Missions

 Greetings! Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Thanksgiving was so good here! We had about 15 people eat with us, but then we had more people in the neighborhood that we were able to give plates of food to as well! It was such a different kind of Thanksgiving for me, but it was so wonderful. I hope you all had a good holiday too!

For our program here at Bethel, we all have the opportunity to choose to go on a mission trip with the teams here at Bethel. We chose from places all the over the world to go. I will be going to Tijuana, Mexico! I am so excited to be given the opportunity to go to a place that I have never been to and never thought I would travel to! I will be going April 9-April 16....here is the description that Bethel gives of the trip:

We will be based out of a camp that Bethel has been coming to every year for 10 years. There is Revival breaking out among the local pastors who have set up a network of churches including the Ensenada area. Teams of BSSM students will minister as worship leaders, children’s ministers and have opportunity to preach, teach and give words of knowledge in local church meetings. Open Heavens are over the area and there is an expectancy for the supernatural in the community. We will also minister on the streets with prophetic art, treasure hunts, drama and many other forms of outreach. We will visit the legendary Revolution Street for a large evening crusade using various local churches to assist us in reaching out to the lost. This is a time of experiencing community on a team, personal freedom and God breaking out. Come and experience being used by God to love the poor, love on tons of children, heal the sick, the blind, the lame, and encourage Pastors as we partner with them to see Revival change a nation. We will end the trip with a blow up service at a sister church in southern California, hang out on the beach and enjoy how good our God is.

This trip is going to be a life changing experience for me because I am going to be doing missions like I never have before. Living here in Redding has also been teaching me how I want to live as a missionary. I am learning a lot about boundaries in relationships and how to give without exhausting myself. It has been really challenging, but I know it has been so good for me to have real life experience in community living. I came here to BSSM to learn how to be a healthy missionary. When I started classes, it was totally different than I thought because we were mostly learning about how to live with the Holy Spirit and live resting in the Presence of God. I realized that this is how you learn to be a missionary. You have to learn how to rest in His Presence; if you don't you will be giving out of a place that is only yourself, and that is what is exhausting. When you realize that the Holy Spirit is the one who ministers to people's hearts and spirits, then you realize that it's not tiring at all and you don't have to try really hard. I am definitely still learning and I think I will have to learn for a while, but it is such good and awesome revelation. This is one of the reasons I am excited to go to Tijuana, because I know this mission trip will be based off the Holy Spirit's direction and I trust better what the Holy Spirit does than what I think should be done!

My trip to Tijuana has not been financially funded yet, so if you would like to give to it I would be wildly blessed by that! I would also love to have people that will be interceding for me and my team. Your prayers and your financial support will have a dramatic impact on the people we will be doing outreach to in Tijuana. Your partnership with me is partnering with God's plan and my testimonies are your testimonies because you are sending me!
If you would like to give money, you can go to this address: missiontrips.ibethel.org Just search for my name (Emily Scheihing :) in the section that says "search for a traveler" and then click the tab that says "Give" in the row of my name.
Here is my e-mail in case you have any questions for me: eascheihing@gmail.com
Blessings to you guys!
Emily

Royalty

I wish I could consistently update this, but it is so hard with so much going on here at BSSM. I am loving it!! I love love love it here. I am praying that I can keep more up to date with my blog because I really would love to share more about what is going on.
Royalty is what I'd really love to share with you. This has been the most important thing that I have been learning about while at school. So, what does royalty mean in the Christian world? It means I am the daughter of the King! King Jesus! Since I was called a daughter of royalty, this gives me the right to the inheritance of that kingdom.  

"If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." Gal. 3:21

This is my identity.

"But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus." Eph. 2:4-7

 I am learning so much about this. It is a transforming of the mind to think of myself as royalty. I just try to think sometimes about the way I act and I wonder if a queen or a princess would act differently. I mean in the worldly sense, I don't want to act like a queen because all I think about is snobby and ungrateful. But when I think of a queen in the kingdom of Heaven, I think of justice, humility, grace, and beauty. I think of a woman who is full of abundance and never feels like she is in lack. If I really accept my royalty, I would never stress about a credit card bill or about getting groceries. My royalty also has to do with my response to the King. Living in response to the King is realizing He is always there. If I am living with Him in His house I am going to hear when He moves; I am going to hear when He opens the door. God is always talking and is always showing me what I should do. It is my duty to make myself aware of His voice and to learn what His voice sounds like. In the same way, my royalty brings me into closer relationship with Him because we are resting together. I am learning about how He works and I am learning about His heart.

My mind really does have to be transformed. I believe God is doing that for me in this season. He is re-wiring my brain. He is revealing to me where I don't trust Him, and helping me to see why I should!

I am having such a fun time learning about my identity in Christ. The students are going out and applying what we are learning too. I am serving the neighborhood I live in and yesterday we held a block party. It was such an amazing time together to meet new people and to see children playing outside. The most amazing part of it was seeing the Holy Spirit touch people. 7 people gave their life to Jesus!! God is so good!! He showed up in our cul-de-sac and loved on them. Keep our team in prayer as we minister to our neighbors here in Boulder Creek. Jesus loves them so deeply and is doing really cool things to show them!! Pray for an open Heaven over us as we walk out to knock on people's doors to encounter God.

Love to you all!! You are all princes and princesses! Kings and queens! 

Emily