Dear Supporters,
So far, I am a week and a half away from completing my lecture phase, and in the process of getting ready to leave for my 2-month outreach to Thailand! Already I have learned so much about whom the God I serve is and how much He really is and wants to be involved in my daily life.
In my lectures, our school has covered 9 different topics each geared toward helping us grow not only in our view of who God is, but also in how we further our daily relationship with Him. The topics we have covered thus far have been: The Character and Nature of God, Grace and Holiness, Relationships, Prayer/Hearing the Voice of God, Father Heart of God, Life With Jesus, Holy Spirit, Missions, Spiritual Warfare (our current lesson), and Evangelism (our final lesson). Each week, God has revealed Himself in a completely new way to me, and most of those ways have been a struggle. For me, to accept the parts of God that we as humans will never be able to fully comprehend challenges me to trust in Him and the truths He has given us. One of the greatest truths that I have grown to understand and fully except is that in the morning when I wake, God loves me, and at night before I fall asleep, God still loves me despite anything that happened during the day. That truth alone far surpasses any question that I could possibly have, and it is that truth that has been setting me free from any bondage to an emotional experience that I have been searching to define my relationship with the living God.
Lately, God has radically been working on my heart in the area of surrender, and things I need to let go of and give Him full control of. Specifically, this has been in the area of my future and my strong desire to pursue full time medical missions. After a lot of prayer and seeking, God finally revealed to me that it was my whole future that I was not allowing Him to move in. It has been a daily struggle, but with God’s strength I have been working toward allowing Him to have His way with my whole life and not just a portion. In doing this, God has really given me a heart for those in the world who have never heard the name of Jesus Christ, and aren’t receiving all that God has given us in His word. Not really sure how this heart was going to play a part in my future, I asked God what I should be pursuing after my DTS, and the only thing that I really felt peace about was pursuing a School of Biblical Studies (SBS), specifically in Taiwan. The subject of this school really is something that interests me. It is a 9-month study of the bible, reading it over 5 times and studying it deeper than just the words on the page. Actually taking it apart and looking into the context and background as to why who and where each book of the Bible was written to better understand its meaning for us today really is something that pulls my heart to pursue. I earnestly feel that doing an SBS is something God wants me to do, and in doing that I would be able to gain a foundational knowledge of God’s word that I wouldn’t be able to gain anywhere else, and that I would be able to root anything I do on a biblical ground.
In pursuing this path, I would not be returning home from my outreach in Thailand, but I would end up staying there an extra 2-months on my own doing various ministries. At the end of the two extra months in Thailand, I would than fly to Taiwan near the end of March to begin my SBS. This schools cost is $3,000 for the 9-month course, but does not include food or various other necessities (toiletries, notebooks, pens/pencils, etc.), which would equal about $250 per/month. Amidst this journey that God has placed before me, I am asking that you would partner with the vision God has given me to spread the good news to those who have not heard His name or had the privilege to know His word. You can be a part of this journey in two ways, by financially making a monthly donation to assist me in making my goal of $500 per/month in various pledges, and primarily, by praying that I would stay God focused and driven through this adventure, and I would not loose sight that above all else, I am called to love others before myself and put all faith and trust in God.
If you are interested in making any type of financial donation, whether it be a monthly pledge or a
one-time gift, please make all checks payable to Kyle Faris and mail them to 13362 Cabana Way, Victorville, CA 92392. Because I will be attending this school in another country, it is easier to gather my funds at my account in America and wire-transfer the money to my school in Taiwan. If you would like to donate, or have any questions at all concerning finances, donations, or my prayer needs, please feel free to email me at kyle.r.faris@gmail.com and I would be happy to give more information. Thank you so much for your time, interest, and support in the crazy journey and adventure God is taking me on.
-Kyle Faris
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