Hello

HI everyone

I'm so sorry it's taken so long for me to blog but as you have probably not seen me in church you may guess that i've been quite busy with Collective. I'm on a short holiday now recharging my batteries and getting some much needed decent God time before the next stint begins. Oh and thankyou Jamie for all you posts even though I have been absent from the site for so long :-)

Well since Bower Park we have been in Philip Morant in Colchester, Shoebury High School in Shoeburyness and King John School in Southend. We have also done church presentations in St Helens, Gainsborough, Oxford and Wales.

Needless to say it has been a very exciting but draining time. We are really looking forward to our next missions which are the horrinter school in Bury St Edmunds on wk beginning 19th June and then we are helping the Kent collective out by doing a Kent schools week on 26th June. Horrinter is a middle school with years 5, 6 , 7, 8 & 9 so it's like a bit of a junior school really so we expect the kids will love it. Its great to go to a place with younger kids as its not so based on what you look like, they are always much more excepting, suppose thats why Jesus said we should be like innocent children. Kent will be fun too cause we get to see the guys we trained with and we miss them all being so far apart.

Please pray for Soph, Jayne and Me as we also have to give innervation are decision as to whether we stay on for another year after december at the beginning of July, so we desperately want to make the right choice and go with what God wants. 

It can be really hard doing this work cause God can become a job, but when i step back and see what God is doing ie things like commitments, baptisms and staff also being encouraged its all very humbling. We have seen over 7000 pupils in the past 6 months which is totally mind blowing when you think how many seeds are being sown!! 

However why being busy is great cause God is using us so much I have been really struggling recently with self image problems as this band stuff is very much based on what you look like to the kids and I often find myself comparing myself negatively to the other girls in the band. I know this is mainly linked to being so busy that my God time and Word time has fizzled away so i'm listening to lies rather than what My Heavenly Father says about me, so please pray that I will find the time and energy just to rest in his presence and have a passion to get into His Word.

Another great thing though has been how God has provided for me not only financially, thankyou again to all my faithful supporters and especially my new ones you know who you are :-) but he has given me the host family from Heaven!!! Get this I now have a double bed with power shower ensuite, use of a large flat plasma screen tv, a hot tub in the back garden and the use of a company car!!!!!  When God blesses you he definately does it abundantly!!!  The people I live with have made me feel totally part of the family and i'm very much at home now, well who wouldn't be :-)

Well i think thats all for now i'm looking forward to the football on sat and hopefully i will back in Church again on Sunday Yeah I can't wait !!!

Oh yeah we have an official website now www.collectiveeastanglia.com

TTFN

KAT XXXXX

Comments

[jeni]

WOW!!!!! How great is our God! I knew when i was praying that God would find you the perfect family, but I didn't realise or consider just HOW perfect!!!! That is so cool! Hey I've just written about "God-time" on my blog, which is impossible to write coherently in just a few words :/ so you should read it!
I'm so pleased for you, I know that you seek after God's heart and therefore I have every confidence that you'll make the right decision about continuing.
Bless you... even more abundantly!!!