Family.

Well.. I sure do love family. My older brother, Bobby, has been traveling for the past year and to end his trip he stopped by Perth to visit me! It was such a blessing! We had loads of fun... I took him to most of my fav. places here in the city-he is the first from Roch to see this place, meet my friends, learn a little bit about how I live! He came in just the perfect timing... :) Love you Bobby.

UNDIVIDED 08 WINTER CAMP

I just got back from staffin a week long Winter Camp... yes it is Winter here in Perth at the moment... We had 17 of us volunteers from YWAM take 60+ Aussies youth from all over the state of Western Austalia to a place in the hills called Camp Logue Brook... where we met with God! Had heaps of great food.. played some really intense games... in the photos you can see how wet and rainy it was all week... some of the guys on my team-we were the SPARTANS. Def dominated in mostly all the games... I have now bruises on both my legs.. but we wanted to fill our treasure chest with as many lollies as possible.. whoever had the most at the end of the week WON-unless you won the super challenge which was a rely race-your whole team was tied together and had to go up a 'slip and slide' to race up steep banks into the basketball court where we passed lifesaves from toothpick to toothpick (for some of the crew it was their first time ever getting close to anyone.. including the opposite sex...not sure what the game creators were thinking..) from there we ran a few kms to crates full of brown bags-each person had to eat everything in it-if a team member vomitted it up-still had to be eaten..thankfully my team had some courageous girls that scraped one of the guy's sardine filled pancakes... after a five min time delay (one of the kids tried throwing out his spam..) we raced to pull a HUGE ORANGE BUS... doing it in the fastest time my team and I jetted down to the pond to build a raft and go out into the middle and back... yes... we made 2ND PLACE!

It was a fun week... the best part even after the games was how responsive the campers were... 3 accepted the Lord for the first time and many of them left saying they know that this will not just be another 'camp high' but know they will take something with them and can apply all that God did in their lives... :) So thank you for being apart of what God is doing in the Australian youth...

gotta love 12km walks..

alone!!!! What a day... I went for a refreshing walk around the river that runs through perth... enjoyed some good ol' worship music and jack johnson...

'oh God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water... your unfailing LOVE is better than life itself... I cling to you; your strong right hand holds me securely...' parts of Psalm 63.

I am still in Perth. Still serving through YWAM. Transitioning at the moment. Getting greater direction and clarity from the Lord as how to move forward. Went down to the river again today-it poured on me.. but was so beautiful. listening to God speak. Hearing his perspective on my life... how I need to change. to go deeper with him... to see his creation take my breath away. To once again receive his perfect love.. to be accepted as his daughter... I am looking forward to the season ahead.... feel like there will be heaps of surprises.. promises fulfilled. breakthrough in different areas of my life... see his blessings poured out in various ways... to be refreshed in him in a new way...ta.

Photos from Indo/Botswana/Namibia.

gotta love africa. traveling through the places God has created for us to enjoy..riding with people that 'click' to communicate.. are still hunters and gatherers...beauty. then we have what it looks like after going through 'indonesian tradtitional medicine' OUCH. gotta love the green toilets... oh i will never stop loving to travel. experiencing all that you do...i am so blessed. grateful.

Winter in Perth.

This is from Landry's and my trip over to Melbourne to see my parents as they were 'house shopping' the beach we are standing on will be located a block away from the house.. talk about exciting!!!

desperate.

life. what a wonderful thing to live a life that serves the one who gives life. brings hope. joy. curiousity of the future... understanding that everything will be okay.

Since I last wrote... I have lived in many different places, with a variety of people... the rubbish areas of Indonesia-to a farm tucked away in the hills of Namibia...a dirt road in the middle of the Kalahari desert underneath a million stars...to a sleeping with bugs called 'naughty johns' that chase you... a long-term missionary... pastor and his family...volunteers... local people. Have learned new ways of life... how to see MORE in and through GOD'S eyes... man. I am so blessed to be walking in the truth of him... in his light. to be chosen to see a group of 18 year olds grab ahold of God's heart for their own life... to then transfer it into those they come in contact with...

I love this life God has called me into..never knowing what to expect with tomorrow... but dreaming for the future... for my generation and our broken world to not just be set free...but to STAND AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE. TO FIGHT. TO BELIEVE THAT OUR PRAYERS DO MATTER... GOD HEARS US NO MATTER HOW YOUNG, OLD, RICH OR POOR WE ARE... HE HAS CHOSEN TO USE THOSE THAT ONCE WALKED AWAY...

An example of how I am learning to believe this and live it out is this past week I was in Windhoek, Namibia (africa) with my team when, I was reading James 5:11 and on... about prayer... the prayer of a righteous person... So I felt as a team we needed to be praying more in the morning before we started the day with brekky... So we started too... also in this passage it talks about how Elijah prayed for three years for it not to rain-it didnt and when he prayed for it to rain..it did. I had a thought. WOW. that would be so cool if it rained here this week...since the locals say it is def a blessing when God brings rain... it is a very dry country... So i thought it. Four days later I was meeting with one of my students... it started to RAIN! I got so excited.. because all week I kept asking on different days.. "Do you think it will rain today?" They would laugh, say no... So. I finished praying for my student-then immediately had her pray with me that God would continue to pour himself out on Namibia... right when we were done it started raining again... just a little bit!!!

FElt like God was reminding that he hears my prayers... answers them.. I just dont always see the results immediately and it requires perseverance and fervent prayer.... Well, I was getting up in the mornings around 4:30... did the next morn... yet decided to change my routine a bit and half asleep was thinking/praying that it would rain again.. our last day of ministry... AND right when i finished it started POURING!!!!! It was a beautiful moment for me... i did nothing.. but just that reminder of how powerful God is... how committed he is... how he speaks... it was great... to also see a beautiful Rainbow in the sky as we drove to the preschool my team and I were working with...

Oh... just so desperate to see my generation know God in the way I have come to know him... and I am still getting to know him...

cant update in indo... so write again in 3 weeks... blessings.

partner...

..in crime... so i leave tonight.. march 28th.. to indonesia.. there until the 27th of april to head to africa then back to indonesia... to go hard with the lord and my lil team!!!

i wont be able to update this at all in indonesia... so please keep us in your prayers.. for health, safety and open doors for ministry and building relationships... that we would see God show up in mighty ways.. would love to hear from you!

You can email me at ort8@ywamperth.org.au or my personal emails... just dont write anything about the lord.. thanks!!!

miss you. blessings.

kath

i love surprises!

oh how i love surprises.
it is a very rare thing for me to be surprised.
there is something about them that just tug at my heart in a way that other things dont..
so i wanna share about how God is the best one at doing this..
yesterday i had class and the speaker was talking about receiving God's love-sometimes its a hard thing to do.
he was encouraging us to do the things that brings refreshment.
so for me it is running. be active. being outdooors.. so i went for a run down by the 'swan river' it is beautiful there... i had this thought, 'wouldnt it be great if i saw dolphins today' not really paying much attention to the water...
i went to sit in the sun to listen to my music and pray... out of no where two dolphins popped up in front of me!!!
I could almost reach it.. one splashed me with its tail...then swam slowly along the walll and i walked next to it... watched it do lil tricks out into the middle of the river.. as it disappeared.. tears began to rush down my face... GOd does love me. he knows EVERYTHING that is going on in my heart... he answers prayers... he knows what gets me better than anyone else. knows what i need to hear when... how to comfort me and love me like no one else can.
ugh. he is sooo good.

PRAISE REPORT FROM TODAY... I GOT ALL MY FINANCES IN FOR OUTREACH!!! THOUGHT I NEEDED 1300 STILL.. then got a note saying 900 dollars would be in my account in the avo... turns out i only needed 700... GOD provided more than enough... just need to be obediant to him.. listen to his lil simple leadings and then things are released.

I LEAVE IN 10 DAYS TO INDONESIA.. CANT WAIT. MY TEAM IS THE FIRST TO GO. TO PREPARE THE WAY. WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR PRAYERS, EMAILS AND JAZZ as we go out...

blessings and heaps of hugs.
kath

WINDHOEK-NAMIBIA

rando laughs.fun.life.

yes.. i love to laugh. these photos are from:

a good friend's lil sister's engagement party.. great night to relax. chill. eat good fiji food-hiphip hooray for pig hair on the pork...
the one with me dressed up as 'kaos' the superhero that can read minds and bring clarity..heheh... was our school's dance party!!
me burnt with some of the girls at our annual volleyball tourney.. i had no idea i was that burnt... until a few hours later when i looked in the mirrow... ptl for the green color effect..
One of my girls had this great idea to pour ice cream on me...hence the fight in our lil kitchen of 228.
ALso, another exciting event was when our boys set up a surprise dinner for us girls.. we went to Kings Park here in Perth-the largest park within a city in the southern hemisphere (possibly the world. not 100%) such a great night.. took heaps of photos as if we were going to prom... I am sitting on the wall with the beautiful girls i get to go to Indo, Namibia, and Botswana with!!!

Just a glimpse of the moments of laughter. refreshment....I am a truly blessed missionary. Stoked to meet and see the people God puts in my life for the rest of my journey. dance with him!

He continues to give me heart for this generation. my generation. that we would rise and take our positions in his army... to move forward. to not be afraid of the enemy. the challenges of this world... that it is possible to be like jesus as we ask us how to be him. daily. to be his voice. his hands. his feets. to show a tiny piece of his TRUTH. his LOVE. that my pray is will PENETRATE into something so much more... to have FAITH that knows no BOUNDS! because we put all our weight onto him. the lord almighty that has called us to go.. .to be his disciples as we make others through the way we live our lives....

no more luv month.

man. march is here basically. we as a school have 4 weeks left.
leaving on the jetter on the 30th.
going to see change in lives.
see a city continue to transform.
sleep in the sand.
share the truth of the lord almighty.
to experience walkin in the fear of god.
to get to know one another better.
but first.
there is more to grab ahold.
learn how to fight for breakthrough.
would you be praying with me and my team for our finances.
to god's doing it has lowered a grand! PTL!
Now there are four of us still in need... about 14,000 i think.
Would greatly appreciate your prayers. encouragement you might have.
we have set up a raffle... pray that we sell heaps of tickets!!!
off to dinner and another meeting with the students.. will update more this weekend! love you. miss you.

gotta love living in 104 degrees...eeek. if only i was closer to the beautiful water... hmmm.

yp08 students...

here are some photos of the girls in my small group... they are amazing... have chosen to take shape. chosen to allow the lord to bring change. open and available to him...we just finished week 7 which was on 'bible unity' was great. challenging and intense. seemed like basics of christianity yet why is it so hard to include. to be open and serve others above myself? why is it a push to always be loving and giving of ourselves. to be humble... man oh man. God's grace is a beauty.

On a personal level... had some really refreshing times with the lord this week! Getting more of an understanding as to how he has equipped me to be a fighter... to take my postiion in the army....that we fight to see breakthrough and once there is breakthrough we dont walk away but bring his glory into those places.... I want to know and learn how to carry his glory in! What a priviledge it is to be apart of the battle. Apart of his army that is taking shape around the globe... at the moment my team and I are fighting to see our Outreach finances come in... would you help us in this fight.. we have about two weeks... the budget isnt set because our contacts are not.. so that is a prayer point. Also, that I would have wisdom as what to do in what countries... to be able to discern the safety of certain ways of transporting from place to place... Thank you so much! To those who I dont hear from.. would love to get an email..let me know what you are up to!

Blessings,

katherine

stralianshelia@yahoo.com

kaffrin003@hotmail.com

This is Landry and | after an Art exhibition.... for you christy.

refreshment

finding refreshment means sleeping for 8 hours instead of 4... having short moments of laughter with great friends.... being able to listen to great music on the 5 min walk to work everyday.... recieving a genuine hug from someone you love... sitting on a park bench staring at the beautiful clouds.... listening to the wind blow... walking through a mall praying on behalf on those you may never know... sitting in a HUGE white bus praising the Lord with a loud guitar.... seeing a student accept GOD'S unconditional love for the first time... being able to share the climb up the mountain with others.... walking in faith to know my heavenly father will provide for all my needs.... refreshment.... its what i need to go again today. tomorrow. the next... refreshment that looks so very differently in each day... i am grateful for it!

Today i get to be refreshed by going to a place here in Perth called "hilary's harbour" go for a bit of swim... walk along the dock.. window shop.. maybe get some ice cream!!!

This past week we as a schoool we learning ' The fatherhood of God' was soooo good... hearing things about Identity, Security and Self-worth.. being thankful for who God made us-Yes i am officially a person of the 'land' 2 Chron 7: 14 onwards... :)

Spent 12 hours yesterday watching people go through a prayer process of meeting their 'heavenly father' for their first time!!

Also found out which Nations I get the opportunity to head out to at the end of March!!!

Namibia, Botswana and Jakarta, Indonesia... We will spend the first and last month in Indonesia.. being apart of Megacities and then the middle month in the other two to reach more of our 97 nation goal for 2008!!! As a school we have started the car washes, breakfast fundraisers... in seeing finances come in.. at the moment I dont know what the final cost will be for me personally- alot. More than usual... Will let you all know when it is finalized so you can be praying with me!!!

Love you. Miss you. Thank you for all your prayers and support!!!

In him.

legs stuck to the seat.

... yes it is really hot here in perth... 37 degrees C...around 100 degrees F. HOT! i am sitting in a cafe... sweating. stuck to the leather bench i am sitting on. no AC. life goes on though.. bad day for a cotton dress.

Jan has almost come to a close...the students have just finished their third week of the school... Which was on 'hearing god's voice/intercession/worship' was really good. exciting to hear testimonies of what God is saying to them... seeing them start to believe...have more faith. trust. gain a bigger perspective on their own lives... identity in christ. hear the desparation in their prayers.. To give you a lil more detail on the girls in my small group: They are each very different... love to chat. love to chill. seeking out if this God thing is want they want to live for...

Beth is 22 from Sydney. Really genuine. Real. Honest. Raw.. one of her strengths.. she is going to be someone that makes a difference in our world...i know we always hear and say 'oh they are a world changer.' Well...this girl is. will be as she holds onto christ. chooses everyday to live for him...

Daisy is 19 from Switzerland..with Chinese parents... loves art. loves people. loves to be on the computer...::cough:: facebook. ha. Has heaps of questions about God-yet overflows with his joy.

There are five more...that i will fill you in on soon... beautiful girls. desparate for change. willingness to learn how to apply all the things they have heard in youth group and church... wanting to be people that share the love and redemption they have gotten from the father...

Will try to get some photos of them and post... I had a wonderful new camera from my eldest brother... which has now been broken by 'community living' no idea how it happened or when...no one else does either... so i am sad. but life goes on. miss you all... i personally am doing well...blessed by god's grace in all situations and circumstances... he is ALMIGHTY. loves. email me!!!!!

stralianshelia@yahoo.com or kaffrin003@hotmail.com

in him...

katherine.

p.s will be finding out soon what countries i will be going to in april..

week two already...

Yes.. the school is moving along..we are on 'Forgiveness and Repentance' this week... even after my third time of sitting in on it.. still so powerful.

Today. Monday. was a busy one... Class with the students... my own Basic Leadership Course.. which was on Honoring our Leaders-what it looks like and how to do so; so we can disciple others in it as well.. Then tried to nap with some ants.. didnt work. met with one of the girls in my small group...then had this intense desire to go for a run... to go and meet with the LOrd.. which is what I wanted to share...

I went down to this beautiful river reallly reallly close to where the base is... and just sat. Asking God again why I am here? What he has in store for me... heaps of people have been getting that this year for our base god wants to bring vision and direction for us corporately and as individuals..that there are new beginnings ahead... so me being me... asked god.. welll what is it? What do you have for me...

He reminded me that I just need to keep CHASING HIM. Of when he told me almost two years ago that I was to 'Disciple and Counsel' my generation... that i am to preach and teach the Nationsssss. That i dont need to worry about what it is or how it will happen.. but to keep focusing on him. Seeking him. To step it up in my walk with him.. .live him out in my daily life and that is how i will best disciple those under me... oh so exciting...

Also learning balance. time management. to take time for myself... the school.. the other staff.. the girls.. my relationship with landry... hard but good to learn how to balance it all out...

I heard once that satan just loves to throw everything OFF balance. So i am trusting God will show me how to keep balance with him...

Miss you guys... all of you...whereever you are.. thank you again for your love and support.

Back in Perth...

Hey there... so it has been a week now since I arrived... the young peoples' dts that i am staffing started on sunday... we are in our first week of lectures which is on the 'character of god'.

There are about 50+ students... most from canada and then other nations around the world... I will have 7 girls in my small group-so I will be walking through the next three months as well as sitting in on 3 more with another girl staff...

The students are all really sweet and excited to be here...Which i am stoked about... I am also living in the girls' dorm... get to share a bathroom with two girls instead of 15... blessing. also there is air con.

The following pics are my room in the dorm and some of the staff for the yp...