I'm in SOUTH KOREA

Hey there people
i have made it to south korea... after an 11 hour trip to Hong Kong and then 3 hour flight to Pusan. We stayed overnight in Hong Kong at the Novotel... that was fun. Went to church in the morning as it was sunday, stayed for about an hour and joined in. Was a very cool experience. We met some lovely people- they were so friendly and really interested in what we were doing. We had to leave the service early as we needed to get to the airport. The pastor prayed for us as a team- very cool, and I also gave a greeting to the church.. the others had someone managed to leave the service earlier.

We arrived in Pusan at about6.30pm.. got picked up by John Bailey the camp co-oridantor and we got driven on the uni bus to the uni- we got taken to our rooms- we each have our own room, we settled in and then we had dinner with the teacher assistants. My assistants name is Sumi - she is a very sweet young woman. Our group name is the Monkeys- we have already has some fun monkeying around.

We met our kids this afternoon after the opening ceremony. Us teachers had to sing a song as an item - we sung God of wonders - and I accomponied on the Piano. I have 14 beautiful 12 year olds - which are actually like 10 year olds in NZ- the age system is different to ours. Apparantely tomorrow all the kids turn 13 as it is a new year- kinda crazy to me, but thats ok.

I am just gettting ready to teach my kids again, am going to play some games with them to try and get them interacting more with each other. I'm really enjoying it so far.. and know that the Lord surely did bring me here. Its a real honour to be able to teach children and impart life to them.

oh.. its VERY cold here. ITs HOT inside but FREEZING outside. Really need God to keep us well.... mum i' m taking my vitamins ok... hope you are smiling at that.

Anyway... i better go, the kids will be here very soon.
love you all
katie

KOREA HERE I COME

I hope you all have had a fantastic Christmas and that the new year starts off awesomely for you.

My Christmas was really great. I spent time with my family.. in Levin. My Sister and Brother N Law have just built a new house so we spent the day with them a their new place. It was a really nice day.

I am now at home for a night and tomorrow I head to Auckland for a night, then on saturday afternoon I leave for Korea. I am going to be teaching Enlgish for 3 weeks at Pusan University of Foreign Studies. I will be teaching a home room class 3 hours a day - they are 10 year olds, and in the afternoons i will be teaching music. I think all the kids will see me for music atleast two times! There are about 12 other teachers from NZ going over.

I would really appreicate your prayer for this...
that we will be kept safe, not get sick...
that we will all relate well to the kids and other teachers That God will do what he wants to do through me I have been feeling slightly nervous as i have not done anything like this before!!

2008 is still a bit of an unknown but I do know that the Lord certainly knows where I will be and what I will be doing. I have some options of travelling overseas to do some mission work.. and am processing this and praying about it at the moment. I'm sure it will be more clear after i get home from korea.

Well I do hope you are well, and that whatever you are doing and where ever you are that you are experiencing the Peace and Rest of the Lord.

Lots of Blessings to you and Your Family
And thank you for Friendship and support this last year


I will be posting regular updates on my blogspot while i am away so stay tuned.

Rachels 5th Birthday.

Its been a crazy few days. I left taurnga at 6.15am thursday morning to travel to levin for Rachels party. I stopped in taupo and picked up mum, then we met Dad near Taumaranui and drove to Levin. We managed to get their with about 1/2 hour to spare. We had so much fun celebration Rachels birthday, she loved her gifts, and enjoyed playing games with her friends. I nearly won pass the parcel... i quickly passed the gift to the next child as i didnt think it was fair that i win.. hehe. On friday morning we went to Rachels end of year play for kindy - she was a sheep. We then looked at her new school, and then hit the road to head back to Camp. We did a stop off in Taumaranui - which was a major detour, but I got to catch up with the girls from teen girls camp and I also got to meet the boys who were at boys camp!! It was soooo cool to see them and have fish n chips with them.. food is always a good thing we connecting with people.

I'm now at Lake Taupo Christian camp and have just helped run a kids programe for the kids that here for break away solo parents camp. We did some singing and talked about TRUSTING GOD, and fishing.. .and how Jesus forgives us for our sins - and forgets about them we say sorry for doing wrong. Amazingly the kids listened and hopefully will remember the TRUTH of who God is.

Well i gota go and do some girls nails .. yay... might do mine to... catch you later

End of the year... celebrations

Well today is my last day of teaching for the year. I cant believe that 2007 is nearly finished. Tonight some of my piano students are performing at the school end of year gathering and then i'm off to Taupo for the night.. then to Levin for my neice Rachels 5th birthday. Im so looking forward to being at her princess party and celebrating her turning 5. Again I cant believe how fast 5 years has gone.. i remember when she was born and it doesnt seem like that long ago.

On Friday night and saturday morning I'll be helping with a camp.. called breakaway for Solo Mums. It will be cool to hang out with the kids and spend some time encouraging them and letting them know how precious they are.

Just wanted to post a little update.

More exciting news to come soon.

katie

lifes not easy..

Well hello there People... how are you? Well the last week has been a pretty full on, exciting and challenging one for me. I had the priviledge of being part of the first ever teenage girls camp that Lake Taupo Christian Camp has run. I have been involved with hundreds of camps there ( as it is where i grew up), but this was the first ever teen girls camp. There were 12 teenage girls.. and they were absolutley beautiful. There were 6 leaders. I had the oppotunity to speak and share some things that I felt the Lord had put on my heart for them... about how precious and unique they are and also about the kind of girls he wants us to beand what I thought a Jesus Revolution would look like for his daughters. It was such an honour to get to know the girls and find out the things they are going on their lives.

I came back to Tauranga really challenged and angry in a way too as I had some insight into the stuggles these lovely girls are facing. I know we all have struggles and hard things to face... i mean life is full of challenges, i just dont like the way some people get treated. I totally beleive that everyone deserves LOVE, everyong deserves to have someone to believe in them. I am soooo thankful to the people who inputted into my life as i was growing up and who still do now, i guess i'm challenged to be that kind of person for others.

I 'm into my last week of teaching piano.. my awesome students are performing tomorrow to the school and then some of them are performing on sunday night at the school country fair... it will be awesome to see them sharing the gift of music that they have.

oh... i got my visa this week so that I can go to Korea to teach English in January. I am heading to south Korea with about 10 other teachers from New Zealand to teach for 3 weeks at an English camp... i'm starting to get excited about this amazing oppotunity. I will be teaching 10 year olds... ! its gona be fun.. i will keep you posted about my time over there.

well thats it for now.... Many blessings.. keep smiling. God loves you..and so do I.

Made with PURPOSE

Well goodevening everyone... Ive noticed that my blog saves my posts a day earlier than what i actually do them.. today is WEDNESDAY.. not tuesday. I have had quite a busy day today. I did afew jobs at home, saw my friend Kate, dropped some things off at church and caught up with Ruth and Jill - two awesome woman of God.. they were working at Church. I then went and taught my piano students, and managed to fit lunch in with Dayna... which was fun. I didnt feel too well this arvo as I think i was over heating.. hehe. The room i teach in is real small. I ended up coming home a bit early and made a quick meal.. fish and salad. I then headed out to YOUTH Church, i led worship tonight for youth church . It was a rather challenging night in terms of organising the team... we did get there in the end.. but it was abit of hard work. I am often made aware of the battle surrounding us.. its not flesh and blood but a spiritual battle. This was evident tonight. There were some moments as we were singing that i really could sense the presense of God.. i was literally shaking. I know God loves it when we come to him in our weak state... when we bring him a sacrifice of praise. The word that came me tonight as well was PURPOSE. I shared with the youth at the end of the service that I believe the Lord wanted to really download revelation to us as to WHY he made us... Kyle who spoke tonight put it really well.. we were made to be loved, and to love... to love GOD and be LOVED by him... and als0 to BRING pleasure and JOY to God. I loved the simplicity of this. It made me wonder for a bit if I was bringing pleasure to God in everyday situations i'm put it.I mean he made me for a purpose.. amdI fufilling that?... am I making JESUS SMILE?. A bit of food for thought. I get so encouraged when I think about the fact that I am not an accident, that I am made with PURPOSE........ there are sooo many people who need to know that, MAYBE EVEN YOU who is reading this. Imagine what would happen if we really lived out what we were made by God to do..... I"M PRAYING YOU WILL FIND YOUR PURPOSE and HAVE STRENGTH TO LIVE IT OUT EVERY SINGLE DAY.

"For we are Gods workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works which he prepared in advance for us to do" Ephesians 2:10

Whats happening this week..

Goodmorning...
Just wanted to update you on what my week looks like.
Thismorning i have been doing some admin for Zeal life trust. Today i will be heading to Tauranga Intermediate to help with the Shine group. I'm really looking forward to seeing the girls again. They are just lovely.I am also going to try and get some more copies made of my precious song... to give to the teenage girls this weekend...at girls camp in Taupo. I am heading down there on thursday and will be helping speak and lead worship for the weekend. I'm believing that the Lord is going to do some special things. I will be teaching my piano students on tuesday and wednesday.. only 3 more weeks to go and the year is ended. I cant believe how fast this year has gone. I am preparing to go to Korea to teach English for 3 weeks over January so hopefully the visa information will arrive today so I can sort that out.

Well I better go and get ready for Shine....
Will write more after.

Have a blessed day.
katie

Laying the FOUNDATIONS.

Hi there Friends.. Family.. and Anyone else who will be reading this. I decided that it was time for me to set up a blogspot as I want to be able to keep in touch with people and not always have to send out long emails... hehe. I did have a blogspot in 2005 but i no longer have that so this is brand new one just for you .

I will be trying to add thoughts, updates on my life etc regularly... so keep your eyes open .. and keen checking my blog to find out whats happening.

I hope you are well.. and you are remembering how much GOd loves you, desires you, and is FOR YOU. I'm trying to do the same.... it can be challenging to stay in the TRUTH... but its a battle thats worth fighting.

I read a newspaper article.. well glanced at the paper yesterday... it said ""laying the foundations"... "Lasting Relationships".... This really stuck out to me as I guess i'm kind of going through some things where i feel Like foundations are being built. I started to ponder this and I realised that when foundations are built its hard work. Often alot of digging requried, and its kind of the ugly part of the job.. BUT... without foundations and REALLY good ones whatever is being built WILL NOT STAND when the rough weather comes. I guess in life we are in the process of waiting for the eternal home- heaven..
As we go through life we so need to have the foundation of the TRUTH of Jesus Christ as our foundation... or we will NOT ever get to our eternal home. Even in practical life things we if we do not build friendships on good foundations then they will crumble, if we dont have a good foundations in terms of morals etc we can end up hurting ourselves...and others.

I'm sharing this with you as its what Im being challenged about at the moment. I am going through A PROCESS of taking a look deep inside myself to see what the foundations of my life are... and YES it hurts... YES there are tears... but... YES as I read the word of God and I know that this PROCESS is soooooo worth it.

If we want the END RESULT... of beauty, the glory of the Lord, Gods purpose for our lives.... Our home in heaven... then i guess its time to make sure the foundations are SOLID. I know the times we are living in are difficuilt, following Jesus is difficuilt... the things of the world are around us trying to sway us.

Lets NOT grow weary in doing good... lets keep our feet firmly planted on Jesus. I pray that by reading this blog you may be challenged... encouraged.... spurred on to make sure the foundation you are building on is JESUS... is strong... so that you can stand the test of time... so you can see your eternal HOME.


Well..... I didnt know i was going to share all that.... but i did...hehe
be Blessed today..
Lots of love to you.....

katie davies

ps...... you may wonder why Zeal Life is part of the name of this blog. Zeal Life is the TRUST that I set up... to inspire, equip, encourage and motivate people (children, teenagers, adults) through music, worship, teaching and preaching- based on the truth, hope, freedom, and purpose of Jesus Christ and his word, for his names sake and for his glory, that his name would be made known in this nation and this world.
also..... Inspiring people to reach their full potential.