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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.
Hello there, sorry about taking forever to update!! So last week I went on a 16 hour road trip (not including the stops and such) to Airlie Beach. Its this Beautiful location right on the ocean and a group of about 20 people from my DTS went there to help with schoolies. Schoolies is a big party after the Australians graduate High school. Its a big celebration put on by the government that not only involves theme parties and loud music but also drinking, drugs, abuse, and even deaths. During these weeks of partying students get into about everything imaginable. My team went into this environment with the intention of simply loving these young people and showing them we cared. We set up what was called the chai tent. it was a big tent, and inside we set up little tables with pillows around them and we served free slushies and chai tea. As groups would come in some of us would just sit and talk to them and as we got to know them we would ask a little bit about what they believed when...
Greeting from Michigan!! I have 3 weeks to go until I am required to be in Pemba, Mozambique! I have no idea what to think or feel, but I am definitely excited and also facing a lot of the unknown. I miss being in the ywam Gold Coast community very much, but i know that God has a plan bigger and better then mine. So I am proclaiming in Faith that I will be in Africa in a few weeks! As of right now I do not have enough funds to get flights or apply for a visa, but God is providing in different ways and I hope to have flights by the end of the week and a my visa application in the mail. Please consider giving towards these needs through my Gofundme Campaign. It is easy to give a one time gift and every bit helps. Here is a link to the page. . . . Click here to check out my Gofundme page!! I have a lot that needs to happen in the next few weeks but I really feel that instead of being stressed and worried about visas, flights, malaria, packing, deadlines, relationships or finances ...
Over the last 2 months I have had many ups and downs as I have been in transition. A transition from Africa to America. A transition from 2015 to 2016. A transition from who I was to who I am now, and finally, a transition from Michigan to the Gold Coast. God has been incredible faithful to not only come through with all I needed for flights to Australia, but also in giving me extra time to spend with friends and family. He has used things that I thought were negative and has blessed me. Leading up to this week I thought, "how is this going to happen?". I was short the funds needed, and the longer I waited to leave, the less time I would have to help in prepping for the School of Worship. However I kept believing that God would do what He said. On the weekend, I saw God provide supernaturally through people in a beautiful way. I was able to find really great flights and also be prayed out by my home church. I am humbled and in awe of God's loving kindness and the supp...
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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