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I did the Kairos course in 2004. Doing this course has been one of the most significant parts of my growth as a Christian. Although it is less than a year since I did the course I can see a change in my walk with God that will affect the rest of my life and hopefully the lives of my family also. When I started the course, members of the leadership team were asked to say what they had thought when they did the course themselves. One woman said she wondered why she had never heard this teaching before, after being a Christian for so many years. That is my testimony too. After being a Christian for maybe eighteen years why have I only just learnt these things? I don’t blame anyone for this. I’m just glad that I have learnt this stuff now. The things that I learnt on Kairos have opened up my eyes and my heart to the world and people outside of my own life. I have learnt more about God’s faithfulness and richness of blessing in the context of being a channel for that blessing to flow through. God blesses us to be a blessing. We are his hands and feet. (It’s funny that God blessed me before I knew and understood this.) Doing Kairos has brought my life into focus. It’s like putting a pair of glasses onto a pair of short-sighted eyes. Everything is clearer and sharper. One of the reasons I did not do Kairos for quite a while was because I thought ‘I have a young family, my husband is clear about his calling in Leeds. We are not called to be missionaries in another land.’ After completing Kairos, this is all still true at the moment. (Although, only God knows where he will lead us in the future. We must stay surrendered to him and his lead.) However, this course is relevant to every Christian, whatever and wherever your calling. The main thing that has happened to me since doing Kairos is the love that God has given me for people of other cultures. When I see Muslim women at school or meet refugees through my work I feel a sense of excitement and love for these people and my prayer is ‘God use me to bless. Let me be salt and light.’ Before doing Kairos the feelings were more of fear and guilt. God has put his purpose and his love in me and he has given me a desire to let him use me. I think as well there is a real sense of peace that comes from surrendering yourself to God’s purposes. There is nothing special about me or the things I do except that when God is allowed to be central in my life exciting things will start to happen. Since last summer I have been on a journey finding out where God wants to use me. I have extended my teaching qualification to gain experience in teaching ESOL (English to speakers of others languages) and in a few weeks time I start work at an inner city high school teaching English to refugees. Am I nervous? Yes. Do I wonder if I can work alongside people who experience racism and bullying as part of their daily lives? Yes. Am I strong enough? Probably not. BUT I remind myself that when God called Jonah to do his work in Nineveh it was scary but the people were ready and when God is with you who can be against you? For me, doing Kairos and moving into this new work is not about carrying a big sign saying ‘I’m a Christian and you should be too’. It is about loving God’s people and letting God lead me into places where he can use me. Don’t do Kairos out of a sense of guilt. But do do it. There is a big world out there and there are people who are waiting for you understand your calling to be blessed, so that you can be a blessing to them.

I did the Kairos course in 2004. Doing this course has been one of the most significant parts of my growth as a Christian. Although it is less than a year since I did the course I can see a change in my walk with God that will affect the rest of my life and hopefully the lives of my family also.

When I started the course, members of the leadership team were asked to say what they had thought when they did the course themselves. One woman said she wondered why she had never heard this teaching before, after being a Christian for so many years. That is my testimony too. After being a Christian for maybe eighteen years why have I only just learnt these things? I don’t blame anyone for this. I’m just glad that I have learnt this stuff now.

The things that I learnt on Kairos have opened up my eyes and my heart to the world and people outside of my own life. I have learnt more about God’s faithfulness and richness of blessing in the context of being a channel for that blessing to flow through. God blesses us to be a blessing. We are his hands and feet. (It’s funny that God blessed me before I knew and understood this.)
Doing Kairos has brought my life into focus. It’s like putting a pair of glasses onto a pair of short-sighted eyes. Everything is clearer and sharper.

One of the reasons I did not do Kairos for quite a while was because I thought ‘I have a young family, my husband is clear about his calling in Leeds. We are not called to be missionaries in another land.’ After completing Kairos, this is all still true at the moment. (Although, only God knows where he will lead us in the future. We must stay surrendered to him and his lead.) However, this course is relevant to every Christian, whatever and wherever your calling.

The main thing that has happened to me since doing Kairos is the love that God has given me for people of other cultures. When I see Muslim women at school or meet refugees through my work I feel a sense of excitement and love for these people and my prayer is ‘God use me to bless. Let me be salt and light.’ Before doing Kairos the feelings were more of fear and guilt. God has put his purpose and his love in me and he has given me a desire to let him use me. I think as well there is a real sense of peace that comes from surrendering yourself to God’s purposes. There is nothing special about me or the things I do except that when God is allowed to be central in my life exciting things will start to happen.
Since last summer I have been on a journey finding out where God wants to use me. I have extended my teaching qualification to gain experience in teaching ESOL (English to speakers of others languages) and in a few weeks time I start work at an inner city high school teaching English to refugees. Am I nervous? Yes. Do I wonder if I can work alongside people who experience racism and bullying as part of their daily lives? Yes. Am I strong enough? Probably not. BUT I remind myself that when God called Jonah to do his work in Nineveh it was scary but the people were ready and when God is with you who can be against you?

For me, doing Kairos and moving into this new work is not about carrying a big sign saying ‘I’m a Christian and you should be too’. It is about loving God’s people and letting God lead me into places where he can use me.

Don’t do Kairos out of a sense of guilt. But do do it. There is a big world out there and there are people who are waiting for you understand your calling to be blessed, so that you can be a blessing to them.

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