hello, my name is hannah.

hello, my name is hannah.
if you are reading this, you probably know that already :].

it's a bit curious to me that i am sitting at a computer creating a website about myself.  and yet, this is the way things seem to work nowadays...

i hope to get away from the way things seem to work nowadays...

God is timeless and i hope to join in his work, even today...

in a world so void of love i believe in making radically different life decisions as a means of following Jesus truly...

I am not the humblest of people, which is one reason why i am hesitant to begin writing a blog about myself (perhaps a very good reason!).

yet, perhaps you are curious to share in my journey~

let me tell you some things about myself.  listen while i tell me some things about myself?  here:

i desire to nurture a life less reliant on the internet and more reliant on prayer.
i desire brokenness in the absolution of pride.
i am often very unsure as to the nature of this whole life thing,
all of my hope is in Jesus.
i believe that me growing into Jesus is equivalent to me loving you,
my whole world is shaking, and as I fall off of it and into him, he teaches me love.
i am lonely,
i am learning how to draw from the lover of my soul, how to draw close to the lover of my soul.
one day, he will be every tear i cry and every laugh i laugh; now, he is all of the good ones.

i want deeply to offer myself to you, to the world, as Jesus calls me to.  not just because it is best for me, but because i believe - i subject myself to God in building one beautiful body, one beautiful soul out of a frayed world; i will continue to become a part of it, until he draws me into all of its fullness, all of his fullness, for he is the head, from which flows all of the body, out like a river.

oh!  but life isn't that poetic, day to day.  at least, i have not yet discovered it to be *crosses fingers*


for now, God has given me such exciting news!  i have been praying for him to lead me to a job, a place where i can serve him best, and he has been so very faithful.

i'll be working at camp firwood this summer, as a girl's counselor. <3.  which means that i will be loving on children all summer long, giving to them and receiving from them and learning to speak to them in the fullness of God's truth.  i will be brought into a great team of people, and we will spur one another towards Christ, and towards a powerful witness to the most precious and precarious of peoples: children.  only "such as these" shall enter the kingdom of heaven, after all, and i know that Jesus is about to give me the greatest gift:  teaching me further how to be as one who is most vulnerable to him, those whom the kingdom of heaven is for.  please pray for me as i launch into this experience, beginning only 9 days from now.  though i will be having loads of fun, there is no greater responsibility than the life of a child, if only for one week at a time.

because firwood is more of a ministry than a money-maker, i've been asked to raise extra support for the summer that i am dedicating there ~ to make up for some of the money i may have been able to make in a better paying job.  (firwood is contributing just over $1,000 for the summer)...

which leads me to the next place that Jesus has led me ~ to spend a year with Mission Year!
i will be starting Mission Year on August 31st, in either Houston, Atlanta, or Philadelphia ~ only three days after I get off of work at firwood :].

i am going to Mission Year to learn more love,
more humility, more selflessness,
more kindness, more community,
more service, more sacrifice,
more communion, more prayer.
more Jesus.

i am going to give what I have received ~ and i know that Jesus has more for me than I can ever give.
i hope, more than anything, to become more intimate with him ~
because all of my love comes from Jesus.

i feel that the actions and lifestyle of Mission Year (www.missionyear.org)
are truly close to the heart of God,
and that is the only place i want to be.

to support my stay while serving with Mission Year, i need to raise $12,000.
if you would like to participate with me by contributing finances, i would be very grateful.
by contributing to my work at firwood, you would be contributing directly to Mission Year, for that is where all of my funds will be going; to cut out the middle step, you can just donate straight to Mission Year.
to donate, please visit www.missionyear.org/donate with my name: Hannah Rooth and support ID number: 12-9045.




meanwhile, i ask that you would pray for me.
the truth is, i've been feeling pretty stressed out about the money for mission year: it's kind of a lot.  and i won't have really any time at all for fundraisers, since i'll be at camp firwood this summer.
i know that God will take care of things.  and yet, i haven't fully learned it.
so, please pray that i would trust God with all of my heart and mind and soul and spirit and strength.
pray that i would be an effective witness at camp firwood: that i would demonstrate his love to the children, and to my peers.
pray that i would grow in humility and patience and wisdom.

i would like to include you in my prayer life.  please, email me.  really, do.  let us begin a correspondence, whether i know you as family or not at all, for either way, i shall be leaving soon.

email me;; though, at firwood, the best way to correspond will be real mail (the very best kind, you know :]).  starting June 17th, my address will be:
c/o Hannah Rooth
Firwood Summer Staff
4605 Cable Street
Bellingham, WA 98229




if you've stuck this whole blog out, God bless you.  wait, no.... God bless you anyway :].  if you've stuck this whole blog out, I thank you, and I thank you deeply.  i trust that we will be in touch.

in all sincerity, hope, and longing,
hannah  {{she who is coming into his grace and kindness}}