My Next Journey...

Hey everybody! I’m writing to you from beautiful Kona Hawaii during my time in the School of Biblical Studies (SBS). I have this awesome opportunity to spend nine months studying the entire bible inductively. No outside resources are allowed. I've never been the "studious" type and coming here and learning all this has been very hard for me, but I have learned so much already, it is amazing! We are graded individually on every book. I am here for God and my relationship with Him most importantly, to know Him and to make Him known. The thing I love about this school is learning to apply the word of God to my life establishing a solid foundation for whatever I do in life. There is no other way to gain such a thorough understanding of the whole Bible in such a short time. Anyways God has been revealing a lot to me recently about our relationship and He is totally transforming me into a whole new person.

God has put on my heart a mission to Cambodia. In 2008 God revealed a calling upon my heart to reach out to victims of sex trafficking during my outreach time in India and Nepal. During that time God promised I would have another opportunity to go to Cambodia. So here I am in Kona, Hawaii getting the opportunity at the end of the School of Biblical Studies to go to Cambodia to apply everything I have learned and what God has taught me in the process of these 9 months. The country of Cambodia is still recovering from the genocide that happened just over 30 years ago. I would have the opportunity to teach at the ywam base in Siem Reap. They run a free school that teaches English, business, computers, job skills training, and Christian values. Education provides a way to escape the poverty that lingers since the genocide. I would be able to use the knowledge that I learned in SBS to present the gospel to future business men, doctors, lawyers etc. during small group sessions. Through practical education along with biblical teaching I would be used by God to transform their future.

http://www.uofncambodia.org/siemreap/englishcenter.html

My roommate Sarah went to Cambodia in 2008 for her DTS outreach and she really developed a heart for the people of that country and made relationships with the people at the ywam base there. Now I have the opportunity to go with her and apply all that we have learned through doing SBS. The ministries we will likely be involved with are teaching at the education center, working with victims of sex trafficking in Siem Reap, serving the homeless children of Battambang and relieving the regular staff of the base.

Please keep my health in your prayers during this mission as I will be just finishing up this intense program and jumping right into a mission trip. If you feel led to support me financially through this journey it would be such a blessing. Please know that no gift is too small. I will continue to keep you updated as our plans develop through these next few months.

Be blessed!

Kalyne Clark

The Sovereignty of God

Hey friends! Sorry I haven't written a new blog for a while, I've been pretty busy with school and studying but now that I have some time I want to share with you what I've learned this week from Daniel.

This week we were taught about the sovereignty of God. As I was studying the book God was really speaking to me about His control in my life, and that I wasn't giving Him ALL control like I should be. I seem to think I can control my own life, I can take care of it which is just craziness. I have trouble giving all control to God because I don't have any idea what is going to happen, and I'm the person that needs to know when, where, and how, but that is where faith comes in. The beautiful and amazing thing is we don't HAVE to have the control, God actually WANTS it. Regarding my future I just have a very hard time giving ALL control to the Lord and believe that He is going to give me all the desires of my heart regarding the calling that I believe he has spoken to me and meeting someone to walk out that calling with. I know that the Lord has called me to start my own ministry, or organization but I honestly have no idea where I’m even supposed to start. This book really got me thinking about my future and realizing that if God is going to use me the way He says, I am going to have to give him all control over my life, not just half, some, or most. 

Then we talked about God's faithfulness in our lives, and it just hit me hard how God has been SO faithful to me. He has blessed me with an amazing family and has brought incredible people into my life. He turned my life around when I graduated High School and before I knew it I was going to Colorado to go to a Justice based Dicsipleship Training School for 6 months with Youth with a Mission. There God revealed His heart for me, and the calling that He has on my life, to raise awareness and fight sex slavery. On my outreach to India and Nepal God made a way for our team to rescue 3 trafficked women that we met at cabin hotels during our outreach there and that day God broke my heart for the things that break His, and one of the biggest things God hates is social injustice. God has recently put counseling on my heart, specifically counseling women/children that have been trafficked, and my answer is yes, my heart longs to bring restoration to these women through God. In order to do that, I need to know and understand the bible, so that brings me to here and now. God is preparing me by having me take this 9 month school, so that I can tell these women/children about Jesus and how they were sold for nothing, and that they will be redeemed without money through only Him. -Isaiah 52:3
God is working in my heart here so much its beyond words, and I can't wait to have the opportunity to go out to the nations and bring what I have learned here in the SBS.

I encourage you all to check out this link, and see why sex slavery is so strongly on my heart...
http://vimeo.com/11013582 

Thank you for all your prayer and support! I hope you all are doing great in good ol' Maine! If I could, I would send you some sunshine! Love and miss you all.

Love,

Kalyne