Malaria pills *check*, immunisations *check*....Haiti here we come!

It’s two days till I leave for Haiti and my spirit is stirring up in anticipation! I can barely believe the last 3 months have been and gone already and it still feels rather surreal to think that in two days time I will be hopping on a plane and launching into the air!

I can already see the beautiful people in my mind as I pray and I’m so excited to meet them in person. We will be spending the first couple of weeks on the YWAM Haiti base serving and blessing them as well as possibly joining in their ministries in orphanages and brothels. After this time we will be living in the tent cities with the people and running week by week mini discipleship training schools with the people for about a month! I’m so stoked about that, I’m expecting that God will be doing incredible things during this time. One of the most exciting things, though, is the prayer burn we will be running in the lead up to the national elections. God has given us contact with over 150 different churches in Haiti and we will be calling the church in Haiti to 200 continuous hours of prayer and intercession for their country. One hour for every year that they have lived under the voodoo blood contract. God wants to redeem and bring restitution for every year this land has suffered injustice and oppression. We want to reinstate Jesus as King over Haiti!

It’s been a crazy journey watching the Lord pour out his blessing on our finances as a team. We only need $4176 now for the whole team – when we split that between us all it’s only $250 each! So even though some have enough money and some don’t we are all trying our best to see the last little bit come in! We are trying to have all the money raised by the 22^nd of September. So this is my invite to you again...if you would like to partner with us and the work God’s doing in Haiti this is your opportunity! The easiest way to donate is online at this address:

https://apply.uofn.edu/OnlineAppDocs/OnlinePayment.cfm

We have a team account that the money will go to called ‘Revival and Reformation: Team Haiti’. If we get more than enough money we will donate the rest to the earthquake relief fund. If you are doing it this way please let me know how much will be going in so that we can allocate it correctly ;) If you would prefer to donate to me personally then choose the Revival and Reformation and my name.

I want to thank you all so much for your prayers and for those who have been able to donate and partner with us financially. You have no idea how much it all means to me and the inheritance that you have in God’s work in Haiti as you have poured out your prayers and resources.

I probably will be out of contact for a lot of the time I’m in Haiti but I will try to update as much as possible!

All my love!

Kerri

You are OUT OF THIS WORLD!

What would your life look like if you fully believed that you have been raised up and seated in heavenly realms with Christ? How would you see the world? How would you see yourself? How would you see God?

What if we got a hold of the astounding truth that we are extravagantly loved and adopted by God as his Sons and Daughters? If we knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that He's our Daddy and he LOVES us!?

Jesus downloaded a story to me the other day. I warn you, it's very intense. But I invite you to imagine this with me:

Imagine 9 months. 9 months of joy, expectation, anticipaton, excitement, and travail. 9 months carrying this precious child inside you. 9 months. And now, filled with the most overwhelming and delightful love possible in life, you look down into the bundle in your arms. Your heart swells and bursts with the kind of joy and love that is beyond words or explanation as you gaze into these sparkling eyes that reflect your face. Imagine. Maybe you've experienced it already. If you're like me and have no idea, just close your eyes and pretend you're holding your firstborn child in your arms - can you even catch a taste of the fullness of this love and passion? Seriously, don't read any further - just try and imagine this for a second.

Now imagine that as you stare in wonder at this beloved child, memorizing every shape and tone, you notice someone running towards you. You look up just as they descend on you and violently attack. Fear fills your heart as your body is wracked with pain but all you can think of is protecting your child. As you try to cover your baby, he is snatched from your arms and you are left on the ground helpless and unable to do anything as you watch your child brutally murdered before your eyes.

Sorry this is super intense and raw. But can you imagine the intense grief and pain and trauma? How would you feel towards the attacker? How would you feel? How would you cope?

Now imagine you are on the other side of this story. I want you to imagine you are lost, angry, hopeless, and out of control. Imagine yourself as the attacker. Take a second and really think through it. What have you just done? After this atrocious act, you look into the eyes of the mother of the child as she is completely overcome with horror and shock and pain. How do you feel when you look into her eyes and hear her piercing cries? The guilt. The shame. The reality of what you have just done sets in. You sink to the ground and start screaming, crying - you are dead inside. You want to die. You deserve to die. As you fall on the ground and prepare to kill yourself you are suddenly stopped as you are held in a fierce grip. The mother of the murdered child falls on you. As you prepare to recieve the judgement you deserve from her you are shocked to find that she is embracing you, not killing you. The fiercest embrace, the most violent love. She lifts up your downcast head and pulls your gaze into hers. Her tears fall hot upon your face and she whispers tremuously

I forgive you. I forgive you.

I love you. I love you.

Over and over and over and over again she whispers and cries until it becomes gut wrenching, ear splitting -

I FORGIVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! YOU ARE MY CHILD! I ADOPT YOU AS MY CHILD! I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!

It's unbelieveable right? Unthinkable. That the murderer of the child, is adopted as the child.

What is this? Who can possibly love like this? To love the very one who stripped love away.

But this is the gospel...it's insane. It's beyond amazing. Even while we were nailing His beloved Son to the cross, even as we were mocking and spitting and whipping Him, he loved us and died for us so that we could know the love of the Father. So that we could know what love is. And he took us in our wretched depravity and he forgave us, but he didn't just forgive us - he adopted us as his children! He loves us with unfailing love.

As far as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love!

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our sin!

Ephesians 2:4-6
"But God, so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great, wonderful and intense love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our own shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ. He gave us the very life of Christ Himself...for it is by GRACE (his favour and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved. He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together, giving us joint seating with Him in the heavenly sphere in Christ Jesus. He did this that he might clearly demonstrate the immeasurable, limitless riches of his free grace in his kindness and goodness of heart towards us in Christ Jesus."


I ask you again. What would your life look like if you truly believed that you have been raised up and seated in heavenly realms with Christ? How would you see the world? How would you see yourself? How would you see God?

What if we got a hold of the astounding truth that we are extravagantly loved and adopted by God as his Sons and Daughters? If we knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that He's our Daddy and he LOVES us!?


I am broken but completely whole. Forever changed. It's finally sunk in: My Dad loves me. This love is joy and full freedom. Love IS revival.

THIS LOVE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD. And I'm starting in Haiti.