His Little Feet

I have been debating back and forth whether or not I should try catching you up to everything that happened at Ellerslie or if I should share what has been going on in the life of a servant of the Most High. I don't know how eloquently I will be able to share all my thoughts and the happenings that have been orchestrated by God but I shall try my best...but just in case beware. :)

So, here is a little update into my life as of right now. Ready? Around the last 2 weeks of Ellerslie the Lord had been putting on my heart to seriously consider doing the EALT Ellerslie Advanced Leadership Training. I started to pray "not my will but yours Lord."

Now lets go back to the very beginning....all the way back to the Set Apart Girl Conference...Eric and Leslie showed a video about His Little Feet during the conference. I also clearly remember the message Danita (Founder of Danita's Children an orphanage in Haiti) gave. Well, once I saw the His Little Feet video my heart cried out and said, "Lord, I want to be apart of something like that! Something that will touch the little lives for you. To be an advocate for the Orphan!"



And then Danita spoke about...Absolute surrender.

Luke 18:18-22~
"And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.

Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me."

Luke14:27, 33~

"Whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 33So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple."

Romans 11:29~
"For God's gifts and his call are irrevocable."

She was talking about how the Lord will call you into a season of solitude and sacrifice. Just the Lord and Me. The pursuit of Holiness~the pursuit of Christ~the pursuit of a Set Apart life. A life with no trifling. Trusting in Him and ONLY Him. Then next comes a poured out life...He will lead me into a season of serving. She talked about how promotion comes from God. "What am I willing to walk away from?" has been a question that He has continually brought before me, not only through Danita but through others as well as His word and His still small (yet Thundering) voice.

John 20:21~
"Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you."

She mentioned that the Lord will call me, He will give me an opportunity. I need to be in tune with Christ.

Okay, come back to the 2nd to last week at Ellerslie. I felt the Lord leading me to take steps into the EALT program. He had given me many, many confirmations, great and small. So, I did. In faith. They had a questionnaire thing to fill out listing all the classes and opportunities that you might be interested in serving in during the weeks. One was His Little Feet.

Okay, here comes another story...
About halfway through Ellerslie. I can't give you an exact date but it was around the half point somewhere...give or take. I felt the Lord giving me an ever increasing desire to work with His Little Feet. I felt Him leading me, saying this is an opportunity that I have made for you. I felt like I should tell somebody. Anybody. So, they would know. Know that I felt like He wanted my to work with His Little Feet. But He restrained me. I couldn't tell anyone! He wouldn't let me. "How will I be able to work for them if they don't even know I feel like this is what you want me to do Lord?! They don't even know I feel drawn...let alone called!" And you know what His answer was. "Pray. Trust. Surrender. You will know that it is My Will because you won't have anything to do with it. I will orchestrate it. You won't be able to take any credit when it comes about and you will know without a shadow of a doubt that it is My Will. Not in your might nor power but in the Power of the Most High! So, I prayed, I surrendered, and I didn't say a word. {that is a hard thing to do.}

Back again. I put a check mark next to the His Little Feet column. I felt a peace. Yes, I could check the box. "Lord, your will be done on earth (in this earthen vessel) as it is in heaven." The Next Step was that Mike and Christa called a meeting. To let everyone who showed interest what His Little Feet was about and what they are doing and how we could help. They gave us an application to fill out. They needed 4 young ladies, two young men, and a married couple to become staff interns and to travel with them and the children while they are on tour singing in churches. I called my parents. I prayed. I filled out the application {which was quite long}. I surrendered it all to Him. and I felt His surpassing peace overflowing me! They said our applications needed to be in by Monday that was two days after the meeting and then by Thursday we would know their decision. Thursday came and went. No answer. Just an e-mail saying that they are still praying about it. Tuesday comes and during class Sandi hands me a little tiny note written on a little note book paper. Meeting at Mike and Christa's house. 4:15-6:30. Ask James for a ride. Gasp. What does it mean? At 4:15 two guys named James and Aaron and three girls named Rachel, Carrie, and Brooke meet at James' car. We head over to Mike and Christa's house. Then reality sinks in. We were chosen!

So, to make a really long story a bit shorter. The Lord has led me on an entirely different path then I thought I would be on right now.

I am now an Ellerslie Advanced Leadership student studying Orphan Advocacy. And I am also an Auntie to 16-18 adorable orphans that are coming over from Danita's Children in Haiti. I will be a staff intern for His Little Feet for a year. One year. Who would have ever thought!? I will be doing all the classes but at the same time I will be on the road traveling on tour with the children.

He is teaching me yet more and more of the meaning of surrender.

Surrender. Don't tell anyone.
Surrender. Even if you aren't picked.
Surrender. Your photography business.
Surrender. Your piano students.
Surrender. Your job at the studio.
Surrender. All your jobs
Surrender. Your means of making money
Surrender. Your car
Surrender. My finances.
Surrender. My time
Surrender. My comfort (I know I will be stretched.)
Surrender.

and the list can go on and on. But, I know why He wanted me to not tell anyone. Because then He could lovingly and gently show me that He is in control and even if my circumstances may look bleak HE IS IN CONTROL.

It is funny as I look back (with hindsight) how He has been preparing me for such a time as this. Not only have I been working with children and teaching them for years. Not only have I gone to orphanages. Not only am I the oldest of 5 kids. I have been doing worship dance for 15 years and teaching for several. I have started my own groups and choreographed many dances. Not only that but He has given my the gift of photography Matthew 10:8~ " freely ye have received, freely give." Not only that He has given me musical talents. I desire to work with Orphans. To be a light in the light. And so so much more.

To add to that I see how He brought me through a season of solitude and sacrifice. Way before I even came to Ellerslie. He was pruning me cutting the things that did not glorify Him nor reflect Him at the roots. I fell on Him. Then Ellerslie was just an even deeper time of Him and Me. Him strengthening me so I could pour myself out. A time where I was in pursuit of Him and Him alone. Of His righteousness, of His Holiness, of Jesus Christ. Galatians 2:20. And know He is taking me...not by my promotion but His!...and I am pouring myself out in a season of serving. I think about the question that Danita had said, "What am I willing to walk away from?" I look at everything I am walking away from. I seems like everything. But I see also what He is giving me. A beautiful opportunity. I know it will be hard. You would think I would almost know the meaning of surrender by now. Not quite. : )

James 1:27 "Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit the orphan and widow in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world."

So, that is the abbreviated summation of what has been happening in the life of Brooke Rachelle Berberich. :D

The children will be coming at the latest by September 15th and I will have to be up in Windsor by the 13th. So, much to do so little time to do it it seems.

His Little Feet WEB SITE

Here are some pictures of the sweet children whom I will soon be "Auntie" to!

Serving Him With You,
Brooke