I am going to South Sudan this week!

I am going to teaching character/ nature of God and Spiritual warfare for two weeks at a Discipleship Training School in Yei, South Sudan.  I am passionate about these subjects and know that I am going to be planting seeds in leaders that will feed the county for centuries to come, like the parable of the mustered seed Matt. 13:31

 I am going to be serving full time in Cheb, Czech after this Africa trip, but I know that God wants me to go back to Yei in the future to share the love of Christ with the many unreached people groups. I say this, because this four week trip is investing in my relationships with the people, in learning the language and knowing how to fight the spiritual battles that are going on in South Sudan. This trip has a long term goal of influence and relationship.

 Financially this is a step of faith for me, and I am looking for 450$ more monthly.

 

Pray that the warring spirit in the South Sudanese people would be turned against the spiritual powers of darkness and not against flesh and blood.  Eph. 6:12.  

Pray also that I will speak with the boldness that I should.  Eph. 6:19

Thanks for looking into what I am doing, and supporting me relationally as I so appreciate the body of Christ doing. 

Love you all,

Katrina Joy Compassion Stine 

Miriam’s Home Czech Republic

                                   

“We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.” 

~ William Wilberforce

 Cheb, Czech is where I shall call home in these next five to ten years, it is the place God wants me to set up my home, my safe house. 

 I will set off in August 2014, to reunite with the friends I have left in Cheb tilling the ground, they are excited to have me come, and I plan on helping them with their vision for a Discipleship Training School that shall run in the spring.  They too want to help me, they want to partner/support a safe house, their hearts have been 

moved deeply for the issue of trafficking and forced prostitution and have been loving the girls in the brothels and on the streets for years and are glad that God is sending me, another worker into the field.

 I am a worker in the field, but I am also a daughter... coheir with Christ; I can come boldly to the Creator and ask for angel armies, favor with kings, castles for 

orphans and a herd of horses for healing broken girls. 

 God wants to bring about a great Exodus, a freedom for all the enslaved, and He wants to do it through 

sons and daughters, workers who have relationship to Him, that can share that relationship, and bring 

freedom and life to chained souls. 

 I am going to Czech to walk out the step God has given me to end worldwide slavery, this is His strategy

 that I am following, and for now my responsibility is to open a safe house.  This safe home (Miriam’s Home) will be for girls rescued out of sex trafficking, which is a worldwide issue and I expect to have girls sent to 

me form many countries to receive healing.

God has given me specific vision of tools to show the girls His heart, these include 

 using horses for therapy, as well as art, dance and music.  Praying with these girls as well 

as for them is highest priority, because bringing them to the face of the One who cares enough to face every earthly pain for them, because of His love, will heal the deepest wounds and truly bring life. 

 I will also be overseeing their schooling, making sure they are given skills to provide for themselves in life 

giving ways, counseling and praying them into new social skills. I shall love them along with Jesus, love them back to life.

“We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.” 

~ William Wilberforce

 I still need a considerable amount of support, I am looking at monthly budget of $850 plus funds designated for the Safe house land and building; and eventually the girls and therapy supplies.

If you are considering supporting me and need more information about anything, please let me know.

Thank you for your time, 

Katrina Stine 

Checks may be sent to:

Grace of God of Dinuba

695 N. Bates Ave Dinuba, CA 93618

(Please designate checks as Katrina Support.) 

Email:  katrinajstine@gmail.com

USA phone # (707) 490-9862

Blog:  joyful compassion is beautiful.blogspot.com 

Honesty

 Honesty, not telling a lie, being truthful? No, it is actually speaking out the truth, letting it seen with no veil.
But what happens when we are unsure of the truth? When we are far from solid ground, such as when ones heart is being bonded to anthers, one may lie, telling ones self that they are not falling in love, to keep both parties ¨safe,¨brainwashing the wisdom of ones mind while the heart loves unchecked and unguided.  Shall we be honest with ourselves? I want to, I want my heart and mind to complement each other, so as not to be deceived by my heart, and in doing so, hurt others.

Now that I am being honest with myself about my love, hate, passion, and desire; can I be truthful with others?  I think so, but what I really want to be honest, vulnerably placing parts of my heart out for others to see, so as to reach the world, it is what God is teaching me.  Vulnerability shouts Love, and holding back shouts Fear and Untrust, and often tears castles of relationships down.

 There is a time to keep children innocent, a time to hide revelations of God in our hearts and a time to take things to God alone, and maybe a strong Friend.  I do believe in secrets, but more than not, things should be in the light, the beautiful, healing, comforting, strengthening, refining light of God and people  who God works through.
 Most feet have walked through a time when they have had a secret, somewhat dire to keep hidden from all, that later on would have hurt many less, especially themselves, if they had shared.
This may sound like an alien rase, but we have great heroes of honesty.  David laying his sins and passion honestly before God in his songs. A man after God´s own heart, not trying to deceive himself that he wasn´t struggling, but being honest with himself, God and the world.  A heroic transparency, truly making himself vulnerable to all, humbling himself.

 This last year I have taken my most frighting steps of honesty and vulnerability. This summer I walked legs shaking, across the street, to speak to a friend that I was struggling to get along with, but going to lay a tender part of my heart before her, asking forgiveness for letting my heart get in the way of our relationship. I shook because, she was then going to have to power to throw my heart at the wall, and give it to others who would miss use the information.  I shared with her because I have a value for relationship, and honesty was and very ofter is the key.
  Ask God for courage and strength.  Then take that dizzying step and tell someone the truth.  Let God catch you.  He is strong enough to make beauty out of ANY mess, and to move ANY heart.

Be Vulnerable... 

Share your heart..

Tell someone your stuff...

 

Be Brave! Make friends with your Giants.

YWAM Cheb, Czech

So many girls being driven to prostitution, thousands of daughters being trafficked, and millions of hurting, lost, men, engaging in the destructive industry of sexual exploitation.

Now that I know that this is going on, my life will never be the same 

I saw a vision earlier this year of God crying out for His daughters who were being trafficked and sexually exploited. He appeared as a young father whose daughters had just been abducted, He was yelling out in despair, falling to His knees, utterly torn for His daughters, tears steaming down His strong face, twisted with the agony of knowing His daughters were hurting, and that their spirits were being broken into thousands of pieces...

This revelation of God's heart is what brought me to YWAM Cheb, Czech. The staff here are dedicated to reaching these girls with the love of God and to helping them in anyway God leads them to.

I went on the streets with the female staff of Cheb and we gave gifts and love to the prostitutes standing there waiting for costumers, telling them of the love of God. This was my first time reaching out to girls who were currently engaging in the sex trade, but it will not be my last, Cheb staff have given me powerful sight into the hearts of these girls, the industry as a whole, helping me become better aware and better equipped to serve in this area.

My challenge to you is: Ask and research what is going on. Pray for the ministries that are bringing God's light into the darkness. Move, do something, find out how you can fight trafficking in your very own town, do fundraisers for ministries or come alongside YWAM Cheb, Czech in their ministry to the precious daughters of God.

Learning of Joy in Germany

"Lord, show me how you see the issue of human trafficking! Give me your heart!"   

This has been my prayer in the last week, but God responded differently than I thought he would.

As I walked in the wood that the Moravians walked through as they kept the prayer house going for one hundred years, God spoke to me of my identity lining up with missions, as well as how He wants me to approach the grief of intense abuse.

He is showing me that He does not want me to work like a frightened, driven work horse, but as a bride walking with the strong King.  My heart will feel deeply the cry of the Father for His abducted doughters and sons, but He is showing me that I am part of the plan to rescue them, part of the good news, the hope is at hand and I am to bring it with Compassion and Joy.

 While I have responsibility in the work, it is in God's hands, and is His responsabiliy. He wants to conquer human trafficking through me but He wants me to fight it as a joyful bride not as chess pawn.

 Bless The Lord for the greatness of His heart and rejoice in the strength of His hand.

Thank you truly for reading this, Katrina Stine 

First week in Germany!

After two days at Ywam Herrnhut, Abra Hartmann, Tim a Ywam staff member and I traveled to Hamburg, Germany, for a Spirit filled Anti-trafficking conference.

At the conference God spoke to me more about starting a safe house in Germany, a home where I can  take needy and trafficked girls in.  A place of Jesus' love and healing.  A place where He and I will love on them.                  God is also showing me, that I need to care about everything involving trafficking, to understanding causes, and long term strategies for the abolition of trafficking. The conference was God's amazing provision for this, I learned so much, and made great contacts, contacts that I may intern under before I start a safe house, or contacts that will be key in saving girls and getting them home.

My prayer request is that every step would be clear, and that heaven would come to earth.  Thank you, and bless you, Katrina Joy!

Praise the Lord!

I wanted to let everyone know that God has provided for my trip!

Through family, friends and my little church in Dinuba, God has provided for the mission He is sending me on to Europe.

 Coming back from my mission this summer, I had no funds for this next trip.  Now after planing this trip and doing the little and big things has He has asked me to do these last few months, He has finished providing finances three days before I leave for Germany.  Thanks Jesus, Your the best!

I will post again while in Europe if any unforeseeable needs come up, or if God asks me to do something that will need more funds.
 Thank you all for supporting me, and praying me to this point. 

My prayer requests are that God would bring trafficking to His light. and that the lies that hold back the people He has called to fight for the trapped, would be broken.