another amazing week

Dear all who read this, I want to begin by saying it is a blessing to be able to share with all of you the things I am learning. My hope is that you will recognize the huge need there is in the world for justice. This week our speaker Colleen Milstein, spoke about the importance of keeping the Bible as our strategic manual for everything we set out to do. This to me was a great message, because she stressed the significance of reading the Bible in order to learn something and not only to “just read it”. There are so many instructions in the Bible that God gave us for our own sake, it is incredible to me! He specified to the smallest detail so that we could live more comfortable, organized and healthy lives. And yet we decide to go against his instructions and do what we want. This is completely mind boggling to me.

The Bible tells us over and over again that our God is a God of justice and that He is calling us, his people, to care for those who are least fortunate. He didn’t instruct to only care for a few, or for a certain social class or certain race. No, he loves us all equally. John 3:16 says “for God so loved the world”, not only a part of it but all, “that he gave his only begotten son”.

Another important thing our speaker spoke about and that completely impressed me and made me be even in greater awe of God is that God is in EVERY area of life. We should not limit God’s representation anywhere. Yes, we might be called to a certain area of life but it does not necessarily mean that God isn’t in other places doing work as well.

Colleen emphasized the much needed work in all spheres of society. You might ask yourself, what are the “spheres of society” as defined in our classroom and in YWAM (Youth With a Mission) they are divided as follows:

                Art

                Business

Communications

Discovery/ Science

Education

Family

Government

Holiness/ Church

All of these are spheres everyone can be involved in and be serving God. Yes we all have a specific calling and because of that calling we all have specific gifts! We cannot ignore that any longer, we must honor God by exercising those gifts that he in his Mercy and Goodness granted us.

God has been revealing himself to me in extremely amazing ways this past week, and he has been constantly reminding me that he has created me with a calling and a purpose and that I must be obedient to him in order for His name to be glorified. I am so amazed that God has chosen to partner with us in order to bring restoration and justice to the world. I have decided not to ignore his call any longer.

I feel his strong calling to work with women, men and children that have been swallowed up by the prostitution industry. It is such a hard and sad issue to address, but I do believe God wants to see all of these people restored and brought back to him and his original purpose. The ministry that I will be working with is called Freedom Streets and what we do is, usually once or twice a week we g to the streets where the prostitute gather to work and try to engage in conversation with anyone willing to talk. As we do this we believe that we are building relationships that can grow into friendships and in the process we can show them God’s love and hopefully we can make them understand that there is an alternative life that they can have outside of prostitution.

My future goal and prayer is that an open house will be built where the women who are ready to leave prostitution behind can have shelter and care, and where they can heal emotionally, physically and spiritually.

As I work towards that goal I will need financial, emotional and prayerful support. I am a part of YWAM (Youth With a Mission) and International Interdenominational Christian Organization that offers no salaries and the work we do is voluntary. I will love to continue with this project that we have and your support will be extremely helpful.

If you pray and feel led to partner with me I would love to be in touch with you via email. You could reach me at brendadluna-72@hotmail.com and I could answer any questions or provide any other information you would like to have.

God Bless and have an amazing fun day!