destination:TURKEY

Hey guys, just wanted to update you all on what we will be doing in Turkey!! I will be using abbreviations for some things for our teams safety, so if you aren't sure what it means please message me about it, or just get the general idea of what I am saying! :)

We are leaving March 27th. We have a really long lay over in San Francisco so we will be able to leave the airport & take an adventure around the city. I am really excited for this because I have never been to California! Next, we will fly to Germany and from there to Turkey!

1st Destination: Antalya!

 

Based on the Apostle Paul’s port of entry and exit to Asia Minor, you begin with some basic language and cultural adaptions, lead out in Burns, sow into long-term workers, share the Good News, release the miraculous, and celebrate Christ’s Resurrection with the expat community by helping lead worship!  This is also the city where we are based as a family!

 2nd Destination: Izmir ( Smyrna )

The Burn was launched here a few years back and soon a fully functioning hop will open. Our team will join in prayer & encouragement for those who are a part of hop. We will help man the hop, prayer walk in strategic areas (like the ruins of the old city), and outreach to a needy, dark area where Islam, consumerism, and sex trafficking are prevalent.



3rd Destination: Villages of Antalya


We will join an existing ministry called Awake Antalya in major pioneering prayer and outreach. This strategic initiative will take us to rural Turkish villages that have never seen a foreigner, never have been prayed for, and never have heard, felt, or seen the Gospel!!!

4th Destination: Cappadocia

We will launch the first burn here! This region is known as the bible belt of the ancient world filled with over 3,000 prayer rooms where Basil the Great first fused mission, community, & prayer together! In addition to launching the burn in an underground cave in a super strategic area, we will help teach basic music to "m" kids, prayer walk in some super strategic villiages, and praying in some of the ancient prayer furnaces and whatever else God leads us to do!!


5th Destination: Kusadasi 


We have the honor of being invited to launch the Burn at the nation Y conference! We will lead out in prayer, worship, and soak the Y pioneers with whatever God gives us. This will be a time of relaxation & debriefing for us.

6th Destination: Villages of Antalya


This will be really similar to the one above but to a different village! We will also be hosting some nights of prayer leading up to a Burn on Pentecost.

7th Destination: Antalya


We will head back to Antalya where we can reconnect with those we have shared the Gospel with and relationships we have built. We will have more strategic EV and outreach.

We are so so so excited for this outreach! God has placed us with amazing leaders, teammates, and location! We are excited for what God has for us in this! Please continue to pray for us! love you all!!

Do you know who my dad is?

Really, do you know who my dad is?
He really is the nicest guy you will ever meet. He takes care of me so well and is always there for me when I need to talk to Him.
I told Him I needed $2,000 by March 2nd. He didn't sigh, or get angry. The next day I checked my bank account. He put in $1,060 for me. THANKS DAD!! :) Yesterday I told Him i still need $1,000 by March 2nd. I know it is still a few weeks away, I'm not worried that You won't get me the money. I looked in my bank account today. You put over $2,000 in! THANKS DAD!! :)

He really is the best dad in the world. His love for me is really crazy. He loves me as much as Jesus, His other Son.

Do you know who my dad is?

Abba, Daddy. Your love for me is unfailing.

God, my Father. Your love for me is unchanging.

The bride adorns herself with jewels.

"Do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day"  2 Peter 3:8

     In the end times is the wedding feast.  The day when the bride of Christ and the Man Himself finally come together.  We are that bride brothers and sisters!!!!  In the end times we will be at that wedding as the bride.  So what does a bride do to prepare for the wedding??  She puts all of her best clothes on, she put her best jewelry on, she dresses herself up like never before, EVERYTHING, from top of her head to the bottom of feet is decked out in beauty!! Even the things unseen that only the groom gets to see ;)

     So in those days we will be decked out with the best things that the world has ever seen.  The best meaning the different talents and gifts that we all have are going to be shown off like never before.  The best and most successful musicians, the best and most successful business people, the best and most successful chemists, leaders, policemen, lawyers, stock brokers, teachers, etc...  God is going to show off the best jewels in these days.  There is no part of the body of the bride that is unimportant either!! Even how clean the bottom of her feet are on that day is important.

     Like Jesus Himself waited 30 + years to start proclaiming the Gospel, so are we in these last days.  We have so much inside of us that is just waiting to come out!!  Timing is everything.  We are not to awaken love until the right time.  The time is coming!! A day to the Lord is like a thousand years, so we are probably in the last hours.  The bride does not dress herself days or weeks before the wedding. No! That is the time to get to know her mate.  It is on the last day that she gets dressed up!

     The Father is screaming NOOOOOOOOWWWWW, now is the time for my Son to receive His bride!!  We have waited for long enough.  Now is the time for YOU to act on those deep desires in your heart.  They were given to you for this time.  Those desires, talents, and gifts are not your own, but were given to you "for such a time as this."  "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart could fully know the things that the Lord has planned for those who love Him."  Something new is about to sweep over the earth like we have never seen before!! These days are precious, so don't take them for granted.  Listen to what the Lord tells you.  IT IS TIME.

      I got this revelation tonight while we were finishing off our 24 hr burn at YWAM.  While we were all celebrating and dancing before God my beautiful wife was sitting on the floor reading her Bible.  I was almost going to say to her "get up and dance!"  But God helped me to remember that we are not all the same, and worship looks different for a lot of people.  So when we got done i told Ash about this thing that the Lord revealed to me.  She was reading almost the exact same thing!! WOW! God totally gave us confirmation that this is what He was doing.  I explained everything to her and she told me to read what she had just read.  Isaiah 61.  This chapter says almost exactly what Holy Spirit told me!!

For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,

And the garden causes the things

sown in it to spring up,

So the Lord GOD will cause

righteousness and praise

To spring up before all the nations.

--Isaiah 61:11

the secret to change the world

I feel as though I'm going through a paradigm shift. God is tearing down the walls of who I think He is.

I have always known that God loves us, that He does have only the best for us. This week for our speaker was Charles Stock. He said things like:        

         *God loves me as much as He loves Jesus.

         *God forgave us before we even asked for forgiveness.

         *God not only forgives our sins but He forgets we were a sinner {covered in His blood}{we are righteous}

whoa. that is some intense stuff.  I never heard that .. EVER! That right there is life changing. God loves ME as much as JESUS!?? I feel as though i'm getting a deeper revelation of this even as I am writing this. It is blowing my mind!! haha!!

John 15:9

I have loved you, [just] as the Father has loved Me; abide in My love [continue in His love with Me]

John 17:25-26

O just and righteous Father, although the world has not known You and has failed to recognize You and has never acknowledged You, I have known You [continually]; and these men understand and know that You have sent Me. I have made Your name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them.

I am praying that this love that God has for Jesus will be felt in my heart. That is what this verse says! The same love GOD has for JESUS we will have in OUR hearts!!!! That love, can change the world. God, consume me with your love. You are zealous & jealous for me. I pray for a deeper revelation of Your love [ the same love You have for Jesus & me ]  !!! This is so important. I need to KNOW this love that my Father has for me! From there our relationship will be so more intimate & I will be able to pour out this love from my Father to others that are hurting for love.






--ashley.