Nov. 25

Hey everyone,
Last Sunday we got together the motliest crew of 12 I have ever seen, besides the disciples. We are leaving on this Saturday for a week trip which we believe to be the pinnacle of our small beginnings here in Mombasa.
We are taking with us street boys and a street girl and her 2 year old baby. Some of the street boys already profess to be Christians, some are still addicted to glue, one is a Muslim, and they all are deeply wounded and need seriously healing that I know can only come from a revelation of God’s deep love for each of them.

As we sat around in a circle in our house for the meeting it became really apparent to me that this isn’t going to be easy. I realized I haven’t really led a trip before, and I am leading a trip for Africans? They have become so accustomed to street life that they still are unable to take on the values of normal society, still eat out of the trash, still are not used to being clean, and not used to the idea of team.
So here we are… 2 weak white girls and one Mozambican Pastor, and I started getting uncomfortable in my chair that night as I realize that each one of these people needs a lot of one on one attention. I started to worry about how we will build team unity, how we will pour into each one, how we can design this trip to cater to all of their deep needs.

The next morning I was overcome with pressure. I really like these people, in fact, I love them and I want so badly for them to have a great trip. Then God was like ‘is it about having a cute “youth group” trip? A good team building experience? Or is there something better waiting for them in Nairobi?’ Then He led me back into scripture and realizations of the time we are living in.
More and more, God is speaking to me about the season we are in. Wake up, Carly. Its not just another year, another trip, another Wednesday…each day and moment is important because they are becoming fewer and fewer.

I am coming to the realization that we are living in the End Times. Any day a nuclear attack could come from Iran, any day we might no longer have the luxuries we have become accustomed to. This is real. And Scripture says just that…read the signs…the end is near. Look what is going on with our country, with the world. Look in the Bible. It’s not so hard to see. But if we don’t see it, we will be like Anninias and Saphira – they knew the cross but they hadn’t related to Him rightly so they could survive.

It’s not about a nice trip, a thriving ministry, getting more people in your church, switching to a new and different methodology…get with the times. If we can’t read the times of our season now, we will not be able to recognize the thing that God is about to do…just like so many religious people couldn’t recognize what God was doing through Jesus and they died unsaved because they couldn’t read what God was doing. If we aren’t knowing Him so well, if we aren’t giving ourselves to Him wholeheartedly, how can we read the new thing He is about to do? How can we survive? Especially with all the garbage we fill ourselves with in America, and the stuff we don’t even recognize we are falling for, like humanism or religious nothingness.

So what is God doing right now? He is raising up a prayer and fasting movement across the globe of people who are ready to leave the silliness of the world and get real. Reality isn’t what we are seeing…reality is what the world (or the powers of darkness in control of our cultures –Eph 3) is trying to blind us from. Reality is that Jesus is real, He is coming, and He is coming soon.

It’s our job (the church aka 2 or 3 gathered who are willing to leave sin and live in covenant of love with each other and pray and fast and live real) to pray and prepare our countries for the Day of the Lord (Joel 2).
We are living in the greatest and worst times. We have the opportunity to do the most amazing thing…prepare the way for the Lord, and if we miss out on this, so many will be lost.

We are going to The Call Kenya on Dec. 6th. We are spending the week in Nairobi before to prepare and spend time together as a group hanging out in the prayer room and other things. This trip is not just about getting unity, setting a solid foundation for this street ministry, it’s about my friends getting a touch from God. It’s about them waking up to reality. It’s about them catching the wind of the Holy Spirit that is more amazing than glue, than money, than anything this world has!
That being said, Val and I are so excited for this trip. We leave Friday night with our friends on an overnight bus to Nairobi. We are thrilled to have such a fun week with them, but our hearts are deeply passionate about this week being a week that they wake up to reality. That they see other Kenyans who already are awake. Please pray for us. Nov 28- Dec 7. Please pray. Pray for open eyes, willing hearts, fertile soil. Please join us in our prayers for them. I am struck by this thought: if I really love them and I know that the End is coming…how can I truly say I love them unless I care enough about them to care about the situation of their souls?

Pray for:
Mario
Allan
Brother John
Samuel
Enoch
Muhamed
Nancy and Jon, her baby
Teddy
Puez
Alphonce
Me
Val
Pastor Salito
Kenya