Eloquence, Relevance, Be and Believe

Im sure another language would be far more eloquent
but as far as I'm concerned they're talkin to an elephant
and I'll say what I know and play with the dough
but what flows deep comes up from far beneath
as a weapon in war or a sword in its sheath
The place we were born or who we were meant to be
If your selling yourself short, don't pretend to believe.

Just a Day (Nothing Speacial)

I don't want my heart to run away, I don't want to fail to seize the day.
With the seconds that pass comes another second that wont last
In this world where nothing is guaranteed, I don't want to wait for heart to match in deed
I will fight and and that is why I was restless last night
I called my AP and shared my need and with love and care he prayed for me
I prayed for him to follow thee to the best of his ability
God took that short phone call and conversation and encouraged my heart gave me hope and patience
I came back inside with Spirit's High, Realized I hadn't really prayed that day or night
and Such a seemingly small share of words could remind forgetful me Where to look next time it hurts.

Hope is LIght

Hiding is one
One with the sun
The antonym of fear and the dark
As the night grows older
and the cold feels colder
The black is killed with a spark
The moon travels by
Fulvous blaze streaking sky
Hope is light to listen is hark
The bite that bites bigger
Threats made by gun without trigger
Ending one day ushers the next to start

Canada, Cleveland, Chicago here we go

Andrew in front of His house during our travels to Amhearst the Ministry Team hung at his house for a sunday afternoon A picture of God's beauty I took at Niagara Falls If you have looked around on facebook you might have seen some pictures of me at Nigra falls on the way to Toronto Canada or pictures of us at Bair Lake Camp in Michigan, a camp Elliot worked out for us to stay at, on the way to Cleveland from Toronto.  So far Cleveland has been the fastest event and I bet a lot of that is because we are getting to know our Jobs and not having so many problems. The Host home in Toronto where (left to right) Denver, Zach, Kileab, Joel, Andrew, Tim, Zech, Jared stayed In Sidney Canada I stayed at a host home with Derek Kenny and we were able to love on the family and the kids, eat delicious food, take a tour of their farm and Skype my family and Mike Schults.  In Toronto there was 8 guys I was staying with and both nights we got there after midnight.  This particular event was at a church and just about every possible thing in the production and material side of things went wrong.  We had to figure out how to fit our rig in and adjust to a church rather than an arena.  We made a list of 30 plus things that went wrong where God showed His power.  It was actually a very relieving event because of all of the weakness and failers on our part God reminded and proved to us that we only do what we do for Him.  We can not do what we do without Him and that He is the only reason we are all still alive and serving Him.

I think there is some weird glitch on my computer, keypad or email. So here is a good way to keep up with me if you are curious to where in the USA I am and what God is doing in my life and the lives of those around me: Go to www.Facebook.com and become my friend if you are not and when you are my friend you can look at the pictures that get added and I will be glad to message, chat or text or call if I am available. Call or Text me at 316-650-6267 (So far I have only got 3 texts from emails I have sent out) This is what our fall tour looks like from city to city: Amhearst Massachusetts to National Youth Pastor Conference (on Campus) Garden Valley Texas to Toronto Ontario Canada to Cleveland Ohio to Chicago Illinois to Anaheim California to  Billings Montana to Thanksgiving Break! I am Currently in Chicago and I am about 30 min to an hour from my old house in Wheaten. I am at a host home and we will start work about 9 am tomorrow after an hour of worship and a lesson from ATF Leadership. From top down left to right: Rachael, Kileab, Hannah, Joel, Andrew at a Corn Maze in Ohio  Yesterday we had part of the day to explore Chicago so I was able to eat Deep dish Pizza with a couple friends from the Ministry Team and Deborah, who I worked with last year in the Leadership Department in Global Expeditions. It was a blessing to see her and hear about how she is being made fun of and argued with at her work because she follows Christ. I was able to give some extra pizza and pray for a guy we saw who is trying to get off the street. Earlier that day Andrew and I prayed with another man who wanted some food after Andrew bought him a subway sandwich and surprised him with it. Life is so pointless with out God! Our team is challenging each other in ways we can be more devoted to Christ. It is really cool. Please Pray: -That the team is united in Spirit and Mind. -That the team would be very sensitive to the Spirit and His leading -That God would encounter the team on a consistent basis in all sorts of ways. -That God would specifically convict and change people's hearts here in Chicago tomorrow and Saturday as we serve -That God would give you specific things to pray for -That God would allow us to be weak and Him Strong -That God would ruin the Devil's Schemes against His people. -That God would do HIs will in the Attendees hearts -That God would sustain, energize and lead the leaders of atf Thank you for your prayers. Bless His name I am weak... but He is strong Kileab

Kileab to Canada

Would you look at the month! I just found a calender and it appears we are living in October now. I had to double check the year when I found that out. Speaking of finding out, I am going to Toronto Canada this weekend and will be leaving in 3.78 hours to do our first series of events. The Ministry team will load the charter bus at 4:00 am Monday morning October 17th and head north. We will do an event in Toronto first then we will proceed to Cleveland OH, to Chicago IL, to Anaheim CA, to Billings MO, and from Billings we will come back to campus (Garden Valley, TX) then continue to our designated homes for Thanksgiving break. I am planning on coming home for about a week for thanksgiving and bringing Andrew and Daniel.  Hopefully I will be able to see and introduce both to many of you. (Below is a picture of "The Bros" in Boston MA,) Photo taken by Devin Longenecker (From Left to right; Andrew, Zech, Joel, Kileab, Daniel, Denver) Recently I was in Amherst Massachusetts and we put on our first Acquire the Fire (ATF). It was amazing from this point of view.  God was working in so many ways and different people just leading up to the event that it was deeper that words. For example, The drama team acts out in some scenes things that associate with sin and sinful things that the Devil wants to use for no good as you can imagine.  The actors want people to know God but in their mind it could be easy to think that their part in the drama or on the Ministry Team is not helpful and it could be hard for them to see how they can be used by God. So remember to pray for the drama team.  Pray that the lies would be exposed and destroyed, God's presence would be overwhelming and His Spirit would be flowing through each and every actor. During the run-throughs darkness and oppression tried to sneak in when the actors were in character but when the School of Worship went on stage and played their songs declaring truth and glory to God and the power of His presence was felt so much stronger.  God is so much stronger than the darkness.  Darkness has no choice when light shines.  It's a beautiful picture.   The event turned out great and it was nice for me to finally do what I have been training to do.  There were aprox. 2,800 attendees friday night and aprox. 562 came to the floor as a physical act of choosing to follow Christ and restore their love story with Him. Pray for the Drama team (Be led by the Spirit of God) -Pray for divine appointments before, during and after the Toronto event. -Pray that God continues to work in the lives and hearts of the people who chose to follow Him -Pray for the Ministry Team to have a deep desire to read the Word and Pray. -Pray for the finances to come in for this month Thanks for your prayers and support. I just got a new phone because my old phone's screen broke and I'd be glad to try it out. Please email, text or call with or for any questions, comments, critiques, stories, praises, Thanking-the-LORD's or prayer requests.  (316-650-6767) with His Love -Kileab

God and changes and before the 15th

Life is full of changes and most of you know that better than me.

13 months ago
I lived at my house with my 7 siblings and played sports, went fishing, did school, learned wisdom from our parents and we enjoyed one another. 

Now, I am currently not living at home, I am paying/raising money to work, my mom has had another baby since then, my sister has gone off to college to change the world for God's Glory (I'm so proud of her) and the people I hang out with want God to be known all across the world.

But in this I ask myself "What hasn't changed?"

the answer seems simple, God.  He is still good and I actually learn more and more of that the more I live and push into His goodness, the more I memorize His Word, and pray and share of His works and meet Him in the quiet place.

Last evening, after dinner, we, the Ministry Team, (the other 31 Interns that were selected to run the ATF events) went back into the Student Activity Center to continue work in our various departments.  The School of Worship band was practicing their songs for our first event in Amherst that is in 2 weeks.  The lights were off except the LED wall and all the spot lights.  The band had been playing but slowly, as we finished up our assignments, everyone else started worshiping and crying out to God which led to the 32 Ministry Teamer's worshiping and praying to God plus random staff and others in the building.

This went on for about 2 hours and after hearing some of the mighty things God was doing I was even more encouraged. 

Worship has never broken out like that during Pre-Production before.  One of the members on the team got a text during the time we were worshiping saying that he was praying and that God's Spirit was going to move.

And He was...

My friend Andrew was so full of the Holy Spirit that he couldn't stand up for 45 minutes.

God spoke to Him specifically saying something along the lines of "It's time to stand up and fight"

To another young woman on the team God was giving visions during the worship.

God was refreshing tired hearts and speaking to people.

God has moved in so many ways in and through the team it is amazing.

In a secular environment I would be made fun of, criticized, and even hated on because I am not doing what the society says is next for me; like college or a career.

But I thank each and every one of you for your support of me as I seek to please God, and not society.

I have been learning how to set up the L.E.D. Wall and the lights on the trusses that we put together and how to set up the stage.

My position for the Acquire the Fire's is the Volunteer Coordinator.

I will be managing all of the volunteers and taking care of them.

I am eager and it is still almost unreal in a way even though we have been putting in 12-14 hour days some days because we have not had an event yet.

We will actually be going to the Oil Palace (an arena) in Tyler to set up and tear down our first rig.

As far as finances; It cost's the ministry about $450 a month for me to be fed, housed, trained, traveled and tried.

I currently have $317.89 in my account.  I still need $583.11 in the next 5 days.

I totally believe God will provide. 

I believe this is where He wants me and I believe that lives will be changed forever because of His power working through the people on this tour.

Donate at

www.honoracademy.com/donate

My ID number is: 2610558

Please pray for

-The events to be Spirit led and that God would soften hearts

-God to move like never before and do mighty things

-Finances to come in

-The Ministry Team to find time to get in the Word and pray and encourage one another

-The leadership would be wise and make Spirit led choices.

-We would learn a lot and God would touch thousands of people's lives through us

-We would be humble and vulnerable as a team

-Against the lies of the Devil

-For the Drama team and the difficult position they are in fighting spiritual battles

Memorize the Word

Thanks so much

-Kileab

This year's cheers

2610558
is the ID number to support God and His work in me for these next 12 months.

You can do that at: http://www.honoracademy.com/donate

To see a glimpse at what I will be apart of click on this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTWLPHu3Lg0

God is Good and Life is a Joy when you thank Him for your legs, eyes and regular bodily functions.

Awknowledge Him in ALL your ways...

(Proverbs 3:6)

 Not some, or on sunday, or at the table when you pray for the food... as if it needs prayer.

Let us, let Him in to our every thought, our every breathe, our every move and remember He is good. Tell of His wonderous works

Amen.

As my year closes

August 9, 2011

On 8 mile trail to Hallett's Peak where Kileab got ear infection

Thank you so much for your prayers and support over the last year of this internship. I know I have

grown through this year’s experience in God glorifying ways thanks to you. I sincerely thank you. And

thank you again.

This is not how I expected to spend the last week of my Honor Academy Internship. I am currently at

home with my family on medical leave, having been diagnosed with mono and an ear infection. I will

travel with my family to drop Kendra off at John Brown University on Thursday. Then my family will

take me to the Honor Academy so I can participate in the graduation ceremony and tell some dear

friends goodbye this Sat. August 13.

Following graduation, I will take some more time with my family for R&R&R&R (That is Rest and

Relaxation and Recovery & more Rest). We are planning on a week right now, but if you are familiar

with mono, it can last from 3 weeks to 3 months.

Once I have recovered adequately, I will be back at the Honor Academy as I have been accepted on the

Acquire the Fire Ministry Team as a second year intern. After wrestling in prayer with God, He opened

this door in a miraculously unexpected way. I watched about 140 people desire to be placed in the 20

open ministry team positions and didn’t think it was even a possibility for me. I wasn’t honest with

myself for months about the fact that being on the ministry team as a second year intern was exactly

what I WANTED to do. Take a look at Psalm 37:4 “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the

desires of your heart.” Wow! He is such a gracious God and all is a grace gift from Him, even the

desires.

As a second year intern on the ATF Ministry Team, I will be traveling from the end of September

through May from city to city to set up, assist in pulling off, and tear down each Acquire the Fire Event.

Our team is also in charge of the dramas that will be performed at each conference. Basically I will

live on the charter bus, sleep at host homes or churches along the way and occasionally return to the

Honor Academy.

Click www.acquirethefire.com to see this year’s theme in a video and learn more about Teen Mania’s

Acquire the Fire weekend events. At this website you can see where I will be traveling, see a trailer

about this year’s theme “Normal’s Not Enough” and find out much more about Acquire the Fire.

“Normal’s Not Enough,” resonates with my heart! As you know, that could be my life theme as I have

always taken joy in being different. The cool thing is that now I am thoroughly enjoying not being

normal for the glory of God instead of the glory of self.

I need to raise $5,400 for this second year internship (about half of what the Honor Academy

Internship cost.) I was awarded $500 for a director’s award in the spring, which will be credited

towards this need. This is roughly $450 a month to support my expenses for the ministry. This will

cover all of my travel, food and living expenses.

• Praise God for how He has provided for me this last year.

• Praise God for His blessing and protection in Ecuador.

• Praise God that I was home for a wedding and able to visit a doctor to diagnose my illness, so I know how to recover.

• Pray for quick recovery and that I am wise in taking care of my body.

• Pray for the leadership team of the Acquire the Fire as they pray and decide where to place me on the team in regards to this illness.

• Pray for the financial support for this second year internship.

• Pray that I would be disciplined with my few wakeful hours to know God better and do what He wants me to do.

• Pray about financially supporting me through Teen Mania for this second year internship. If God provides for you to do this go to http://www.honoracademy.com/index.cfm/pageid/2120/index.html Click Donate. Enter my I.D. # 2610558 and you may donate with a credit card.

Thank you for your friendship and your prayers.

To God be All Glory for All,

Kileab

Post Ecuador

July 28, 2011

{Left to right Timmy, Gabriel, Ruben, Alex, David, Israel, Kileab}

I have returned from Ecuador, and have hit the ground running.  This week I am heading to our Mountain Life Transforming Event.  Since I returned, I rested a little at my Aunts house in Dallas with my Mom and siblings while my Dad and Kendra and Kramer were in Peru.  I have worked G.E. registration and also been lifeguarding for the Honor Academy Extreme Camps this week.  I want to take this opportunity to share with you some reflections on the Ecuador mission’s trip. 

·      I was the Missionary Advisor aka. Small group leader to 4 teenage guys who are in the above picture with me and two of our translators.  We called ourselves the Bros.  The first night on campus during pre-trip training with these guys I shared my testimony and I opened up and shared the nasty unseen and how God has rescued me from death and brought me into marvelous light. The guys in my group opened up and started sharing and from then on they all got excited for “Bro-Time” (our man-time).  Something inside of me jumped for joy when these guys started sharing and the Spirit of God began to knit us together.

·      I played Jesus in the Ragman drama.  God worked on my heart.  He brought me from a place of fearfulness to do the drama to a place where I was looking forward to performing the drama.  I was looking forward to doing the drama because I could show these people Jesus.  When my heart cared more for people to know Jesus the fear and nervousness faded away and passion to share the truth with people and boldness rose up inside of me.  I not only came to ease with performing the drama but also had a desire for people to find satisfaction in Christ alone.

·      I had the privilege to meet Minkayani, the man who killed Jim Elliot and 2 more of the missionaries, as well as hear him testify how God has mercifully redeemed and changed him and used him for His glory.  He is full of joy and I don’t know if I ever saw him stop smiling.

·      While on the trip I had wonderful leadership above me and they encouraged us to pray and get in the Word everyday.  We had a couple of very cool nights where the Project Directors spoke at night on the roof and the Holy Spirit came and convicted people and called them to lives dedicated to sharing the gospel.  They had 1 hour set aside for “quiet time” (devotions).  I enjoyed that so much.  It was a relieving time having an hour that I didn’t have to fight for to spend seeking God.

·      Our Ecuador team did work projects where we were cleaning out this area and laying a foundation so that they can add on to the kids club building.  Kids were coming and learning about God.  When the kids club started the numbers of kids consistently attending was 4 and now there are about 15.  This extra building will help provide more kids to come who don’t know who Jesus is or that He loves them.

·      Our team did VBS for children; over the last two days we had 27 children choose to follow Christ.  Praise the Lord hallelujah!!  Pray that God would stay near them and that He would water and grow the seeds we planted.

·      We also did a drama a couple of times.  One of those times, on the day we went riding in giant canoes down the river, we walked around and informed people that we were doing dramas and about 50-100 people showed up and were watching from all directions.  We were able to share the gospel with a translator after the dramas.  We then went out and prayed for people. I prayed with a couple of others from our group for a lady.  She currently is following Jesus and has a heart to see her 2 children (Carmen and Adriana) of 24 and 20 years of age come back to Jesus.  Pray for those two to reach the end of them and be broken so God can grab His children and use them.

·      The one night when Eddie, our project director, was sharing with us on the roof I saw brokenness and it was beautiful.  Eddie was sharing stories of many people all over the world that will walk 10+ miles to get dirty water that ends up killing them and their children from worms that eat away from the inside out.

·      Pray that God continues to work in and through the missionaries that went on the trips.

·      Pray that anything that they need to get rid of or take out of there life gets destroyed

·      And pray that God would fill that God shaped hole in the leaders, missionaries, converts and lonely lost people

Thank you so much for your prayers and support.  I am so grateful I had the opportunity to go to Ecuador and experience God there among a different people.  He is so BIG and to be magnified.

Kileab (pictured with Minkayani)

Wow, What a stretch

A few things I have done since last blog. 2 Acquire the Fires.
Greensboro, NC and Dallas, TX.
Unreached people groups LTE.
College visit to John Brown University in AK with Kendra, Kami, Mom and Andrew (Friend).
Resurection weekend spent at home Andrew came with.

This weekend I will be hanging with my Pa and Erick.

I will write soon, oh the miss of myself and writing is big.

It doesn't stop, It never stops. Wee just get old and die.
Make the most of it. What you give away is what you really do have.

The Secret, The Answer, The Money

3 Things I need to write about... sometime.

1. I found the secret to life last wed night

2. The 3 day Food and Talking fasting retreat was amazing because of God who is in fact amazing.

3. I need $614.11 for this month's payments for the internship.  My account number is: 2610558 http://www.honoracademy.com/index.cfm/pageid/2120/index.html


I am pressed for time now but I will return.

Father son and Snow

It snowed last night I will try to put a picture on while the snow is still present.

This is Kreed and my Father in a classic example of how we should

aspire to be like our Father in heaven.

I have no Ministry Placement today due to snow so I will be doing wonderfull growing homework

preparation for the mid year defense and I'll be finding new ways to play in the snow.

Relevance

"...might leave and never come back..."

Can also be rephrased as:

"Go wherever God allows me"


It is a short hour before the encounter service from now and I am craving the foods of the rainbow. I had joy today, what a great thing for God to create joy, that we can find in Him.

Something I just realized:

If I am having a hard time appreciating God all I have to do is start making a list of what needs done, what I want done, What I want, what I need to want and What I want to need... And, by this time I have normally realized that I can't do everything and I can't do anything, without God. That is when I can find a quiet place and let Him hear what I am thinking so that I am honest with Him and myself. This is a version of casting my cares upon Him that I am learning.

More than any of that I'd say the biggest reason to share verbally or enscibually with God my thoughts, concerns, hurts, worries, bad habits, sins, prides, growth, likes, and dislikes is to have that relationship (Oh and I pray that this word will not be overlooked and treated as normal or whatever the word normal is supposed to represent but rather that God would touch your heart in a way deeper than you can imagine with more meaning than you can fathom) with Him.

Philippians 4
Matthew 6

Read them sometime.

There is something different about God's words.
There is no page or book that can portray,
no thought or notion to contain,
no scientist or theologian to explain,
no dam or reinforcements to restrain.
no army or planet's forces to remain,
when dealing with what has been made,
We remember the what and forget THE From Who it's Made.

Dinnergy

So I hear there's a storm but I feel a greater storm brewing on the inside of me, the Spirit is working.. I might leave and never come back.
Let His will be done

For the Kids

1 Corinthians 6:18-
Flee from Sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body but the sexual immoral person sins against his own body.

Post Script:
Our bodies are not really our bodies anyway, (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) our bodies are now his temple we were bought with a price. Therefore Let us glorify Him in our bodies so that we don't die having wasted all that we now have been blessed with.

Below lies:
A small inaccurate jest conjured up by
Kilab Ammons and Zac Sanford to combat this verse.

"Chuck Noris does not flee temptation
 Temptation flees Chuck Noris."

Post Post Script: the statement about Chuck Noris is false.
God's Word won. The combat was short.

Proverbs 27:6

The wounds of a friend are trustworthy
But an enemy multiplies kisses. HCSB

Faithful are the wounds of a friend
profuse are the kisses of an enemy. ESV

Three ways to look at it:

1. Where there is high trust there is high freedom -Shawn Ammons
Meaning, There are some environments (with true friends) that are safer to act a certain way that might not be socially acceptable.

2. The wounds... like hurtful things said, done or hinted, bearing one another's burdens; things that are clearly out of our hands.  And these are the things that are trust worthy and or Faithful?
Maybe it is because the person receiving the wound is a friend that it is faithful.

3. Correction- Wounds might be shots to the flesh from our friend who actually cares enough about us and wants sin and death to be destroyed from our life that they take the effort to confront and point out what is wrong (wounds) so that we can be free from the slavery that sin brings. 
Kisses seem all positive and proverbial but they might be referred to here as exactly what it is saying:
The kisses of an enemy are profuse (many).  Whatever that means, could be a tie in of the deceit of the enemy or the things you don't desire. Or rather a comparison with the first phrase.

The verse doesn't say The kisses of a friend are trustworthy or faithful.
And the Wounds of an enemy are much.
Even though it might sound quite better in our minds.

Out of all this, My desire is to stir up desire to dig deeper, search harder, seek God and look at things in different ways to see if I am missing something or... everything and ultimately find God (Real Satisfaction)
Real non-restlessness. Real! At-annoyance-peace.
But o you can find.
There is a time where over analyzing is over-analyzing, and I/we need to take the Words of God for what they are.

Do you know what you believe?
Go find out...
The words of God are POWERFULL.

Back on the saddle of timely Education

Blue like the sky today my homework is pressing
as the pit of my stomach cry's it's time to dine.

Improv-mint

Day 2 of January gauntlet.

Why do people get complacent?
Why is our country so lazy?
It doesn't matter, In this context.
The point Im stressing is the point they miss
I want a steadily increasing passion cycle to be initialed
Destroying all of me that has contemplated
The faintest idea or notion associated
or related to the relation
of me and belated belation
As a being as an apple falling from the tree
Cut from the vine, blind and trapped in slavery
This is not what I desire,
To strive in vain to tire.
I want a connection deeper than feelings and sharper than words
I want to hear and know that what I hear and know is what I need to know
more than emotions, more than hype
More than a peticular person on a peticular night
More than a soul has tasted more than the human mind knows
I may see in the dim mirror now
But then, I will see as I am known.

Today is as warmups before a big game or the note cards of legends inducted into the hall of fame. For today is preparation for the day we will see
See Our Love in the light
See our reason for eternity