Oceans Calling

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!!!!!!

I will be flying out of GR on Saturday the 29th of December. My plane leaves 5:20pm and i should arrive in Brisbane at 6:15 on the 31st. I have one more week of work and then two weeks to get everything in order. Time has gone so fast!! Something you could pray for is my Visa situation. Because of Government stuff on Brisbane's end, I can't get a student Visa right now. I am praying i can get one before i leave, but otherwise i have to leave on a visitor Visa and that makes things a bit more complicated. Please pray that everything gets worked out and I can get a student Visa before i go. Also, pray for me in these last few weeks I have and for my transition to come. It's hard to explain how I am "feeling" about everything right now. Those who have done something similar to this will understand. However, I know this is what i am meant to do and I have seen God working in amazing ways to make this happen. If you are interested if knowing how you can support me ...

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Hey! So I will be continuing to use this awesome blog, but I am shifting the focus a bit! October 2011- May 2012 I was a DTS student at the Brisbane, Australia YWAM Base. I graduated and flew back to Michigan. I have been back in the states for about 6 months now and I am preparing to move back to Brisbane and begin a Basic Leadership School (BLS). I will back at the YWAM Base for about two years. I will be learning about being a better Christ like leader, staffing on DTSs', working on the Base, leading Outreaches, and pursuing a calling God has placed on my heart. I will be flying out the first week of January 2013. I am excited for this next season and am doing a lot of support raising and such while still in Michigan. Let Me know if you are interested in supporting me in any way. I will try to continue updating you till I head out, and then over the next two years :) Heaps of Love, Lindsey

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...