A New Season for the Mission...

For this past year I, and several others, have been seeking the Lord as to His purposes in this next season for this mission house I started almost 3 years ago. Although nothing is official yet, I ask you to keep praying, as it seems a wonderful mission group will be buying the house and making it an outreach for lay missionaries who will continue the present mission of prayer on Monday evenings and street outreach weekly, and also serve in Steubenville in various ways. But it's not yet definite, so if you know of a religious community, or a lay mission group interested in buying the house, have them contact me!

Thank Father God!!!

I see that my gifting is being a fire-starter, a missionary to dark places to turn the lights on so that others can come in and carry on the work. I've done my part... and now it's my time to move on.

It seems the Lord is moving me back to California, within 6 hours of my parents, uncle, aunt and sister and cousins. I will be going out in January to check out "Oakhurst, CA" where a YWAM base is located, a good Catholic church and a small town at 3000 ft elevation near to Yosemite National Park. I ask you to please pray for me to follow His leading and wait on Him to find the right place to settle down in this next season.

He is calling me in these next years to "come away" and rest, seek His heart and grow even more solid in who I am in Christ and to walk with confidence in the Kingdom of God here on earth, as it is in heaven. I will keep you posted at: katiegesto.blogspot.com

I want to honor ALL those who have sowed into Mama Nita's Ministry in these past 3 years. It will continue to give fruit with the next mission group. The furniture and other donations will stay and remain a blessing to this city that God is transforming. The profits from selling this house will go into the All for Him fund to support missions overseas and other missionaries that I believe in along with some short term missions that God will be calling me to in the next few years. Thank you to every person who has given of their time and money and I believe God has and will continue to bless you for that!! There are so many of you!

Keep praying with us as we await the final decision of those that God desires to buy this house... How exciting to see what the new chapter of this house will bring to this city!!

God bless you!

Katie

Welcome to join our Prophetic Worskshop

ECUMENICAL PROPHETIC GIFTS WORKSHOP

October 30th- Nov 1st, 2014

Come grow in your gift of walking in the prophetic and bring a friend.
High School to Adults all welcome!

Thursday night 7 pm - 9 pm
Friday 9:30 am - 5 pm
Saturday 9:30 am - 5 pm including outreach time

401 N. 5th St., Steubenville, OH



RSVP: katiegesto@yahoo.com or 740-284-2587
Accommodation available at the mission house upon request

Please take time to sign this petition before July 4th and pass this link on!

we petition the obama administration to:
STOP the BOMBING on the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Nuba Mountains, Sudan!

A large hospital where I used to serve in Gidel, Nuba Mountains is being directly targeted by the Khartoum Government. It is the only hospital within several hundreds of miles and we used to even get Arab patients coming for help from Khartoum.

http://www.cmmb.org/supporting-mother-mercy-hospital

Despite bombing around the hospital, the foreign and local staff, many who are Americans and European nuns, have never had bombing on their compound.

This week, the tables have turned. We beseech President Obama to stop the Antenov planes that are barraging the hospital grounds daily. They are under constant attack unknown to the world. Limbs are being cut off from the shrapnel, patients are staff are at risk but persevering to still treat people amidst this hellish attack.

PLEASE HELP THEM!

To sign please go to:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-bombing-mother-mercy-hospital-nuba-mountains-sudan/2xHQ3pHd

Here's a picture of our Easter Celebration just before the hospital was built:



PRAYER POINTS:
1. Diving protection over every hospital stafff both physically and emotionally and supernatural sleep and rest amidst the tension and hard work of caring for over 300 patients.
2. Supernatural stopping of the bombing and violence in the Nuba and partiularly on the hospital.
3. Peace in both Sudan and South Sudan and for men to humble themselves before God and promote peace.

Thank you and God bless you!

You are Equipped

After 12 of us women leaders met for a morning of prayer and refreshment this morning, we are so edified by the Lord and each other today! Ages ranged from 82 to 15, 8 different churches represented, black, white, hispanic and all of us building each other up in love. Truly His oil flows when we dwell together in unity! Pastor Mary Burton sharing her heart about knowing who we are in Christ and not letting the enemy bully us. Though she and her sister in law Mama Nita just attended the funeral of a family member murdered recently, they came and shared with us despite their trials and we were all edified by one another.

While a few of us were chatting on the street corner as all were leaving, a man walked by and I asked, "Excuse me sir, we just had a wonderful morning with God. May we pray for a blessing for you?" He opened up and welcomed the prayer. I asked, "Would you like us to pray for anything in particular?" Without much hesitation he replied, "Demons. They're all around. I need to get free of them." He was an everyday man, not mentally ill, just aware that evil around is so oppressive and wanting to be free.

We of course introduced him to our Friend Jesus, explaining that when He lives inside us, no matter if the gates of Hell are around us, we are free and at peace when we trust in Him. We then prayed for this man. He made the sign of the cross after and said he was Catholic. Those are 2 new people that I've met this week who are my neighbors who will hopefully go to Church with me tomorrow and begin learning to walk again in a life of freedom.

God... YOU ARE MOVING in our CITY!

I want to urge you to reach out to people you meet everyday... talk to them....offer to pray a blessing for them in your own way. God will pray through you. Take a risk today. It may save someone's life. Stop making excuses about how you are not equip. Do you really think I am equipped to live in an inner city with the gates of hell surrounding me most days? I'm not---without Christ. And like you who follow Jesus, I AM equipped because He tells us we have: "Christ in you the hope of glory". Colossians 1:27

Later, a friend in a local feeding ministry said that this man who has been struggling with drugs, told her that we prayed with him and it really helped him. He's been going back to church with them... how beautiful that we are all called to serve in different ways and when the Body works together, it creates such a beautiful tapestry of His love. .

An Alignment is Happening...

A very Joyful Easter Season to Everyone!!

This is a season in the Church for new things—a New Springtime—an emerging of a glorious Bride that will so shine in the world that all people will run to the Light that shines from us who are so prepared as the wise Virgins were.

I had a picture of a great fishing net with people of many of different denominations holding the net--but all of us united in our passionate love for Jesus. Somehow we were standing on the water all gripping the net. Many of us didn’t know the person next to us, but we were united in this worldwide task. Then Jesus, also holding the net looked at us all. He instructed us without words, as we knew what He was saying in our hearts. We all knew:
“When I give you the nod, PULL on the net. Watch me intently. Wait for my nod.”

There was an anticipation that this would be an incredible catch and that we were not to be distracted. We had no idea how long we would have to wait there, gripping the net firmly, but we all knew one thing: Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.

Each person knew within that if they would let up their grip, allow themselves to be distracted by looking at the others holding the net, or daydreaming about even theological things, or focusing on our own strength for such a mighty task, they would becoming the weak link and the pulling of the net would not accomplish the task of a clean, full catch and fish would escape because of my weak grip.

Focus on Jesus, simply that. Looking into His eyes and waiting, watching, anticipating for something great to happen and knowing I had a part in it, along with each person holding that net.

I believe God is positioning us Christians—those who are attentive and listening for His every move and who are rending our hearts to be sensitive to His. We are being positioned around heaven’s net. We are being trained in our personal lives to hear his voice well, notice His gestures so that when the moment comes and the King of Kings nods and pulls on the net, we will immediately respond with all of our being to pull with Him and watch for a great harvest of fish into the Kingdom.

It is like the story of the virgins who had their oil ready for when the Bridegroom would arrive. Will you be among those of us who have our eyes fixed on Jesus? I am giving everything I have to be ready and to be among those holding that net, having my oil ready, asking God daily for the grace to stay faithful. Will you join us? And if you are already holding on, good on you! Decide to keep your grip strong and Holy Spirit may you strengthen our grip even more resolutely!

Steubenville Women’s Leaders Day of Prayer
May 24th , Saturday 9-12

REFRESH…RENEW…REVIVE
A time of fellowship, eating, soaking in His Presence with worship, inspirational preaching and rest.

401 N. 5th Street
Steubenville
katiegesto@yahoo.com
(740) 284-2587
The first 20 women to sign up will be registered
We hope to have these quarterly, so if you are not able to make this one, we can register you for August 9thth.
Free will offering welcomed

Franciscan University Charismatic Conference Invitation

These are exciting times to live in! We are on the verge of unprecedented outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon our Church and our Nation. And it starts in our own neighborhoods—it starts at the Kmart, the Grocery store—our workplace. This outpouring of the Holy Spirit is really an outpouring of His Presence. I believe the Jesus longs to flow out of the Eucharist to be bread for all and He does that so often through you and me. We are offered at Mass what looks like a crumb of bread, and it becomes a whole bakery where people all over the city can be blessed by His Body and Blood through us.

Jesus was moved by compassion to see with His Father’s eyes of love the lost, the broken, the sick, the rich and the poor alike. Where He walked He intentionally released His Father’s Kingdom, “Everyone who came to Him was healed” (Matt 8:16) and He commissioned us to “do greater works than these” (John 14:12).

Why do I see these times in our world’s history so exciting? A time when there are more martyrs than all of Church history? Why am I hopeful about these days when it seems the darkness is increasing and our Governments have big problems? Because Jesus lives inside of me! “Christ in you the hope of glory”! (Col 1:27) Releasing His Presence in healing, freedom from bondage, prophetic words of encouragement looks like something amazing. It is more than just living a quiet witness of the Gospel. It is intentional, it is supernatural. A small candle extraordinarily brightens up a large dark room. Similarly, you and I are called to be on the offense and run into the dark places that are around us and see Him do “infinitely more than we can ask or imagine” (Eph 3:20).

How can we as His Body, release His Presence, His Kingdom in greater measures in these exciting times? Great question. “Come and see” Jesus said. Please come to this conference firstly to PRAY FOR MORE of God in your life. It is from our intimacy with God that fruitfulness will flow. Come and hear our talks on how you can practically give healing, miracles and freedom to a hurting, broken world around you.

I will be sharing with you about my experience of praying with prostitutes, drug addicts and dealers, business owners, people on planes, along with some stories from my 7 years serving in Sudan and Mozambique where I saw the blind see, the deaf hear and the lame walk, lepers cleansed and even the almost dead raised. I do not have a “special gift of healing”—I just understand who I am in Christ and I want to impart that onto you and give you many resources to press into this when you go home! Come and be a part of this amazing conference! Be blessed!