Oceans Calling

YWAM Brisbane made its way to Toowoomba, Australia for a little something called Easter Fest. It is a lot like Michigan's Unity Fest where Christian Bands play, there are different organizations, and speakers. There were different groups like JC Epidemic, Red frogs, and YWAM taking part there as well. Brisbane's MAD school, Beach to Bush, and Sports all went out on April 2 and began a week of volunteering. whatever they needed done, we where there to help. so much goes into setting up a festival like that, its insane! Then when the festival began on the weekend we watched as youth groups, families, and more volunteers came pouring in. over the weekend we would work different shifts watching gates, helping with food, going out into the city, and also helping run YWAM's Chai tent. In the tent we had different performances throughout the day and played movies like passion of the Christ at night. We had gold coin donation Chai tea and we were able to just sit and talk to some o

Hey everyone!! It has been a long time since my last update. As you know our 6 outreach teams went out to different locations around the globe. Teams went to India, Japan and Saipan, Russia, Czech and Germany, Australia, and my team went to Peru. My team left the 12th of February and headed to Lima, Peru. We stayed in the home of a sweet family who were also hosting a YWAM conference. It was very different to go from Australia to Lima. We Stuck out a lot because we are White and dont speak spanish very well. Also the Spiritual atmosphere was really heavy. We felt a lot of tiredness and that we were not making a large impact but we fought through it. Our Main contacts in Lima had lots of things planned for us and our days were packed full. most of our team also became sick from dehidration and the food but our weaknesses alowed God to Shine brighter. We often went to parks and did skits and dances along with painting kids faces, handing out balloon animals, praying for people and tel