took to Taupo!

Prayers are being answered.

The staff is rested up for school to start tomorrow.

Prayer Requests:
Continued healing/deliverance. Students are still struggling with illness, injuries and other stuff that God is working out in their lives. I have also been frustrated by a sore wrist and continually twisted ankle.

Wisdom - I will need a job and place to live when I return to MPLS. I am also considering (and praying about!) moving....from MPLS.

Direction! I would like to visit my Compassion Intl child in Uganda later this year........

--
Kandi

For I am the LORD, your God,
who takes hold of your right hand
and says to you, Do not fear;
I will help you.
Is. 41:13

Finally...Time to Write!

Attached is a little newsletter with tons of photos...there are more, and different ones on my facebook page (if you have one!). If you want to see them but can't, please let me know and I can get a link to you later.

Prayer Requests:
health: i am just getting over a nasty flu, some of the students are now coming down with it.
breakthrus
biking sunday outreach - march 22 there is a bike race arriving in waikanae and the church who sponser's the steiger school here, st. luke's, is have an outreach day at the park for the estimated 1,000 people who have to wait for the bikers. there will be food, coffee, tea, a church service for those interested, child care for parents, and other entertainments. the students are hard at work putting this together. please pray for good weather (it's been iffy lately) and for everything to go well.
for the insanity to stop!!!
better time budgeting - God-Time, sleep, eat, 'work', play....etc.

--
Kandi

For I am the LORD, your God,
who takes hold of your right hand
and says to you, Do not fear;
I will help you.
Is. 41:13

I Love Refried Beans

Ugh - Lists!

What do I do when I get overwhelmed and nervous about an upcoming event? I make lists. Lots of them. and guess what? I fly out for New Zealand in 20 days. TWENTY!! That is craziness. I kinda thot it would not come so quickly, but yet it’s coming faster and faster! What to do, what to do!! Answer: MAKE LISTS!! I have 8 started. 3 more that I’m working on right now. 4 completed. And a few more that I will start tomorrow. Thots and questions swirling around in my head making me crazy!! I like lists! They keep the craziness in some form of organized mess. Yikes! Lists are good. Yup!

 

Going Back? Maybe Not.

A Need to Know Basis

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. (hee!)

 

Tigers have striped skin as well as striped fur.

 

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. (How I wish I could be ‘average’ in this aspect of my life!!!)

 

A rat can last longer without water than a camel. (ewwwww)