kristin stutes

8 more days till I head to Africa!!! Eish (that’s what they say in Africa)!! I get to stay with one of the best people in the WORLD, my Natalie Spera. I can not wait!!!

People may wonder and ask “Why” and my answer is because last year I surrendered and was broken in Cambodia and I can’t turn my back on something I have seen. It’s too late! Ms. Sherrie put it this way,

“Stop doing life as you know it and take a detour to the unknown.  The only danger is having to come back…but your heart may not.  You risk having it stolen right out of your chest by a sweet smile from a soul who most probably won’t know what you are even saying (the language barrier) but will sense your words and smile-a sincere expression of God.”

And, I saw this video and fell in love

My goal this trip is to—

-Love, dance and play with the kids at different Care Points (12 million children are orphaned in Africa due to AIDS)

-Give hope to those dying of AIDS in the hospital (Touch the Untouchables)

-Slumber Party with Ben , Susan, Kayla, Levi and Trinity Rodgers

-Hang out in Mozambique with Isaac and Carol and soon-to-be-baby

-Attend the Passion Conference with Louie Giglio, Chris Tomlin & The David Crowder Band

-Be broken even more…Ouch! 

Another AMAZING opportunity I get is to spend 2 days in London with Hillsong…Something I’ve been talking about and now I really get to go!!!  They are hosting me so I don’t get too lost.  I get there early Sunday morning and head strait to their church, but I’ll probably be in shock for the 1st service and hopefully I can focus for the 2nd one;  Of course, I’m going to have to check out the sites around the city and Princess Diana (if you’ve been to my house you’ll know that I am a fan).

My only request is your prayer for health, safety and God’s will be done.

Here are some of the lyrics from the song above from Hillsong–

It is not a human right
To stare not fight while broken nations dream
Open up our eyes, so blind
That we might find the mercy for the need

Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey now
As we hold to our confession

It is not too far a cry
Too much to try to help the least of these
Politics will not decide if we should rise
And be your hands and feet

Whoa-oo-ooh
God, be the solution
Whoa-oo-ooh
We will be your hands and be your feet

Higher than our circumstance
You promised and you loved for all to see
Higher than our protest lines and dollar signs
Your love is all we need

Only you can mend the broken heart
And cause the blind to see
You erase complete, the sinner’s past
And set the captives free

Only you can take the widow’s cry
And cause the heart to see
Be the Father to the fatherless
Our Saviour and our King

We will be your hands
We will be your feet
We run this race for the least of these
In the darkest place we will be your light,
We will you light