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>>>
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 pers
on 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!
3 comments:
Hi Sarah, Just found your blog from Toggers' links.
Your plans sound amazing. Daunting, exciting and scary all at the same time. I pray God would richly bless your'time out'.
Hey Helen!
Thank you for the encouragement!! i even got excited by the idea for a breif second this morning before the nurves kicked in!! :)
I was at a talk in the spring and thinkin about whether this move was really God and then the woman speaking, completly out of context said 'you may be scared. go scared. But Go!'
it stuck with me!
xx
Sarah,
Your plans for the fall sound fantastic! I listen to sermons from bethel every week and find my faith strengthened.
I will be going to bethel church the last week of June, and I would like make contact with some people who have attended the school of ministry.
Marianne Geers
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