IN BRITTANY'S OWN WORDS

Brittany wrote the following from Europe and it was posted on the Royal Servants web site. There are no words to describe it.

By Brittany R.

When I look back on how God has molded and shaped my life, I feel like I haven't just been with Royal Servants for three weeks. I feel like I have been living my whole life through Royal Servants. Now me, and you the reader, both know that that's not true. But as I dwell on the past few weeks, I see a woman of God daily becoming more and more humble in Christ. Granted, I am writing this in a peaceful atmosphere listening to the ongoing church bells in the Czech Republic. But this is not the reason for the humility of stronger faith. Take an inward walk with me, and I'll show you what I am portraying to...

The minute that I stepped onto the plane to Chicago, Illinois was perhaps the most difficult minute of my life. Or at least so far the most difficult minute within my eighteen years of living. It wasn't a question of if this trip was right for [me], because it was! It was a question of, "Am I ready to allow God to stretch me farther than I've ever been stretched?" I found out not a week later that I was. Throughout the past few weeks I have grown patience beyond my understanding. I have found that it is actually okay to not be perfect physically, mentally, emotionally and especially spiritually! And adding to that, I have actually grasped what a woman in today's society should actually look like! A strong, spiritual, God-willed woman is more valued that a gorgeous, skinny model always on the cover of a magazine!

My Father has placed value in my life! He has shattered the walls of jealousy, anger, and hurt that separates me from growing in Him! And I'll tell you another thing... the Lord has given me the strength to refrain from building those walls back up again!

If I had to sum up what the past three weeks has taught me, it is this. An unconditional love relationship with God is more highly valued than any earthly passion that you could ever experience. Fleshly comfort will never last as long as you want/expect it to. The Lord, my Father, knows what is the best possible for me. My God does not know how to fail. His promises are worth far more than the ends of the earth. I proclaim Christ's name on my heart. Woe to me, if I shall ever cease!

THIS IS INTERESTING

The following was posted today by Brittany's team leader. It gives us all a good understanding of what the team is doing:

Submitted by Curtis Burnam on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 16:08.

Greetings,

We have had a couple of crazy days in Prague. Yesterday the team washed all of their laundry by hand at the our camp site. In the afternoon we went into Prague to do some performances. We got through one full performance and our team went out and started talking to people in the crowd. They had some great conversations with the people. About and hour later we started another performance and immediately drew an even larger crowd. While we were performing a police car pulled up and two police men got out of their vehicle. Lets just say they were not as friendly as sheriff Andy would have been on the Andy Griffith show. They were pretty upset that we had broken the law and performed with out a permit. He said I had to pay a 1000,00 Kc fine or go to jail. I opted to pay the 1,000.00 Kc fine. After that was all taken care of our team got together and prayed for the angry police officer and decided our budget could not afford any more fines. We went to the main square and went out into the city and did surveys which our team loves to do. They spent the next 2 hours talking and sharing with people. I was really proud of them for not getting discouraged and being willing to go out and bolding share without being able to perform. They met all kinds of people from Muslims, philosphers, Athiests, Catholics, and even some Christians.

Today we have had a chance to experience the sights, sounds, and tastes of Prague. They have really enjoyed their time here. God is doing some cool things in the hearts of our students. Tomorrow we leave for Krakow, Poland and will be there for three nights. Please pray for a safe trip and that God would prepare our team for what He has next in this amazing journey we are on.

Love in Christ,
Curtis Burnam

JUST AN UPDATE

Hi to all,

Well I guess I should check my daughter's blog site more often-she was able to write to all of you!! What a blessing (I just read it myself!!). Communication is very difficult and with moving from place to place every other day I expect that it will get worse. I heard from Brittany via email on July 14th and she is doing very well. God is working in her and through her to spread His word. In her last email she said, "God has been so good and has gone above and beyond for me!"

The updates from Brittany's team are sparse due to their mobility. They are in Prague now and will move on to Poland tomorrow. I'm hoping for photos soon and will share them as they come in.

God Bless and thank you for your continued prayers for Brittany.

Julie

HELLO EVERYONE!!!

This is Brittany and i wanted to drop in really quick and say how grateful i am right now for supporting me and allowing me be here in London in an internet cafe writing to you guys! I hope that all of you are well and thank you for all of your prayers!

Brittany

TRAINING CAMP VIDEO-VERY COOL

Reign Ministries posted this youtube video yesterday. This is a great video that was taken while everyone was still at training camp in Chicago. If you look carefully, Brittany's "here and there" in the video (she's wearing a black "Man of La Mancha" t-shirt and has her hair in a pony tail). Regardless of whether you see her, this is an awesome video.

http://www.youtube.com/user/reignministries#p/c/13D78A15A1D6F9BB

BRITTANY IN LONDON

Hi to all,

From what I've heard from Brittany and the updates her team leader has sent, she is doing well. I've received three letters from her since she's been gone-all were from training camp in Chicago. The only contact I've had with her since she arrived in London is an email a couple days ago. From what she said, internet communication is hard to come by. And it's anybody's guess regarding whether she can make any calls.

They are staying/sleeping at a church called Trinity at Bowes until Thursday, July 15th. At that time the team will leave for Luxembourg. The team arrived in London on July 6th at 8 a.m. and by that night they were doing the Lord's work. They went on a prayer walk and spoke with those in the nearby community. As of July 7th the team leader said he was still looking for a place for them to take showers!! It's my guess that he found a place given that Brittany's hair in the above photo looks pretty "fresh"!

Since that time, they've managed to fit in watching the semi finals between Germany and Spain and will have a victory party tomorrow for Spain. They also have been out in the community distributing fliers for the church and praying for the town. They were scheduled to have a movie night with the town's youth group last night.

From what I can figure, the above photo is from ministry that they did at either a church or community center of some type (given the other photos of the same day).

Please keep all of them in your prayers. Also, please keep the team that went to China in your prayers as they are suffering from severe communications restrictions and aren't able to send information back to the states and their families.

To all of you who supported Brittany and continue to keep her in your prayers, thank you so much. Your prayers and financial contributions have been more wonderful than I can express. As a mother, I'm so grateful that she's been given this opportunity to spread God's word. It's been through your contributions and prayers (with a LOT OF HELP FROM GOD) that she's been able to be a missionary for our Lord and Savior.

Brittany signed thank you cards for all of you and some have been sent out. I need to get the rest in the mail, my apologies.

Until next time,

Julie

BRITTANY AT TRAINING CAMP A FEW DAYS AGO-GOOD PICTURE

Thought this was a good/fun picture to post. Brittany is in front and in the middle. They are practicing a dance that they will perform overseas.

BRITTANY'S ON HER WAY TO LONDON

Hi to all,

On July 3rd I received my first letter from Brittany and later that day my first call from her. Training camp has gone well (as of today she's at the airport boarding for London). While in training camp, her schedule was pretty tough. Up at 5:30 a.m. , a morning hike before 7:30 a.m., breakfast, meditation, team building, lunch, three to four hours of preparing for their overseas ministry, dinner, chapel, team building and in bed by 9:30 p.m.

Today is July 5th and I just got off the phone with Brittany. She's at Chicago's O'Hare airport getting ready to board the plane to London. The above photo is her team at the airport (she's way in the back and probably impossible to see-unless, of course, you are her mother!!) They are scheduled to fly out at 6 p.m. Chicago time and land in London at 8 a.m. (London time). July 7th the Euroquest team starts their ministering to those in London.

While in training camp, the Euroquest team wrote a song that has been posted on youtube. Brittany and her team are on it-take a look: TCTV Exclusive Performance: Europe Right Now (this is the name of the video on youtube).

I'll give you more updates as they occur.