Hello Everyone!!!

This week has been a rough week! I have been sick!!! The Flu bug finally hitt me, and I have been out of comission all week. Please be praying for complete healing, as I start class tomorrow night at the Fire Department! Also, This week has been tough, as tuesday, my best friends niece, not even 2 months old passed away in her sleep from bilaterall Pnemonia. They are like a second family to me over here in Montana. Please be praying for healing and peace and comfort through this hard time. Wednesday was the anniversary of my good friend Justin who died in high school. Its always a rough day for me, but always trying to see the good and remember all the good times! today, thursday is the 1 year anniversary of Eileen Fehlen, Grandma Pie, my pastor at Stanwood Foursquare of her passing last year. Eileen was one of the biggest influential people in my life, of why and how I ended up here at Lakeside, Montana YWAM to do my DTS. She is a huge reason why and how i completed my school also. Losing her half way throught my DTS, was not east at all! But God taught me in the midst of all the hurt, that He is my number one person to go to, for comfort, guidance and peace. So even though i couldnt just go call Eileen anymore, God taught me that i needed to go to him first. That was a huge lesson in life. I am remembering today all the memories of Eileen and miss her everyday! Please be praying with me today and this week.

Love you all!
<3 Rachel

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I also added a Couple new videos and more ministry pictures!!! Check em out!!

HELLO FROM MONTANA!

WOW! Thank you to all for your prayers and support in the ministry which God has called me to here at MBI! I know this is exactly where God has called me to be.  It’s been a life transition and hasn’t been easy, but it is incredible to be a part of what God is doing throughout the world. Thank you for being a part of my team and God’s team as we help frontline missionaries and volunteers carry out what God has called them to do around the globe. I want to share with you all about what has been happening here at MBI and how your prayers and support continue to make things happen! Without you, this would not be possible.

What role do I play here at MBI? I am one of MBI’s volunteer development staff. I help recruit volunteers by getting the word out through social media outlets, processing  new applications of interested volunteers, and answering phones and emails to place them around the world in frontline missions locations. I am also the “face” of MBI, being the first person people see when they enter the office.

MBI recruits skilled, willing and able volunteers to help with missions opportunities around the globe. We believe God invites us to participate in his kingdom work. What is in your hand? Where in the world is God calling you? When can you GO?! All you need is the ability to just show up. Everyone has different gifts and can serve in a variety of ways. Ministries around the world who are daily preaching, teaching and running ministries often need help with practical, hands-on services and projects like hospitality, childcare, office work, program development and construction. Volunteers through MBI come alongside to meet the needs of each ministry, giving the full-time missionaries more opportunity to remain fully engaged in their daily roles as leaders, teachers and disciples.

MBI currently places over 600 volunteers a year to serve more than 120 YWAM mission works located around the world – and that’s just a little bit of it! YWAM has over 1200 operating locations in need of hands-on help!

God has been so great already in 2013. January was full of training here at the Mission Builders International office, as we have three new staff including myself. We are all learning and cross training in all different areas, and it’s incredible to see the works God is doing through us. Already this year we have placed over 30 individual volunteers around the globe as well as a few teams.

It’s been fascinating learning about all the different ministries around the world and seeing everything that God is up to! One ministry has really captured my heart! As a hunter, I have dreamed of some type of ministry that would involve hunting. God opened that door here at MBI and showed me a ministry in South Africa called HUNT SA. It’s a ministry focused on getting Christian sportmans from around the globe to be involved in frontline missions in a creative way. You can go safari hunting in South Africa and all the money goes to surrounding villages and the meat provides food for 2500+ orphans daily. Going on a hunt, you also get the opportunity to go work in these villages for a week or more and see what you are helping with. Check it out at www.Huntsa.com.   

Besides God moving overseas, he is also moving abundantly here in the Flathead Valley of Montana. Never a day goes by that I don’t get the chance to impact somebody’s life. I have been intentional about getting out and meeting people outside of YWAM and getting involved in different ways in the community.

To add to all the excitement, my dream of doing School of Biblical Studies (SBS) is also coming true. As Mission Builder staff, we have decided to do a field-based SBS, studying the Bible inductively to learn more so we are able to give more to what God has called us to do here at MBI. So Wednesday afternoons, you can find us in the classroom studying!

In January, I got a roommate, Jasmine who is 27 and who is also new on staff at MBI. She previously was on staff at YWAM Maui for 8 years. It’s been quite an adjustment from warm weather to cold weather!

Also in January, my Great Aunt Carol passed away, so I went to Spokane for the funeral. It was a nice surprise to finally get to meet my little niece, Alice, my cousin Marcy’s baby girl. Pictures on Facebook just weren’t enough!

My dad also came to visit me for a long weekend. I got to show him what YWAM and Mission Builders International is all about, what my role in ministry is, and everything that I am involved in here. It was a blessing having him here and getting to show him what my life is all about.

I also joined the local fire department here and will start FireFighter  1 on March 1! So you can find me at the fire department on Friday nights and all day Saturdays for 8 weeks!  I have been training with them since November! I see this as another way of pursing my dream, but also a ministry in itself. What better way to minister to people, but out on the frontlines of being first responders to house fires, car accidents and whatever the incident might be!

As I look to the future, there is so much God is going to do! I am just so excited to see everything unfold! I am in need of raising more monthly support, as it is costing more to live here than I had expected. Will you be in prayer with me as I pray and look for more partnership in ministry?

I am praying for you all! May God pour out his blessings abundantly on your lives!

Thank you for being a part of my life and partnership in ministry!

Love you All! Please come visit here whenever!! 

<3 Rachel

Hello Everyone!

I am coming home for the Holidays! Its been an awesome month and a half gettting settled in with Mission Builders. I am currently sitting at the airport waiting for my plane so i can come home and share with you all about more of what I am doing and share with you everything God is doing in the World! I Look forward to getting together with you all! Merry Christmas!!!

Go GOD! Thank you to all for all your prayers and support as i get started with Mission Builders International! God is SO good. I am learning lots here in the office, and bringing in new applications everyday and placing people all around the world at different ministries everyday! Without you, this could not happen! I would love for anyone to come visit me here, so i can show you where i work and how you are involved and show you everything God is doing! I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving, I spent Thanksgiving in Polson, Montana which is about 30 minutes south of Lakeside with a family and friends. It was a lovely time! God is opening doors to minister to people everyday over here, even at the local coffee shop and once at the dump when i took my garbage in! Crazy how in the littlest moments and most odd times God can open doors to share the Truth. God keeps opening doors here, and turning the desires of my heart into something amazing, and to use toward the Kingdom of God. My dream since I was little was to be in the Fire/Rescue and Paramedic field. I will be joining the volunteer Fire/Rescue here locally in Lakeside, Montana and start EMT-B school on Jan 22nd. After schooling, I will be joining a YWAM ministry, Search and Rescue so whenever there is a natural disaster, I will go out and have a chance to minister to all the people we help. Through school, i will continue to work Full time here at Mission Builders International. I will be home for Christmas for about 10 days and look forward to catching up with everyone and sharing more of what exactly i am doing and how you all are involved. Please email me at rachellynn1007@gmail.com or call me 425.327.8586. I would love to chat and hear about what is going on in your lives and how i can pray!

Blessings!
Rachel

WOW! God is good! Thank you all for your prayers and support and partnership through this new journey god has us on! I made it safely to Montana and i am all moved in to my apartment! Today is my first day working here at Mission Builders International! So exciting, I cant wait to learn more and share with you all what is happening! Be Blessed today!

Love, Rachel

Thank you all who are praying and have partnered with me in this ministry! I am still at home raising support and hope to have enough to be able to move in 2 weeks and get started with this ministry! So excited for what God has in store and how we will see many lives changed around the world. We couldnt make this happen without your help! May God Bless you All!