Tuesday, April 18, 2006

The War College

Wow.... i came across the website for a school called the War College, put on by the Salvation Army. it gave me shivers and tingles. it's not out of the question that i might go somewhere like that in the future.... they use the term 'extreme' over and over again, extreme worship, extreme prophetic, extreme holiness, extreme warfare.... i love it.
"Students will place themselves in the context of a new culture for effectiveness in an old war." (from their course calendar)
their website: http://www.thewarcollege.com/index.html

i know that God is calling me to step out of my comfort zone in a big way, just not sure how it's going to come about. last year i went to smog city (LA) for a week, and (gasp!) i survived. reading the article about the guy who went to india to intern under mother teresa and worked in the leper colony also stoked something deep within me. (http://www.thesimpleway.org/shane/sampler.pdf) . for a long time i felt challenged to seek God and allow Him to change my heart of fear into one of boldness. so that i would not be fearful of one day being called to minister barefoot in the slums of china....

and here i am today with my heart melting over ministering in the slums of inda (but not barefoot, ick!), and thinking about the feasibility the something like the War College - ministering (and learning!) in the slums of vancouver.

my God is amazing.
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