Hey Everyone!
For the moment I'm back in Seattle. Life the last six months have been completely transforming and life changing! I have loved every moment of it. The rest of the time in India, our team worked in a Leprosy Colony, cleaned an orphanage, built a road, painted a huge prayer room and a school, were part of a three day crusade, did open air evangelism, went on prayer walks, and did MANY VBS's. We saw some amazing things happen through it all. At the crusade there were over 300 people who came to know Jesus. During the open air evangelism we saw healings, someone who was delivered from being possessed by a demon and someone was saved from suicide. These things happened because a random group of young people from all over the world decided to go. I learned so much from seeing what God can do with people who are willing.
At first it was a big shock coming home. It almost felt like the last six months were just a dream, that I didn't actually travel the world and experience the things I did. But what's amazing, is I did! They were real and what I saw was evidence of God's power. In coming back home I was faced with a choice. I could live my life like how I was living before, or I could live the life I was living for the last six months and continue down the path I was already on. I felt like it wasn't a choice. I am changed forever and for me, there is no going back. I choose to remain changed!
So it is with much joy and anticipation that I announce to anyone who reads this that God is calling me to full time missions. Now you probably are asking yourself, what does that mean for me. Well, allow me to share my heart with you. Even before DTS I felt that God was calling me to teach. I didn't understand what it meant at the time. When I joined YWAM (Youth with a Mission) and during my DTS (Discipleship Training School) I felt like God pressed on my heart once again that he wanted me to teach others. I prayed and ask for God to give me confirmation and clarification. During the last six months God has drawn me close and shared his heart for others with me.
I now know God is calling me to teach and disciple others and take his word to his lost children. So I am becoming a full time missionary. Allow me to share my vision with you and what God is calling me to. I sat down and made a list of everything I felt like I was being called to during my DTS. My list is as follows:
- To teach others
- To staff DTS
- Australia
- To start a ministry helping abused women and children
- To write a book
- To work with human trafficking victims
- To be involved in Worship and Music
- To write a book
I wrote that during my lecture week on Calling and Vision. Shortly afterwards I spoke to three girls who are on staff at YWAM Newcastle and shared that I really felt God was calling me to staff at the base and that I felt like he wanted me to start a ministry for Women and Children, especially human trafficking victims. Newcastle Australia is one of the main ports in the world for Human Trafficking. I knew this before choosing to do my DTS at Newcastle and my heart hurt knowing that was going on in that city.
When I got back from outreach in Chennai India my compassion for the lost and enslaved had grown tenfold. One of the girls I had spoken to earlier about starting a new ministry approached me with ecstatic joy. She shared that when I approached her previously she was so excited because it was already in the works that a Mercy and Justice DTS (A school that's primary focus would be helping and reaching out to human trafficking victims) would eventually start and it was still confidential information at the time and she couldn't share that info with me.
The DTS was finally approved and it was announced that it would hopefully start by July 2011. I would be one of the people helping get it started. To go back on staff at Newcastle I would have to complete staff training which is a three week training course. They do training courses every quarter which is in Jan, April, July, and October. With my time frame I was looking at coming back as soon as July to do my STS (staff training seminar) or October. I prayed about it and I felt like I was suppose to come back as soon as July, which didn't give me much time home with my family. I had a meeting with our base director and his wife, and later talked to a girl who would be running the July STS. She informed me that the July STS would be part of a seminar called "Not For Sale". Not For Sale is a non profit organization that has conferences on Human Trafficking Awareness. Well, if that isn't perfect timing, I don't know what it!
I now have my plane ticket and I'll be leaving WA July 7th to go back to YWAM Newcastle and join as a staff member. To be on staff and the cost of living I need to raise around $650 of monthly support. Also for when I go on outreach to another country i'll need to raise an extra $2500-$4500 for expenses and airfare to cover two months. It may sound like a lot of money, but I know God will provide it! If you are interested in partnering with me financially and supporting me please contact me on my email lisamorrone@gmail.com I will also need prayer support and I'll be using this blog to update my needs and prayer requests.
Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me both financially and with prayer. You have been a huge blessing and because of your participation, everything that happened in India was made possible because of your help. Two months in India changed the lives of many, think of what leading teams all around the world could do!
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