#famsusrev

Dear friends,

There is so much glory and wonder happening here that it's hard to know how to begin to tell you. #famsusrev - Family Sustains Revival - is the story of my days in Kathmandu as I press into Jesus and get to do life with family from all nations. It's such a joy and such a privilege, I feel humbled and overwhelmed a lot of the time by the awesome people that God is bringing into my life. Particularly as different teams come and go and I catch a glimpse of heaven in each of them as I get to worship with them and hear their stories.

It has been a challenging few weeks too as a couple of my housemates, colleagues and friends have left. This is such a transitional place in many ways that pouring into people and loving them well becomes even more important as friends arrive and leave all the time. I never know how much time God will give me with any given person..

I try to love people well. And I don't want to try to protect myself too much from living life freely and fully with them because it will be hard when they leave! This is a relatively new concept for me as I'm normally the one who leaves!! So I'm learning to love extravagantly and cry a lot but not allow my heart to harden or put walls up to make it easier later on!

In other news, I'm on holiday now. It's so good! I didn't really make any plans because I felt God say not to, which is hard for me because I'm such a planner and organiser! But it's all about learning to live by faith and trust Him to take care of the details. And it has been really cool and really refreshing to give Him more time and allow Him to direct my days. And all sorts of wonderful things have happened in terms of time to sleep, time to be with Him and worship, amazing conversations with people, times of ministry, sitting around the fire on the roof of our house, eating good food, meeting friends... I've been blown away by how He's organised all of my days. He even brought a friend from my team in Hawaii over here - she's staffing a Word by Heart (learning the stories of the Bible) school about 40 mins drive from here. And I got to sit in on her classes on Monday which was pure joy. Isn't He kind?

Next week I'm leaving the Valley (hooray!) and going to Pokhara with a couple of wonderful friends. I'm really excited for this gift of time, space and awesome people to do life with and pursue Jesus with.

So that's where I'm at - constantly overwhelmed by the goodness of God and his provision for me physically, emotionally, spiritually. This is an Open Heaven place and I'm undone that I get to be here. I sometimes feel like I'm living in a dream state and that I might wake up at any moment.

Prayer requests:

- Please keep covering me health-wise (my body's adapted really well, but continued protection would be great).

- My time in Pokhara next week and safe travelling to and from.

- My relationships with people here, that we would go deeper into Jesus together. For unity of vision and purpose.

- For more of Him. More joy, more patience, more kindness, more Holy Spirit to consume my life and my thoughts!

I'll leave you with a song that's touching my heart at the moment:

With many thanks to each one of you,

Hannah