God is ready to send me to San Francisco!  So...Bells, MaryBeth and I got together to listen  to a broadcast from Bethel Church's leadership development program.  Great stuff!  The next webcast started with reports from one of the School of Supernatural Ministry outreach teams.  Guess where?  These students had just returned from 3 weeks in San Francisco at the YWAM base!  healings. Prayer. People hearing about Jesus.  Fire!
The next segment focused on a ministry, Unlikely Heroes, that reaches children who have been kidnapped or sold into sex slavery in the Philippines and Mexico City.  They also have (hmmm) a team reaching out to teen runaways and homeless kids who have aged out of the foster care system....guess where?  In San Francisco.  Among their "closing words" were "what we really need are trained therapists with skills in trauma recovery along with healing prayer."  
Felt like the webcast was personally addressed to me.
Like I said....God is ready to send me to San Francisco!

Went to hear Mickey Robinson speak at Global Presence Ministries last night.  THANK YOU Steve and Rene and all the Global Presence crew for making this possible!  Worship made my heart sing!

Mickey Robinson once spoke a spot-on word from God to me at a very crucial time in my life. It was one of those things Mickey couldn't possibly have known.  Only God could have told him.

So, last night Mickey spoke a word of "calling". Never surrender to the lies that say God can't. Never surrender to the deception that the world isn't going to change.  THEN he spoke the two words I've been asking, praying, declaring and desiring over this summer in San Francisco:
Healing and Souls.

I'm taking that to heart and running with it.  Healing of the broken in body, soul, and spirit.  Souls coming to Jesus to find life and hope. 
Thanks, Dad for the confirmation.  I'm expectant!

Another 3 boxes packed. Almost to the end! Last night I helped out at Peace Park in Madison where Lynn Beyler and friends have been hosting dinner for folks living on the streets for YEARS.  A great time. Julie and Doug Anderson came....and Doug sang and drummed with Bob from Global Presence. Harriet Allen connected with so many people she knew - and had obviously cared for and about for a long time. Lynn was her usual vibrant, loving self. Mike carried and shlepped and helped everywhere. The chicken  was a hit - and lots of it!

Every Tuesday night at 5:30 YOU can join this happy bunch of servers, eaters, singers and generally smiling people.

Made me hungry - for Friday "scrub and grub" at the YWAM base in San Francisco and Monday "Nail Days"

PS....just heard that some wonderful, wonderful Mary Kay consultants sent boxes of "stuff" - nail polish, make-up, lotions, special treats - for the BJM women.  I'm singing the "I'm Proud of You" song!

Tonight, I'm surrounded by boxes and boxes and boxes containing all my worldly "stuff." In 10 days, a POD will arrive to collect it all for storage. A few more days crammed with last-minute details including good-byes to my beloveds at Tree of Life Fellowship, and, in just two weeks (from today), I leave for my San Francisco summer with Because Justice Matters.

I'll land at SFO, wrangle two suitcases - each pushing the 50 pound max allowed - out of the airport and into some form of transport headed for 357 Ellis Street in San Francisco.

This will begin my dream to spend a summer with the amazing visionary women at Youth With a Mission's Because Justice Matters ministry - an outreach to women living, surviving and even thriving in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood.

I'll write more in the next days about this summer. My privilege and joy will be to love, pray for, come alongside, bring healing to, and enjoy the BJM staff and the women who will come to their new Women's Center.