Hey world!
July and August have gone… Wow where does the time go?
So July and August .-` Full of lots of sun. The weather here has been extremely bipolar, but overall a pretty hot summer here in the mountains! Our Art in Missions school has been working so hard. Week to week we have had some incredibly talented teachers come in. We have had topics ranging from oil painting, graffiti, mixed media, living a lifestyle of creativity, creativity in missions, art and healing to art evangelism. It has been a full load and the students have taken it all head on. I have seen them all grow not just in their artistic abilities and technique, but also in their identity and relationship with Jesus! I have seen them all overcome many obstacles, struggles, lies, and not to mention many many projects and deadlines! I am so proud of all of them. I have been blessed to be a part of school (and base) that trains young people & artists to go out into the mission field and am blessed to be a part of what God is doing in their lives!
On a personal note .-` this summer has been a roller coaster ride emotionally, spiritually, physically and mentally. God has been teaching me so much on humility, grace, trust, joy, and diligence. He has taught me the importance of community and being humble and vulnerable with those he has placed in my life. To humble myself when I do need help and prayer and reach out and ask those around me and to keep short accounts with one another. He has been teaching me the importance of rest, but more importantly resting in His Grace! How to also give myself grace and that it is okay to fail, as long as I keep persevering and growing. To keep my heart in tune with His heartbeat so that I won’t drift away. To fervently seek Him and fix my eyes on Jesus and not my circumstances because He ultimately knows what is best for me and has amazing plans for me so why worry? His yoke is easy and His burden is so light. I am learning how to walk this out daily and to be diligent and intentional in my walk with Him and those around me.
God has never ceased to amaze me! He has been teaching me also more about patience in prayer, but also how patience doesn’t have to be a hard and annoying thing but a beautiful thing! For when I wait on the Lord, He will reveal more beauty to me. Patience brings courage, strength, understanding, but most of all HOPE… hope for the future! So as I wait on the Lord for answers, for provision, wisdom, understanding and healing… I will love, hope and trust in Him that no matter the outcome, He is always GOOD! For his provision is everlasting and faithful!!
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” – 2 Corinthians 12.9-10
I cannot do all this alone I know, for God alone is the one who strengthens me. For when I am weak He is strong. Therefore I will trust in Him. However, I also in humility come to you, my family and friends. I ask for your partnership in prayer! For there is power in prayer and in numbers. “I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people…” (1 Timothy 2.1) “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him – a threefold cord is not quickly broken” — (Ecclesiastes 4.9-12) “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” (Romand 8.26) “Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you..” (2 Thessalonians 3.1).
I am confident that God has gifted me to be a part of this ministry. To disciple and train and serve! As I have been serving Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Denver full-time for 10 months now and will be committing to another year in April, 2015, I am seeking your partnership in prayer and monthly financial support that will help me with my staff fees and daily living expenses. Everyone who is serving with YWAM around the world are all full-time volunteers and raise their own support through churches, families, friends, fundraisers, etc. My goal is to reach $12,000 at the end of the year, which is $1,000 per month. For prayer and an update, as of now I am in need of $700 in monthly support. If you would like to partner with me financially and be a part of what God is doing in my life, you can either choose to pay online with a one time donation or set up a monthly payment at: http://www.ywamdenver.org/donations by checking the staff support and typing my name in the box (Janelle Burns) and filling out the rest of your information, or you can mail a check made out to me at:
Janelle Burns
12750 W 63rd Ave
Arvada, Colorado 80004
If you prefer to make your check tax-deductible, please make it out to Youth With A Mission and place a post-it with my name on it, but no memo, but please make sure to put my name on it somewhere :) If you have any other questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact me through here or by my email: liliajanelle@gmail.com.
I am so blessed to be a part of this YWAM base that is training and discipling young people to go out to all nations and to all different spheres of society. I hope you all can come along side me and the other thousands and thousands who are part of this ministry to help further God’s kingdom.
If you could please be praying for the following:
– For provision to continue in the ministry that God has called me to serve with here at YWAM Denver – I am still in need of $700 in monthly support
-Pray for this next quarter’s students coming in September 29th – for provision, for visas, for open hearts to allow God to really move in their lives!
– For the home that I have been living in for 3 months now… that my relationship with this family would continue to grow and be full of love, life and truth
– Pray that my relationship with Steph would continue to grow stronger and stay pure and wise and be full of joy and love and truth!! And that his visa will be processed smoothly, speedily and reasonably!!
– For provision for Steph and me to be able to go to England at the end of the year (December 13th through January 3rd) when he has to return to receive his visa. I am planning on going with him to meet his family before we can move on to the “next step” (*ding dong ding dong*)
“And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.” – Philippians 1.9-11
Blessings and Love,
Janelle
P.S. I woke up Friday morning to our first snow fall of the year!! Crazy. And just more proof of how bipolar the weather is here… its currently 82 out and sunny again… I am ready for more snow! Bring on winter!
Janelle
Papa and His girl 