Support Letter

Hello everyone,
This past year God has been doing so many incredible, new, and scary things in my life. Most of you know I recently went to Mozambique Africa to Heidi and Rolland Bakers Harvest Mission School (Iris Ministries). While there, my entire life was changed and turned upside down for the better. I walked away from those 3 months in Mozambique and the 16 days in Nepal with a completely different outlook on life. I received so much inner healing that I came to a place where every day I am able to humble myself and allow God to show me who He is. I finally know who I am as a daughter and a warrior bride of Christ. God has blessed me so much with friends and family who believe in me and my calling enough to support the things God has been leading me into and for that I am truly thankful. I want to thank all of you who supported and prayed for me while I was away and continue to pray and support me now as I am resting and waiting on Him to show me what is next. It means so much to me. You truly are pouring into my destiny and my gratitude is uncontainable.

While I was at the Harvest school, learning to fully trust God in everything I do was one of my greatest struggles. Learning to jump out and live in continual faith can be very scary, especially for someone like me who plans out every hour of her day. However, an opportunity for a trip came to my attention. The trip will involve driving around all of Central and South America, doing what Jesus did, following the Holy Spirit wherever he leads! The team will be looking for unreached people groups to minister the love of the Father to, as well as holding evangelistic meetings, and meeting the practical needs of the people we come in contact with. After much prayer, and to be honest, arguing with God, I feel He is leading me to be a part of this journey for the next step in my life. Now, when I first heard about the trip I became extremely excited and really felt like it was something I was supposed to do, but as time went on I became more and more unsure and fearful as reality set in. I began to question the amazing love and power of our God. I chose to try nursing school, which is something I have always had a longing to do (It was also the safer choice). However, God kindly pointed out that the timing for nursing school is not now. So through much prayer, tears, and some very real confirmations I know this trip is my next step. The team is starting in California on September 11th and driving down through Mexico and Central America (What is most exciting is we are being blessed to go out as an Iris Ministries missions team!). I feel God is calling me to start my journey with them in Nicaragua in November. The trip is to last as long as God is calling me to be there. I have full faith that God will provide everything needed. I am not going to miss out on my destiny because I am afraid God is too small to provide for what He has called me into!

I need $1,000.00 by August 13, 2011. The team is renting RVs and Campers to accommodate everyone who feels lead to be on this trip. As well, we will be paying for our own food, visas, board, and getting everyone and all vehicles across the Panama Canal. Overall I will need about $12,000 to pay for at least 11 months. I know this is not a lot for God and I trust he will provide for everything. He is such a good Daddy.

I am also asking for your support and prayers! Anything that you feel lead to give I will be so thankful for! Committed prayer is most definitely needed if you cannot give financially or even if you can, I always need more prayers! You can make TAX DEDUCTIBLE checks out to Miraculous Love Ministries please do not put my name in the memo. (You can also make the check out to me for a non-tax deductible donation). You can send your donation to my address at: 1306 Robin Hill RD Franklin TN 37064 or you (for a tax deductable donation) you can send checks to Miraculous Love Ministries-Rachael Singleton P.O. Box 1543 Franklin TN 37065. I also have a paypal account if you would like to support me in that way. Or you can donate online at WWW. Miraculouslove.com/Rachael. Also if you feel lead to support me monthly I will be making payments of $700.00 every month I am on the trip (that is part of the $12,000.00) to the leaders of the trip to pay for all the things mentioned above.

Thank you all so much, you mean the world to me.

Many Blessings,

Rachael Michelle Singleton

Process

You know that feeling when you find out something about someone that is in complete contrast with the character you thought they possessed.

You are disappointed and hurt, because of the importance this person carries in your life. Someone you look up to and think the world of, always over looking there previous mistakes in the name of Love.

You get mad at yourself for assuming they weren't like everyone else. That this particular thing would never be an issue for them.

For assuming they were different.

Once you find out this thing about them you can no longer look at them the same. You don't know how to act around them.

They don't know that you know.

You want to love them the same.

Unconditional.

To an extent you do, but still in the back of your mind the memory of your not so fond discovery keeps reeling like a movie.

You feel numb.

Not happy, not sad, not angry, but indifferent and confused.

As if your mind is trying to figure out what to do. It can't decide what emotion to convey.

Time takes a halt as your mind searches for the correct way to process something it never thought it would have to.

You don't want to talk about it because you don't trust yourself to keep the news from turning into venomous gossip as it slips off your tongue.

So you say nothing... as thoughts play over and over. you try every form of distraction.

Nothing works.

You cry out to God for peace of mind.... And you get it, but now your heart swells with pain because you can feel, almost taste the tangible Love God has for them.

How much He longs to heal every crater life has created in their hearts over a lifetime causing them to choose this path in the first place.

Worst of all you realize you can not fix them.

You would give up your own God filled mostly Healed Heart and take there broken tormented one if just given the opportunity.

You've now caught another glimpse more of the Love of the Father.

No more wasted time.

Money.

The thing I hate the most. The only thing that can bring to this level of stress. It makes me nervous and happy. I need more trust that I am taken care of. Way more. It is so easily spent and so easily gone. I have enough for the moment then the moment passes. Jobs are cancelled and opportunities lost. I wish the trade system was still in place. I have plenty I would trade. This is more of a rant post. A relieving of stress post. Sometimes my mind gets so cluttered up I can not think of anything else, but worry about how things are going to get paid. Jesus I need you.

This is all I have to Say!

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18 Days In A Country You Do Not Like.

After Mission school I was headed to Nepal, of all places. To be honest Nepal had never crossed my mind until I read it was one of the options for outreach after mission school in Mozambique. My first initial thought was, oh this place sounds great and adventurous and I never thought of it again. But God being who he is provided a way and all the funds before I even knew what had hit me. We left on December 10th for Nepal. Upon arrival I and the team of 5 others quickly become accustomed to the culture in Nepal. Frankly, we had no other choice. The second the plane landed 500 Nepali men, and the occasional woman, leaped out of there seat and began forcing each other off the plane willing to trample anyone who fell. Once through customs and once we had acquired our visas we were headed for the place we would be staying. Now normally I have no personal space, I am a dancer we are trained not to. However, in Nepal because I am a young attractive white westerner I am stared at, and not from a comfortable distance either. More like less than 6 inches from me taking mine and my team mates’ pictures as well as trying to sell us things. Not just one person either, but anywhere from 10 to 30 men and woman all standing around watching everything we do. Now I could sit here and tell you everything I really disliked about the country of Nepal, but I am trying this thing where I do not complain. Plus I have no reason to complain I freaking got to go to Nepal!

Well by this point I hope I have expressed well enough that Nepal did not exactly catch my fancy. This really bothered me seeing has God completely provided the way. Yet he knew I would not like it. So I dared ask the question: Why was I in Nepal?

Every night as I lay freezing on the floor in my sleeping bag I asked and contemplated this question. Praying that God would give me some kind of answer and every time all I heard was "because I love Nepal because I Love these people." It took me a while to really understand what He was saying to me. As the weeks carried on and the entire team became extremely ill, I'll save you the gory details, I finally began to understand. No matter how much I disliked where I was I was there for a reason. God loves Nepal therefore; I should to, because my heart is to love what He loves. I realized He is going to ask me to do things I may not like, but if I truly trust him and believe that he knows best I have to act like. Going where He asks me to go and doing what He asks me to do no matter where or what. Living by my spirit. Once I stopped complaining and began to thank Him for everything my perspective changed. I understood why I was there, to learn what submission means and to obey and trust God. If I cannot submit to God how will I ever be able to submit to my husband, whenever he comes around? In the end God opened my heart to the people and the place and brought forth a piece of my destiny I had no idea he had planned for me.

I will, later on, be writing about what all actually happened while in Nepal as of right now This was just some thoughts I needed to escape my mind.

-Rachael Michelle

Since I have been Gone.

God Has done many things Since I have been gone. I am no longer the same person I once was. The things I once feared I no longer fear, the challenges I once faced are no longer difficult, and everything I misunderstood all makes since. I feel Matured and understood. My home is and will always be Mozambique, Africa, but sometimes in order to grow the way that is needed we must leave our homes and go to the places that are hard. For me the hardest place to be is here in America. However, God has called me here for the time being. I was born here, but I never truly called it home. I think that is because if it were a home to me I would look at it not so much as a mission field, but as a place of safety and rest. I do feel very blessed to live in America, do not get me wrong. I just feel my heart longing for countries that understand the super-natural and live in a continual state of humility. However, I do pray America opens her eyes some day soon and I have faith she will. This is the year 2011. The year to make things happen. The year things have to change it is the inevitable. I thank God every day He gave me a head start. If I must be the "party pooper" I will. Wake up church, wake up you who call your-selfs Christians, Wake up Nation. God is calling us to live a life lead by our spirits. He will cut your soul from your spirit. There is no other way and when you realize that God is right there to fill in the place. No more gossip, no more complaining, no more insult. We are called to be lovers of the things God loves and the one thing he loves more than anything is his people. He proved that by dying on the cross. If you have not gotten the implications of what that means you might want to catch up on your reading. Please do not take me as harsh or take my words offensively. I just speak the truth. God is coming back and the underlaying question is, are you ready? Could you stand before Him this day to be judged? There is no second chances after this. How important is it to you? What will it take?

(And yes I did take the photograph)