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Called out of the shallows and into the depths.
I see the Ocean and i see my God. Beautiful, powerful, refreshing, captivating, mysterious, and so much bigger than me. God has won my heart and transformed my life. He has taken me from a place of shallow living to now craving the depths of a relationship with Him. It can be uncomfortable at times, but worth it. I want to inspire, teach, communicate, love, laugh, share and learn. Come with me :)
YWAM Brisbane
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YWAM Brisbane has been a huge part of my life. I wanted to give you an idea of what YWAM, or Youth With A Mission, is about and what I have been doing in Brisbane, Australia. For more details about what i was able to be a part of, check out my past blog posts!! For more info on YWAM check out www.ywam.org.
YWAM is an international and interdenominational Christian Organization with a heart to know God, and to make Him known. I was a part of YWAM in Brisbane, but there are ministry locations and Bases all over the map. YWAM focuses on fulfilling what God is doing through training, evangelism, and mercy ministries. I was able to experience this through completing a Discipleship Training School (DTS) in 2011-2012 and a Basic Leadership School (BLS) 2013-2014. Everything I have been doing I have has to trust God and raise my own support.
teaching on Spiritual Disciplines
While Staffing on Schools in Brisbane, I was able to have amazing opportunities. I was not just helping legalistically run DTSs, but so much more. Mentoring students, running small groups, leading worship and prayer, local outreach, music festivals, teaching, communications, hospitality, taking care of guests, keeping track of students homework assignments, working with amazing staff teams, leading Outreaches, developing teams, ok, ok, the list could go on man. It was the hardest, most amazing time of my life in Brisbane!!
One of my best friends who I was Staffing with!!
I was able to go on overseas outreaches to Peru, Japan, England, and Norway. I was a student when I went to South America, but I was Co-leading teams to the other locations.
Amazon Jungle, Peru
Tokyo, Japan
While in Peru my team traveled to Lima, Cuzco, and the Jungle. We did a lot of work projects, evangelism, church services, kids ministry, prayer, and supporting the long term missionaries there.
I Co-lead a team to Japan for 2 months where we spent time mostly in Tokyo and Osaka. We worked with a school for a few weeks spending a lot of time with the kids. We did teaching, activities, games, sport, food, and so many other things!! Our team also worked with another base doing heaps of work projects and inviting people into our home. In addition, we helped with churches, youth groups, kids ministry, and evangelism.
London, England
England was an amazing time of seeing God work in a western nation in so many amazing ways. We partnered with a few different churches here as well and helped them in anyway we could. Kids, youth, worship, office work, home groups, evangelism, prayer, food, fellowship, school programs, anything and everything. God is moving so much there and people really are going for it for God!! So refreshing. We also spent time with other ywamers doing work projects, homeless ministry, food pantry, street evangelism, and reaching out to poor communities and Muslim areas.
Norway, Sea Side Music and Missions Festival
Norway has been one of my favorite places to go! Our team was only there for 2 weeks, but it was amazing. We were part of a crew team building and running a Christian Music Festival. We work for a week we helped build the festival, which means tents, painting, moving things, building things, tech work, decorations, and lots of fresh air. After that we helped run the festival and then tear down. We had so much fun, and seeing so many come together for God was so exciting.
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 ...
Here are some moments from my life in Mozambique!! Going into villages means there are lots of new friends to spend time with. We sing songs and dance together. We paint their nails and they give us mangoes. While leaving one of the villages, the locals were singing outside our caravan. So of coarse, being a Mozambican, this little guy started to dance!!! He was so cheeky but he had good moves. As 250 people from 30 different nations came together for this season with Iris Global, Mozambican pastors from all over the country also came to get training at a Bible School Iris offers. We had so much fun coming together in the presence of God. Mozambicans have so much passion and joy. It is beautiful!! Life looks very different in the cities then in the village. Because we were a truck load of while people, many would come to sell us fruit, bread, cokes and fried food. Sometimes it was exactly what we needed to get through our road trips ...
Part of Worshiping God is testifying what He is doing and give Him the glory for those things. Sometimes this is much easier to do when God has come through and we look back and declare His goodness. But what about when you are in the middle of a challenging situation, how do you testify in the waiting. I don't really know the answer but I think Faith and the Holy Spirit's leading has to do with it. God can give you hope in your situation and His voice gives us what is needed to hold to the vision and persevere through the hard times. So this brings me to what I want to share. I honestly didn't want to make it public that I booked my flights last week. I was afraid. Afraid of what people would think. Afraid of what could happen. Not a good place to be friends. So as I begin a new week and am moving forwards, I felt that I needed to testify to what God is doing! I need to have faith. After buying my tickets I had about $100 in my bank account. Because of being given th...
YWAM Brisbane has been a huge part of my life. I wanted to give you an idea of what YWAM, or Youth With A Mission, is about and what I have been doing in Brisbane, Australia. For more details about what i was able to be a part of, check out my past blog posts!! For more info on YWAM check out www.ywam.org.
Norway has been one of my favorite places to go! Our team was only there for 2 weeks, but it was amazing. We were part of a crew team building and running a Christian Music Festival. We work for a week we helped build the festival, which means tents, painting, moving things, building things, tech work, decorations, and lots of fresh air. After that we helped run the festival and then tear down. We had so much fun, and seeing so many come together for God was so exciting. 
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