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