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Here I am writing all of you again. I would apologize for writing so many letters of support but I know that this is something that God has called me to and has placed on my heart. This opportunity is one that has been burning in my heart for years and now I have the open door to go and check out the land and serve an organization that is changing the culture of Afghanistan in the city of Mazar-e Sharif.

This is an area that the devil has held in bondage for way to long. Its time to rise up and pour out our love on these lovely people who Christ died for so that Jesus gets His full reward. I believe that this will only happen through people (yes the ones God Chose) and through prayers that are released from our place in Christ to earth.                                                                                                                                           

I will be traveling with a team of doctors, business people and a group of Bethel students. We will be working in the city of Mazar-e Sharif with ASET a Non-Profit NGO in Afghanistan. It was started by Dan Browne a good friend of mine that I met here at Bethel. He has been working there for over 9 years building The Kingdom of God and showing Jesus’ love through practically meeting the needs of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.                                                    We will be helping teach English and do computer training along with many other things. Those things will then leads to opportunities to share the goodness of Jesus with people. They have led people to the Lord there and we will be able to meet them and pour into their lives. We also get the great privilege to pour ourselves into and refresh the missionaries that are living there and giving their lives to serve.

We are meeting on the 1^st of June in Dubai, from there we will fly to Kabul the capital city and then to Mazar-e Sharif.  We are flying back around the 13^th of June.

My heart has been burning for Afghanistan for years and this is such an exciting time for me. I believe that it might be more significant than any other missions trip I have been on. It is also exciting to be sent out and work with ministries and people I trust and have relationship with.

There is so much opportunity there to serve and see God do his work through Practical work and Holy Spirit led moments. 

If you want to partner with me on this trip in prayer or financially you can donate  by going to:  http://www.youcaring.com/fundraiser_details?fundraiser_id=1201&url=afghanistantransformationtrip

The Total cost of the trip is $2700. I am going to be needing to purchase my plane ticket by at least the 7^th of May. So I need at least $1600 by then. The rest I will need  by the 15^th of May. 

If you want to send a check write it out to Nathan Rinear mark it for Afghanistan and send it to; 1701 Dana Dr #66 Redding CA 96003

If you want to contact me about praying for me and this trip or anything else my email is; redeemingpassion.nr@gmail.com

I really need to be covered in prayer for this trip so I thank you for coming along side of me and pouring heaven out together in declaration and prayer.

Thank you for being apart of my dreams and the call of God over my life. 

(If online payment is not an option, check donations can be made payable to Bethel Church and mailed to the following address: Bethel International – 915 Twin View Blvd. Redding ca 96003. Please include a note with the donations designating with student’s trip you are supporting)

Love and Blessings,
Nathan Rinear

SO much is going on right now. I wanted to bring everyone that has been praying for us into the loop of what’s going on. I’m doing great in 2nd year thriving not crying. Ha

I am doing the track called international transformation. It is so awesome! The lady that is leading it really impacted me when I was in 1st year. A lot of what she shared helped me be more successful while I was in Sudan. Well we have project groups going on that are actually making a difference. Its not just a school project but we are doing things that change peoples lives and governments.  I am leading our group working with Heaven Sent ministries. We are Helping them to build and resource teams to minister to and host missionaries. I don’t have any certain idea how we are doing that yet. I guess that I know God will do it. Ha ha

The outreach I am apart of is in Red Bluff, which is half an hour south of where I’m at now. It’s a very new thing going on this couple, under Bethel, has started a local church in Red bluff. It’s a more house style church and they have been given like 3 houses to use already. Part of the team is connecting with a transitional woman’s housing and pouring into them. The rest of us will be out on the streets or a local coffee shop sharing the goodness of Jesus and loving people. It’s a very new thing. They have only had services there for a few weeks now. Yea new ground!

PLEASE READ ON. Ha ha! It gets better. This Monday I am heading with Bill Johnson and the rest of the team to Voice of the Apostles conference in Harrisburg PA. I so wanted to go before I decided to come to school and now I’m going as the ministry team. I will be leaving around 2am on Mon the 17^th and come back on Sat the 22^nd.

Ok now coming to a close with this awesome everything I’m up to and pray for me letter. I applied for the school mission’s trips already. They had us do it early this year. I don’t know where I will be going yet but they give you a top five. I chose going with my Revival Group leader Dickson to Central Asia as my first trip it’s to a more unreached people group area. Connecting with local pastors and all that. My Second choice is Sudan. That would be going back to where I was in Yei 2 years ago. My Third was Lebanon; sharing with muslims and bringing peace and reconciliation. One of these 3 is where I really want to go. I also chose South Africa and a trip to Redwood City California ministering to leaders as last choices. They are really expensive trips, $3600 to $2500  so pray for the recourses that God has in an abundance to connect with this vision and me.

Annika is also working and planning on helping my revival group leader (she interned with him before) as soon as she can get everything figured out. Pray for our continued connection emotionally and spiritually as we are doing a lot of different things. That is super important.

So you can see we have a lot to be prayed into. So whatever you feel on your heart to pray go for it.

Love you all, Nathan

I will connect more about life soon as I can. Also I will be sending out support letters if I can. There is a way to give tax deductible at https://www.ibssm.org/a/donate/missions/find-student. Just type in Nathan Rinear and feel free. Ha ha

But then I felt something in my heart and sensed the Lords gentle touch. Right then I asked the Lord to give me His heart for Las Vegas, not knowing that it wouldn’t be that long down the road till God was going to be sending us both back there. This time, not just to rest and relax but to take an active part of sharing the Kingdom of God together with a team from Redeeming Passion Ministries and Terra Nova Ministries.

I can’t say how much I enjoyed staying with Mike and Kathy Craft during our time in Vegas. It was the first time that Annika and I have traveled together on a ministry trip and it was such a great growing time for the both of us. I can say this time I felt Gods heart for Vegas and the surrounding areas while I was there.  The last night we were there we went down to the strip to see the fountain show at the Bellagio. It was amazing but even more so, the Love of God that I felt while there was so strong. I was seeing people and feeling their longing and brokenness so that I couldn’t even stay and finish watching the show. God first led me to a clown in a wheelchair to share His Love and Power. It seemed the Lord kept speaking words of life and healing to me, from then on, to share with people I ran into. I didn’t want to leave at all when we had to go on.

On our 3^rd evening in Vegas at the Harris Springs Ranch, I was feeling a little nervous for some reason. I was kind of frustrated that I felt that way because this was the main thing I was looking forward to coming to while being there.

As Kathy, Troy, James and I got our Instruments ready to worship I said to myself  “I’m going to go for it no matter what I feel”.  As we started to lead worship and I let my heart go in praise all the nervousness left and I felt so full of joy. God’s presence was thick in that room as we worshiped our King and Father God. Some of the guys were dancing and singing along, others just sitting there watching what was going on.

I shared a word on the Body and Blood of Jesus before we shared in communion together. Mike had a good word on the prodigal son and the Heart of the Father after we did a fun skit that demonstrated that whole story. We also showed a video of some of our guys from Redeeming Passion Ministries who have been set free from addictions. The guy sitting next to me started talking right away about how great that it is to be able to watch stories of victory from guys like them all the way on the other side of the country. He shared how he wanted to send a message back to them.

A time of personal ministry started seamlessly after sharing. God was opening Heaven over us there.  One after another we all prayed for different the guys. God was speaking words of hope and freedom to each one in a unique way. God kept showing me things to prophecy over them. It was like springs that were broken open.

All the guys stayed a half an hour or so later than the official end time because they all wanted to be prayed for and share their stories with us. They even got to record a response video to our guys here in Ohio at the end to encourage them as well. It was a wonderful time as we were all filled with joy after we left our brothers in Christ that night.

I could go on and on and tell how people received healing physically and spiritually as we ministered and led people in Worship to our Lord at the House of Prayer in Henderson; And how we were blessed and ministered to as we met together at the Crafts on our first day but it would take too long.  God is moving in Vegas even if with the natural eye you don’t always see it. Terra Nova Ministries is doing great things with the Lord in the area. I am so thankful to have been apart of sowing and of course the continuation of sowing into the work that God is doing in His land, Las Vegas Navada.

I though I had got the whole thing with being a son of God and letting Him work through me. Sometimes life gets in the way and doing this and doing that starts to take the forefront of our lives and of our minds and we don’t even see how we got there in the first place. I got a real wake up the beginning of this year while me and Annika were in California again (whats up with CA and getting hit with God’s love).  We were spending about a month there with family and friends. As I had all the normals stripped away from me and had some time to rest and be refreshed I realized that I have been working so hard to make sure that I’m good enough to receive Daddy’s love.

Wow! I didn’t even know that over time I had went from knowing I am loved and accepted in Jesus to trying to make myself worthy in my eyes before God. It really broke me down and I cried my eyes out. It was also so joyful because I felt 100% free, as God exposed that issue He healed it.  Yes that’s FREEDOM! I can tell you that feeling totally free in Jesus is the only thing that is worth living for. After I felt the freedom that the Lord released me in I don’t want to live for anything else but the presence and love of Daddy God. You know that freedom is found in the presence of Poppa.

God’s presence brings light and things that are hidden come out. If we are afraid to come to that place its because our hearts have not really been perfected in love. Because fear is holding us back and if we are afraid to be open with our Daddy; we do not really trust Him down deep and think that He will make us do something we cant handle. I think we all forget, myself included how Good God really is. We think that He is against us and not for us.

I have felt all kinds of crazy stuff and attacks since that time and experience with Daddy but I’m only going to grow stronger as I don’t give in and keep looking to His face. The Truth does not change even in my darkest night.

I plan on getting on here soon and writing some more of what God has been showing me and a recent ministry trip to Vegas. Yea!!!

God has really been showing me that it is not in how much I do that I feel satisfied and find my worth. Its in Him and me being His son that I find that satisfaction in life. Its an all to easy thing for us all to find our worth in how much we did on the house this week or how well we did at work. It can even be how much we have done for the church or God. If we feel that we have done enough then we say to ourselves we are feeling good about ourselves.

Well I believe that God is in the process of pulling that kind of mindset out of the church. Jesus wants to come back to a pure spotless bride. We cant walk in purity if we haven’t learned how to receive yet. Everything that we have as Children of God we get as a gift. If we can not find satisfaction from what Jesus has done and know that He has made us worthy to be Children of the Most High then are satisfaction in life will be as fleeting as a gust of wind. One moment it is here the next it is gone.

Daddy has good gifts for you today. Faith is knowing He does and that receiveing it is that easy. You are loved fully in Jesus the Son of God. You in Him are made sons and daughters of God.  Receive Receive Receive and Rest in His unchanging Love. It will empower you to Rise above this world.

Much Love from Daddy God!!!!

Another awesome thing coming up is the wedding. Yes, next week I will be a married man! Me and Annika making a life covenant on Sat the 14. God has been such a blessing to us (like he always is) as we have been planning everything. God has abundantly blessed us and we are almost done a very little stress wedding planning. God’s favor and grace have been all over Annika and I as we have prepared together our wedding. Not only us but those who have been working so hard to make this time an enjoyable planning experience for us.

I am so excited to give my life away not only to God but also the woman of my dreams!!! THis is such an awesome time in our lives.

One last thing, I know Ive been jumping around and all that in my writing but Im excited. I just wanted to share one last testimony for now. Over a week ago me and Annika were out walking down the street to the place that we are getting married. I saw this guy walking along with his dog. The last time I saw this guy he was hooked up to a oxygen tank and had a bunch of tubs from his nose, me and Annika had prayed for his full healing. I started talking to him telling him how good he was looking. He told me that not only did his one lung collapse (that is what we prayed for healing for him before) but he had stage three cancer. Then the last test that was done on him showed no sign of cancer whatsoever! Praise Jesus! He revealed Himself to to this guy. Praise Jesus!

Whoever is reading this I love you so much. God wants to sing over you right now and bring healing life and joy to your heart and body. OK that just came out as I was typing along. SO it must be for you from Daddy God.

I have been struggling with health things most of the year since being in Sudan. I picked up some staff infection and maybe a few other things. But I want to say God is so good and faithful. Just before heading out to OH I went to Redding CA where I went to school. Its a place of God’s presence and healing. I went to the healing rooms they had there and got prayer from everyone that would pray for me which is anyone that heard I needed healing.

Prier to this I had felt ok for a bit but then a boil started breaking out again from the staff infection. It didnt feel good at all and I was feeling pretty discouraged. I felt totally out of it by the time I made it up to redding. I was staying with one of my best friends there. Oh my I was so blessed by the prayers of faith that I recieved and all the rest I got. I came back to Tahoe two days later feeling the presence of GOd all over me. I didnt have anymore pain and the boil thing was gone or I couldnt feel it any more. It was not only my physical body that felt better but mind, emotions and spirit that were all lifted and focosed. YEA GOD!!!

He is always good. I would love continued prayer for full strenght and energy throughout my whole body. Daddy is so good and I want to pass on this story to anyone that is suffering from sickness, if its terminal or just something youve had for a while Jesus’ will is to heal you! Recieve it, get people around you that believe that and have them pray for you. God is in the buisness of healing; body soul and spirit.

Wow its been to long since I got on here. I have such a hard time blogging when Im back in the states I dont know what it is but its some kinda block that I have to get over. Ha

Right now Im sitting at my aunts and uncles in San Jose watching my grandmother and my cousins while the parent are out at some work meetings. Im excited about what God is doing and what is going on with me and my fiance…yes that is right me and Annika are now engaged and settting everything up for are wedding date which is now set as Nov 14th 2009. Yea! God has totally set things up for us and the time of waiting to move forward has left us behind.

Ive been working a good bit here lately and making money for all that. God has also been drawing my hear t to his. He keeps showing me over and over again that I dont have enough and that I need to stir up my hunger for him over and over again.

I hope to get  on here and write some cool testimonies of things God has done since I was here…soooon