Oaks of Righteousness

This is going to be a blog of thoughts, beauty secrets and do it yourself spa treatments. It is a branch off of Youth with a Mission's Refined Beauty DTS beginning in March if you have any questions about what that is or want more information on that please email the address affiliated with this blog or post a comment.

The vision behind all of this came out of Isaiah 61:1-3
The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that the captives will be released and the prisoners will be freed. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the Lord's favor has come and with it, the the day of God's anger against their enemies. To all who mourn in Israel he will give a crown of beauty for ashes a joyous blessing instead of mourning. festive praise instead of despair. In their righteousness they will be like great oaks that the lord has planted for his own glory.

Through doing things like manicures, haircuts and makeovers we want to use outward beauty to then allow Jesus to reveal the inward beauty to these women that has been there all along but the world and all of its lies as well as our own flesh and all of its insecurity has prevented us from seeing. In essence we want to bring freedom to captives and beauty from ashes.

The part that I want to focus on today however; is where its says that "In their righteousness they will be like great oaks that the Lord has planted for his own glory."

That is what we want the women who come through our DTS to be. I spent 5 months in Thailand working with women who were being prostituted by their own choice or family pressure. Day in and day out I saw the vastness of this problem and had to constantly remind myself that every single woman mattered and I was making a difference although it all seemed hopeless.
I remembered that Youth with a Mission Pittsburgh was starting this school and knew I was called to join.

The goal is to impart this heart of serving women communicating the grace of God through the beauty he has created each of us to be. The dream the hope is to raise up a mobile forest of oaks to   display God's beauty and Glory in every place and in every way imaginable. The goal is not to have highly trained professionals making people more beautiful. The vision is that women will catch a hold of this heart this desire to be a Beautiful Oak of righteousness spreading and planting God's seed across the globe.

So it is now time for the shameless plug portion of this blog if you or anyone you know might possible be interested in a school like this send them our way either they can email or check out www.ywampittsburgh.com thanks so much and keep us in your prayers and keep reading!