Oceans Calling

G'day Everybody! Exciting things are happening Here at YWAM Brisbane. The October Music, Art, and Dance Discipleship Training School Started last week. This week they have been in lectures learning about the Character and Nature of God. It is so exciting to here their revelations and the different things they are looking forward to this 6 months. I have taken on more responsibility in the Hospitality department on base and have been able to train new students in work duties and also plan a goodbye party for some staff who are leaving YWAM. Really exciting and also challenging. Soon Christmas planning will start and I am stoked! Something else I want to share with you are some plans I am making for November and December. As staff on the BLS school, I have 4 weeks of Vacation time in my 18 month commitment. I don't believe that it is the wisest choice to go back to the states for this time because plane tickets are really expensive and it would be better to save what support ...

Hello Everyone!! I wanted to send out a quick update to share about the season I am in right now. As you may have read in my previous posts, The Discipleship Training School I was staffing on finished up in August. Now I am on my logistical Phase of my Basic Leadership School, where I serve the base in a more practical way. I am on the Bases Hospitality staff right now until January. That means I am able to organize where quests and speakers stay, along with making sure they feel welcome and blessed. I also organize different things for events or times of fellowship. Here at YWAM Brisbane we live in a community with lots of people coming in and out, so making sure things are clean and well taken care of is something I can practically help with. After the school ended I came down with some pretty hard core illnesses. I had a sinus infection that wrecked my immune system and I them developed Shingles. It was confusing and didn't feel so awesome but now I am feeling better then I h...

Hello everyone, I am very excited to finally be sharing with you about our outreach to Japan, and also what is happening here on the base.   I lead a team of 7 students with two other staff members to Japan in June. We were in Japan for 7 weeks and stayed in two different locations. For the first 3 weeks we stayed in Tokyo. We worked mainly alongside a Christian school called God’s Kingdom. The kids ranged in age from about 4 to 18. We would lead worship in the morning at the school and sometimes would share our testimonies or some teaching. During the day we would have team meetings to pray for Japan, other teams, for our contacts, for the kids at the school, and other things. We would take the younger kids to parks and we would go to PE classes with the older kids. We would run activity days where we would plan games, songs, dances, and other awesome crazy things. We were also able to connect with a church and share in their Sunday service. Something amazing we saw God do...

Hello Everybody, Team Japan 2013 The last month has been amazing and very challenging. We have been working in our outreach teams a lot in order to prepare for 7 weeks overseas. With the 3 different schools running at the moment, YWAM Brisbane is sending out 9 different teams. The teams are Germany/Netherlands, Finland/Sweden, Norway, Japan, Guam/Saipan, India, Borneo, Australia, and Japan/Philippines. I am Co-leading a team with two Australians to Japan. We are a team of 10, 3 leaders and 7 students. Our team consists of Americans, Canadians, Australians, and a German. Our Team Leaves June 17 for Japan until Aug. 4. We have spent a lot of time preparing and  praying for our time there. It has been exciting to grow closer as a team and to make connections with people in Japan. We have 2 more weeks to really prepare ministry tools and sermons, and then we will head out. Our plans right now are to spend 3 and a half weeks in Tokyo, Japan and then 3 and a half weeks in Osaka, ...

Hey Everyone, I wanted to share what has been happening in my life over the last 4 weeks. Back at the end of March, all the DTS’ and many others from the Brisbane Base headed to Toowoomba for Easter Fest. For those who don’t know, the City of Toowoomba puts on this huge Christian Music Festival every year over Easter Weekend. It draws in hundreds of people for a weekend of fun and music, but is also is dedicated to sharing the Easter Message and God’s truths. YWAM supplied about 150 volunteers to help make the festival happen. The Brisbane Base was there, along with YWAMers from the Gold Coast, Newcastle, and Byron Bay.   We spent the week doing practical jobs such as setting up stages and equipment, wrapping fences, putting up signs, directing the groups and families to their camping sites, cleaning, and really anything else they needed done in order to make the festival happen. Then Friday begins the amazing experience. Bands such as Reliant K, Ascend the Hill, United Pursu...

Hey everyone! Our MAD DTS 2013 began February 13. We have 9 staff and 17 students. Week one of the dts was on the Character and Nature of God. We had our lectures with the Beach 2 Bush and Sports DTSs as well. It was an amazing first week. Last week The MAD school had teachings on Hearing the Voice of God. Jason Salari, who was my DTS school leader, was the speaker. He has amazing communication skills and is a man who lives what He teaches. I want to take some time to explain more of our weekly schedule here on the MAD DTS. I hope this gives you a better picture of what we are doing here in Brisbane!!! Monday: (7:30-8:00) -  The MAD staff get together and pray (8:00-10:30)  - We do some base wide cleaning together and then have a community meeting (10:30-12:30)- Lecture time for students and staff (2:30-3:30) - Family time as a school (3:30-5:30) - Students work on homework and the Staff have a meeting (7:30-9:00) - Some sort of school activity or teaching ...

Hey everyone!!! I have been in Brisbane for about 3 weeks. We just completed our TAA training and on Monday we Begin BLS. It has been a crazy 2 weeks of classes and assessments and projects, but I MADE IT!! Some of the awesome stuff happening on the base. . . . . . .The Beach 2 Bush DTS just graduated last night so we had a wonderful Love feast for them. Next weekend the MAD DTS that started last fall is headed on outreach. Our students will be coming in 4 weeks. we are till praying for 20 students and we are almost there!!! Also, the Visas have been approved and we will have them soon. It has been amazing to be back here in Brisbane and with YWAM. It was defiantly like coming home. I will have more to update when BLS starts and we really begin planning school stuff. I'm so excited to got started!!!!!!