A blog by Lindsey Burton.
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 :)
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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.
Greetings from Brisbane!! Time is flying by here at YWAM Brisbane. In my last update I shared about my new role as the leader of our worship department and joining a ministry called Creative Development Ministry Team. I am excited to share that through the challenge of transition, I am enjoying this new position of leadership and I continue to be hopeful that God is taking this community in a new direction and I get to be a part of that. I heard a sermon recently where the speaker shared his perspective on worship leaders. For a long time I have seen worship leading as an opportunity to help people encounter God so that then they can go out and live lives with Him. This is true, but something the speaker shared in the sermon was how leading worship is a beautiful fulfilment of God’s commandment to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and love your neighbour as yourself. This resonated with me so deeply because it reminded me that even though in this season I am not going ...
When I first boarded a plane I was filled with awe, excitement and appreciation. Everything from the clouds outside the window to the food amazed me. After years of flying, those feelings have changed. Now as I board a flight, familiarity has tainted my experience with cynicism and entitlement. I get annoyed when I have a middle seat or when i don’t get ice in my drink. It becomes more about my comfort than appreciating the miracle of flight. This is an example of familiarity creating walls, not freedom. So what does that have to do with God or how we relate to Him? As a young Christian, I have asked a lot of questions about how to have a good relationship with God. How can I be consistent when my life was constantly changing? I thought that if I could achieve a place of feeling close to God and then somehow maintain this, then I was doing things right. I thought familiarity was maturity. Eventually, holding the weight of that mindset was crushing me. God didn’t want me in a ...
I feel like after months of treading water, it is finally shallow enough that I can feel the sand beneath my feet. I can stand, giving my legs and lungs a much needed break. When I was in Mozambique at the end of 2015, I felt God burn on my heart a passion to see worship and prayer change people, cities and nations. I wanted to be involved in the movement of God that was being birthed out of hungry and holy worshipers releasing a sacrifice of praise all over the globe. Also, I wanted to see God move as I walked in obedience as a worship leader. I have been waiting and waiting for the last year and a half to see an outworking of these promises really happen, where I was given the authority and platform to lead and impart. So back to the treading of water, God is faithful. I feel I have finally reached my destination. Sand under foot and my tired body emerging from the mass of dark, aggressive waters behind me. ...
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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