Missionary Midwife to be

*Update! The letter below was written a couple of months ago.
I want to let everyone know that God has been faithful and the money I need for the cost of my 8 month mission/outreach has been coming in! I trust that God is going to provide the rest! Thank you all so much for your love, prayers and support! I love ya'll!

Okay, so this is my second post. But, perhaps it should have been the first! Below you will see the letter I wrote to explain what I am going out to do this year. Many of you have already seen this letter, and so I overlooked to post it here, but someone reminded me today that it would be a good idea to put it up for those of you I have never met - or maybe you know me, but you have not read it yet!

Now you can read on and see where my journey begins as I embark on this adventure with God.. I am so excited to be called to serve women as a midwife; I believe it will be an amazing year!! I expect to see Great things happen. It is humbling, and beautiful, just to think of being that first one to touch their lives, to pray for them and show each family I am a part of; the awesome, redeeming, strong, faithful, healing, life-giving LOVE of God. Pray for me! Pray for the families I will meet! That God's love would change them forever! That these children would grow up to serve God faithfully! That is my prayer! Oh that they would taste and see that God is good!

May God bless you. " Delight yourselves in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." Psalm 37

Without further ado, here is the above mentioned letter that I wrote.. My name is Orissa,
I am going around the World.
Read on to find out why...

My dear friends,
Knowing you has blessed my life! I will miss all of you! But, I'll be back in a year!

Many of you know that I recently sold my car. I sold it because this Summer I am going on the foreign mission field. I have been accepted into a year long Birth Attendant School that is based out of Perth, Australia. I will be training and serving as a midwife in developing nations with an international Christian organization called Youth With a Mission. I depart for Australia at the end of June. In the past, the BAS School has taken teams of midwives into such places as Uganda, India, Sudan, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines... just to name a few. For most women, pregnancy is a happy time, but for many in the developing world it is life threatening. Almost 600,000 women die from complications in pregnancy and childbirth each year - 98% of these women are living in developing nations. The vision of the school I will be attending is to establish mother and child health clinics in developing nations and to teach and train women in maternal and child health care.
Youth With a Mission is a movement of Christians using their God given talents and abilities to create bridges into people's lives for the purpose of reaching those who have not heard, with the Good News that Jesus died to set them free and that He rose again to give them hope for their future. And when I speak of bridges, I speak of bridge builders; these are surfers, skateboarders, musicians, dancers, nurses, doctors, midwives, artists, athletes, teachers, singers, and the list goes on... each of them carrying out the Great Commission. We are united in our purpose; we are united in our love for Jesus. As I embark on this journey to become a midwife, I am committing this year wholeheartedly to Jesus! I exhort you to do the same in your own lives! Whatever you are doing, whatever your talent or ability, commit your life to God and serve Him with your whole heart!

From the sale of my car, I have already paid for my classroom/lecture fees, a few pieces of medical equipment that I need for school, a hiking backpack, and my round-trip airfare to Australia. Because I will be in full time study and ministry this next year, and I will not be working to support myself, I am in need of support financially. I am asking you to prayerfully consider giving towards my mission trip. Know that as you give, you are "going with me" because your support enables me to go. You can mail your support to me at Orissa Mora-Kent, 410 E. Park Ave, Hammond, LA. 70403.
If you are not able to give financially; will you give of your time and pray for me as I go?
Above all, I earnestly need your prayers!
If you would like to write, I'd love to hear from you! e-mail me: orissamora@yahoo.com
And for more information about YWAM check them out online at http://www.ywamperth.org.au/

Thank you for your support,
Until all have heard, Orissa

"How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, " How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!" Romans 10:14-15

God is a lover.

It's 1:34 am - it's my first time to post on here.

To be honest,
I have struggled with what to say first - the words just aren't coming! I sat here, and thought and sat here and stared at the screen..

I decided to share something with you that I wrote earlier today.
Hopefully you will get a glimpse of where my heart is as I prepare to leave home for a year of midwifery and missions.


I said, "O, God I hear the rumbling, the clamor, clash and distant thundering.... I am afraid."

He speaks to me in a gentle breeze, and washes me in perfect peace.
"Do not be afraid; I am with you. Be strong, Be strong - I will lead you on."

"Yes, lord." I'm yours! I love you!

Like an Oak Tree planted by streams of water, you are my Abba, Father!
Each word of His in perfect rhythm, kept by wisdom.. learned by faith.

I utter, "Thank you Jesus for your Grace!"

And when fears surround me to imprison, I hear His Spirit offer wisdom - " listen, listen."
I stand to say that "Christ is risen!"

Of whom should I be afraid?
When by a call upon God's name I am kept safe. - Proverbs 18:10

O, lead me to a stream,
To a rippling stream of laughing water!

I delight to be with you, delight to be near you...
I was a stranger once but now your daughter,
You were unknown to me before I knew you as my Father. - 1 John 3:1-3

My heart is beating for one reason, my King, my Love.
You are.

I said, "O, God I hear the voices of angels singing, the strong and steady call is ever rising, of light and color now colliding!"

God thunders from Heaven and I smell the sounds of His voice in the fragrant honeysuckle-drenched rain.

I am woven in a love, so swept up that it's movements change me...
Away from the old things, alive to everything. God is my God. He is Beautiful above all things.

Written by Orissa M. Kent