Bethel School of Ministry

People ask me all the time about whether they should go to Bethel. My answer? -  It's something you need to ask God about - He knows the path that is just right for us. BUT (I always quickly add) It will never be a bad decision. 

Going to Bethel was like coming home for the first time in my life. i found my tribe, more of myself, more of my God and a doorway into a life of wonders. To be in the most encouraging place on earth and one of the forerunning centres of what God is doing on the planet, is truly amazing - from here you could go anywhere.

You can follow my journey to and from Bethel on this blog, starting about here (spring 2006), whatever you do be strong and very courageous for He is with you...

Spring 2006>>>

I've been watching The Convent over the past few weeks, and though its not entirely my style, there is much to learn from the nuns and their life choice. The focus of taking a vow and living in a community helps to create a lifestyle of complete abandon and obedience to God- but isn't it how we should all be living - that focussed, that dependant?

Anyway, I'm not becoming a nun - well not in the strictest sense - but I am going away for a while. I feel God has suggested that there is something i need to do to be the person i need to be, and that Bethel is the place for it to happen. I'm not sure if I’ll turn from a bug to a butterfly but i know that the discipline of taking 9 months out to grow and learn and pray and practice and prepare and live 100% focussed on God - will allow space for God to speak and work on me.

That's not to say that going is not slightly scary, it is. I have to share my world with Americans who don't know what a kettle is. But God is good, and faithful and he will walk me through it. I've already randomly met a fab girl who's also going from the UK, but I’ve even got accommodation sorted - hurrah for God.

From September I will be sharing the journey on this blog over the nine months, so please do keep track and soak up any words of revelation i pass on. Obedience isn't always that bad either - check out the view!

Is faith spelt RISK or TRUST?

People have said faith is spelt RISK and it is in many ways. But, sometimes it's more like TRUST. like how you tust a parent when you're little or you trust a spouse that you know so well, that's more what faith looks like to me.

someone once said to me they could never live by faith as it's too risky. But actually, just as you know that your parents will provide for you and look after you when you're little, living by faith is like that - isn't it? because you know Jesus you believe in him and believe thathe will look after you. its not so much a battle but a relationship.

Anyway, words are one thing walking it is quite another! when everything else is shaken and falls away, that relationship is still there. theology might be out the window, but Jesus is still there.

With a major illness in the family, its not standing on sermons about faith that counts - it's that Jesus is still there in the middle of it.