Hello dear friends,
It certainly has been a while. I miss my little updates to you all and I still think of each and every one of you with so much gratitude. I want to thank you all yet again: anyone who read my blogs, or prayed for me, or supported me financially, or all of the above on my trip way back in 2019.
I am writing to you all now to give you an update on a new season of life and ministry and what the Lord is doing in my story.
Quick catch up, after I got back from the World Race, I got back into full time metalsmithing and jewelry repair (which is what I was doing before WR). After several years of that, I felt that the Lord was getting ready to call me into something new, but I had no idea what that would be.
I had a full year (almost to the day) of seeking and waiting on the Lord for this promise to come to fruition. As is God’s way, here I am in this new season and it is something I never saw coming.
SO! As to not leave you hanging too long, the new thing is: (drumroll please)-
I’m teaching!
I am back at my alma mater teaching Art and Bible classes to middle schoolers. Never in my life would I have seen myself in a full time teaching position on a middle school level, but God has been very intentional in putting me here and has given me tons of confirmation that it’s where I’m supposed to be.
That said, I see this far more as a ministry than a job. I have often said that I felt called to the American Church. There are so many people in this country who profess to be Christians, but don’t actually know the heart of Christ or don’t have any idea what a relationship with God actually looks like.
I’ve been realizing and pondering a strange alignment to this conviction here in my new position. What better place to minister to the American Church than to 5th and 6th graders of Christian homes? I am so full of hopefulness for each and every one of my kids. I want the Word to come alive to them; I want them to truly know the love of Christ and begin to have a grasp on what that means. I feel so honored to be entrusted with these little hearts even for a brief time (I’m even tearing up a little as I write this).
This brings me more specifically to why I’m writing to you all. You all are my super support team and this is the field God has led me into. I don’t need financial support (since this is also, in fact, a job); but what I know I really need is prayer.
I have seen time and time again the groundbreaking power of prayer in countless situations. And though I know that the Lord could and would absolutely work through me in this job even if I treated it as simply that, I know how much more He will do through consistent and intentional prayer.
I want to see the next level of what God can do in this new season and in the lives of these kids. I want to see him change hearts and lives in powerful and profound ways. I need God to pour out extra measures of wisdom and prudence on me as I both learn how to be a full time teacher and interact with these students in the day-to-day moment-to-moment.
To do this, I am putting together a team of prayer warriors who would like to partner with me in this new season and ministry. I will be sending out email reports with specific prayer requests, stories, reflections (about once or twice a month)
If you want to partner with me in prayer and be included on that email list please comment on this post or message me directly so that I can add you to my prayer report email list.
I want to thank each of you again for all the support you’ve already given me. I am so grateful for my World Race season and am already seeing how the Lord is going to use what I learned and experienced through that in this next chapter.
Thank you and God Bless!
With Love,
Hattie
