Make Me Bold
"When I called, You answered me; You made me bold and stouthearted" Psalm 138:3
Monday, August 10, 2015
YES!
So. Spain.
I live here now.
It was immensely satisfying in church yesterday when I was introduced to someone and they asked, "¿Estás aqui para vacaciones?" and I got to respond, "No, ¡Vivo aquí!"
Ok, let's take an inventory of the last few days.
-Camarma de Esterueles is the name of the small town where I live. It is about 20 minutes outside of Madrid, and it is where the school is located. So far, I am completely taken with this whole "living in a small European town" thing. I've really only ever spent time in big cities when I've traveled, and while Madrid is really close, Camarma is it's own entity entirely. Our apartment is a stone's throw away from the main plaza, and you can see the steeple of the Catholic church from our porch. I took the picture above from our porch (that's a stork nest on top of it by the way)
-My apartment is beautiful. Like, gorgeous. Tile floors, yellow walls, a gargantuan porch that looks out over one of the main streets... I have my own room with a big window and built in closets/shelves. I'm mostly moved in and have pictures on the walls and everything. (Oh and the thing above my bed is an embroidered pillow case of a camel from the old souk in Dubai :)
-The best thing about Camarma is that there are all of these little shops that sell everything you could ever need all within a short walk of my apartment. There is a bread shop. A donut shop. A sweet shop. A fruit shop. This American is so used to things like Super Target and Walmart, and driving 15 minutes to get to everything, so I'm excited about the idea of walking everywhere and getting to know the people that own these shops over the next two years.
-Apparently they don't believe in air conditioning here. The high has been somewhere between 90 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit every day. As I muddle through the heat wave and turn on every possible fan, I just keep reminding myself that this is a cultural experience.
- Our neighbors that live right behind us, who I hope to officially meet soon, have at least 300, um I mean 3, dogs, and an entire coup of homing pigeons. Bed time for me is a daily adventure. (It's entirely possible that as a by-product of living here, I may develop a dependency on Nyquil) Although I've found that with each night it gets a little easier as I adjust to the noise and get over over jet lag.
-I got to go to Church in Madrid yesterday! There is nothing quite like worshiping in Spanish to songs that you grew up singing in English. After being at church all morning my brain hurt, but I am finding that overall I understand pretty well. It's kind of like listening to someone talk underwater, I don't get every word, but I can get the basic idea. Speaking is a struggle for me if we venture out of basic topics of conversation, but I am hopeful and excited to see how my language will grow in the coming months.
Mostly? Mostly I'm just walking around amazed that God did it. He did it. He brought me here two and a half years ago for 10 measly little days, and He said (shouted?), "This is it. This is what I'm preparing you for. This is where we are coming back to" And I just remember thinking "Ok, but I don't know how to do that" and He said, "I know. But I do. All you have to do is say yes" So I did. I said yes. Over and over and over again, even when I wasn't really quite sure what I was agreeing to, I said yes. And He did it, just like He promised me that He would. So many people think that the Christian life is just about saying no. No to fun, no to partying, no to sex, no to a good time. They think that God is a kill joy out to make us all into prudish ascetics. Well. I'm living proof that when you say yes to the one who runs the universe, He takes you places that you never could have gone on your own. He births courage and a vision into your heart that's bigger than you ever could have imagined. That's what He does when you say yes to Him. And getting to live that is really cool.
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Flourish
It’s my 24th birthday today.
And you know, I had mostly forgotten about it, because I just
got back to Raleigh yesterday after three weeks of training with my missions
agency, One Mission Society. Well that,
and I’m moving to Spain in three days.
So yeah, my birthday has been a bit of an afterthought. Actually, when I woke up this morning and
realized it was my birthday, my first thought was one of sadness. My Nana was always the first one to call me
on my birthday. In fact, she usually
couldn’t wait until the day. She would
call me the day before to wish me an early birthday and then she would call me
the morning of and sing to me over the phone and say “I just had to hear your
voice on your special day, I love you so much.”
Sometimes I was working or busy with friends and so she would sing on my
voicemail and remind me for the hundredth time that she was praying for
me. It’s strange how little things that
you took for granted when you had them rip your heart up when they aren’t there
anymore.
Imagine my surprise when, this morning, just as I was about to
start getting ready for church, I saw that Paul Cox was calling me. I answered
the phone somewhat surprised, to hear Paul and his wife Dawn on the other end
as they and all of their kids proceeded to shout “Happy Birthday!!!” They started
singing for me (loudly!), praying for me, and blessing me over the phone. And
then they told me that they loved me, and that they were praying for me as I get
ready to leave for Spain, and I think I managed to thank them as my eyes welled
up with tears before we said "Adios".
At this point you are probably assuming that Paul and Dawn are
cousins or an aunt and uncle, but no, they aren’t. Paul works for One Mission
Society as the head of the mobilization department. He and his team of people work to recruit new
missionaries to OMS and then to shepherd them through the multi-step process of
getting them accepted with OMS and eventually serving in different roles and
ministries all over the world. There are
a lot of people in different stages of that process all the time, and Paul and
his team: Cat, Brent, Andrea, Margo – their jobs are to answer our
millions of questions, and help us find the people we need to find within OMS
to get paperwork filed and apply for visas and raise support and buy plane
tickets. And they do all of that really
well. But they do so much more than that. Over the past two years since I first started
this journey towards being a missionary in Spain, these people have tangibly, beautifully loved me in
a way that goes above and beyond any and every job description. They haven't just helped me get to Spain, they have made
me feel like part of their family.
I just spent the last three weeks in CROSS training at OMS
headquarters in Greenwood, Indiana. Sometimes the days stretched long, and I
know that I did not retain all of the information from every session, but the
thing that came through clearer every day was the heart of One Mission Society.
OMS seeks to make Jesus greater even if it means that they become smaller. Over
and over again I heard people say things like, “We’re not here to build the
kingdom of OMS, we’re here to build God’s Kingdom” As a nondenominational missions organization,
they seek to partner with whatever evangelical groups and organizations are
already on the ground in a country in order to efficiently reach as many people with the Gospel as possible. OMS does not plant its own
churches. OMS trains and equips national leaders to plant dynamic churches
for their own people. The staff at OMS, people like Paul and Dawn, people like Tim and Shirley, have a passion for seeing missionaries thrive in their ministries overseas. I have spent enough time among missionaries and their families to know that serving overseas can be an incredibly difficult thing. But at OMS, the staff does whatever they believe necessary to help you not just scrape by in your ministry, but to flourish and grow where God has called you.
My time in Spain will be interesting because I am actually the
only missionary working at Evangelical Christian Academy from One Mission
Society. All of the other teachers have
come through other missions organizations. At first this worried me, and I wondered if perhaps I should have chosen a different organization. However, after spending three weeks at headquarters in Greenwood, God has shown me again and again that OMS is exactly where I am supposed to be. As I get ready to leave for Madrid on August 5th, what a
privilege and an honor it is to be going as an OMS missionary. Their heart for the lost and their desire to
see Christ glorified in all corners of the globe both humbles me and inspires
me. When I board that plane in a few days, I do so having been
thoroughly trained, prayed for, and cared for, thanks not only to all of my
incredible friends and family, but thanks also to my new OMS family, one that I
have joined with great joy.
Find out more about the many ministries of One Mission Society at: https://onemissionsociety.org/
Friday, June 26, 2015
Grace & Roller Coasters
Lately I have been waking up early. Which is strange, since I am definitely not a morning person, and since most days there is nowhere that I technically have to be right away. Work is done. After almost four
years at Barnes and Noble I shelved my last book and foamed my last latte at the end of May. I continue to support raise and I have a few more people to
meet with as I pray about that last 20% or so. We are getting so close. It is a strange feeling watching everything wind down and gear up simultaneously.
I leave Raleigh on July 12.
That’s….really soon.
The last three weeks of July will be spent in Indiana for
CROSS training, an intensive program with One Mission Society, my sending
agency. From July 13 through the 30 I will be in seminars from
8am to 5pm every day where I will get a crash course in living overseas,
conflict resolution, thriving outside my comfort zone, team dynamic, and evangelism tools. I'm pretty pumped about it.
Then comes the first week of August when I will load myself
and some percentage of my earthly goods onto a plane bound for Spain grasping a
one way ticket!
People keep asking me how I am doing as I get ready to leave, and to
be honest, it depends on the minute. My biggest dream, my most cherished
vision, the thing that I have been chasing and pursuing and praying over for
most of my life is actually happening. I am moving to another country to be a teacher where I will get to share my passion for history every single day. I will speak Spanish all the time. I will introduce people to Jesus, people who have no idea of His love for them. I cannot believe that God would see fit to give me these desires of
my heart. I can scarcely comprehend that He would love me so well as to send me
to a place where I will be both needed and in need. I confess that there have been many times I have accused Him of dragging His feet in this whole process, but as I crest
this next hill I can't help but be humbled at the landscape. I can't help but sit in awe.
I would be remiss though if I did not also tell you how scary this feels a lot of the time. I have never actually
been a teacher. I mean, I have two degrees that say I can be one. But….in
another country? By myself? Far from all I know, away from all the people that
comfort me and encourage me? What exactly do I think that I’m doing!? Fear of
failure likes to dodge my steps these days.
So early every morning the floodlights switch on in my mental
space and my brain starts racing full speed ahead. So much to do. A new bank. Should I get another
credit card? I need to go to the dentist. People, I need to see people. Lesson
planning, gosh I have to start lesson planning. Sorting, packing, goodwill.
Cleaning. Laundry?! Maybe I just won’t get out of bed yet. I should go back to
sleep. I can’t go back to sleep. Oftentimes I feel so inadequate to tackle this
immense task of “preparing to move to another country” that I have to pause and just talk to Jesus for a while before I have the
confidence to get moving again.
Is it OK if I ask for something? In the next two weeks before
I leave, I need to ask for grace. If you look over at me on a Sunday morning
and there are tears streaming down my face and I have to excuse myself for half
the sermon, please do not be alarmed. If you text me and I don’t get right back
to you, let me go ahead and apologize and tell you here how much I love you-
how I will do my very best to see you and hug you before July 12. And if when
you do spend time with me I seem distracted, emotional, or crazy, I
ask for grace for that too. Don’t let my runny mascara overwhelm you. I can
pretty much promise crying. And while I
could apologize for it, I won't, because I know that I need to grieve my leaving even as I
celebrate my going.
Despite the ups and downs, the thrills and stress, one thing
has cut through the roller coaster and I have clung to it fiercely: the deep
unshakable conviction that I am both known and loved. You cannot know what you
mean to me. Your prayers, your support, the coffee dates and lunches and trips
to the movies; I have never felt more cared for and I have never felt more
secure in that care. Truthfully, that is
what makes this so hard. The thought
of leaving all of you, of walking away from people who value me like that, it
catches my breath and squeezes my insides. But that is the thing about love, cliche as it may sound. It
stretches oceans. It covers miles. Don’t be surprised if in the next two weeks
I refuse to say goodbye to you. You are sending me. You are coming with me. You
are making this whole adventure possible.
And I don’t say goodbye to those who have my heart.
For the latest updates, prayer requests, and cool videos about my work in Spain, check out my WEBSITE
Friday, May 29, 2015
Change My Heart, Oh God
When I was getting ready to launch into the journey of support
raising in January, I had several people tell me that it would reveal my heart in ways I
never imagined. I smiled and nodded, but I don’t know if I really thought about
it much because there was too much to do. While I did not expect raising
support to be easy by any means, I also did not except that I would have any
trouble trusting the Lord in the process. As far as I could tell, spiritually I
was in a good place. I mean, I was going to be a missionary for crying out
loud. I was spending time in the Word, I had read books on support raising, and
I had gone through training. I was confident, well-spoken, and prepared. I
attacked support raising with determination, and enthusiasm.
Everything started well. I created a website, I sent emails,
and I began to meet with people. But nearly immediately, I found myself completely
overwhelmed by gripping, vise-like anxiety and fear. I knew that I was supposed
to trust God with my financial future but when the rubber hit the road I found
myself utterly unable to do so. I prayed the same prayers over and over and
over again: “Lord I trust you, Lord I surrender, Lord I know you can get me to
Spain.” But those prayers flew backwards and smacked me in the face nearly as
soon as they left my lips. I read more books. I spent more time in the Word. I
continued to support raise. I said all the right things, and postured
appropriately, dumping pounds of fertilizer on the soil of my heart, desperately
hoping that peace and faith would grow. But little changed. I was a disaster.
In the beginning of March, I was part of a conversation with
some of my best friends. Open and honest, they were sharing some of the
difficult things that God had taken them through in their past. Struggles with
family, crisis of faith, and ways that the Lord had shown Himself faithful.
Instead of responding with empathy, and compassion, as I like to think I would
normally have done, I was shocked to find bitterness and anger oozing out my
soul like pus. “They don’t know anything about suffering,” I thought to myself,
“They have no idea what they are talking about. That’s nothing compared to things
that I have been through.” I kept my jaw clenched shut for the entire
conversation, afraid that if I opened my mouth, the angry words echoing around
inside of me might slip out. But for the next hour or so lists went running rampant
through my head. All of the wrongs that had been done to me and to my family.
All the hurt and the pain and the injustice that from my perspective had never
been explained or put right. Amazed at my vehement, self-righteous, response, I tried to figure out later who exactly I was so mad at. I was not angry with my friends, nor with myself...instead it slowly dawned on me that I was unspeakably angry with God.
It turns out that it is
impossible to trust someone that you hold responsible for your pain.
You can obey them, you can spend time with them, but intrinsically you will not
trust them. Of
course I was struggling to believe that God would provide for me. I held a grudge against Him for the suffering I had walked through, and it was throwing everything into doubt and confusion, including my ability to trust that the Lord loved me and had good things for me.
Somewhere along the way, without me even realizing it, a root
of bitterness had taken hold, choking out the life of my faith. It likely would
have remained undetected for much longer, had I not been forced to so radically
trust the Lord with my future and my finances in the process of support raising.
That step had pricked hidden wounds that I had walled off, hurts that I had
never let the Lord near….because I held Him responsible for allowing them. I
had to make a choice. Either I could continue to shield my broken places from
Him and try to muscle through on my own while bleeding internally, or I could
let Him in to do the heavy lifting and the healing that I clearly could not do
myself. It was not easy or fun. There were tears, grief, and a lot of
incoherent prayers. I had to work through my anger and my resentment, and
in the end, totally exhausted, ask the God of the Universe to pick up what I
could not carry.
The craziest thing happened though. He did. Actually, for
real, no joke, the weight lifted off of me and onto the One who bears our
burdens and carries our sorrows. As I allowed my Savior to love me in my most
unlovable places, it changed everything. It changed ME. He could have left me in my anger and my
bitterness. But He loves me too much for that. I thought I could hold Him at arm’s
length and go through all the outward motions of obedience, but He is not a God who desires lip service
or a good conduct report. He is and always has been, after my heart. He longs
for me to know the joy of His presence, and the tender care of His love. And
after letting Him have all of me, the rest I have found in Him is exquisite.
Things are still hard and overwhelming sometimes. As of right now I don’t have my visa yet, I have no idea where I’m
living once I get to Spain, and when I think about how exactly I’m going to
handle teaching four different classes every day once I get to Spain, I start to
break out in a rash. And yet, the Lord has shown Himself to be beautifully faithful. Over the past few months He has called so many people to care for me, pray for me, support me and encourage me. Support raising went from a source of anxiety to a source of encouragement and joy. I have been so honored and so humbled by your generous hearts, and it has been incredible to see so many of you catch the vision for all that the Lord is doing in Spain. Friends, I am becoming more and more convinced that there is nothing that He cannot accomplish in you and I if we will give Him room to work. He is on a mission to continuously mold and shape us to be more like His Son, and while it is not comfortable by any means, it is also the greatest thing that could possibly happen to our selfish souls. As long as my Lord goes with me
and before me, I have nothing to fear.
To learn more about what Kaye will be doing in Spain click HERE
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
The Miracle of Missions
On Sunday morning, I brought a good friend from high school
with me to church. As we sat side by side, singing worship songs, listening to
the sermon, and walking up together to take communion, I found myself close to
tears several times. No one else in that room knew the story. No one else in
the room knew the beautiful miracle that had walked into their sanctuary that
morning. But I knew. And I could not help but marvel.
We had a guest speaker at church, and he preached on “The
Motive for Missions”. As my friend and I headed to brunch afterwards, we
enjoyed a lively discussion- about the sermon, about scripture, about who God
is and how He loves us. We stopped talking just long enough to put our names in
at the IHOP, which was bursting at the seams with people, and then we squeezed
onto a bench to wait for the promise of omelets.
During a pause in our conversation, I took a deep breath and
said to my friend, “You know, I’m not sure if I’ve actually told you this…..But
I am going to Spain as a missionary. That’s what I’m doing. Yes, I will be there as a teacher, but first
and foremost I am going is to share the hope of Jesus with my students and with
the people of Spain.”
I sort of paused, held my breath, and looked at her out of
the corner of my eye. Would she understand? So many people think of
“missionaries” as crusaders, insensitive bible thumpers determined to shove
western culture down the collective throat of the nations. She’s still a
relatively new Christian. She did not grow up in church, and she has no
experience with what missions looks like. I wasn’t quite sure what she would
think of this idea, this me identifying as a missionary thing, and I found
myself desperately hoping that she would not misunderstand my heart. Turns out,
I did not need to worry.
She gave me a small nod and said, “I mean, I figured that it
was something like that. It’s you. You’re going to go love people. I feel like you
were a missionary to me when we were in high school, right?”
Relief flooded me. “Yes!” I said, almost laughing, “That’s exactly
what I was!”
And then we paused
for a moment to remember together. We remembered a time when she did not
believe that there was a God. A time not so long ago when her family was
fractured, when friends had deserted her, when she had no one to turn to and
all seemed hopeless and dark. We reminisced about all those hours of theological
conversation we shared in deserted high school parking lots and on benches by
the lake.
“You know,” she said reflectively, “I really don’t know what
would have happened to me if He had not found me when He did.” I nodded, and
smiled with my whole heart, praising God for the ways that He moves and the
ways that He pursues His people.
What does it mean to be a missionary? Why do we as the
people of God claim that missions is important or something that we should care
about? It constantly amazes me that the all-powerful God of the Universe, who
is fully satisfied within the perfect mysterious relationship that is the
trinity, and who wants for nothing, would choose to create and rescue and be
intimately part of the lives of people like my friend and I. He did not need to
create the universe, but He did. He did not need to sacrifice Himself to rescue
every person that ever lived or ever will live.
But He did. He does not need us,
His children, in order to achieve glory or worship or fame. If every one of our
voices fell silent, the very rocks would cry out and proclaim His greatness.
And yet. This awesome wondrous Lord, chooses to live and breathe and speak and
work through us. When His children submit to Him, when we allow His love and
His grace and His mercy to change us from the inside out, we are then able to
be Christ’s hands and feet. We no longer serve or speak on our own, but we
become His ambassadors. Though He could easily send angels to write the gospel
across the sky in blazing letters, impossible to mistake, He chooses us as His
less than perfect messengers instead. I think He does it because we each carry
with us a precious story of grace. And that story has a way of growing more
priceless the more we give it away.
We serve a fearsome, wrathful, beautiful, tender-hearted
Savior. He rips through the temple in righteous indignation at the sight of His
Father’s house reduced to a market. He calls the religious leaders “vipers” and
“white-washed tombs”. He despises the sin and the hypocrisy that ravages His
precious people. He weeps at the death of His best friend. He refuses to reject
the adulterous woman. He makes breakfast on the beach for those who had
abandoned him. He bears lash and thorn and nail rather than see a single scratch
touch any of His beloved. Why missions? Because in every suburb, in every
village, in every ghetto, and in every palace around the world there remains men
and women who do not know. They walk every day in guilt, addiction, shame,
violence, war, perfectionism, performance, anxiety, and desperation, not
knowing that this gracious King has come to make the wounded whole. With the
example of His sacrifice, Christ compels us to put feet to faith, to reach the
ones He died for that do not yet cherish His name.
Missions means creating space for God to move. Missions
means surrender and availability to the God who desires ALL people to be saved.
Missions looks like wiping away tears. It tastes like bread in a hungry mouth. It
sounds like the speaking of truth in love even when it is not politically correct
or culturally acceptable. Missions feels like scrubbing floors and building
walls when there is no one to praise your service. It smells like the streets
and the unwashed bodies and the unsavory places where “decent” people would
never be seen. Missions means doing and saying and going and giving in ways
that you never ever would have in a million years if you were the one calling
the shots in your own life.
And somewhere in the midst of such obedience- we glorify and
bless the heart of the God who allows us the honor of serving Him.
As I sat in church next to my friend last Sunday, I
marveled. When I look at her, I see a passion, a peace, and a purpose that now
characterize everything that she does. I planted seeds that God grew into a
garden. He gained a daughter. I gained a sister. And just think, if my
sixteen-year-old self had not stepped out in weak and shaky faith to share the
hope of Jesus all those years ago, then I would have missed the miracle. And that
would have been a true tragedy.
To find out more about Kaye’s ministry in Spain and how you
can be part of what God is doing there, check out her website at kayesparks.wix.com/Spain
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Where I've Been. Where I'm Going.
If you have been following me on social media at all
over the past week you might have noticed pictures of things like camels, glittering
skylines, and exotic food. I
had the unexpected blessing of spending last week in the UAE with some friends
from college. My friend Sarah (the one to the far right) actually
grew up in Dubai, and her family graciously hosted us and showed us around the
city. Between watching the stars come
out over the desert, eating lentils and rice with my fingers, swimming in the
Arabian Gulf, and standing at the top of the Burj Khalifa (the tallest building
in the world) it was truly one of the greatest weeks of my life! But beyond all of the great touristy things
we got to do, the best part of the trip was without
question the people that I got to meet.
Sarah’s family attends Redeemer Church of Dubai, and
we had the chance to attend services there twice during our stay (they have
church on Fridays since that is the holy day of the week for Muslims and also
the day that most people have off of work).
Now I have attended several international churches in my life, but I don’t
think that I have ever been in a more diverse place than the hotel ballroom
where Redeemer meets each Friday morning.
Africans, Indians, Filipinos, Arabs…. all dressed in a kaleidoscope of
colors, all praising God at the top of their lungs in all of their
different accents. What a glimpse heaven! That first Friday
morning I could hardly sing because I kept getting so choked up watching the
people worship around me. Throughout the
week we got to spend time with many members of the church, several of whom are around
my age. Their passion for sharing Christ
with those who do not know Him was both convicting and infectious all at the
same time. Living in a primarily Muslim
country where Christianity is anything but the cultural norm, they treasure Christ
and who He is in a way that I think many of us Americans fail to do in the comfort of the bible belt.
On our last Friday in Dubai, we were privileged to attend
a baptismal service after church.
Sitting in lawn chairs around a backyard pool, we listened as
seven people (none of whom were white by the way) shared from their hearts
about how Jesus had saved them. Though they all came from different countries and different backgrounds, their testimonies echoed one another. Their lives had been characterized by hopelessness, guilt, loss, and struggle. That looked different for each of them, but everything changed for all of them when they met Jesus: The perfect Son of God had done no violence;
He had lived without sin, yet He willingly gave Himself up as the only acceptable
sacrifice for your sin and for mine when He was crucified on the cross. He
saved us from a punishment each of us has earned a thousand times over with our
anger, our arrogance, our lies, our gossip, our racism, and our covetous hearts. God was so pleased by the sacrifice of the
Son on our behalf, that He raised Him to life, a life that we too can know and
have and live. I am set free from sin and death because of Jesus. I can know and be known by the God of the Universe because of the Cross of Christ.
It is a story
that is as familiar to me as breathing, but hearing it spoken again by these
people in this place on the other side of the world from my normalcy reminded
me of some beautiful truths that I too easily forget. Christianity is not a religion for white
people. It is not a nice moral code for
Americans to loosely live by when they feel like it. God is not Caucasian. The Gospel message of hope and life is for every
single person who walks on this earth no matter their color or their culture or
their language or their particular brand of sinfulness.
This friends, this right here, is why I am moving to Spain. Because the people of Spain, just like the people to Dubai, need to know that
this God is for them. They need to know
that Christ is not a fresco painted cherub hidden behind gilded altars in empty
Catholic cathedrals. He is alive. He is among us. And He changes everything.
Back home in Raleigh after my adventure, I now return again to the challenges and joys of support raising as I move closer and closer to moving to Madrid in July. I am so excited to share with you all that I am now 20% funded! God is so good! Thank you with all of my heart to each one of you who has generously given out of a desire to see Christ made known among people who do not know Him. Our God is on the move, and I am sitting on the edge of my seat to see what He will do next.
If you would like to be part of sending me to Spain where I will be serving as a teacher and church planter, simply click HERE to give online, or send your tax deductible gift to One Mission Society at P.O. Box 1648 Monument, CO 80132-1648. Be sure to include my name and account number on the memo line or in an attached note: Kaye Sparks, Account # 802542.
If you would like to be part of sending me to Spain where I will be serving as a teacher and church planter, simply click HERE to give online, or send your tax deductible gift to One Mission Society at P.O. Box 1648 Monument, CO 80132-1648. Be sure to include my name and account number on the memo line or in an attached note: Kaye Sparks, Account # 802542.
To learn more about Redeemer Church of Dubai and the work they are doing in UAE, check out their website at www.redeemerdubai.com/
"I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people....This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all people."
1 Timothy 2:1, 3-6
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