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Come to Me

February 28, 2017
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This post was written by Kristie Reville, a long-term missionary doing Beauty for Ashes ministry in Cambodia. I have been in Cambodia for a little over a month now. Every day is a new day. A day to chose joy. A day to chose mourning. A day to chose frustration. Every day is a new day. What are you choosing in your new days? I firmly believe the Lord has purposes and intentions every day. Every time we wake up there are new revelations to be had. Being overseas is literally the best thing. And the hardest thing. Its a roller coaster of emotions, disappointment, and of course, the what...

Beauty for Ashes in Zimbabwe

August 4, 2016
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This blog was written by Rachel Witt a member of World Race X Squad doing Beauty for Ashes in Zimbabwe. Last month, my team and I hosted two Beauty for Ashes retreats in Zimbabwe. Both retreats were a huge success! The first retreat we hosted was in Gokwe, a very rural town in northern Zimbabwe. The retreat was two full days where women from far away villages could spend the night. The second retreat we hosted was in Kadoma and it was 3 half days. I loved the opportunity to get to know all the women that came. We met many different women from different places and backgrounds. It was really...

Greener Grass

July 13, 2016
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Have you ever felt like something was wrong with you? You look at others and just count the ways you don’t measure up to some invisible standard. In this culture of comparison we are always being told that we are not enough. We have been duped. We have have been trained by this world that there is something not right about who we are. We are sold this lie that the grass will be greener if we buy this product, look this way or live this lifestyle. We have been conditioned to constantly compare ourselves this perfect woman that all the girls want to be...

I’m Not Enough

Chelsea Ray from the April Expedition route of the World Race shares her story of the lies she has believed about being not enough. I’m not enough. There, I said it, the words that hide inside so many of my thoughts and actions. So much of my time is spent sitting and trying to think of ways that I can be better, more acceptable, more enough. Of course I don’t think those words exactly. Deceit would never be that forthcoming. Instead I am reminded of all my many shortcomings, moments I have fallen and failed, and the people who have told me by the way they’ve...

Women of Faith

June 28, 2016
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Erika Michael from Team 4 reflects on how powerful women in the Bible have challenged her faith and the brave risks they took. Tonight I get to preach at the weekly women’s meeting at Centro Cristo, the church we are working with here in Cuba. I want to give you a preview of what I am speaking about, and what I have learned as I prepared for it. It was on my heart to share about women of faith in the Bible. The women that allowed themselves to be used by the Lord for His purpose. The first story takes place in Jesus’ hometown. By now Jesus was well known and there was a crowd...

He Shattered My Chains Once More

September 29, 2015
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Your Story Matters

Before I surrendered to Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior, my life was consumed by depression, thoughts of suicide, and an addiction to cutting. One night I cried out to Him for salvation, and His perfect love washed over me in a torrential downpour of grace, and He set me free. A year and a half after Jesus delivered me from my darkness and destruction and gave me eternal life, I fell into gross sin. I believed that I was completely worthless and beyond redemption. I believed that I had also broken God’s love for me as I held the shattered remnants of my relationships and identity...

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