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New Direction in my blog ethics, environmentalism and injustice, and supporting change

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New Direction in my blog ethics , environmentalism and injustice, and supporting change Hey friends, firstly, I wanted to change up the style of this blog and add some new aspects to it. I want to live out my faith with passion as I want to be a good steward of this environment as well as loving the people around me well. Part of this, I believe, is also taking responsibility in what I buy and to make sure that the people behind the scenes are treated as humans, fairly with dignity and respect. Along with stewarding this planet well by taking care of the environment that God has given us. With that, I will also be posting more on ethics in fashion, consumerism and the environment. I particularly have a passion for the poor, women and children in developing countries. After visiting Africa and Vietnam my heart broke even more for the injustices that go on in the developing world such as slave labour and child labour, trafficking, discrimination, period poverty and environ
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Journeying through Anxiety

I wanted to encourage you all with what the Lord has been reveling to me through this journey. I have come to a point where I have been a lot more vunrable in this area. It used to be something I would really hide from other people in fear of what they would think of me. The pressure of perfoemance really got to me. I realised that we all have our own unique struggles at that we are not perfect, nor do we need to pretent to try to be. I have been slowing being unraveled by God and he is showing me that I can reveal my true self. When we are vunrable it can be scary. I had to throw in a CS Lewis quote in here to sum it all up. When we are vunrable about things in the depths of our hearts it can be scary and there is risk involved. In my case I have being very hurt in the past from opening up to people about my struggles with anxiety with the wrong people. But if we are wise to protect outselves from sharing with the wrong people. We can be vunrable which is such a beautiful thing. We
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Thank you!! Link to song I wrote

Hi, I want to say thank you for all your support whether it was in prayer or financially. I couldn't have done this without your support. Having finished my DTS and outreach. The musicians on my DTS have recorded an album. I decided to release my song that I wrote to encourage others in God and to spread hope, and to say thank you to everyone who supported me along the way!! Link is below -song is a free download in band camp  https://melissajones.bandcamp. com/track/unravel-me God Bless Melissa
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Outreach

Hi and God bless to you all. Sorry I haven't been keeping you all updated enough things have been pretty crazy and we have been travelling around a lot. I'm aiming to keep you all updated more though within the last few weeks. On another note in order to get my blog around to my supporters. I'd love your feedback. I'm thinking you guys could subscribe your email address so you could get my updates instead of me sending them on Facebook. Or I might make a Facebook page, let me know what you think? Your feedback means everything. And please let me know if it's Annoying you getting inboxed on Facebook when I update haha, and I'm sorry if I am. Outreach has been such an amazing experience. It has been so much better than I would have imagined, there were challenges, but it's been such an amazing experience, I'm so sad that it is almost over. My outreach team feels like my family and it's going to be so hard to say bye to them all!! We stared off
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Learning lots and letting go...

Hi Family, This is my second YWAM post and I hope you all enjoy it Throughout this 2 weeks we have had relationship week, which was last week with Matt and Cora Dawson and Holy Spirit week with Paul Richard's. These two weeks have been very amazing but challenging at the same time. Relationships week I found to start off very hard and painful, as I was hearing both Matt and Cora's stories. Which were amazing I just had a lot of memories creep in, along with some lies saying that I wasn't going to be in a good relationship like that. Which was not true at all!! At first I felt like a bit of a failure and I had a lot of emotional stuff to deal with, as a month ago I was engaged and it didn't turn out the way that I hoped. I found the middle and the end of the week very healing for me. I started to feel a lot more complete in myself. I learned some really good tips on healthy relationships. Such as not rushing things (which is one of my weaknesses) and constantly s
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First YWAM update

Hello to my beautiful friends and family. I have been at the YWAM Zion base for almost 2 weeks now.  The base is 2 hours north of Auckland just out of a little town called Paparoa. The base is down a long gravel road, within the rolling hillside and beautiful landscape is where the Zion base stands. When I first arrived I was in awe of the peace that surrounded and was in this beautiful place. We were showed around the place and I felt such a presence of peace, expiacally in their prayer room. The Zion base is home to a 24 hour prayer room, in which we can choose a time in the day or night to go in and pray. It is such a peaceful place, and it is amazing to spend that time with the Lord. As soon as I stepped into the lecture room we received a warm welcome from the staff, they performed a worship song in Maori, followed by a welcoming tradition of a Hongi. Which is a Maori Traditional greeting, where two people touch noses against each others. This metaphorcilly represents Gods bre
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Questions I had when I first became a Christian? Just over 4 years ago I made the decision to become a Christian.  Although I can say it was the best decision. I've ever made in my life. I can out of all honesty say it haven't been an easy path. Disclaimer: This is my own personal philosophy on God. I'm just a mere human being, and who am I to even try to comprehend the superior vastness of him. (Ps I hate long complicated words but I don't know how else I can describe him.) So here are some common questions that I had weighing on my heart as a new Christian, even though I still am a new Christian haha... Now that I'm a Christain, shouldn't my life be easier? Life is hard. Harder than we think. I can't help but when think about that my heart sinks a little and even is as I'm writing this. I think that as kids, in general we believe that, life is a fairytale We get this idea in which we think that our live should be perfect.  I think
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