The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. (Isaiah 61:1)
December 24, 2010
Dear Supporters,
In the beginning of the year of 2010, my home church, New Philadelphia, established that this would be the year of epic faith. Since then, I’ve never heard this word being used so much. Epic this and epic that. As for myself, I couldn’t grasp the idea of this word that our church was envisioning. It was a difficult concept for me because all my life, I’ve lived a spectacularly un-epic life. In fact, my life could be described as quite normal and unworthy of a full feature film on the big screen. Therefore, in a sense, I just tagged along for the ride on this year of ‘epic faith’. I was there for the life-changing conferences. I was present when our church committed to its first church plant. I was at church when the summer mission teams testified of seeing over 100 physical healings. I even participated in that insane 21-day fast. I was there for nearly all of it, yet I still couldn’t wrap my head around this idea. My mind and body were committed, but my heart couldn’t connect with it until the latter half of the year. It seemed quite late into the game, but in September, things took a turn.
This past month of September, my earthly father decided to pull an interesting move on me. For the first time in my life, he told me that he acknowledged me as an adult and that I was to make my own decisions. It was his own way of saying that he trusts me. He gave me a green light. Immediately after, our heavenly father pulled a fast one on me too. He dared me. He dared me to dream big, which is something I never dared to do because in truth, I didn’t know that I was allowed to. Deeper than that, I realized that it boiled down to fear. With that, God gave me a car so that I may go past the green light. The moment I turned the ignition, the fear of dreaming big was driven out. Then, with the push of the accelerator, came the epic faith to dream big. My spirit was finally able to catch the vision my church has been pursuing this entire year. Now, in the same pursuit, I’ve been led to go on missions to a city called Baguio in the Philippines. Along with a team of 13 others, we’ll be in Baguio from January 30th – February 6th to tear down some walls!
As most of you may already know, Philippines, along with many other Southeast Asian countries, is a land ridden with poverty and human trafficking. It angers me how Satan has taken strongholds over this country in these ways. I believe it’s the call of every one of God’s people to bring His freedom to the enslaved. Whether it be those enslaved to poverty, greed, laziness, lust, or even to other people. Freedom is for everyone! So, I ask you to join me in this mission to not only set the captives of this nation free, but to keep them free through warring prayers as well as financial giving. Each of my team members and I must raise 700,000W in order to make this trip possible. There is a support form attached to this letter for you to help in either or both of these ways. I pray that you all join me in this fight to bring down the enemy’s walls and bring in God’s Kingdom to the Philippines! Thank you!
Yours truly,
Semy Lee
vtsemy@gmail.com l 010.7208.8652