Author Archives: Melanie Kana

I am 40 years old

By | March 24, 2011

I can’t believe I am announicng this to all of you.  I have dreaded this day (march 24th) since I turned 39.  For an entire year, I stopped telling people how old I was.  I was very good at dodging the question any time someone asked me.  Admitting I was 39 sounded so old, even though I don’t feel old.  This past fall, someone (who will go unnamed) announced to a friend that this year I was having a Big birthday.  I cringed inside when she said it.  I later prayed about this asking God

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The Power of an Invitation

By | January 10, 2011

Over the last few months, Jesus has been revealing to me more and more the power in an invitation.  In November, we read the Gospel story about Simon and Andrew dropping their nets to follow Jesus.  Jesus just invited them to come with Him and they did.  The Power of an Invitation. We experienced this power at Thanksgiving when we invited many people from the community to celebrate an important American holiday with us.  People were thrilled that we thought of them to invite.  During our Thanksgiving

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Writer’s BLO(g)CK

By | December 10, 2010

As you may have noticed, I am not good at writing blogs on a regular basis. There is always something “more important” for me to do. One of the reasons for not having time is that I have never felt comfortable sharing what God is doing in my life to complete strangers. I have no control over who reads my blogs and I don’t like that. I have never really thought about,though, how much God uses what I share to touch others. The last time I was home in the States, I was the given the opportunity to share

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Converting hearts by just Being

By | November 16, 2010

Since arriving in Germany, I have seen and experienced in many, sometimes, powerful ways how God is using us as instruments to touch the hearts of the people here. Before any other missionaries arrived and even before we had a mission house, there was a lot of fear in the community around the idea of missionaries coming. People tended to keep their distance and seemed to not want to be involved in my life or that of the future missionaries. Last year with the arrival of 2 missionaries, Amanda

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I love fasting!

By | April 14, 2010

Who really says that? Not me. I am a big fan of food. I’m being introduced to lots of new food in Germany and haven’t tried any yet that I don’t like. My point is that I like food. So, how can I say I love to fast from it? Part of what we do as Lifeteen Missionaries is fast 1x week. I have to be honest. I wasn’t too excited about this when I found out that I would be doing this weekly. In the past, fasting had always given me migraine’s, stomach aches and had put me in a bad mood. But, I knew that

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daddy’s little girl

By | January 12, 2010

The last few months, God has been letting me know that He wants a more intimate relationship with me. I have been learning more and more that He wants me to be more child like. I have been praying about what this really means- to be God’s daughter. What does it really mean to be child like? It’s crazy how when we ask Him something He answers us!! So, I asked and the NEXT day He answered.  I have been praying with a book called “God’s Armor” by Mother Nadine from the Intercessor’s of the Lamb. God

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Be careful what you pray for

By | July 29, 2009

Since I arrived in Germany, I have prayed that I would get out of God’s way so he could work through me. Well, he answered my prayer though not how I imagined He would. In prayer, God was saying to me to “die to self.” I soon learned that what he meant was for me to give up my very cute apartment to live with other LifeTeen Missionaries. At 1st I was upset and disappointed at the thought of all the things I would have to give up- my independence, my privacy, my own space. I also have never had a

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