Asia Trip this December!!

              What We've Been Up To...

               Second post on the new blog! God has been doing a lot of awesome things in our school, and we're just 1 month in. I feel as much like a student as I do a staff since all but two of our guest speakers are all new to me. My notebook is filling up with awesome teaching and fresh revelation of God's goodness and the truth and the power of His word. Our small group that we lead is amazing. We're 8 people from USA, Korea, Kaz@khstan, Haiti and Australia! We're all on a journey together as we go deep into the study of worship in the scriptures as well as what God is doing through the worship/intimacy movements of today's generation.

                 Having my parents visit for a couple weeks last month was such a special time for our family. They had not yet seen Jubilee, along with the rest of my entire family. We had been planning for their trip for a whole year and it felt at times sureal that they were in Kona with us. I know it was a special time for them, being back 30something years later. God connected them with tons of new life long relationships and connections, and they left Kona refreshed and with a new excitement for what God will be doing in New England with help from Kona.

               Jubilee is now 11 months old, loves to put stuff into her mouth, randomly screams in corporate meetings and is still the cutest baby on the planet. We're getting ready to celebrate her 1st birthday, which is a very big deal in Korea. Not sure how we'll celebrate, Korean's usually spend a ton of money on food and invite everyone. I'm cool with renting the new Winne The Pooh movie, getting a pizza and inviting as many people as there are slices so we'll have to find a compromise :)

              Bora is an awesome mom and wife. She lead worship at church a coupleweeks ago, it always touches my heart when I get to hear her worship. I keep falling more and more in love with this awesome woman. It was nice going on one or two dates when mom and dad visited. Right now Jubilee is going through a stranger anxiety/clingy stage so we're in need of a date night!

               Myself, I'm really being rocked spiritually, in a very goodway. I've been learning more and more about God as the Bride-Groom and intimacy. It's so easy to get our priorities out of place and neglect intimacy with the Bride-Groom. This past month our car, laptop, tv and now my drumkit are all broken. At first I wondered if it were an attack, but after sharing my frustrations with my leader we both felt that God was stripping me and trying to get my focus back on Him. A hard lesson for my flesh to be going through, but the Holy Spirit has been sharing some really awesome truths with me these past few weeks, and I'm excited to be moving into a new level of closeness with my God.

             Bora runs hospitality for our school's break times, and she's great at it. She also translates English to Korean on a regular basis for different corporate campus events, since this is a bi-lingual school quarter. I've been managing transportation for our school's events as well as for our local church in addition to playing worship sets in the prayer room. It's a challenge with an 11 month old and often one of us has 'Jubilee duty' while the other works. We are so blessed to still be working together and staffing this school together.  The environment here is very family-friendly, and pleanty of grace and patience is extended to little ones when they 'squawk' from time to time in the back of the classroom :) There are days when it's a challenge, but it works and we wouldn't want to do it any differently.
            
ASIA TRIP DEC. 2011

             Bora and I have been asked to lead one of our school's teams into Asia! If you know who we are you know where we're referring to when we say 'Asia'. The Lord confirmed this desire of our heart on three ocasions, the first through the below stain on the pavement when I was picking up our school's first student, the second fro an email confirmation from a contact in Asia and lastly by being asked by our leadership (quite an honor, I love and respect them very much)

               We're excited, we'll be pioneering a 24/7 prayer room in one city. There we'll also be teaching for the final week of a Bible school on worship and intimacy. We'll be bringing our work to two other major cities and doing more of the same, as well as public performances and seminars.
               We're in the beginning stages of planning the logistics, like where we'll be sleeing, eating, how we'll move from city to city...ect. Students are praying about their own team location, and right now it looks like we'll be around 20 people.
               The trip will last 8 weeks and we'll be celebrating Christmas on the road as we'll be leaving mid December. This will be the first team Bora and I have lead together, and first with a baby! We know God will extend tons of grace for traveling with Jubilee, and she's already well loved by the entire school. Asia will be VERY cold, quite different from Kona, so we've now on the lookout for winter clothes for Jubilee. Please continue to pray for us. For visas and a good itinerary to all come together. Planning for 20 rather than 2 is a new venture for me.
               Please pray in finances and pray about giving to this trip or becoming a regular supporter of our family. As our schedule in Asia is finalized I'll be posting our expenses in detail.

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Blessings,
-Noah (with Bora and Jubilee)