Missionary Liz Gliem Talks Iris Farms - Green Room: Quarantined

[Music] everybody we're back again it's early in the morning I'm all puffy face from climbing out of bed and but I did it I did it because I have one of my good friends and I'm not just saying that Liz Liz over the years has become a great friend and not only that just a real encouragement to my life - iris and I really wanted to get her on here so you get to hear and see a piece of some of what God's doing in Mozambique that we might not always hear about but insanely powerful crazy story crazy testimony and just a real beautiful beautiful missionary that we have it's doing a fantastic work in Mozambique with Iris on our on our Pemba base and actually out but she'll get into that we are here with the amazing Liz Glen Glen gleam claim which one is it Liz lien gleam Liz gleam are you gonna give you a lot of one one-word answers Liz UVI come on girls we're gonna do this so yeah Liz how long have you been in Pemba six years now Wow yep so you're you're actually coming into like ogee status in Pemba you're there's there seems to be a threshold of like two years once people cross that they step into a new role you've definitely done that Liz and then I'm gonna I just want to share a little bit about what you do and then I'm gonna let you run girl Liz runs our iris farm and I want to say Mateusz but it's not it is uh me AZ me AZ I'm sorry was one of those M words and I don't know if you notice Liz but me AZ is very special to me because I was on the first outreach to me AZ mom something like 16 years ago and we got we there was a ride there was the first time I had rocks thrown at me and we got pushed out of there with violence when we brought the gospel there to the to the little under the side of the road there when you pull into me AZ and and to now see what's what's happening there with the church and the the Children's Center and now the farm it's just such a beautiful example of how the Lord comes and brings transformation to a city and as the gospel goes out it's spectacular so okay Liz give us a little bit of backstory yours is one of my favorite stories and actually how you ended up in Pemba and soso Valley Ella you say that and I want to encourage all of you that are watching you're not going to want to miss this you're not going to turn this off I know that we have a lot of people that are probably well known but liz is more well known in the kingdom than most people I know and I just look so so so you're not gonna want to miss a second of this but okay so tell everybody how you got to pemba back in 2012 I think it was I was living and working down in Norfolk Virginia at the time for a green house company and one of my best friends invited me to come here this lady that was speaking at her university and it turns out it was Heidi and so went with my best friend and a husband and they heard Heidi speak and yeah she was pretty crazy and I've never heard anybody talk like that or act like that or you know you know how Heidi is when she speaks at conferences you know it's really powerful so it kind of like messed with me and so a couple days later I was online trying to figure out what iris was about and everything so I just you know googled the website and one of the things that popped up was a link to the farm because I the farmer that was just getting started and being involved in agriculture that sparked interest for me so I sent an email off about the farm had no interest admissions or children or preaching the gospel or anything that I think iris is really all about right and then at the time the couple that was running the farm Jeff and I agreed they immediately replied and through a series of emails they said why don't you just come out and visit the farm and I thought that was a pretty wild invitation so I said yeah sure I would love to go see a farm in Africa so February 2013 took a month off work without spent a month with them living out in me AZ because they didn't live on base which I thought was normal I don't think people really understand how it works I thought that was really normal spend a month out there got really really impacted by it at the end of the month they sat down and had a conversation with me so would you consider you know you know maybe praying about coming more long-term you know doing a harvest school and yeah I thought okay you see that coming but I'll pray about it you know and pray about it and thought like okay you know they had shared about their daughter didn't harvest school their son Paul and you know so I prayed about it I applied you know and I came to harvest school and I just very literal person literal thinker and I thought harvest school meant like this was irises you know agriculture training school and you know it made sense to me on these books we had to read and everything cuz you know probably gonna do supernatural things in farming and so when I came to harvest school in 2013 our school 19 I had quite a surprise discovering that not everybody was this passionate about agriculture as I was most of them actually none of them had any interest in it at all so I was a little bit confused why all these people who came to harvest school without a plan no a lot of people you know come expecting to hear from God and then they go and I people were like yeah I don't really know what I'm doing here and I thought like you know exactly why I'm here the farm so that's that's kind of how the journey started so you went through harvest school thinking that it was an American cultural school I loved that that's probably who I figured out like like we like our - of being on base that it was so hey nobody's talked to me about planting seeds yet nope what did you would you say that you had like a solid walk with the Lord at this point in your life or yeah yeah I would say that I had a good foundation but the supernatural was very very new to me the Holy Spirit was very unknown to me but the basics I definitely was raised you know with those new foundations of Christianity set but but I mean Papa Romans first class it's really for Luke rollin definitely has a way of yeah putting everything in perspective very fast okay so you finished harvest school and yet because I we get asked a lot like hey how do you become a missionary with iris and there's a lot of ways but you you finish it did you go back home or did you end up staying back home just briefly the school I did finished in early December so I went back home and spent Christmas and a couple weeks in January with my family knowing that I was planning on coming back into January so it was like five or six weeks I went home after I finished school and then came back and so you started out on the farm and it was a give us a just the taste of what the farm was when you began ah the farm back in 2013 Jeff and Heidi Reed were managing it and they did a phenomenal job of pioneering it those guys are amazing Jeff and Heidi if you're watching this we love you miss you guys yeah yeah they they are two years they are yeah there are amazing people and very very instrumental in my life they're like spiritual parents to be and but anyways they they had they had built a house out there and they had so the farm is about 126 acres and so I think at that point they probably about like 55 to 60 acres and we're just kind of opening it up just getting started with the Moringa project which is I just came on to serve under them and to help specifically with the Moringa project that was the only thing that I kind of had in mind and I guess the only plan if you get a plan okay so for those I didn't know what Moringa was even I lived there it was all around me I didn't know about so just yeah just really quick tell people what maringá makhmur inga is its plant that grows naturally here in sub-saharan Africa it has super high amounts of nutrients specifically protein iron vitamin C and a whole bunch of other vitamins so it's eaten in my taco which isn't that like a very common national this year but also you can make a powder out of it which has super amounts of nutrients so we were going to get in to start producing that and and Matata another that's another Mozambican word it is well it is my favorite dish I know everybody loves the chicken in Mozambique for me you give me my top on all day long I love okay so we're doing a bunch of inside stuff I'll try to explain it's been okay so Rosalina was we my wife and I we were living in Mozambique we needed help my wife was pregnant and I was we were always looking to hire somebody bring somebody into our house you know mentor and hot and give somebody a job from the from the local village and we at that point there was a sewing program and I went down to the sewing program and I asked the the head of the this the sewing school like who's that who's the best who's the most in need and and they walked me over to Rosalina who was sitting there and and it was so great because oh man who was running the sewing school at that time that was the couple from New Zealand mmm but they they walked they walked me over and they're like yeah she's not that good it's sewing but we really think she's amazing so Rosalina who is now a full part of our family she was with with us for three years and then when we left my sister just snatched her up I know there was like a there was like a fight from other missionaries that wanted to bring her in and she's she's a part of my family I love I love that woman but she makes the best Matata in all of Mozambique and yeah I love absolutely okay so so you guys so you went out to the farm wasn't they had started this this amazing work but where where it was started to where it is today is really night and day just like pioneering anything it takes time to break ground and plow and not but but what you have done over the years is spectacular so so tell us where it is today and and what you're doing on the farm so right now we have 31 local most vegans that are employed they have work contracts we have two locations so we have the original farm and then through the music church we have another farm down along the river so we have kind of two teams loving you guys that work down by the river and then the rest work up with the original farm with us and each of those farms has a Mosin beacon general manager Mario Deena and they're phenomenal and then within that we just lifted guys into different groups I was different teams within that people that work in the marina project that working in strictly vegetables people that work in the corn beings kind of larger crops and we're producing Moringa on kind of a larger scale now so producing orders and tons instead of just knowing kilos we've gotten our export license so we've been able to export to South Africa we've gotten our organic license or USDA Organic certified and new organic certified and just this week we got lab tests back amorini sample that we submit so that we can apply the fda-approved also so but more importantly I think the farmers grout spiritually and the guys have taken ownership of it normally if it were a normal season I would be out of the five or six days a week no get up we start with prayer at 6:00 and work two to one in the afternoon but last year with the Cyclones I wasn't able to be at the farm very much and now this year through the kovat stuff and some unrest in the area I can't be there very much and the farm continued subscribe you know last year with the Cyclones kind of March April May for us that's our rainy season into harvest seasons that's our busiest time of year so that's the most unfortunate time to have to be absent you know in this year it kind of hit the exact same time frame you know and and they haven't missed a beat you know they they've done amazing are doing amazing and continue to do amazing you know I have incredible leadership I have an amazing family out there and do you know phone calls or you know Skype you know it seems weird but to have to Skype your team that's you know down the road 20 minutes but you know when you can't you can't get out there for several weeks at a time and and they know they know without without having to you know even be told they're telling me hey you forgot to mention this you forgot this but we did this you know and so they harvest it you know they did the whole point crop you know they did the whole sesame seed crop they have transplanted all the lettuce for this year they've gotten the tomatoes started so to really realize that I can I can totally not not be there and have very little input and to see it thriving you know on days that I do get to go out there you know we we we sit and we chat and we pray together and they said mano this week we like having you here but we don't really need you and that's the truth and that's probably as a mish one of the most honoring things that you can hear is we really love your presence but we don't need it you know least one of the things that I noticed on my last visit out to the farm and I actually wanted to pick your brain on this is you carry a level of discipleship that I don't you don't really see without you know massive training and you know people that have studied discipleship and you yeah you carry it more than most can you just walk us through like did you did you study this or did you or is this just natural for you because oh just tell me about that like how do you go from being a you said Virginia yeah starting at you know wanting to get into agriculture to now running a insanely beautiful discipleship program on top of a full-time farm I think that I have never done any ministry training aside from high school and I I don't know I've never done a discipleship course or training but for me I just tried to model what I saw my dad always doing you know as a kid and what I saw my grandpa thing and for them you know you know my dad always said if you wanted to hear man's heart you know give him something to do with his hands and I just I think you naturally have these conversations especially something about physical labor just brings out and brings up conversations you know there's something about having blisters on your hands going through a long day in the Sun and and you kind of build just a bond with people and so from that you know we were already having real conversations I didn't know any Portuguese ER and McCune when I came there and so that was a little bit of a a little bit of a hurdle but you know as we worked through it I thought you know let's just take the couple words and phrases that we know and so it just started with me having a conversation with my farm manager hearing his heart and then those conversations kind of picked up and I thought well let's just read the Bible together and talk about it and so we started doing that and and then you know after I read for several months and kind of stumbled through some things you know had my farm manager Mario you know he would do it and I think my heart was always that I might give them some sort of a rough example that they could kind of follow so I think the best way to learn something is to you to do it yourself you know and like teaching somebody to drive a tractor it doesn't do any good if I sit on the tractor the entire time and tell you everything you know until you feel it in your hands it doesn't click and so we just started saying you know who wants to wants to share next week you know it's real simple you you read a verse you know we can sit down with you and you talk about it and maybe and then you pray about it and and sure and we just kind of went from there and the confidence just started growing and you know I think some of the most amazing insights and profound teachings that I've ever heard have come come on the farm so it just kind of grew from there and so we have a little discipleship team and we meet together and then each guy knows usually gets one one day out of the months and they preparing we go from there so it's just kind of how it grew Wow talk to us a little bit if you feel comfortable your family and okay can we come eat because I think as I as I hear this testimonies of course your your story and coming to pemba and your harvest school experience but then what what's gone on in your in your personal life with your family I got I've been able to meet your sister who is equally spectacular but there's a whole story in that night and I and if you feel comfortable I would love for you to share a little bit of that because I think people are really good at making excuses on why they can't why they shouldn't why they're unable to or the things that life is thrown at them that disqualifies them and every time I see you I just see the opposite I mean if I'd gone through half of what you've gone through I would be in a corner you know getting inner healing 24 hours a day but but yeah would you mind sharing a little bit of your of your history sure sure um I was very fortunate to be born into an amazing family my mom and dad were both Christians who really really loved Jesus passionately so my younger sister was four years younger than me Hillary and I think the first 10 years of life were pretty just normal and wonderful and fantastic and my dad was a carpenter and he build houses my mom was a primary school teacher and me and my sister you know my dad built the house we lived in her life was really beautiful went to church on Sundays and Wednesday nights and I didn't know it then but my parents just they modeled such an amazing example of Jesus and then my mom got sick when I was 10 she had a brain tumor and fought about it with cancer that she lost after two years and so then when I was 12 she passed away and yeah that kind of scent sent things into a bit of a tough stretch tough season my dad struggled a lot after that and yeah we we had some tough years I was in my teen years I wasn't wasn't very happy with god I wasn't very happy with anybody really so I saw my dad struggling and for me he was really my hero you know he was at the time I was a little Superman you know and seeing how loyal him and my mom were to the Lord and then seeing how things just went downhill and you know financially the outfall from that and forcing us to move and just a whole bunch of changes and just saying like this is what my parents get for loving Jesus with all their hearts no this is a pretty pretty crappy deal it's what I saw no and so I'm going through high school and you know I didn't didn't get into a lot of trouble but I definitely kept guarded a far distance and I think my dad did - you know he was he was really hurting and pretty distant during that time - so I went into college and I know the time I started going to college my dad just got he just radically encountered Jesus in a way that I never knew was possible you know just so much healing begin to come back into him and he just became alive again I just remember one time coming home from college my freshman year his eyes were different you know he was just full of love and I don't even know that I'd ever seen him that happy you know even before mom got sick and so we started having conversations and things and that seeing him come back to life was what brought me back to Jesus and wanting more you know I'm just back foot but what's worn so he became instrumental and just we grew really close and from having a very broken relationship by the time I graduated college he was my best friend you know and just speaking into my life and so he actually was the first person to begin speaking missions into my life at a time when I was not interested at all so I enjoyed University moved down to Norfolk Virginia took this job and you know a couple years later and here Heidi speak and so this this thing pops up and and my dad just will not let it go you know he's just praying into it and just encouraging it you know and so after I think was about halfway through harvest school I emailed him and said dad like this is it I mean this is where I'm gonna give my life I just know and he was 100% behind me and said absolutely looks like go for it I 100% support you and yes and so he he wanted to come see you know I wanted to show me farm and so he had said you know when you go back in January I want to come for come for a month and just be out on the farm work with you see it you know and for me that was like there's nothing I wanted more than for him to come and see you know where I was going to be and launch into you so so he came and so this was this was 2014 yeah and came into January supposed to be there to the end of February and first week you know we were on the farm and it was amazing you know an incredible incredible time together in conversations and then at the end of the first week he suddenly he suddenly died we were it was a Sunday afternoon and we had gone to church from there on the beach hanging out just getting to be late in the afternoon and I remember going for a walk trying to find them and it came up and he was he was just dead right on the beach I don't I mean I don't know I'll never know and that doesn't doesn't matter you know whether whether we have answers we feel were justified to or not doesn't bring us any peace you know Jesus brings us peace but anyways that was a fairly traumatic experience and that kind of for me at the time was like I'm done you know I'm ready I'm done with this no this is this is it like like I watched mom and dad you know love Jesus with all their hearts and then boom it all fell apart tragically and then watch dad come back through this you know beautiful time of healing and you know decided that I wanted to give Jesus my whole heart had that you know all the goosebumps feels and all them continually words that you get in harvest school that make you feel all happy about your destinies and everything and then everything you see in front of you is the exact opposite of it so he passed away here and we we buried him here so that was week one of being a missionary and I left we're back to States I actually I did not know that you buried your father in Pemba can I ask where yeah yeah the up by the provincial hospital there's a cemetery and that overlooks the bay yep yeah and actually our farm workers our farm workers did the the whole funeral you know I didn't I didn't know them at the time but even now a couple of weeks ago I had somebody come up to me and say oh yeah I hope bury your dad you know and just forging relationships with people I didn't know at the time that six years later as you get to know them they were there you know you have it and that's been it's been really beautiful so it's you know it's life here and unfortunately we've buried a lot of family members of our farm workers together but it's you know there's a there's a depth to the connection because you know they've been there and and they know no weeds out yeah I know that i know that i know that graveyard well unfortunately i we've heard more a couple of people over the years there but baby lori i don't know if you ever heard this story of baby lori well from emmalin you must have yes and we we buried her there Liz how did you like just walk me through this because most people would have gotten on a plane and flew home and called it quits my sister emmalin after she buried lori and my sister raised lori from two weeks and no I'm sorry a month and a half old I watched her face that same thing like I'm done I mean but even more so with your father how did you like most people would leave most people would be justified in leaving why did you stay like what what caused you to stay well I want to be real artist when I am pleased that home to you know be with my family and do the memorial service in the States I I had no intention of coming back I don't want to activation I was you know okay with coming back from that moment you know I was pretty bitter and I was really angry at God so when I got on that plane with my sister you know to fly home you know there was there was no thought of coming back so and my dad passed away in February and the rest of 2014 was pretty miserable there's a lot of challenges that unfolded after he passed away and I just went back to work you know I went back to what I knew so and I was pretty angry yeah hmm went back down to Virginia at the time we were trying to sell our house in Ohio so that summer I would drive up several times on the weekend and you know help my family clean out you know dad had lunch he was had a construction business a bunch of tools and stuff so you know trying to do that and sell off that part of the business and sell off the house and stuff you know I want to say that my family was incredibly supportive during that time with me and but there was no there was no thought in my heart about going back there was no intention in anything and that you know and I was pretty broken and miserable you know I think if you asked people I was around during that time they'd probably tell you I was kind of a jerk and that would be justified in saying that you know I've never seen that in you but okay I'll just take your word for it yeah so I went through I went through 2014 and my goal of 2014 was was to sell sell our house and to just wrap up the estate in the business and to make sure that my sister was taken care of and that we got things settled there was a long drawn-out big drama with the life insurance they thought that I had faked the life insurance claim because all that you know he passed away ever sees and I'm just thinking it's not on top season all that stuff so that was a huge huge issue too I just wanted to get through that and just go back to work yeah yeah I was bitter I was angry so and then Jesus encountered me and it wasn't it wasn't a lay on the floor harvestable moment it wasn't the tears in my eyes holy man in a white robe in a dream yeah it was it was oh it was just a whisper and a simple of knowing in the depth of my bones that I was to go back in when you know you know and it's not gonna probably always feel good that was the last place I wanted to go but the only thing worse than hurting is you know knowing that you're not being obedient to what God's saying and I knew that if Jesus was gonna take me back he was at least gonna go with me and so that had to be enough so at the end of 2014 I went back and yeah I loved that the whisper from Jesus it had to be enough and I love that it for most people they they say it'll be enough but when it when they reach that point it doesn't always end up being enough and I just I think that's what separates you from a lot of people that I've met Liz and you know I love your honesty because you know you say it was the worst I'd quit you know in your heart but that whisper called you back and I'm so grateful for that we all are I mean we you know we cheer you on as do so many people around the world I know you have a private Instagram account but I feel like people should check it out it's uh if I'm gonna say it and you don't have to accept him if you don't want to or do you know ami still it's my favorite okay you have you have my fav like out of all the missionaries there's a lot of great ones but you have probably one of my favorites for one reason number one the the stuff you post is fantastic but you are a proficient Viper Slayer and on Facebook and on Instagram if you follow Liz and it's uh I think it's Liz glim dot nine I think something like that yeah gosh I'm good yeah you can you can follow her and see the farm but my favorite is this this Viper killing yeah person that you've become my favorite is you got one with a with a like a spike through its head it was like Satan get behind me or like say News News you know and it's just a spike through its head and you deal with all the stuff that you have lions that come that come through there the farm right you have like vipers wait I know be easy had Lions like 15 16 years ago and I know there's talk of them being around the area I've never seen one but we have crocodiles and we have we have all the snakes we have Boas you know we have pythons puff adders black mambas fitting cobras sound and you encounter these things on a continual basis oh weakly yeah well not the crocodiles but the snakes yeah an amazing lady from Ohio become a proficient Mamba spitting cobra pit viper Slayer I mean I I was scared of snakes going up but it's like anything else I think here and in pen but you get confronted with your worst fears and you can either you know kill them or you can live in fear so you know just kill it move on so you gotta check out Liz's Instagram and her and her Facebook if if she'll let you I she hates the fact that I even mentioned that but it's okay it's my show so just a couple more minutes if you don't mind because I know it's really late in Pemba right now and I want to let you get back to whatever you're doing you have had a on our side back in reading here we deal with sending containers we deal you know with a lot of stuff we stay in contact with you guys and one of the things that I've enjoyed watching is there's like a group of farmers from Ohio or from Minnesota or something like that that is just basically adopted you I think there's one or two in particular and you get the most beautiful letters like in requests you basically have a group of I think like I think a little bit older gentleman farmers that have lived their whole life farming that they pulled together finance they get together like tractors and supplies and we stick them in containers and get them out to you I'm talking about this community back in the states that's like just kind of taking you on they're like okay you're ours now well I just want to say that community I mean they've they've been a part of my life since I was you know five or six years old I grew up with them and I grew up in a small town in you know central Ohio based around agriculture and so the the gentleman that you're going to you know Donnelly and the other guys in the local community that's how we live like you know taking care of each other so I grew up baling hay for them you know I grew up crashing their tractors I remember one time totally backing it into the grain bin I grew up cutting grass you know grew up doing FFA and 4-h with them so these these I guess you could say where my people before before it that was like a thing and that's just that's just how agriculture communities are that's how small town is you know but something really beautiful that I didn't learn till recently Don in particular who's been you know just a huge part of my life and kind of my adopted father him his grandkids and I we went through school together and just yeah I've known the family forever but the night before my dad was flying to Africa to come to pemba with me you know Don stopped by to see him late at night and my dad was trying to you know get some things wrapped up and my dad just you know had this sudden thought like no if anything ever happens to me will you promise to look after my girls and and likewise you know if anything happens to you I promise to to look after your kids and they just kind of had this like moment and they said they spoke it between one another but they didn't tell anybody about it and so I think that was just kind of an understanding that they'd had that just they gave a verbal commitment to and Don has fully stepped into that and so you know the farming community is probably one of the strongest and closest knit communities in the States you know and I think worldwide really so when Dawn reaches out for a to bottom plow you know people from you know Illinois and Nebraska start sending stuff and people back home are they're hard workers and anything they can do to send you tools that they know will help you you know get the job done that's their love language their love language is just cheering you on and getting you the tools you need to get the job done and I yeah and the group in Minnesota you know same thing same mindset same heart they have the piece of the puzzle that has the containers and has the ability to send them here know and so that's just been a beautiful beautiful partnership let's chat about those guys really quick because they've been a huge part of what we're doing not just in feeding but also getting equipment out and we do our best not to just get by with equipment we do our best to get you the the best stuff and I know Sean or Koli on this side the CE o of iris global he's got that farm bug in all the tractor well I don't have that I can maybe swing a hammer if I need to but I grew up in Gloucester so I can out fish you guys but I don't know anything about playing today they do our we do our best to work with matter and I just want to give a shout out to matter in Minnesota those guys they pack containers full of food full of supplies and they just send them out yeah it takes a little bit to get there but such an amazing ministry out in Minnesota a matter is watching we just love you guys and mm-hm and the fruit of what you've done is beyond what you what you can even imagine so yeah yeah so so Liz I just got one or two more questions before I let you go you see a lot of people come you see a lot of people go you see a lot of people that want to come that don't or create excuses what would you speak like if you were to get if there's somebody watching this right now maybe small town farming town whatever just they come from the middle nowhere they're not a part this like you know supernatural church movement you know fully plugged in but they feel the call of the Lord what would you say to them I say to them once the world you know opens back up for Chavo I would say I apply it take a trip let's say make make a trip you know I think one of the most under appreciated or underestimated things on the mission field are really practical hard-working people I think a lot of times we praise you know they're really gifted evangelists and we praise the really anointed teachers and those people have their places 100% you know but when you want it go speak and your Land Rover won't start and the 220 blows a fuse you need practical people here you know what I mean and I just one of my heroes was Ed Palma you know and I think he set an example that I just to this day admire you know so much and I always remember him and it was just he did it quietly and he did it humbly and they did it with excellence and I you can never you can never have enough Ed's you know and those people live the gospel in a way that people here still talk about you know I hear people talk about Ed and Rosa almost daily in the impact they had and so I think a lot of times you know maybe if you are from a small town in hard work and this type of practical skills you might think well you know I don't know about raising the dead or you know all those miracles or stuff like that but you probably one of the most well equipped people out there you know I love that and it's so it's so true you know in Lucy and I were missionaries my dad's my dad worked with his hands you know I grew up working I grow I got a job at 14 the thing that carried me through yes was my passion and zeal for the Lord but it was get up get stuff done uh we were sharing in our online missions class yeah today or the day before love the Lord God with all your heart with all your mind with all your soul and all of your strength and that's a fact physical thing that's a physical word it's not spiritual strength and and Rollins said it best I think he said when your head hits the pillow at the end of the night did you pour out everything did you did you give him everything during that day and and I I love I love that you can't always say it right because you don't want to hurt people's feelings but the reality is he sends out workers I got the harvest yeah you know I don't the harvest field is something that is well you know it's planted it's plowed it's watered it's it's taken care of it's monitored its prayed over and then and then it comes to harvest time and that and that is non-stop work and I just this is a works gospel and I mean that in the sense that we don't gain grace or favor or love by the work that we do but Jesus calls us to do work for the harvest field he sent people out he said go and prepare away like that's not just sitting and praying that's that's going plowing you know digging spending time with people and and I just think you model that so beautifully Liz Liz if people want to connect with you first of all I'm not supposed to do this but if you want to connect with Liz if you want to support what she's doing if you want to support the iris farm project I'm I get yelled at for doing this but it's okay because I want you to do that if you can go to our I recite Irish global org there's there's some information there on the farm if you feel led to to to be a part of it there's some information on there and and I believe there's even a tab for you Liz if the people want to support you personally what most people don't know is that most all of our missionaries around the globe and I know Liz's in Pemba they're there running on a shoestring and it I know that as you listen to this and as you hear let's share some of you can't go but you can surely get behind some of these that are and so if you're a farmer and you want to connect connect if you're a mom and you want to connect connect just there's some information on a website you can reach out to her personally I told you her Instagram I think there's Facebook as well Liz glam GL e/m and you can you know potato potato they'll figure it out Liz hey and yeah you can you can come and run alongside Liz I Liz you know I I don't do that I really don't not supposed to but I don't care I'll break a couple of rules for you girl you're spectacular so Liz how long have you been married oh okay so what you just volunteered is that you're single is that is all you just decided to tell me and listen so there's a there's Instagram all that stuff you just shared that I didn't feel comfortable sharing it I I must have misunderstood I'm sorry you must been talking about the Lord when you shared that like hey I'm married so I I misunderstood so great and anything else you guys anything on your heart anything on my heart I'm just I'm just beyond thankful that I get to do what I do and be where I am right now I can't think of anywhere else I would rather be honest when my wife went out to Central Mozambique during the during the floods or during the I want to say hurricane cuz I'm from Massachusetts and that's what we had but this cyclone she knew you a little bit knew about you but just fell in love with with you and in with Kelly your you both of you I know you're really close Kelly's our pilot you guys model something that puts most people just to shave on a good day you model love passion for the Lord hunger for the gospel discipleship and you're out there just kicking butt choppin snakes off heads off snakes and just loving the Lord with all your heart we need more people like you Liz and I know you don't like yeah I know you don't like being in the spotlight it took me a long time just to get you on here but I'm so grateful I want the world to see of course what we're doing with Heidi and rollin I get the spotlight just because I'm loud but but when I meet our missionaries when I get to spend time and for years I've known you and run with you you guys are the true face and the hands and feet of Jesus on the ground with the poor the sick and the needy and and I'm so grateful just take this moment to share you with with the world and you know Liz Liz is gonna be sharing at our online missions school and by the time this gets out you probably already have shared but if you want to listen to that just shoot us an email at iris global and I will try to get that session up so people get to hear hear the preach come out of YouTube because you carry it just a powerful message Liz thank you so much thank you well yeah you're awesome you're you're one of our heroes and yeah we're we're so grateful to be running alongside of you and just be back here from the state's cheering you on the time that I get to come over and hang out it's it's just the best so yeah yes love you Liz hey can you do one thing before you close would you mind just praying for people that are that hurt her but you said maybe the processing some stuff like hey I lost a lot of people or and I want to go but I haven't you know will you just will you just pray for those who are watching that Jesus would speak to them the same way maybe that he spoken that still small voice yeah Heavenly Father we come before you tonight let me just thank you for your love and we thank you for your sacrifice and Jesus on the cross and well I just ask that for those that have suffered loss or have gone to tragedy or trauma or anything of that sort people that have things that have really pride them lord I pray that you would come and meet them in the whisper the way that you the way that you come in the way that you meet and father I pray that you would move in the hearts of those that that have doubts father I'm afraid that you would bring the peace of your love and your joy deep within them if I lie thank you but you are always present with us and we thank you that you are a piece and every storm I always thank you that answers don't need to be found or had before we can say yes and step out so I just ask that you would meet each of those people better in this place right now we love you and give you all the glory amen amen lose your awesome girl we love you massive my wife says hi and I'm and yeah we'll talk later okay thanks yeah bless you Liz and bless you guys thank you for watching this has been just a really special episode for me getting to share some of our team on the ground in Mozambique there's hundreds over 400 just like you Liz that are plugging away in iris right now around the globe 80 locations I'm gonna do my best to share some more of their stories over over this next coming season and and I want to ask you if it bless you in youtube just put a comment below let people know let let Liz know what you think and and share this you know we do this because we love you guys we want to get as much of the beauty of the gospel and this beautiful you know body of Christ brothers and sisters in the Lord out there to encourage you and and and if this did bless you share it share it with somebody and we will see you on the next I yeah quarantine edition love you guys bless you we'll talk to you later you

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Length: 51min 3sec (3063 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 12 2020