Thursday, November 12, 2009
Holly is preparing for HIS next mission for her!
HELLO FROM BOULDER, COLORADO!!!!
I have been back in Boulder for not quite 4 months now, and want to thank sooo many of you for your prayers and financial support of my last mission trip to Uruguay. YOU ARE THE SHOULDERS I STAND ON TO BE ABLE TO SERVE...THANK YOU!!!! I was able to serve in many ways, but I think the biggest change was in me....God has a way of doing that doesn't He?
If you followed my last blog, you know that I "ended up" at the YWAM (Youth with a Mission) base in Montevideo, UY last Spring. (part of God's plan from the beginning of course). God impressed upon me during that time to attend a Discipleship Training School...and so... that is what I am going to do.
I have spent most of my time while being back getting things in order to go again, and working as a nurse again part-time at the Health Center at Colorado Univ. I have been limited in my free time to catch up with so many of you because of this.
At the end of Decembember, 2009 I will be heading back to South America to Pichilemu, Chile which is approx.3 ½ hours south of Santiago. I am going for a discipleship training school (DTS) with YWAM, at a bilingual mission base there. My initial 12 weeks will be mostly classroom training, and then I will spend just over 12 weeks doing outreach in Venezuela, Ecuador or some other town in Chile.
I see myself using this training wherever God leads me to live, or whatever He leads me to do after DTS. I believe that wherever I am is a “mission field”, and by knowing and having experienced time evangelizing, I will be more comfortable and willing to share wherever I am. It seems like God is possible calling me into full-time missions, so I think that this school will be very valuable to me in many ways….including being immersed in Spanish. Several years ago, God instilled a passion in me for the Spanish speaking peoples and I have been studying and trying to learn the language since then.
The following is from a YWAM web-site, describing the Discipleship Training School:
”The DTS is designed to encourage students to develop in personal character, to cultivate a living relationship with God, and to identify their unique individual gifts and callings in God. Cross-cultural exposure and global awareness are special emphases throughout these courses, preparing the students to reach current and future generations and answer the call to "Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations" Matthew 28:19”.
There is the possiblitly that I may return to Uruguay after Chile to serve some at the YWAM base there, and also return to the orphanage I formed relationships with for a time after my time in Chile. I do not have any specific time I will be returning at this point but it will be a minimum of 8 months. I am trying to “tie up” any loose ends here so I may be available to obey His call whatever it may be...for whatever length of time.
Please pray for me as I am trying to raise funds to be obedient to His calling me for missions, and also that I can keep getting needed things done before I go.
If you would like me to remove you from receiving my blog information, please e-mail me at Tompkins_holly@yahoo.com, and I will take your name off my list.
If you would like to help support me financially, you can make a tax deductible contribution to: (please don't put my name on memo line of your check. Write in mission work/training if you like to have something on the memo)
Presbyterian Foundation of Boulder
P.O. Box 270457
Louisville, CO 80027
THANK YOU ALL so much for the encouragement, the interest, the prayers, and the financial support so I can be some of the hands and feet for God while I am here.
Holly
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