A Whole New World! A Hundred Thousand Things to see!

Sunset in Lahaina!

       Where has the time gone! I'm writing from outside of my house as the sun is reflecting on me, i am reflecting on my time here.  funny hahah. It is a week and a half away until i leave here for my next mission in Bangladesh! (I leave on the 7th of December)

Manny's Moustache Marathon!

    I haven't wrote in a while, but life has been super busy! about a week a ago we had a media fast for a week a monday to a monday which was really good! I'd highly encourage everyone to at least try it sometime. you really realize how much time you spend on the computer and it is crazy how much wasted time it is!

on the boat to Molokini!

    Catching you up previously to my last entry, that same weekend I did a snorkling/sailing adventure with my school! One of the old staff gave us a really good deal and it was such a good time!
    We had Ben Cordy come in and talk about different worldviews. So interesting! and we aslo focused a lot about apologetic stuff to apply it not only to our outreach locations but when we get back home with one of the biggest movement beliefs around today: atheism. It makes me sad for my friends who have bought into Darwin's theory and also or the school''s who claim this is a fact. I could go really deep into this stuff since iIm super passionate about it, but i will leave that for another time. It makes me sad that people believe in evolution where really it doesn't have any proof. They just want to believe something so bad so that they won't turn to God. Romans 1:18-21 God desperately wants His people to come know him and many today are so ignorant to their creator. Yeah, but i just loved that week! That week on Monday, I also had a chance to lead worship for the hour on monday morning, with my friend Juice! It was really awesome! I am also excited because on my bangladesh team, I am coleading being the worship leader with my room mate kelsey!
     That saturday, you've all probably seen the video or pics but I also was a part of the ywam coffee house and talent show! I was i two acts! So you can probs guess but had worked on them both the day of all day. ONe of them i did with my friends Kashanna, Hannah everett and Kylie. We were called the glocals- haha funny;) We were glow-stick people and the room was all dark and all you could see were our glow-sticks dancing around! i think there is a video of me on my page if you want to check it out! It was awesome!

Juice and I with some props from the evening!

      The second one was like a dream come true! For those of you who don't know, i am a major major Disney girl.! hahah so i ended up doing a four song disney medley with Justin again! We started off as lions for The lion King, then transformed into Pocanhontas and John Smith for the Colors of the Wind, Then he was ariel and i was Flounder, and finally we finished with the classic A Whole New world as Jasmine and Aladdin! So fun! and we worked so hard on our costumes! It really paid off and it was so fun! When it was over, although it was around 7 min. long after it was over it felt like a musical had finished and i didn't want it to finish! It was so fun! Our whole school was pretty creative with other acts including lots of deece vocal skills and par -core routines, hillibilly twang, impersonations of wisconson, thriller, chinese and Emmy (one of the leaders here) dedicated a song to us called YWAM Maui Girls where she used the tune of california girls by Katy Perry.
     Then on Sunday, we had Invisible Children come to Waipuna and present. It was so moving and I really hope I will be able to see the day that Joseph Kony is found and put behind bars!

My Bangladesh Girls at Twin Falls after Cliff Jumping one day!

      LAst week,we had meredith from our base talk about spiritual warefare for 3 days. It was her first time ever speaking at Dts and she did great as well! Learned a lot once again, It is awesome to know that  we are on the winning team. God has already won! Also it was a good reminder that God is not on the same playing field with Satan. He is a lot more powerful with no limitations while Satan is a jerk that knows he is going to lose. We also learned a lot about Lucifer's history as being an ark angel of the worshipping angels.

Making perogies!

      Loretta the head cook had me prepare 300 perogies! Such a process! But it ended up working out really well! I taught 3 others to be my helpers-there was flour everywhere and I'd say for my first time ever making perogies ever bymyself without Grandma's help, they were fantastico! It was funny how much i felt the pressure to make them perfect! I wanted my Grandma there so bad to help! I guess that is what it is going to feel like to be a mom one day! I wanted people to really like them, since they are my favorite food and all!

Me with Martin and Ingrid from Norway! They brought me some
Norweigan chocolate!

My Bangladesh team and I at Thanksgiving!

         Then it was the weekend! I feel like i am recapping so many weeks and weekends, so I apologize if you aren't able to keep up with my life! It was a four day weekend! Just what i needed!  Wednesday was our Thanksgiving dinner! I love how much everyone loves dressing up here! Every time we get the opportunity to dress up, all the girls get crazy! it is quite the experience having 26 closets to choose from! Surprisingly, I don't think I have lost any clothes! wooohoo! The meal was incredible! The cooks went all out! we had yam with marshmellows (just like my mom makes them), buns 9yum!) steamed vegetables! gravy (fort those that like it) , and then homemade pumpkin, banana cream and almond pie for dessert with icecream! I was stuffed! There is soo much good food here! so many days I am just overwhelmed with the goodness of it, but with the fact I got to go on more runs! We took lots of pictures, did some sing-alongs, and every country represetned with their national anthem. Some of my favorites, besides us north american countries were Norway, Finland , and China. So cute! We ended the night with everyone all of the SBFM and DTS watching Elf! My favorite!
         This weekend Laura and I were self-designated fun extraordinaires! We took it upon ourselves to plan outrageous stuff for our second last weekend here! Not once this whole weekend i didn't sleep in  past 8:00. Thursday as plans were changing, we had a more lazy day. At 1:00 in the afternoon we decided to have a movie Marathon! By 1:30 in the morning, we successfully watched the three, extended versions of The Lord of tHe Rings! It was so epic! Also it was quite ironic because the boys had to leave the girls house by 11:00 so it was like 15 girls left in the end just watching Frodo finish the ring good and for all! Some of the boys went camping out a beach in Kihei and they were watching Twilight!

On Saturday! we went crazy over this rainbow!

Sunset in Lahaina

        Friday, I planned a trip to Lahaina and got 12 girls in total to come with me! We managed to get to the bus stop each by hitching in groups of three all arriving there just in time with two minutes to spare at 9:17! I planned the bus routes (when to get on, where t switch where to meet up) My dad's good planning adventure skills were definitely inhierited into me! With it being Black Friday, we did some shopping in Whaler;s village, in Kan'napali then  went to Lahaina to the beach and then for supper at Cheeseburger in Paradise! So many memories came back to my head from when My mom and dad took my sisters and I! I could even point out the exact table! Inside i was able to even find a Saskatchewan license plate! woo! go roughriders! although i heard their season was awful! that is too bad! Then I stayed on the beach and watched one of the prettiest sunsets ever! The oranges and pinks filled the skies and reflected magically over the ocean water! After that we had it perfectly planned out to  meet up with the town run vans in Kahaluli and i ended getting a sweet deal on a Justin Bieber DVD at Walmart! Gotta love it! unfortunately his christmas album has not yet gone on sale yet so I am going to wait on that but I want it so bad!  the motto for the day that Kaley gave me was "When you want something done, Kozan gets it done!"

Road to Hana shot

Road to Hana

        Saturday around 20 of us drove in trucks to Hana! I would for sure recommend this to everyone that comes to Hawaii! it was so cool! All along we did some steller cliff jumps as a group, saw some amazing sights, waterfalls, and more! I didn't do the big jumps that day but i was content with what I did:) We also swam in these black sand rock beaches which were really fun. One time i def thought i was done for! This ginormous wave from Poisidon came and like enngulfed us! thank goodness i was able to get out! haha We also did this one excursion where you swim in a black cave! One of the scarriest things i have ever done for sure! But again- worth every minute! The road was maybe my favorite part! One moment you were in an amazing rainforest scene to Mars to Africa! Being in the back of Tim's truck with ma gurls was so fun! We saw the most amazing rainbow ever! i was "wowing" ever minute at what I was seeing before my eyes! The rainbow was like 3 quarters full of a circle! I am not sure how to describe it but parts went into the ocean and then in the trees, and it was the most vibrant thing ever! i could actually see tons of purple in it! On the way home it was pouring! I was just in my bathing suit for a long time because honestly i was not that cold, then the sun went down and i started to feel it but kept telling myself i wasn't! the other girls thought i was crazy but i was such a fun ride back! we were singing songs into the rain like :Wannabeee by the Spice Girls, some Disney classics  etc . On top of that Kaley and I both had our own personal pan pizzas from Pizza Hut!

My Church group at Waipuna!

inside Waipuna

    Sunday was awesome too! It was our last church service at Waipuna! :( I really am going to miss them! I loved having the opportunity to serve and love on the kids. The church prayed for us and released us as well! After church we had our weekly gathering free sample stop at Cost-co and then we went to Paia Bay! The waves were a ten foot swell and swimming in them was so fun! I found a way where i didn't die every time they came! I became very good at swimming underneath the waves! (pro-surfer) ;) Then a group of us ate out at Flatbread Pizza Company to conclude this amazing long weekend!
      So that brings us to today! man where has the time gone. I can;t believe i have only a week and a half here left and then it is off for a new adventure.. This week is the final week of our lecture phase and we have the pleasure of having Ron carlson speak to us on Post Modernism! We get to be with the SBFM for this week so toay i got to sit with Ingrid and Emmiline and Catherine form Scotland! It looks like it is going to be a great week!
    Here i am not wanting to look in the future even though I am excited. Time is going by so quickly and I am pysched for the Plans Jesus has for me, but i have a feeling that this week is going to be super long, busy and emotional as we are all departing into our new homes. If you could continue to pray for us over this week that we are able to get everything done this last week and not feel the stress, but to also cherish each other's company so much! Also for God's blessing over each of our lives that He reveals to us what He wants us to pursue even after february because there are some people who are worried about that! God is gracious and good:) I am Yours forever. Take me as you find me as Your daughter to be your vessle on this earth living out your will for me:)
   Love you all! thanks again for your support! have a great week! -jac
  



 

My identity in christ!

      As the rain is sprinkling overhead, the beauty of the evening sets in. The sun falls down over the rain-forest. It falls quietly and quickly giving each of the trees a chance to say goodnight to the Maui island. The stars approach patiently above each waiting for their special time to reveal themselves. Stars fly, sparkle, twinkle and encompass the night to light up my vision. God is beautiful, vast and an artist.
    Hahaha the little poet inside of me;P

purple!

 My oh my my friends, where does the time go by! i can;t believe how fast this time is going by! Aloha! so another week has gone by! I just finished the Holy Spirit week here, which was really awesome as we had Maria Daughtry for a second time come. I learned a lot!

me and my roomies! 

   The week before was a great week, i only wish I could have wrote about it earlier. We FINALLY had our first Canadian speaker! hahah It's funny how half our school is made up of Canadians and we hadn't had a canadian here at all yet! His name was Dave Overholt from Hamilton, Ontario:) He is such a sweet guy and a wonderful refreshment.
    These weeks have been filled with crazy content and emotions that I had not had a ton of time to process. Dave was such a funny guy! The whole group was overjoyed to find out this wouldn't be such an emotional week:)
     He talked about the 5 identities we have in Christ which were:
 1. I am a child of the King
2. I am His ambassador
3. I am an alien
4. I am a Temple of the Holy Spirit
5. I am his Bride
     Dave is a pastor of Church of the Rock, where the average age of his church is around 24. He has a passion and gift working for young people, and his energy and love for disciplieship definitely showed. God for sure spoke through him and energized us all with his humor and funny jokes. God really showed the father-heart of himself through Dave with the way he talked about the love of his daughter It was such a special week and loved every minute! It was really hard saying goodbye to Dave because He really connected with all of us:)
    At the end we did a little mission statement this is what i wrote
  
     I am a child of the King,
his daughter to GO and bring
joy to His children, for He has
 accepted me as I am. I am called
to be MORE than of this world
But to be a history maker. <3


such a great week:)


    This week we had Maria Daughtry come back for Holy Spirit week, and I learned so much about the Holy Spirit it rocked;) we had such amazing times of worship to hear and be open to the Holy Spirit works and it was really cool to see God move through the room. It was a hard week, but God has really been speaking to me and I will continue to pursue that. I love worshipping though; it is the best!
   My friends Juice, Melissa and Kaley have been helping me to learn the guitar a little bit more so I am loving that.
     Last weekend, a group of four of us went on an adventure in the Kula (cool- er , haha get it!? But it is also the towns name- area of town) We got dropped off by the lovely Martin from Norway at a pumpkin patch. Unfortunately for us it opened at 11:00 and it was 9:30! uh oh i hadn't done my homework lol. We had some time to kill. Luckily I had remembered that people had talked about a lavender field that was nearby. So we got a car to pull over for a hitch and he drove us there. This was probably one of the squishiest hitches i've ever had but it was a lot better than the 3 mile up hill hike we would have had to do in the blazing Maui weather!

my trip to town:justin bieber's new cd! please mom!

in the lavender fields!

     Once we got there it was absolutely gorgeous and excellently free! We went on a scavenger hunt and then got a prize of lavender shortbread cookies (interesting) We had some awesome photos! what a view. Then it was time for the patch. We easily found a hitch down the hill from a paraglider who was really cool but he had a really quiet raspy voice, which was weird.
     The patch was so pretty too! There was a sweet corn maze, ponies, horses, delicious pumpkin smoothies and pretty views. I got two pumpkins and we had such good hitches! Then i got to surfing! not for very long but it was the first time that i actually had luck with tries and it was good waves! I stood up- haven;t really got a wave yet, but I'm going to try again tomorrow! Kelsey from SBFM took me out-she is super nice!
     After surfing, I went to the weekly soccer, and then after soccer we had worship on the beach! It was so cool! Random people came by and we got a chance to pray for them or just talk to them. However, by being in Paia of course we have those people that are just a lil weird come over- we had one guy ask if he could play Juice's guitar and sing a song. So we let him play and he said that he wanted to play a song  of this one christian guy that was really inspiring and everything and then he played and it was about this guy leaving his wife.. hahah it was a random moment but God allowed us to focus right back in on him after that all occurred. There is such power in worship. It goes hand in hand with this book we read called Fire and fragrance by Andy Byrd and Sean Feucht. Now we are reading Crazy Love which i've heard is super great! i've had a hard time trying to find time to read. Reading has never been a big thing for me, but I'm trying to be diligent!

Me and Laura getting festive with some halloween rings

        Through that worship though, i felt God put this thought in my head that the sound would spread into the town like a dog whistle where we can't hear it but they will from a distance:) it made me laugh! On monday it was halloween and we didn't do anything to celebrate but me and my roomates got finished with other weekly cleaning chores so we ended up getting to watch The Great pumpkin! it was sweet and super funny that I would highly reccomend it.
       Then on tuesday we had our weekly Intercession at 8 in the morning and this time i got to do a presentation on Canada with two other girls and our Dts base prayed over all the areas of education, governement, buisness, family, church and media (including justin bieber) ;)
     It's occured to me that perhaps some of you are wondering what a usual day looks like for me-yeah? well if you want to know here it is! if it doesn't interest you then you can skip over this part!
    Monday
7:30- vans leave for worship (worship starts at 8:00 in haiku)
9:30-chapel talk( thoughout the lecture phase of DT, we all have to do a chapel talk on anything that we want to talk about, for mine i talked about the joy of the lord a few weeks ago)
10:00-lecture
12:30-lunch
1:15-laundry run in Paia
5:00-dinner
5:45-House Cleaning
7:00-team time


Tuesday
8:00 -Dts intercession (prayer over a topic)
9:00 Jesus Time
9:30-chapel talk
10:00-lecture (our lectures are 2hours and 15 minutes usuallt with a break or two!)
12:30 lunch
1:30-work duties (can be kitchen duties, hospitality (making snacks and blessing people), maintaince, office work, babysitting)
5:00-supper
7:00-outreach prep


Wednesday
8:00:-Apologetics
9:00- Jesus Time
10:00-Lecture
12:30-lunch
1:30-outreach to the community - (we have helped out street evangelize to people around the island, have gone to highschools, we run a skate-park ministry as well)
5:00 supper
6:30-town run


Thursday
8:00- base intercession
9:00-chapel talk
9:30-Book Study
10:00-lecture
12:30- Lunch
1:30-growth group
5:00-Dinner
7:00- lecture till 9


Friday
7:30-worship in Haiku
9;30 Chapel talk
10:00-lecture
12:30- lunch
1:30- work duties
5:00-supper and evening off


Saturday
Freeeweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 Sunday
9:30 - leave for church at Waipuna chapel and then we get back at around 1 :30
supper at 5:00!


so yeah on top of that we have ur weekly homework and duties but the days are packed! it's great to have this downtime on the weekend! the girls are watching maid in manhatten in the next room so I might go join them soon!
   Anyways I LOVE recieving mail and packages so if you would like to send me some that would be delightful! also if you want a postcard, give me your mailing address! love you all guys! God is great!

pictures of the first weeks!

 my whole dts!

miss you guys!

 my roommates!

 my send off crew~ <3

 me and matt in the vancouver airport

my group in exodus hitching around the island!