Pride lovers and Prejudice fighters

Below: (THE PRESENT) a few shots from debrief Dec 2019 in Kona

9 months later...

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(THE PAST) First photo: what I’ll be preaching in the coming weeks in a new nation...Ephesians 6* the armor of God. We are partnering with a local pastor to preach in various cities to inspire local native to native missionaries to rise up in this nation!

Second: my visa photo shoot, lol

Praise God- flights booked, visa granted, &now I just need to finish saying goodbye and pack my bags to say hello!

2 Corinthians 12:9 “But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.”

How am I both prideful and false humble all at once?

How am I both a lover and a fighter?

How am I both accepting and prejudice?

How am I both a 2 and an 8?

How am I both Khmer/Asian/Eastern warm culture and Western cold?

How am I both direct and passive?

How am I both native and naive (foreign)?

How am I both a citizen of this world and one of heaven?

How am I both a student and a teacher?

How am I both a disciple and a disciple maker?

How am I both qualified and unqualified?

How am I both an adult and a child?

I guess the better question is not to ask “how” but to ask “why”.

I separate two arenas and faucets of my wiring all the time. I try to understand the seasons I am in by compartmentalizing my life and stepping into them one at a time.

As if my spiritual life takes on the nature of ADD, I either hyper focus on one thing or focus on 1,000 things at once so as to not really be focused on anything.

On their own these diverse qualities and paradoxes possess ability to produce good and rotten fruit all at once.

Equally so, together they balance out and make me stronger. Together they can help me cipher out the bad to keep only the good.

I write this blog to explore what I think Jesus would think about my boxes. Maybe I’ll bring up more questions than I will answers, and yet, I am fine with that.

After all, a conversation isn’t just one sided, it’s compiled of the give and take, the ask and the answer, the wait and the respond.

So in writing this and asking “how”, or now, “why”, I feel I am answering it...

Jesus wants it all and yet Jesus doesn’t want me in a box.

What are your boxes? How do you compartmentalize your being and make up? How do you compare yourself to Christ and either feel far from His likeness or the most Christ-like in the room?

Just because He did something some ways before doesn’t mean He will show up the same way twice. Therefore, I don’t believe Jesus wants me or you to worry or get stuck that we are “too much”-too bold, or too quiet, too extrovert or too introvert, too secular or too spiritual. He just wants us to be present with Him wherever we sway or find ourselves.

On that note though, we are too much in and of ourselves to ever lead others to Him; however, sometimes He keeps the hard wiring patterns of our makeup and is actually “banking on” us to be a certain way, to choose certain things, in order to see His own will be done and good accomplished.

I wonder if we do surprise Him though?

Well, it is a relationship and once relationships feel figured out, they quickly shift, change, grow, and form anew causing us to shift, change, grow and form anew too.

I am happy that He stays the same yesterday, today, and forever, because we can “bank on” certain timeless truths about His character; yet, look at the difference between Him as portrayed and expressed through the Old Testament and revealed through the New Testament.

Same God, yet even He has so many layers, so many complexities, so much paradox going on at the same time.

Why is He fully God and fully man?

Why is He fully forgiving and yet just?

Why is He powerful and meek?

Why is He grieving and joyful?

Why is He destroying and building?

Why is He dying and living?

If we are truly created in His image, which I do believe that we are, then perhaps in all of our weird hardwiring that basically wars against itself, we are like Him and so that is why He can “bank on” us too.

What does He “bank on” exactly?

I believe He invites those who are curious to seek out the unknown (so He banks on apostles to explore, for example).

He invites those that love to learn to teach others what they’ve discovered (thus banking on teachers, teaching).

He invites those who love to talk and encourage others to shepherd hearts (banking on preachers preaching).

He invites those with wild and deep convictions to be a living witness to the Kingdom come (banking on evangelists to spread the good news).

He invites those who see beyond and before to encourage others to run to what’s on those horizons too (banking on prophets to speak into being was is, not yet).

Romans 12:8 (NLT)

If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.

He initiates those who are “over achievers” to create masterpieces of excellence for His glory.

He initiates our weaknesses to actually create strength and something good (Romans 8:28).

He utilizes our hard wirings to actual guide us on the path He would have us take, that straight and narrow route.

We are prone to make mistakes if left alone, and that is why God wants us with all of our wirings and wrestling to be in His “body”.

1 Corinthians 12:27 “All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it.”

We need one another because if one is weak, the other may be strong. If one sees, the other can speak and let people know what is seen through eloquent description.

We need each other.

We also need both: the passive and the pointed, the East and the West, the Old and the New Testament to get the full picture of who God is, what love is, and why we are the way we are.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (NIV)

“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”

Jesus at the center keeps us centered.

Jesus keeps us on task.

Jesus keeps us moving.

Jesus keeps us living.

Jesus keeps us loving.

In order to see to it that all will hear and have a witness to inherit eternal life and a relationship with Creator God, Jesus is banking on the body, you and me, and all of our complexities, to be all that He’s made us to be.

A relationship with God is about real-time relating with God and one another. The most important thing to remember for us is that we must all be true to where we are, who we are, and who’s we are.

The “why” of Christ will help the “how” we are to live.

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 (ESV) “For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.”

I once heard a friend advise me that it’s best to have more than one mentor or you’ll be prone to mimicking not necessarily the good from your one mentor but namely their weaknesses.

Equally so, I believe a life of missions on a separate field from your original family is a good thing...so as to keep the “meat” and cut out the “fat” of Christianity.

I believe all westerners should come out to the East to learn and vice versa.

I believe all natives should learn from foreigners and vice versa.

I believe all 8’s should learn from 2’s and vice versa.

I believe all students should learn from teachers and vice versa.

Revelation 21:1 “I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.”

The sea is predictable and yet untamed.

Now, here’s what I know because of Google:

• Around 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans.

• The world's oceans contain enough water to fill a cube with edges over 1000 kilometres (621 miles) in length.

• Ocean tides are caused by the Earth rotating while the Moon and Sun's gravitational pull acts on ocean water.

We are like the sea:

We cover the earth.

We all are a lot, full of depth.

We are changing, growing, yet predictable in some aspects.

We have been given good rules, boundaries, or establishments by our Old Testament Father God. We have also been given through the life of Jesus, grace, authority, and relationship by the same New Testament Father God. The “why” of these two testaments help us with our “how” in function.

What God is asking of us is the predictable answer: to love, for this was His “why”. The untamed truth is that love can’t be put in a box, boiled down to formulas or personality traits, but must become a verb, an action, and a “how” lifestyle.

If indeed the earth is in need of becoming made new, then so are we and we must continue to crucify our thoughts of what loving our neighbors look like, and begin to do it God’s way.

If indeed the sea will pass away, then so will our weeds, wounds, wirings, and work.

What will then remain?

You’ve heard it before, love: not our versions of it, the way we understand and receive it, because truly God’s call for us to love can’t be captured in just opposites, they are neither hot nor cold terms. They are both and.

1 Corinthians 13:8-12

“But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”

I believe what is happening now, wherever we find our self, leaning in to our charismatic loud self or our quiet true minds, God is doing the masterwork of perfecting our love to look more like Christ’s.

However, just because the earth will pass away doesn’t mean that our beings, hard wirings, and personal makeups are useless or unimportant.

The passing away also doesn’t mean that the newness to come won’t have what is familiar within its final nature as well.

So I’ll take it.

I’ll take myself as I am and take you as you are too. I’ll teach you and hope to learn from you. I’ll be passive at times but will also be as bold as a lion; so will you and that’s okay.

All the while, our goal shouldn’t be perfection but to learn from Jesus and lead a life like Him too.

From the Old Testament’s big picture, I learn that our God is like a master story teller, a fighter it seems, and loves boundaries with respect. He also seems hardwired to trust only once people have earned His trust-like putting Abraham to the test or having the Levites kill their own kin after the sinned in the wilderness. He definitely seems more western in mode/ function. He seems prideful, for He says there is no other god worthy of worship. But, maybe the OT isn’t the full picture, perhaps there’s more than meets the eye.

Then, the New Testament paints Jesus for more of a lover type. He seems prejudice always going head to head with religious types, shaming their rule-void-of-relationship lifestyle. He also seems more concerned with healing sinners and slowing down for misfits than for creating a pure breed of holy ones.

Here’s how I see it:

The OT gives us our boundaries and those timeless character traits of God that make Him God; the “why”. The NT gives us the grace to move inside of those boundaries; the “how”.

Like the sea, and how it stays in its God-given boundaries, embracing and connecting the East and West simultaneously. We need both. We need to be both.

It’s okay to be shy and at the same time be fierce.

It’s okay to be a missionary and a student.

It’s okay to be a pastor and a soccer coach.

It’s okay to be a Christian and a politician.

It’s okay to be a worship leader and a teacher.

We are never able to obtain perfection, but we are able to be both, cold natured and hot climate culture.

Why do we need to be okay with both?

Because if not we will allow a war inside or amongst our family and friends that wrestle against our own bodies instead of going out and making more disciples.

We will erode or worse lose the war to love if we misplace our passions and waste time trying to get out of season, be something we are not, force others to be just like us. No, we need both.

The OT and NT are both true. The truth will set us free. Let’s embrace both.

Your true self is both a lover and a fighter. That should set you free to stop going against the grain or hard wiring make up of how God designed you to be. You are just like Him, you are an image bearer, and so are those around you.

He is patiently protecting our most prized relationship- that is the one we have with Him.

In doing this, He is calling His Bride the church to stop waring from within and without, recklessly wasting time, but wants us all to get back in line with the original commands and realize the freedom we’ve been given inside of those good lines.

How are you to live as a fighter and lover depends on where He has you. It also depends on your day to day dependance on God’s Words of life over you.

So don’t be afraid to step out.

To fight.

To love.

To pass up.

To grab hold of.

To begin.

To finish.

He will shape and mold us and actually keep that which makes us uniquely us through the fires of the new.

Don’t be afraid of the partial passing away but embrace the newness that is given each and everyday that we have breath.

Today we can begin again.

Today we can embrace again.

Today we can lay aside our differences and fight side by side.

God won’t do it overnight or necessarily in the blink of an eye (just yet anyways)-making us one as Jesus prayed in John 17. No, He wants to have that day to day grind of faith and grace lived out by us that requires checking in with and spending our days with Him our author, perfecter, and finisher of our faith.

He wants to co-create this story of love with us. He writes as He goes as all good creatives would. So, He takes us as we are but doesn’t “leave” us like He found us.

He will rework your prejudice and make you a fighter for* those different from you- nations, tribes, and tongues as you take up your post being ears.

He will remodel your pride and make you create a platform for the next generation to run further than you as you take up your post being eyes.

He will remold loving, to where it isn’t about what you can gain or how value can be added to you, but will come from within, a desire to unconditionally love any and everyone like Jesus does as you take up your post being hands and feet.

He will reshape your fight to fight for your job, your loved ones, your relationship with Him, what you see in others, truth, justice, hope as you take up your post on your knees.

Back to the Corinthian’s famous “love chapter” verse references; check out these definitions of partial:

1. existing only in part; incomplete, imperfect, unfinished

2. favoring one side in a dispute above the other; biased, prejudiced, one-sided, discriminatory, unbalanced

3. having a liking for, be keen on, have a weakness for, be shook on

4. a component of a musical sound; an overtone or harmonic* (my favorite definition)

The partial will pass away and we all know that we too as finite humans will one day either pass away or be taken up...but we and all that “we” means will still be. With that being said, on this side of heaven, we need to love each other like the eternal image bearers that we are and choose the balanced approach of both and.

2 Corinthians 5 (NLT)

New bodies

“For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies. While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit. So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. For we live by believing and not by seeing. Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord. So whether we are here in this body or away from this body, our goal is to please him. For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body.

We are God’s Ambassadors

Because we understand our fearful responsibility to the Lord, we work hard to persuade others. God knows we are sincere, and I hope you know this, too. Are we commending ourselves to you again? No, we are giving you a reason to be proud of us, so you can answer those who brag about having a spectacular ministry rather than having a sincere heart. If it seems we are crazy, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit. Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin,so that we could be made right with God through Christ.”

So where am I going with all of this?

I am going to close this blog in processing how I am getting rid of old boxes yet embracing the both in my life; the fully me He made and wants me to be, fully “how” because I know my “why”.

First old box slain: I believe this is the last blog I am writing on this particular season of my life. I believe I am closing one book to open a new one, a one similar to the old, familiar, yet looking and sounding a lot more like myself and my Lord.

In saying that, I believe my idea of the mission field and YWAM life and Cambodia for Christ, and music making, and worship leading, and my future, namely, is all taking on a shape of its own.

I believe the Lord is asking to truly be the “Lord of my Dreams”-as I’ve written about before.

Now, it’s about action less about words... so, the second box I am demolishing is that I am saying goodbye to the mission field as I’ve known it for the past two years.

The Lord has taught me so much while being away from my familiar, their faces and friendships.

To my surprise and bittersweet pleasure, I’m embracing the pace that Papa is going, I’m embracing the familiar place, and I will embrace all of that space.

Where am I headed, like actually?

I’m going back.

If you haven’t heard my latest single, here’s my plug to go check it out on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Spotify titled: “When Did We Forget (Come Back)”...you may be familiar that in my fundraising efforts for my current missions trip-within-a-mission-trip...I released lyrics, and background information on the song to those who sent a gift of any amount to my paypal (please excuse my second plug->if you want this exclusive information, kindly send your gift of any amount to my paypal: chelseachaisson@gmail.com and I’ll send it your way too).

Well, I’d be lying if I said what I sent out/ will send out to you perhaps, is the whole truth.

It is true and a truth, but there is more to the story.

The song title was originally called “Come Back”.

Funny enough it sounded like I was telling myself that I was making a “Come Back”, whatever that might mean.

To be honest, I now realize that I am.

I am coming back to harness misplaced passions and missions God’s predestined me to have where I first started, that is one inside of my own neck of the woods, Louisiana with all of her paradoxes-lovers and fighters, prideful and prejudice.

Cambodia taught me a lot about myself that I would have never recognized Louisiana had been saying this whole time.

LA for short, is like me, a gumbo of many different ingredients all blending at the same time to be then given out.

It is more blessed to give than it is to receive and on this modern mission field that I’ve been in for the past two years, I feel like I’ve been at the receiving end.

I’ve for sure poured out time and time again, and yet I can’t shake what my counselor asked me back in Malaysia this past June (on my birthday). He asked, “what are you running from in Louisiana?”

I was taken aback. What did that even mean, why did he ask me that? Where was the context in what I was previously saying to give him the gall to question my motives, mission, or my “Me” mannerisms.

What am I running from?

I am running from embracing the pace life offers there.

I am running from embracing the place that I’ve known my entire life (Jesus wasn’t necessarily welcomed in his hometown, for some reason it haunts me to think that I might not be loved by my LA-oved ones or might not love them well). I am also running from embracing the space because I’ve used the space and tools before- so it’s like re-entering the familiar again.

As a Christian on my journey, especially loving the prophetic, though we only see in part, I get embarrassed often. It’s like I have my foot in my mouth when I speak things out of order or matter of factly when I actually have no clue.

So in even writing all of this, I actually haven’t a clue.

Leaving Louisiana and going to YWAM Kona and Poipet were like little Promised Lands, I thought. Me having no clue and all, I believed mistakenly that Louisiana was my “Egypt” that I wasn’t ever to return to.

Yes there are things in LA that are evil, Egypt-like, and off limits to me to return to or engage with as a lifestyle, like the young people bar culture, the Mardi Gras worship fests, the voodoo, the alcoholism, the teen pregnancies, the homosexuality, the actual erosion of land...but, with all of Louisiana’s crap, (let’s call LA a “he” just because) I’ll take him just like Jesus took me- with my failures, hard wirings, stubbornness, passivity, passion, and goodness.

If I can learn to love who God made me to be then I can return to a land that I know and love LA for who he is, without asking him to change for me, but understanding that in relationship, change is bound to happen.

I’m going to learn from LA, and LA is going to learn from me.

So my second confession about my song, I guess another box tumbling down, is that the lyrics were written under the inspiration of thinking about a nasty church tiff my family went through a few years ago with those we loved and still love.

These folks were trusted prayer partners in my life, mentors, and family friends. When the enemy tries to bring disunity, he really doesn’t care- he will hit you where it hurts. We were and probably still are all fighting for the wrong things though we don’t talk and no one can even place a finger on that fact, but if they are truly human like me, which I know they are, people don’t just move on from war with one another, and I don’t think I have either.

Somewhere in the years and distance passing, we forgot that what we had together was really good before it broke.

Our weaknesses and strengths came together to produce life like the music we inspired and co-created together on Sunday mornings.

What YWAM has proved to me time and time again, is that those we have the most beef with or that stump our stealth movements against the kingdom of darkness, are normally our opposites who Jesus strategically placed in our life. These are those He wants us to partner with and learn from so we become the bigger picture of the Kingdom of Heaven, of love, of both.

With the familiar, because of pride and a past, I can’t help but think certain ones are wrong and be the judge of people, as well as having prejudices that make me believe that no one can change or that certain folks are hardwired to be evil, divisive, or what have you...these are the main reasons for any winnings the enemy is experiencing down the bayous of Louisiana as far as I’m concerned.

What makes it messy?

Me.

You.

We.

Who can fix it?

Me.

You.

We.

Jesus has given us everything we need for holiness/ godliness. He has walked among us and taught us how to be human, how to love. He even shows us that it’s okay to be a fighter and to be a lover. There’s a time and a place for it and it’s okay to embrace who He made us to be.

I’m going to embrace all of me so I can embrace all of Louisiana.

One of the main things Jesus taught us to do was to check in with the Father and go where He goes.

In my checking in, over these past few years and recent months, I am going back because the Father is prompting me to.

It takes a death of my pride and prejudices to return to where I’ve known. But I can’t shake the thoughts that our pride and prejudices are not bringing anyone together to create a better picture of Christ, but are warring against one another to lead many astray, to even halt us in the Christ Kingdom work we are called to do in Louisiana and unto the nations.

In coming back, I am making a stand not only in words but in deed; I am embracing and returning to the simple truth.

The truth is, I need them, and they need me.

We were meant to do Christianity together.

The proof that Christ is even in us is seen with how we treat one another, how we engage, embrace, listen to, learn from, lead, and love.

If “they”, the world, will know we are Christians by our love, then if you are reading this and we have not been completely honest with one another, then can we “come back” and start living out the simple truth? The way we were wired, paired with the perfection of Christ covers over our multitude of sins. So friend-could you forgive me and my family?

Could we begin to heal and actually talk about it?

Could we accept one another without trying to change the other?

Could we embrace the fact that we share air, giftings, zip codes, blood, schools, languages, and gumbo?

Would you be willing?

I am, and that’s why I’m killing boxes and dreams and even my own prophetic expectations to come back.

Of course, the YWAM 5 year word of the Lord is still on my heart and radar but I feel a release to not only clear up some student loan debt, finish earning my Bachelor’s degree I started years ago, but also to heal with the ones wounded, my family and my Louisiana before reengaging full time in mission work abroad again, if ever.

My mission is my brothers and sisters I already have a history with, share a language with, and understand culturally.

Matthew 5:23-24 “Therefore if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.”

I don’t know what it will even look like to do this-to heal and allow pride and prejudices to be present yet to conform to Christ over time with one another...I am clueless, but I am tuning in to Father to know “the how” “the why” and “The Who”.

You might be my “who” and I might be your “who” too.

Will I keep blogging and doing ministry (YWAM-like events)?

Idk.

I’m sure I will do something for I can’t help but create, speak, share what God’s doing in my heart and around me. That part is like fire shut up in my bones if I don’t release it.

I do know that God’s having me step out of the box and so I won’t be engaging as I ever have before.

Something new is on the horizon but with the new, I believe comes the healing and reconciliation of embracing the old too.

Probably instead of one thing or the other it’s a “both” kind of package deal answer. Maybe I’ll be doing what I did before in LA but now with the new, that is what God’s given me now, living like I have with my YWAM family these past two years-vulnerable, transparent, healed, messy, open, ready.

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The bridge of my song “When did We Forget” says, “I wish I could write it in a letter” (a nod to my blog writing?) or invite folks to an “evening of healing” (a nod to Watershed 2017 and or Prayer Burns?), but I don’t know if it will come that quickly or easily.

I do know that living away from LA for the past 2 years has given me the courage and strength to face my fears.

My fears are that forgiveness and healing will never come, but my faith is louder as I’ve allowed Jesus & my faith in Him lead me these past two years in the unknown that’s been Kona and Cambodia.

What do I have to say on this upcoming season? I guess nothing new but rather, the same things I’ve been saying or allowing God to speak over me while I’ve been in Cambodia this whole time (as seen on my various bonfire T-shirt campaigns-plug 3):

If God wants me in LA “So will I”.

If God wants me in LA I’ll listen to the loud faith filled words that say “Peace be still”.

If God wants me in LA, then I’m already prepared and equipped because it’s “Native to native” ministries.

And lastly, if God wants me in LA, I’m going to let Him “Finish” what He started.

Keep following the journey by joining me.

Let’s reconcile, let’s rebuild, let’s learn again, let’s love, and fight for each other and with one another again. Let’s embrace it, all of it. I love you. I forgive you. I love me. I forgive me. I want to fight for you. I also want to fight for me. I want us to be the body, so be you and I’ll be me. Let’s do life together and then they’ll know we are Christians by our love.

#SENTback #Mission2Specific

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Pictured below: The first photo is a picture of Cambodian “gumbo” pronounced “Gi-de-o” that I ate while proof reading this blog. It’s a mixture of noodles, beef, veggies, herbs, spices, all coming together to make one feel good-soul food.

The second from the beginning of this second “tour” on the Cambodian mission field. It about sums up my heart and where I am headed-to a lifestyle of love, embracing, fighting for, strength, weakness, vulnerability, childlike-ness, family, quiet, and smiles.

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*Lastly-I leave Cambodia today. I’ll be in another nation on outreach for a few weeks. I will post a Bible study of the book of John each day I am on my upcoming “field”. I’ll be on the field for 21 days and there are conveniently 21 chapters of John. To unlock it, sign up as a member with my chelseachaisson.com blog page, and purchase the 21 days Bible Study of John. I’ll send you each study, one a day, for each of the 21 days I’m on outreach/mission.

Your purchases help fuel and fund me finishing this last leg of my missionary journey this year onto the next chapter.

Thank you and God bless,

❤️Chelsea