The Wait is OVER!

I HAVE SOME BIG NEWS! The big news that all of you have been waiting for!!! AND THE BIG NEWS I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR! After a week of a lot of prayer and confirmation with God my friends Shannon, Eliza, Lizan, Austin, our leader Paige, and myself will be leaving in February for our outreach missions trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And where is THAT?!?! ....................... KUCHING MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOO! I am SO excited for this outreach and I cannot wait to see what God has in store for this trip! The outreach is going to be around $2000 and I still need support and help to raise those funds but I am so excited because I know God will provide those funds for me in His perfect timing. Thank you all SOO much for your prayers and support! Please continue to do both! And pray that God will now start preparing my heart and my team's heart for this mission's trip. He has big things in store and we all just want to make God proud. I AM EXCITED!!! Many Blessings, Christianna White

Sickness and Prayers

Well! I am sure most of you have heard about the VERY strange happenings of the last 48 hours here at the YWAM base in Brisbane Australia! Beginning at around 2:00am on Sunday morning, more than half of the people on the base got sick. Really sick. Everyone was up periodically throughout the night throwing up non-stop. I first noticed it at 3:00am when I woke up to my bunk buddy puking in a bucket underneath me and then a girl in the bed right next to me got up right after that and ran to the bathroom to do the same. I got up to see if I could help them but there was nothing I could do. Then pretty soon, I was hearing girls running to the bathroom quite frequently and hearing them puke. Then not long after all this happened, I started hearing all the guys from downstairs doing the same thing. By the following morning around 60 of our 70ish people on base were super sick. At the time I was part of the group that was NOT sick thankfully. So I, along with a few others, left the base for the day to get out of that environment while everyone was trying to recover. Unfortunately I began to get sick while I was in South Bank with a friend of mine. But my sickness didn't very hard until I got back that evening at around 4. By then however I was in horrible pain and it felt like someone was stabbing my stomach and back repeatedly. I have never felt anything like it. Thankfully I never threw up but I couldn't move without being horrible pain. That lasted for most of the night. Once Monday rolled around (today) almost everyone was totally healed by the grace of God. I too was feeling so much better! I was no longer in pain. After our lectures today I started getting sick to my stomach though so once classes were over at 12:30ish i just went to my room and I slept until around 5:00pm. I felt MUCH better after waking up and am still doing good! God has helped everyone on base to recover now and now it's just a matter of gaining all our strength back which is happening pretty smoothly. I just wanted to update all of you on everything that has been happening because I know some people have been wanting details and have been worried. But because of everyone's prayers and God's healing power, everyone is doing much better and everyone is almost completely back to normal. And everyone is getting healthy at just the right time too because at the end of this week we will be saying goodbye to students from one of the other schools on base because they are graduating. This is the School for Acting on the Screen. We have come close to many of these students and one of them particularly has been a huge blessing in my life so I am very excited to see them graduate having done such an amazing job at their school. I am of course sad to see them leave too however. Also within this week we all find out where we are going for outreach! So by this weekend I will be able to do another blog update telling everyone where I am going! And aside from my 3 projects due this week, on the 15th I am supposed to turn my next payment to the school which currently can't happen because I do not have the money. So please pray for provision in that area and pray for a miracle. God has me here for a reason and I know He will provide but prayers and support are ALWAYS welcome! Thank you all so much for always supporting me and loving me. You have blessed my life incredibly! I am so grateful for all of you! Hope the update has helped calm some friends and family down. I look forward to my next update! Blessings -Christianna White

A week of Fasting

I have learned an incredible amount of new things this last week and I am SO excited to be able to share it with all of you! Last weekend on Saturday I really felt like God was leading me to fast from the internet and from WiFi on my computer and phone all together. I really thought God was wanting me to spend a lot of time with Him this specifically and more than normal. Which is something I should have been doing all along and hadn't been doing! So I agreed to the fast and this whole last week I haven't been online. And I am ashamed to admit that it was really difficult for me because I definitely get on the internet a lot so not doing that was a challenge! However, I have learned a LOT and God has shown me amazing things! The first thing that got me excited about what the week was going to hold was when we went into lectures on Monday and I found out that the week's theme was Hearing the Voice of God. It couldn't have been more appropriate! So throughout the week I have been talking to God a lot and listening and for the first time in my life, I am realizing when God is actually talking to me. And I am recognizing His voice!!! My mind has been blown by this! Just one story to express what this week has looked like took place on Friday(yesterday). During our lecture hours on Friday we spent the time processing everything we learned from our speaker throughout the week. So I was writing several different letters processing a few different questions. The gist of what my letters said was that I know I hear God's voice but my whole life I have convinced myself that it isn't Him. It took me a long time to accept that the reason I never gave God the credit for talking to me is because I have never felt worthy enough to be someone who He desires to talk to. The Lord has helped me come out of this lie this week and it is such a freeing feeling. However, in this processing time God also directed me to a verse in Revelation that talked about how when we are willing to open the door of our hearts God will patiently wait and come in when we ask Him to. So I wrote this verse out in my letters. Then when we went back inside after the processing time our leader Kale told us we were going to be doing an activity. So everyone in the room took a folded piece of paper out of a cup and it had a person's name on the paper. We were not allowed to look at the name yet though because first we had to spend time in prayer asking God what it was He wanted us to say to the person whose name was on the paper we were holding. So everyone took time and wrote down what they were inspired to write. Then right when we thought we were going to open the papers and see whose name we had, Kale told us to switch papers with the person to our right and THEN open the paper. Then who ever you had on your paper, that is the person you were to give your letter to. Anyway, long story short, the person who drew my name found me and asked if she could read what she had written to me out loud. So we went and sat in the corner of the room together and she read to me the words she got from God and everything in the letter was direct responses and answers to EVERYTHING I had just been writing during our processing time!!! Word after word God was talking to me through this other person and I was just weeping. God is so amazing guys and He is so faithful! When it comes to knowing God's voice one thing I have learned this week is that it isn't about literally "hearing" God's voice. It is all about getting closer to God and spending more time with Him. The closer you get, the more you will hear Him AND understand Him. I have been blown away this week and God is STILL showing me new things. I really just want to encourage everyone back home to always take time and just spend time with God. It's never disappointing!He WANTS to spend time talking with us now it's our turn to WANT to spend real time with Him too. So! In the midst of learning all of this, I am happy to announce that I think I know where I will going on my outreach but I will not be making it public to anyone until next week sometime. So, right now I just ask for your prayers and for a lot of clarity on the subject because I want to make sure that the place I choose to go on outreach is the place God wants me to do the most good. Thank you all so much for your support. Please continue to support me and pray for me. You are all so encouraging to me and have helped me so much. I am so grateful!

Many blessing, Christianna!