Mississippi.

29 Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. 31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12: 29-31

Harvest School 21 is officially over. 31 nations have graduated and been sent out into the rest of the world to spread the love and power of God and everything they have received from there time in Africa.

It has been such a huge honor to have been apart of the last 4 Harvest Schools! Creating amazing relationships and seeing God transform lives in front of me, are memories I will never be able to replace. I can not even comprehend the amount I have learned from being apart of the Harvest School staff.

Now I am in Downtown Jackson, Mississippi with a ministry and family called We Will Go Ministries (http://wewillgo.org/). I have been given the amazing opportunity to co-lead the Harvest School team with one of my favorite fellow Harvest School Staffers. 

Just to give you an idea of how the outreach has been going. Not an hour after I got off the plane and discovered my luggage hadn't arrived, I was headed to a church service held in a little pavilion behind one the the houses owned by the ministry. After 35 hours of just air time, maybe 4 hours of sleep, and feeling like it was running in the middle of the night because of jet lag, I'm not gonna lie church was the last place I wanted to be. Despite my feelings the service was amazing and afterward we all shared a meal with the neighbors and everyone else who came that day. 

Within the following days as the rest of our team arrives, jet lag slowly disappears, and we all get settled in we discover that this place has the hand of God resting on it like no other place I have been before. It is really difficult to even write the things that happen here on a daily bases because I feel I wouldn't be giving God justice in my mere words.  

In short, we found out that the Sunday I had arrived, A DJ and manager in one of the darkest strip clubs in the Jackson area, had attended the very service I could hardly stay awake in. Not only had he attended, but he received Christ into His heart! This was a man who worked in all kinds of illegal and corrupt buisness, who was vial, who on a nightly bases lead people into sin, and carried no conviction. He was at that very church service receiving Jesus as his Lord and Saviour!!  Then on the following tuesday night the owner of  a chain of strip clubs came to Bible study. As most of the longterm missionaries here in Jackson would say, "you just can't make this stuff up!"  This is just some of the fruits of this place. Some of the fruits of Amy and David Lancaster saying yes to whatever and not relenting on people who are cast off as "to far gone."

We Will Go is a living breathing example of Isaiah 6:8 "Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" 

Over the last week here my team and I have experienced the real tangible love of God. We have met so many people, heard so many of their stories, and witnessed the heart of God for His people. People who have nothing in the midsts of a country that "has everything," people who have never seen real freedom in a country that is a "free nations," people who have never been heard and are finally given a voice. It has been so amazing to me to be able to just sit down with these men and women, who are no different from you or I, who deserved hell just as I did, hear their stories and just listen. No agenda. We just listened and were amazed at how loved and receptive of that love, they are by just being heard. 

Our time has mostly been spent running to and from projects and following different Staff around in their daily activities doing whatever we can to help. It is a lot, but as a visitor not as hectic as some of our days in Pemba.  My favorite part has been seeing the different programs, but not feeling like you are in the midsts of a program because of how relational and intentional everyone who works here is. 

One of my favorite places is at a YMCA Building that was given to the We Will Go Community for a $1.00 a year for three years! No I didn't miss a decimal place. They have transformed this old building into a 3 day a week youth center where kids ages 5-17 can come and recieve help with homework, be discipled, play games, and get a snack for free. There is also a basketball court for the 18 and uppers to come and play games from 3-5pm Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It is beautiful how the staff love the kids so well and handle some really tough situations and see grown men recieve prayer and healing in their bodies!

We do a lot of prayer walking and blessing the neighborhood while here. Today we got visit with a woman named Meghan, who used to live as a longterm missionary here at we will go, but also grew up in this town. The house she had grown up in as a small child is not, but a 5 minute drive from base. After moving to a bigger house when she was 13 her dad had rented out the original house to an elderly lady who lived there until she was unable to take care of herself. 

Once the neighborhood started to decline and become more and more dangerous to live in the house was broken into and became useless and abandoned. Meghan gets married and God begins to show her plans of restoring her inheritance in this town. One day, God, on a prayer drive through town, God directs Meghan back to her old house and she begins to pray for restoration of the old house.  Not to long after that day her dad agrees to inherit her the house and God begins to reveal to her and her husband exactly what He has in store for there new home that they plan to move into as soon God opens the door. It will be called "inheritance House." As a Harvest School team we are given Tent stakes that have been prayed over for 

months by a team of intercessors in TN before they are brought to Africa to be Sent out with the Students to all the nations we go to for outreach!  Today as we were walking through and blessing the ground and walls of this house we felt it was the perfect place to plant a stack. A proclamation of What God was saying. That by a native Mississippian taking back the land of her inheritance God was going to restore not only her family and the house, but the entire neighborhood. They will be a safe haven for all who come into their reach. 

  Cornelia, my co-leader had a dream a few nights earlier of planting a stake underneath one of the abandoned, destroyed houses in the neighborhood. This seemed like a perfect opportunity so in the rain we crawled under the House and planted our first of 2 stakes.    

Some of you are wondering what is next for me. Well If you hear anything let me know. Only joking, sort of. I am still in a lot of prayer about what is next. God has told me my time for now has Harvest School Staff is finished. 

It will be an important time for me to focus on my relationships in this season especially one very important that I have had to fight not to neglect.

On the 21st of December my mom and both my sisters are driving down to Mississippi to visit We Will Go and pick me up. Then on the 24th we will all head to Atlanta to visit my extended family for Christmas. And My intentional pursuer, Nathan, will be flying in from England on the 26th and spend two weeks with me in America for the first time! We will be in Georgia and Tennessee. This is a huge step for us so please keep us in your prayers! 

After Nathan leaves to go back to England, on the 12th of January, I will be heading to Mexico on the 20th with a crazy fiery team of Harvest School staff and alumni. To visit David Hogan, a man who lives by a measure of faith that is not comprehendible to me and most people I know.  It will be an amazing opportunity to learn from some of my heroes in life.  I will be in Mexico in a small village outside of Tampico for 10 days. Finally I will return to my beautiful town of Franklin, Tennessee where I will rest and wait on the Lord for His divine direction!

And that my friends will bring you up to date! I am so expectant of this coming week and the things God still has waiting for me and my team. Please pray for my friends and family here at We Will Go and remember sometimes the mission field is your family or next door neighbour. 

Thank you to those who have been constant in your prayers for me and for those who continue to support me financially. Money is a thing of this world that is a constant faith grower especially for a missionary. 

If you feel lead to support me financially I have a donate button on the top left hand side of my blog page that is linked to my Paypal account. Or you can email me at Rachaels7@gmail.com for other options!

If you feel lead to support me prayerfully just email me there are so many ways I could use prayer!

Thank you all so Much and Happy Holidays! May He who is worthy recieve all the Glory!

Blessings,

Rachael Michelle

     

PEMBA. I am home!

Finally after 3 months I have arrived back in blistering heat of summer in Pemba, Mozambique.

Staffing Harvest School has been a crazy ride this time around. Literally transporting 206 students to three different locations all within one school, most people would say, is insane and it kind of is, but isn't that what a Christian life is suppose to look like? Doing the impossible, the crazy, and insane things. I mean our lives are not meant to look like everyone else, but set apart.

2 weeks in Johannesburg, South Africa living in tents, 3 weeks in Nelspruit, South Africa living on a camp ground in the mountains owned by a Dutch reformed church, and now, finally, Pemba, Mozambique to the poor and the needy.

This Harvest School has been marked for healing and freedom and it is finally time to walk out some of that healing. From RTF (Restoring the Foundations), Father heart ministry (Dealing with Daddy issues), to walking in Prophetic gifting’s!  The students this school are a totally new bread of student. They are mature, aware, and willing to walk out their freedom at whatever cost. It has completely been an honor to walk with this school and seek after the heart of God like never before.

Coming into this season of staffing harvest school 21 I knew it would be my last school in this season. The emotions of it being “the end” hadn't really hit me yet, until one night in class God reminded me of why I was here. To see the dreams of people all around me ignited and to partner with the men and women He chose for this season, on all different walks of life, destiny's fulfilled and to learn and grow and lead as I do. Hunger igniting Hunger. The Lord gave me a vision that night. I saw the Harvest School students worshiping and as they worshiped little flames in there stomachs began to get bigger colors and fragrances began to lift from every person. These colors and smells began to call Angels like a signal. These angels were big, at least 8 foot tall, they came in pairs, one carried a large burlap sack on their backs and the other carried a shovel. I asked the Lord who they were and He said, “they are the coal barriers, they keep the fire burning.” As the angels began to pile into the room they started shoveling coal from their sacks and throwing it into each person causing the presence of Lord to get thicker and thicker.  As the fires grew holes were burned into the ceiling burning away any religious veils keeping us from fully experiencing His uncapped presence. The hunger ignited more hunger captivating an audience unseen. 

Now, finally, being back in Pemba just reminds me all over again how much I love this country and its beautiful people! I don’t know what I am going to do leaving and knowing I will most likely not be returning in 5 months time (the usual time frame between an October and June Harvest school season).  

Poisonous frogs singing from my toilet tank along with the worship music playing, physical healing, financial provision, and salvations, are all part of my daily life as a missionary and a Christian, but I am so hungry for more of Jesus. I have received several prophecies these past several months, all similar in nature, about how 2015 is going to look much different than the previous year. I agree and know it will, but there is never a sure word of what that “different” will look like. I am okay with this, but I am sad knowing I will be thousands of miles away from one of my homes!

I am so excited to be leading outreach to Jackson, Mississippi (http://www.wewillgo.org/main.html), poor back into my own country, to get to lead a team as well as learn from one of my personal heroes in ministry, and get to be with my blood family for Christmas! Praise God!

I am extremely short on finances this time around and I could use all the help I can get for my flights back to America for outreach. I am still in need of about $1,000 dollars. Apparently flying back to America is harder than flying away from it.  

I have been living on donations for the last 4 years and the amount God has provided for me is really astounding. I have been able to live a blessed life as well as been able to bless others with how much He has provided through a lot of you. 

So thank you so much for believing in me and trusting in God’s word on my life. 

MY gratitude will never be able to be spoken in words for there is no word for how grateful I truly am!

I have chosen the life style of a missionary and I am confident in the fact that I will always be a missionary no matter where the Lord sends me and having to trust the Lord even to the last minute (Psalms 46:10) is fully apart of that lifestyle and I know He will always come through because He always has. He is a good Papa.  

I am ready for a whatever the Lord has in store for me next and I pray you all can be apart of it! 

Thank you. I love you. 

Blessings,

Rachael Michelle

A School of Freedom.

Hello All,

Well the weeks have gone by, time has past so fast, and in just a few days Harvest School 21 will be heading into its third week of school. Unbelievable really how busy and consumed I can become.

I have been in Johannesburg South Africa for the past 2 months. Staying at the Iris base, Footprints, falling in love with the kids and the family here. Having to share all of it with 250 more people, after the rest of the staff and all the students arrived, has been difficult.

Now in just 2 short days (on Saturday) we will be moving on to Nelspurit, South Africa, also called White River. Where we will be renting a camp ground to have the next three weeks of Harvest School at Pastor Supresas Sithole's base.

In the past 2 weeks all the staff have been trained by Chester and Betsy Kylstra and there top Directors of development, Dave and Marylin, in RTF (Restoring the Foundations Ministry) Issue Focus training. Also all 220 students have received healing from this Issue focus format! It has been a crazy two weeks, but its amazing how much God has done. In class time we have testimony time and God has brought so much and so many people have been healed of broken hearts and set free from things holding them back! This School is marked for FREEDOM and purity of heart. WHAT a huge honor it has been to learn from the people who founded one of the most influential inner healing programs I have ever wittnessed. I am truly humbled!

Last week it was time to break up into our Color groups and go out on outreach, after all this is still a mission school. We went to 8 different townships. Some of the townships having over 1million people living in complete poverty. My group however, was chosen to walk to the smallest one of all. Literally and appropriately called Tiny Town, only having about 7 families in a small strip of houses not a mile from our base. It took footprints over 6 months to be able to have some kind of relationship with the people in this township to the point of being able to send food and provide pre-school for there little ones. So it definitely was an honor to be able to go and spend time with these families.

We had so much fun while we were there and made immediate connections with these beautiful yet skittish people. We played soccer, we captured a run away pig, handed out sandwiches, prayed with people, cleaned out their community garden and just had community. It was a beautiful time and great break away form base.

WHAT'S HAPPENING NEXT?

After Harvest School I will be returning state side to lead the outreach to the inner city of Jackson Mississippi. We will be going to one of my heroes in life's bases, Mrs. Amy Lancaster of We Will Go ministries. Jackson Mississippi is one of the hardest places in America to live and is absolutely a mission field! If you ever want to learn how to do real missions in America you need to visit this base. Amy and her family exemplify the true meaning of becoming like Jesus. They minister to some of the hardest most stubborn druggies and homeless men and women you will ever meet. And their hearts only grow bigger and bigger. It is such an honor to be able to lead this outreach plus it will put me home for Christmas for the first time in many years!

This is an extremely bitter sweet time for me as things are changing so much. This will be my last Harvest School to staff for a while, but not the end of my involvement with Iris Ministries. After 4 staffing Harvest Schools I think God is finally releasing me into new and wondrous things.

Praise to God alone I was finally able to book my flight to Pemba. Please be praying we are able to get our visas for Mozambique in Nelspurit!

However, I have no tickets to outreach yet and no way home. I have been pricing tickets and the cheapest I have been quoted from Pemba all the way to Jackson is about $1,500 dollars. I know to God this is absolutely nothing. But when you only have $100 left in your account to last you the rest of the month it is a big opportunity to trust the Lord. This is always my favorite part because He always comes through, even if it isn't in the timing I would like.

If you would like to be apart of supporting me and the people I poor into there is a donate button at the top of my blog page that will direct you to my paypal account. Or you can email me or facebook me directly and I can give you the other options.

Thank you so much to those of you who have been ket supporters of me and the places God takes me!

I wouldn't be where I am today without you!

Love & Blessings,

Rachael Michelle

Preparation. Family. Birthdays.

HELLO All!

I am doing great and having so much fun here in South Africa! Lots and lots of preparations are underway for Harvest School 21. A lot of Manual Labor, but I am loving the work! The FootPrints base I am staying at, which is also an Iris base, is an amazing family that really encourages everyone to take initiative on projects and lead, even if they have no prior experience. The kids that live on this base are not orphans, but actually believe they are sons and daughters and act as a family.

Along with all the large amount of Harvest School 21 preparations, I have also been helping cook meals for the entirety of the base, helping take care of the 2 horses that were recently given to the base, teaching P.E class for the kids, and really having a lot of fun with this new family.

I was able to celebrate my 23^rd Birthday here in SA and I had an amazing birthday! Prophetic words in the morning, Thai food for supper, Gelato, and a homemade strawberry with lemon icing cake made just for me! I felt so honored and loved.

Looking back on the last several years I have given my life fully to God I am so humbled to be able to say that I have been to 23 nations by the time I turned 23 years of age! That is only God and I can not wait to see where He takes me next!

Soon the rest of the Harvest School staff will arrive, meetings will begin and before we know it students will be arriving on sight! It is crazy to think that in just under three weeks 200 students will be flooding the base and my last Harvest School for a while will be underway!

As I have said in a previous blog this school will look a little different the first two weeks of school we will be in Johannesburg, then we will be moving on north to Nelsperuit for three weeks, and finally home to Pemba for the remainder month of school before we send out our amazing world changers to the many different nations on outreach!

Now I am not paid for what I do and as always, I will have to provide all of my own transport for this School.

Including the outreach to Mississippi, I am leading after school, I will need about $2,500 alone just for travel!

If you feel lead to financially support me in anyway please send me and email or Facebook message me and I will let you know the ways you can support me. Also at the top of my blog page there is a donate button that puts money straight into my paypal account! I am sorry I do not have a tax deductible option at this time, but I am working on one for the future!

I also need spiritual covering! So if you are willing to pray for me and would like a more specific list of things to pray for please email me and I will update you more often on specific prayer requests!

Thank you to all my friends and family who have supported me so much! You and God have gotten me this far and I couldn't be more grateful!

Love & Blessings,

Rachael Michelle Singleton

Next

Dear friends and Family,

I have been in Israel for the past several weeks now. I am so blessed to have been able to get this opportunity. So I thank all of you who played a part in getting me here.

I know God knew that I needed some rest after Harvest School 20 with all the weight and craziness it carried.

It has been a beautiful time of rest and opportunity to get to spend time with the Man-Friend, Nathan.

Nathan also has had the opportunity to meet my mother, who is on outreach after Harvest School here in Israel. For him to finally meet her in person ended up being a lot more important to me than I thought it was going to be.

Spending time with my mom was really great. As well as being able to see her heart for this place in her own element and what excites her.

 I have been staying in a Hostel Called Beit Immanuel, in Tel Aviv, near some friends and near to the Jews for Jesus flat where Nathan had been staying. Being able to just be, sit, explore, and get to know Nathan even better has been unreal. I feel so honoured to have this time.

We have been able to visit Jerusalem 3 times and to go to the wailing wall and I was totally wrecked by the power of God and prayer in that place. I became so hungry for the weighty presence of God to surround me all the time no matter where I am like it did there. After all the veil has been torn and He is that close.

In just one more day I head back to Johannesburg where I will be waiting for Harvest School 21 to begin. It will be my last Harvest School to staff for a while. A bitter sweet thought for sure.

When I first arrived to Israel I was a wreck. Incredibly emotional, in a bad way, and longing for rest. I can say that leaving Israel I am closer to being ready for the next phase in this journey. It is a good thing I have a bit more time before that starts.

Staffing Harvest School this time around is going to be a whole new experience and adventure waiting to happen. There is definitely a lot of pros and cons involved in staffing and at times the cons seem to out rule the pros, but God is always faithful in reminding me why I have done what I have for so long and why I keep coming back. Relationship, growth, being able to see people, from so many different nations, step into a love affair with the One who is worthy!

As of right now I am signed up and very excited to lead the Mississippi outreach to We Will Go Ministries after the Harvest School 21. This may actually put me in America for the Holidays! Praise the Lord. I used to hate, well not hate, I used to be very indifferent about the Holidays, but now I often find myself looking forward to any excuse to see family. What can I say community living has wrecked me!

As always a lot of financial provision is needed in this season coming. All together, mostly for flights and a few a buses, I am going to need around $2,500 this will hopefully help me purchase airfare from Johannesburg to Pemba, Pemba to Johannesburg, and Johannesburg to Mississippi! The buses are for travel within South Africa.

If you would like to help financially there is a donate button on my blog connected to paypal or you can email me directly and I can give you more information as to how you can send me money.

However, most importantly I need your prayers! Having a spiritual covering is the most important thing for me right now. If you would like to commit to praying for me let me know and I can keep you updated on personal prayer requests!

Love and Blessings,

Rachael Michelle

Another Ending Season

Isaiah 54: 2-6

2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; spare not; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes,

3 For you will spread abroad to the right hand and to the left; and your offspring will possess the nations and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

4 Fear not, for you shall not be ashamed; neither be confounded and depressed, for you shall not be put to shame. For you shall forget the shame of your youth, and you shall not [seriously] remember the reproach of your widowhood any more.

5 For your Maker is your Husband—the Lord of hosts is His name—and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth He is called.

6 For the Lord has called you like a woman forsaken, grieved in spirit, and heartsore—even a wife [wooed and won] in youth, when she is [later] refused and scorned, says your God.

Over the past month and a half God has been stretching me. At the beginning of this school I received several prophetic words about the season I was walking into. Specifically reverencing Isaiah 54. God wanted to stretch me to a new capacity. He wanted to broaden my horizon. If only I had known it would be so painful. 

I have been stretched  this season, to say the least. 

     Graduation for the Hravest School 20 students has long passed and my heart has been only that I finish well giving God all the glory for the amazing work He has done not only in my life, but especially the lives of all the students in this school. 

My trust and faith, my theologies and belief systems, my relationships, even within the government have all been under the fire this Harvest school. God was holding nothing back. I guess this was one of those be careful what you pray for lessons. 

In order to respect the privacy of other people involved I can not go into detail of what this school has entailed, therefore, making this blog post some what vague, but God knew this season was so pivotal for me. I have learned so much more about myself and the weighty significance of real oil of intimacy you can only get from pure alone time with our beloved Jesus. 

Julie Meyers from IHOP ( International House of Prayer, Kansas city, Missouri) was here in Mozambique the last week of Harvest school. An example she gave of her two sons in class one day spoke to me so much. 

One of her sons was pouring milk and another one was holding the cup. The son holding the cup was constantly moving it around as to make it difficult for the son pouring the milk to actually get any milk into the cup. The son with the cup was moving so much so that only a few drops were landing in the cup. Julie talked about how God, even though she was so frustrated with her two sons making a mess, spoke to her in that moment. The Lord was giving her a physical picture of how we as Christians are sometimes moving around so much and never stopping long enough to actually get filled up. To actually let the Lord pour out the gifts and intimacy He has for us each day. Even still the lord is so sweet and in those few drops we get here and there he lavishes His presence on us. But think, how much more of Him we could get if we would stop just being satisfied with just the drops! It is all about Hunger! 

I am really hungry for more of God. I had been crying out for more and more of Him and I am so thankful for this difficult school cause it really has given me an opportunity to grow in my faith and trust in Him. I never want to stop growing I always want to have learned something no matter how big or small. 

This season I have seen so much of God's goodness. I can't believe we have gradutated 350 students and I have completed my 3^rd Harvest School as staff.  

After school is over I will no longer be co-leading the Jordan outreach. I am sad, but God knew what I needed and what was best for me. So I will be heading to Israel on August 11^th to meet up with Nathan ( my Man-friend for those of you who dont know) to take some time to rest as well as do ministry with some friends there. Then I head back to Johannesburg, South Africa on the 29^th of August to wait until Harvest School 21 takes off. Thats right. I am going into school number 4. God willing.

One of my amazing and beautiful daughters in my house joyfully blessed me with all my flights from Pemba to Israel and back to Johannesburg. Taking me one step closer to a new season. I couldn't have been more undone by this jester. There are no words to express the goodness of God in that act. 

Having family here in this school has definitely had its down sides, but has that much more had its upsides. I don't think I would have made it through this school in one piece had it not been for family. Signifying that much more the importance of family to me and the ministry I know God is calling me into. I want to create family around me no matter where I am. I truly believe the Heart of God rests in real family atmospheres. No performance, but raw real family. Embracing each person for who He created them to be and calling them higher than worldly standards with intentional and loving communication.

God is real my friends. He walks among us everyday. I see Him in my House 9 daughters as they prophecy and proclaim destiny into one another. I see Him in the little african mama selling bananas outside our gate. I see Him in the mozambican evangelism team who every weekend are excited go out into the bush and see their people know the love of Jesus like they do. I feel Him when I am exhausted and want to scream He never leaves my side. 

I am so honored by the life I get to live. That I was chosen for this generation. My life is of no significance in the big picture, yet the Creator of the world chose me for such a time as this. 

Thank you to those who have been so faithful In supporting me. Whether it be financial or spiritual! It is a huge blessing for me and the yes cry of my heart! To be able to go knowing I have family in Christ backing me up in the movement of the Holy Spirit. I pray the Lord pours out 10 times the blessings upon you and your lives. 

This next season is going to be a really exciting one. I have been given so many opportunities for the new year and I can not wait to share them with you all. So please be praying for my decision making and to have lots of wisdom. More and more God is pouring out the desires of my heart! It is all so exciting!

More details to come. Please feel free to email me or contact me whatever way is best for you if you have questions or would like to be involved in covering me.

Much Love,

Rachael Michelle Singleton

Bush Bush In Chuiba

Update On Bush Bush In Chuiba

I know this is now two weeks late, but I did my best with everything has been going on which is a whole other blog. 

Two weekends ago I got to lead my Harvest School color group (MENTA) into to the bush bush. I didn't find out what village or area we would be going to until the day before we left. I was ecstatic to hear that my team and I would be heading to a village called Chuiba. which is the Village my home church, Grace Center, had adopted a few years ago. I couldn't believe it.

Thursday the fun began. My color group, mozambican team, and a few guest speakers headed down to the camions where we began to wait. Soon we found out one of our camions was broken and that was why we had been waiting for 3 hours. Finally we were able to get a truck and get things loaded. Luckily, for us Chuiba is only 30 mins away from base, when roads are good that is.

Finally we arrive, we set of camp, and we come together to pray right outside of the church that was washed out by the floods and the new church Grace Center help build.

Heidi and her team arrive and we all  drive out about 10 minutes to the place where we are showing the Jesus film.

We pile into the smaller trucks. The truck I am in stops. The transmission has gone out and we are parked right in front of a little store shack where all these Mozambican mama's are watching with curiosity. When the truck wasn't starting I decided to go over and try and chat with the Mamas and invite them to the film. They laughed at my broken Portuguese and Makua, but eventually got the point. Finally, the truck started up again and everyone jumped back in. I think we stopped just so we could invite those mamas. Alas, the sand got too thick and the truck was stuck again. We all decided to jump out and walk, but we made it half way through the film.

The film ends and the chaos begins Heidi began to preach. Jumping from Portuguese to Makua my team and I are quickly lost in translation. The next thing I know was that we were being asked if we were ready. Confused I said “yes?” Then I was asked again are you ready? I replied “Yes, to pray?” To which Heidi replied “no for your skit.” To which I replied “yes of course” running back to my confused team I told them very quickly to get ready for the Good Samaritan skit, that we had only practised one time before. They jumped in anyway and did there very best.

Then Heidi preaches again and asks the village chief to preach, who has only just become a Christian recently. Then we are pushed in to a fire tunnel line to begin praying for people. It all happened so fast! Surrounded by kids on all sides, trying to stay in our fire tunnel formation, having my hair pulled at by fascinated girls behind me, and still getting very lost in translation we all just keep praying. Hundreds of people are going through the line to receive Jesus a blind man starts to come through the tunnel to receive Jesus He stops right in front of me and Heidi everyone is praying the man gets healed and the line keeps moving. Just like that He was healed 3 years of cataracts and this man can see again.  The mamas I had invited to come earlier show up and come through the line. After about an hour of standing in a line the crowd breaks out into a worship dance party as we begin to pack down.

With no Truck coming to pick us up we make the long 30 min trek in the dark through the village back to our camp sigh,t accompanied by, literally, hundreds of children.

Exhausted, hungry, and covered in dirt we do our best to keep the kids out of our tents. We have our traditional bush-bush supper of spaghetti and tuna and head for bed.

The next morning we have breakfast (two bread rolls one with jam one with peanut butter) and complimentary Starbucks Coffee served by Heidi herself. We had a time of prayer then we split up into many different activities. House visits in the village, children's program, discipleship program with the church leaders, fixing latrine walls, and cooking lunch. As the day went on we got to hear many more testimonies of those who went out into the village and saw many people of another faith receive the Love of Jesus into there hearts, give up there witch craft and get healing in there bodies.

Praise the Lord I love my life and the things He allows me to see.

That night we had showed the Jesus film again in a different location it was an interesting night and the area was a more spiritually difficult area than the night before, but God only knows the impact we had on those villagers and what all they did received.

The next morning we had the amazing opportunity to honor the village chiefs with Breakfast and capulanas (mozambican fabric used for everything).

At one point I was speaking with the Pastor of the church, that Grace Center has help build, and told him that Grace Center was my home church! His eyes got bright and his smile increased and he said “oh tell everyone thank you so much! An that you are now my very good friend!”

Not long after we honored and blessed the villgae we packed up and headed out back for base.

The trip over all was a beautiful time to really connect with the village and see God work in ways there that even Heidi was excited to see because of the hesitation of the village so much before.

Something New

Hello Everyone,

Sorry its been a while since my last update. I have been so busy here in Pemba. Almost all the students have arrived and class has already started. Will Hart, from Global Awakening Ministries, has been here with his team starting off the school!

I think the last I have updated you all I was headed to London to visit the man I met in Pemba, but had spent the last 6 months getting to know over the internet. 

Finally we would get some in person time. Even though for only two weeks, but I took what I could get.

The two weeks we had together were so amazing. I have never been pursued or invested in with so much Honor and respect. I am truly a blessed woman. 

Alas, the two weeks came and went and I found myself standing in line at the airport saying goodbye to an amazing man whom I have fallen in love with so quickly.   

Only God knows what is next for us and I am so excited to see where He will take us on our journey together. Hopefully I will be able to reunite with Nathan in Israel in just two months after I lead Outreach to Jordan (Assuming finances come in). Then I will head straight back to Pemba to Staff Harvest School 21.

Please pray with me about finances. As of right now I have no money for flights or for outreach or for returning to Pemba. I believe God has called me to lead this team and I know He will provide in His timing. I am honoured to just get more opportunities in life that cause me to trust Him and watch how He amazes me and everyone else around me. HE IS ALWAYS GOOD. 

Harvest School 20 so Far has been amazing.  I love having my blood family here and other friends from Tennessee. It really does make all the difference seeing familiar faces everyday as I watch God bringing the promises of, what used to feel like a double life and two separate families, together as one.

I am a very proud House mama of 12 ladies. They are so beautiful and fantastic. I can not wait to see How God wrecks their lives for His glory!

Things are madness right now. There is so much to do and be done, but God is giving me the grace and capability through Him alone. One very important thing that He is teaching me in this season of life is that I am capable of all things, but only through Him and my strength should come from nowhere else but in Him! It is not an easy thing to learn, especially for someone who grew up learning to value independence more than trust in people. I don’t get much time off especially with the first couple of weeks of school getting everything into a flow and students getting settled, but the time I do have to myself I know is set apart for the Lord… and writing this blog…

I go on bush-bush next weekend and I am very excited to see what all God has in store for me and my team. 

I have been having some thoughts about miracles lately.

When people say to me “oh you live in Africa do you see lots of miracles?” I have a hard time coming up with an appropriate response. Of course I see miracles! I do every single day. However, they are not always the kind of miracles people want to hear about. I see miracles in daily life tasks. Getting things done promptly in Pemba is a real Miracle. Having the grace and love to spend, literally, almost every waking moment around people, for me, is a miracle. Learning how to receive ridicule for not understanding the language or correction for something I unententionally did wrong that offended the culture is a miracle.

 Of course I see blind eyes open, the deaf hear, and multitudes coming into the arms of Jesus, but those are not the only kind of miracles that can happen in one day. I thank God everyday for the miracle of life in general. On Base we have over 350 students walking around who all have a miracle story of how they got to Pemba. 

 How good is our God and how blessed I am to have the honour and opportunity to serve amongst people that God has chosen for such a time as this!

Yes I might complain about my work load, yes I will get tired and cranky, yes I will loose faith, but God is always faithful to fill me up even when I don’t ask for it. 

I miss you all and I wish you could all be apart of this life. Thank you to everyone who has been apart of supporting me and getting me to place I am now financially and spiritually. 

If you would like to Help me financially with getting me to the outreach I am meant to lead in August email me at Rachaels7@gmail.com

I need about $3,000 for all the flights. 

But most importantly I am always in need of prayer and spiritual covering for everything!

I love you all.

Blessings, 

Rachael Michelle

It Begins Again

Well today is the day. In just a few very short hours I will be off again. This time, Europe. 

I have been in a long distance relationship with Nathan for 6, relatively short, months. Finally we will see each other tomorrow morning after my 8 hour over night flight lands in. London. It is very surreal. However, I will only be with him for 2 weeks before I head out once again to the beautiful Pemba, Mozambique a place I have absolutely learned to call home. I am so excited for this new season and everything God has in store. Harvest School 20 is fast approaching and there are still so many things to prepare.

My time home was so amazing it makes it very hard to leave again so soon. I have seen God do some many incredible things through my life and the lives of all my friends and family in the states. He is moving and moving fast and I, as always, am His to guide wherever His wind blows me. 

While home I rested a lot and just waited on The Lord and his provision. Which if you know me at all you know how very difficult this is for me, but like He always does, He came through. I was able to go visit the new Iris Global base in Abeline, Texas. Where myself and a few other staff and Iris family were given the opportunity to receive a week of Andy Miller's Heart Sync, training and personal healing, by Amy Black. It was the most restful and uplifting week I have had in a while. We learned so much and were so honored by so many people that came and spoke. While I was there I couldn't help but be so incredibly thankful for the amazing men and women God has placed in my life to learn from and grow with. I truly am one very blessed missionary. And I could never take that for granted

I have committed to staff this next mission school (harvest school 20) as well as the proceeding school (Harvest School 21) which will begin in October. What will I be doing in between schools? Well, leading outreach Jordan, then hopefully, if the money comes in, heading to Israel to meet up with Nathan, visit some friends, and rest for a bit while renewing my Mozambican visa before heading back to Pemba. 

However, I am still very much in need of finances toward my outreach to Jordan. Flights are around $1,300 one way as of right now and slowly increasing as time goes by. If you would like to help out with this I have a link on my blog page for paypal or you can just email me personally and we will work something out.. I need these flights as soon as possible. But mostly your prayers are so very important to me. I would not be where I am today if it were not for your prayers. Thank you to everyone who have committed to pray for me and bless the things God is doing in me and through me.  I am truly, humbled by the prayerful community God has placed in my life.

Thank you all so much! 

Love and blessings, 

Rachael Michelle Singleton