Ohhh Snap... God never ceases to amaze me!!!

I want to start this post off by saying Thank you to all the family and friends that have contributed to the mission in Trinidad, both financially and spiritually. I will be leaving for Trinidad on November 14th. I am so excited I can hardly contain it!!

In preparation for the trip I have been praying regularly and for the next month I will be doing a Daniels fast on Tuesdays and Thursdays and keeping these days solely dedicated to prayer. Please keep Scott and I in prayer that God would be able to break us to the core and humble us to be used only for his kingdoms cause. Its so funny because I keep wanting to go and just be a servant to bless the people in Trinidad, but I have been feeling as of late (after watching videos from Faith Assembly in Auroca which is the church we will be at) that we will be the ones to be blessed. I totally look forward to meeting new people on the island and praising God with them as we make new friends.

Being in prayer for justice and mercy around the world has really opened my eyes to alot going on in the world, as well as right in my city. I truly believe God is raising up a generation of youth that are going to stand in the gap and be the body of Christ even more than the generations before. I get very excited when I work with kids in Fort Wayne that have had a very rough and unfair life, to watch as God breathes into there soul and reminds them that they are loved, and that they still have a purpose. To change broken youth into people that love Jesus, there is nothing greater.

A couple things I wanted to bring to your attention are several websites that I would ask you to visit sometime.

http://www.notforsalecampaign.org - Not For Sale is an organization that is changing the world by liberating slaves, abolishing slavery and fighting the sex trade industry. I have been blessed by there actions and this website has alot of information that will be very useful. They have alot of merchandise that is hand made by liberated slaves and women freed from the sex trade, along with there stories. I bought my wife a pair of earrings that were hand made from a woman in Indonesia that was freed from the sex trade in Bombay India, and the profits go to her and her family. Jesus died for our freedom, and gave us the the command to Go. This is a small step we can take to have an effect across the world.

http://www.six11.wordpress.com - Six Eleven ministries is a ministry started by my friend Shawn, that reaches out to the Gay and Lesbian community. They are a revolutionary bunch that is out to spread the love of Christ, and bring truth in a real and relevant way without condemnation. I would encourage you to check em out, and prepare to be blessed.

http://www.tenthousandvillages.com/ - These are local stores that are part of the Fair Trade movement, to make trade fair. Really cool stuff and awesome stories of people who crafted the items.

http://www.tomsshoes.com/ - Really cool store, that when you buy a pair of shoes, another pair is donated to a person in a third world country.

http://www.neighborlinkfortwayne.org/ - Getting closer to home, neighbor link is an amazing organization that connects people wanting to serve there neighbors to people that can not meet there needs to bring volunteer assistance. This is an awesome way to get plugged in and give of yourself without expecting something in return, and show justice and mercy as Micah 6:8 asks us to do.

These are just several of the websites I have become a fan of. I would encourage anyone who is reading this to be excited about giving!! to be excited about serving and to be excited about showing justice somehow every day. It may be helping someone in another country, it may be helping the homeless guy you pass on the street. Maybe it is your neighbor you have never met, or better yet one you cant stand. Maybe it is the person you work with, or even are married to. It isn't just mission trips and charity organizations that show justice, it is our every day life that we have compassion and mercy, just as Christ has shown us.

Thank you for your continued prayer, and there will be more to come.....

God Bless


Nik