Picture Time

I've been working on a building as you have heard many times now probably. Its been myself and a man named Jim who have been on it full time. So its really our project with Dave (the base director) Wayne (head of maintenance) popping in and lending a hand as well. Its going to be used as a classroom for the Music Art and Dance DTS. As well as have a sound proof room for recording the bands and video clips and also a media centre where there will be film editing equipment and cameras etc.. There is also a school of acting for the fine arts that will run out of this building!

So here are some picture of the place, I've been involved from the digging and pouring of the foundation till the plastering we are now starting to do. Its an awesome feeling to talk my time between leading outreaches and leave a mark on the base as well as the world.

Peace, Love and Prayers!

"The Shed"

The back of "The Shed"

Courtney behind the back of "The Shed"

Timber Retaining Wall

Stone Retaining Wall

North Side of "The Shed"

Wall Dividing the classroom and the sound proof room

The Classroom

Hallway to classroom and bathroom

The "Dunny"

Digital Film Studio...couldn't ya tell?

Kitchenette and Boarding Room

The latest and greatest

This past week was little tough for me. In Australia when the kids graduate from high school, rather than doing an "after grad" night...they do an after graduation WEEK. A whole week away from home getting drunk every night. Obviously along with that comes drugs, sex, violence, death even. Anyway, during this YWAM links up with an organization called the "red frog crew" named after the frog shaped candies they hand out. Basically we serve the people by making them breakfast when they are hung over in the morning, cleaning up there rooms...and PUKE, getting them out of trouble with the hotels by fixing things they break etc....etc.... Through serving them we get a really good reputation with the kids and the eventually ask for counsel from us or the red frog hotline which are all Christian certified counsellors, or they just call us up to hang out with us etc... But in short there are so many kids who go and realize that partying doesn't fulfill there lives and every night they just have to do it again until they can't do it anymore. SOOOO MANY salvations happen in this week, real, authentic, genuine salvations, mid to high hundreds I'd say. People getting prayed for, healed, set free, emotionally healed, receiving the Holy Spirit, everything redeeming you can think of.
Anyway, my side of this story is that Wayne, who is in charge of maintenance around the base, had to go to this. SO, that meant I couldn't go, I had to cover for him. I really loved doing the "red frog crew" last year and would have liked to have done it again! But thats alright. However having NOONE around base because they were all doing ministry all week meant that some work loads were lighter and some were heavier. In my case I lost a lot of workers and had many jobs to finish, so I had to work triple hard and I got quite sick as well. I'm feeling much better this weekend though! Anyway, it was a tough long week this week. Its been great hearing all the stories of salvations and amazing things happening from all the people back on base, but even through this hard week I came away with some amazing stories. One of which I will share.
I eventually stopped pitying myself for not getting to go and do ministry this week and 1) saw the work I was doing as ministry and 2) dug in and prayed like crazy for these guys. One day while taking a load of "rubbish" (garbage) to the "tip" (dump) my friend Gill (its a nickname: Nathaniel McGILL) got a text message from the Frotiers school leader in the Gold Coast doing "red frog crew". She said that it was getting difficult, people were getting tired and they felt spiritual attacks coming on them. Me and Gill prayed while we worked and then when we finished working sat down and really prayed for them together! We both really felt like God was saying that they needed to continue to be offensive and take ground for God. The enemy just wanted to scare them so they would become defensive and stop winning victories. Then I said just tell them to remember that God is on there side. It turns out that he was just texting those words to Gen as I said that. Then on the radio on a completely non-christian station, at that exact moment the lyrics "ever wonder what its like when God is on your side" came on. Me and Gill just looked at each other and laughed. God is cool like that. Short and seemingly insignificant story, but if God was speaking to us, we can be sure He answered our prayers as well, and I definately know that just as your prayers empower me greatly, mine affected the Gold Coast greatly that week! Praise God for the way we can do His work even accross the globe!

Back in Brissy

Hello everyone, I'm back in Brisbane. Had a great flight, even though extremely long and God actually blessed me quite a bit on it, I got a pretty cheap low level hotel room in Hong Kong and they upgraded me to the Penthouse for free! lol, How random is that!
Anyway, I'm back on base and back to work. I've been thrown in charge of maintenance for a couple weeks because our maintenance man is on an outreach for a couple weeks in Airlie Beach up north. I'm going to be taking care of getting the new classroom we are building all built and everything. You can see pictures of the building at www.ywamoz.com on the homepage. After that I will be preparing and planning the January Beach to Bush school and kicking things off for that fresh start.
Just a little info to let you know what the next couple months will contain (generally speaking).

Peace, Love and Prayers!

I am finally on the YWAM Webpage...

...or soon anyway. If you go to www.ywamoz.com and click on staff pages, then find my name, you will be able to see my face, and a little about my role, etc... It should be up and running within the next couple days.
I leave in TWO days....two days! I'll be in Canada, sipping on some Tim Hortons, drinking some maple syrup, hunting moose and beaver, in my comfy bed in my igloo, in TWO days. Well, maybe not, but I will be eating my moms cooking! uhhh...coming down of some hardcore jet lag and sleeping in the room that was PREVIOUSLY mine, in TWO DAYS! haha. And I'm totally pumped for that, YES!
I've got a lot of awesome things going on at the moment, its very overwhelming, but God is really opening doors to continue discipling me by His spirit. Many things I will share when I get home with you all! Anyway, I love you all, and I love Canada, and it will be good to be on home turf for a short while to recharge for another leg of Gods work on this earth.
SEE YOU ALL VERY SOON!

CRAAZZZY Intinerary

I'm really excited about my crazy Itinerary. Definately not the most direct route home, haha, but it should open a lot of doors. I go from Brisbane to Cairns (in Northern Queensland), Cairns to Hong Kong (overnight), Hong Kong to Anchorage, Alaska, then Alaska home. Whats really awesome is that, since really understanding God and stepping deeper into God's heart globally (because God does think globally, even more than individually, individuals lead to HIS nation, Israel, we are a NEW nation) I have begun to realize that life is ministry, and thats what makes life exciting. Travelling could get boring, there isn't much you could do for the rest of your life and not get sick of it at some point. But when your life is making eternal difference everything take on a new excitement and life becomes a joy. So these opportunities to travel are also opportunities to show people Gods face and Gods love.
When I came to this country, I didn't really know God. Fresh out of rebellion and passionate, my heart was pointed toward God, but I didn't know anything, and I my motives were all wrong. I still believe I don't know much. But I know my Dad, my Lord, my King, and thats a start. Its really amazing coming back home with substance and being to be effective and a blessing to anyone I can on the way home and at home. I really thank God for His faithfulness, life is a journey and God gives us opportunities to take the right journey. He doesn't ask us to follow Him then shut all the doors and leave us unequiped to climb the mountains He's called us to.
Anyway, just reminising about where I've come from and where I am. Isn't salvation beautiful? What an amazing gift, there is no gift like it. Let us outwork our salvation, so its not just a word or a selfish object we squander. Lets show our salvation, because there is no other gift or blessing that even compares, and I don't want anyone I meet to miss an opportunity to meet their Father as well.

Blessings

Mama I'm coming home!

God is Good, All the Time. Well, I have being praying for a plane ticket, for revelation for my future, other support, etc... And this is what has been going on recently.
1) God has provided a plane ticket home and back through someone who has been an amazing example of love and selflessness to me. And now I am coming home in October for 5 weeks, I get to see you all, hear about what has been going on in all of your lives while sharing a little of what I have experienced.
2) I have been seeing VERY clearly into my future lately. I know definately whats coming in the next five years and have a rough view beyond that as well. Some really amazing things ahead. And God has given me some direct words, but Hes not a dictator, Hes a Father, so he has only guided me, not dictated. Therefore, around all of the definate words from God I have filled in the cracks in terms of my vision. I filled it in with things I believe are in Gods will. And if He changes them, then I will head down that path. But some of the words I have definately received from God involve India, learning the Nepali language and possibly (still praying about it) going to Shanghai, China, for the world expo in 2010. There is much opportunity to influence this rising giant (China) during this time, before they begin influencing us.
3)I have been given the opportunity to work for donations down here for 3 days, with a man who has a heart from missions but doesn't feel called, so he supports missionaries in various ways. He is enabling me to do the Lords work by giving me some manual labour work and then giving some generous donations. This is an amazing opportunity for me, God provides so practically sometimes that we miss Him.
4)Well, there is also the bonus that God threw in the mix with my friend from Saskatoon. Yes, Adam is going out with a girl in Saskatoon. And that was a blessing and gift from God. God is moving in this world, and I'm just happy that I'm flowing in His will and experiencing His character!

Anyway, when I get home in October I hope to share more of my vision with you all, and discuss what is going on in the world in terms of missions. But mainly, I'm just excited to see you all.
Blessings!

Possible Trip Home

I have a potential 5 week furlough at this point in my work here. I'm aiming at getting home at the end of October, we will see how that works out though. If I get home I would love to meet up with as many of you as I can, just to talk about what I have been doing down here. Its very hard to completely share with these updates. That way you could ask me questions and I could share more in depth. It would just be very good to get home and visit all of my family, and to meet with and catch up with much of my home church family as well. If I God provides a way home, I hope to meet up with as many of you as possible. Please pray that doors would open and finances would come in to see this furlough happen.
Anyway, I will be taking a first aid course this next week to get a first aid certificate and I will also be meeting with a couple of my leaders to debrief me on my conduct as a leader, the students that I was over filled out a leader assessment form. I'm pretty excited to see what they have put and to maybe even learn from some of it. Hopefully all is well! haha.

Anyway, thats the news for this week. Just a few logisitical things around base, God Bless you all.

Picture time

Me and my friend Boaz (pronounced Bwazy!)

Kuma

In Kuma village, which was the first village we were in we went to an island where there was a cave that we walked through, and there was a shipwreck, and a whole "stacka" (lots of in SI pigin) coconut trees. So they showed us around and caught some crabs, dug a hole and made them fight each other. Climbed a tree that was probably about 12 stories high to get some coconuts, then husked them with either their teeth or a machete, so fast I couldn't even catch up, so we had coconut milk and coconut meat for lunch. We also got them all together and played some form of water polo in the amazing blue water of the South Pacific ocean.
While playing soccer with some of the kids one day, a child was sitting on a branch pretty high up, Nathaniel (my co-leader) went up and jokingly scared the kid, but because we were white and had just arrived to the village, a village that had never seen white people, the kid DID get scared. To make a long story short, the kid FREAKED out, the branch broke and he fell out of the tree. Luckily he landed on sand and island kids are as tough as nails, so as quick as he fell, he took off FAST running the opposite direction of Nate, haha.
One of the students, Brodie, was speaking for his first time in Kuma village. He is a very anointed speaker, although he is just stepping into it, his potential is very evident. He spoke on the Lordship of Christ and how salvation is not Christianity, thats like saying birth is your life. So when the people heard this message the holy spirit fell, and the whole room fell on their face and wept, including the team. People were slain in the spirit, healed in every sense, recommited to Christ and motivate to surrender to the Lord fully. It was a VERY powerful night indeed. It was like one of those evangelistic moves in Africa when a million people come to the Lord at once, much smaller scale, but the spirit truly moved powerfully through Brodie.

Anyway, some more cool stories from the Solomon Islands!

Guatalcanal, Choisuel, Western Province

Those are the three provinces we were in within the Solomon Islands! Solomon Islands is an interesting nation, being 95% Christian. Very nominal Christian, but Christian beliefs nonetheless. Its even a Christian nation, meaning their government is Christian. They are passing a bill in Government that is going to take 10% of the government annual revenue and put it toward the churches as a tithe! Pretty Freakin amazing. Thats why we need strong men and women of God in Canada to be getting into high government places, influencing the world from the top down and the bottom up at the same time. From the inside out. There are many other Christian principals that they hold to that you would never see come to pass in the west, unless things change and people start to pray for their nation rather than just picket and demonstrate! Thats where the power comes from, not from the will of man, but the will of God unlocked through prayer! Another food story would be the amazing LOBSTER and CRAB that we had nearly every meal, haha. At first they were scared to feed us "their food", when we showed up they remarked "What do we feed white people?". But as they saw us eat the canned tuna without dismay they started to feed us fish heads and lobster etc... It was great, they catch about 30 lobster a night on a good night. So we had much good food to eat, interesting food at times as well, but all edible enough.
Another ministry story would be when in Taro (Choisuel province) we went to pray for people at the hospital and as we walked in I got a pain in my wrists and really felt like there was someone who had pains in their wrists right there in that room, so I asked them if anyone did. And one lady stood up and said, "Yes, I have problems with many joint pains" and particularly in her wrists. So we prayed for her and she was instantly healed. God was really moving powerfully while we were there and the name of Jesus was glorified and many peoples eyes were opened to the reality of God! It was truly an amazing trip with much Kingdom fruit harvested.

Anyway, another update to come within the week for sure. God Bless
Adam

Village to City

I'm back, back in the hustle and bustle of city life. Pretty sureal actually, after living without shopping for 6 weeks. Where people just kill their food themselves or garden it themselves anyway. Now there is roads, I don't have to canoe everywhere! I can walk on a footpath or get a ride, or take a train. No more wearing whatever I grab first, in Choisuel the people just where whatever they can get, Most only have one MAYBE two pairs of clothes that rarely match. But now, I have to make sure that I am colour co-ordinated (which, by the way, is a struggle for me anyway) while making sure that I've washed my clothes in the past few days, haha. Its actually kind of tough re-adjusting all the time. Now, on the other hand, I VERY much missed my friends here, and music, and having access to let you all know whats going on, etc... When I get home I am always far more thankful for whats around me.
Anyway, some interesting tidbits about Choisuel, or ministry in Choisuel. Well, I figured the best way would be to tell some facts and then one major story and do that every day this week or every other day. So for today! We went to a village called Kolony, a very religious community, disunity and the spirit of religiousity was disgustingly thick there. God created man and man created religion, God didn't want a religion, but a relationship. This was what was constantly on my mind here. This village is where I was out for a couple days with malaria. However, before I got malaria, I was around for one of the kids times, which we ran every afternoon. At this point we were just getting to know the kids, so we decided to play a game where we roll them a ball and they have to say 'nam blong me (my name is) Peter' and then 'me nambawan caicai (my favourite food is) fish' etc... There was one kid however who caught the ball and says 'nam blong me...coconut', I'm not to sure if he understood the game, then again maybe I was the naive one and his name was coconut, I don't know. But it was pretty much the cutest thing ever, everyone had a good laugh.
We got to eat many wild and exotic foods while we were there such as sea turtle, which is illegal to eat EVERYWHERE in the world (I believe) except in Solomon Islands, because its an endangered species. But solomon Islanders can kill them as long as its not to sell them, just to eat them! So on the final feast in one of the villages (Kuma, the first village) there was this great meat out there on a platter, we ate a lot of it. I thought it was chicken with some odd seasoning at first, it was actually VERY good, but it was very interesting that there were NO bones. Usually there are many bones in their chicken. Then the I asked the pastor with a mouth full of food "whas dis delisus meapff" and he pointed beside him on the floor. There on the floor was a GIANT sea turtle head and some kids picking the meat off it. I just stared for a second then cracked up laughing. Well, it was very good anyhow.
As for ministry. We had opportunity to speak probably about 10 times each at least (there were 6 of us). So a lot of our ministry was teaching. I taught on hope and faith mainly, then gave my testimony, based on destiny and how God speaks into our potential. He speaks into who He created us to be, even if we aren't walking in it. Anyway, those are great and I'm passionate about all of those. I got an opportunity though, to speak on missions near the end. When God sent us to Solomons, we all felt like God was saying to mobilize Islanders for missions into South East Asia and Muslim nations. Islanders are made to be missionaries, they have insane adaptibility and strength, independance, self-sufficiency, etc... And many of them are strong Christians, they just have this mentality, that they are the mission field, not missionaries. Anyway, I preached for an hour and a half about what God is doing in the world right now in terms of the Great Commission, I told many stories, talk about the history of the spreading of the gospel and the book of Acts, then I talked about what prophets today were saying, and I talked about how its our job to reach this world. Ten of the maybe twenty-five in the room came forward at the mission call and got prayed for, we took up an offering so the body could help support them and sent them into the mission field. Some were old men with businesses and families, willing to give it all because they knew they were meant to be on the mission field. Some were 15 year old kids who had had dreams earlier that week about a man coming and telling them to go into missions. We were praying that those who need to go who have dreams of going into missions, and it really happened it was amazing. After losing my voice and sweating my shirt to saturation, I got some of the team to pray for them. But I found a piece of my calling, THAT is what I'm passionate about doing in the Kingdom, is seeing people thrown into their destiny. Whether missions or business, or carpentry..."The glory of God is man fully alive" - St Iraneus. Man fully alive, is man fully in his identity and destiny! It was awesome.

So some cool stories, tune in for more on what the nation was like, more funny stories and more great moves of God in the Solomon Islands!

Much Love! Adam

Back from the Jungle of Choiseul

Well, I'm back, but I don't have much time to really update, now. SO I did update our team blog at godinsolomons.blogspot.com - - - and you can go there to here about the mission...

I will update more in depth when I'm back on base, but thank you too mas! (Solomon pigin) for the prayers and support!

Much Love!

From Honiara

Well, I'm in Honiara now, and headed for Choiseul on Wednesday!!

Check out godinsolomons.blogspot.com to see how the mission is going!

I LEAVE TOMORROW

Team Solomons is on their way in t-minus 18 hours and counting! We are all excited for this mission, and ready to go. Once again, be praying for unity and for health so that we can be effective in ministry!
Airlie Beach was great, the tent was annointed and the power of God actually drew people to the tent. People would walk by our huge circus tent and say that they have never felt a spiritual vibe like the vibe in the tent before. The Holy Spirit was in the house, there were salvations, many bibles given out along with prophetic words and many emotional, spiritual and physical healings. Anyway, I learnt a lot about quality time, love and relationship being keys to showing God to someone. And this was huge for me, because I'm very hard to build relationship sometimes, but love takes giving of yourself, so that it becomes selfless, its not just a feeling.
So in ministry, I learnt a lot about giving to someone more than just words!

Much Love, I'm off to run around like a chicken with its head cutoff, for the next 18 hours!!

Gday blokes and sheilas!!

Praise Report!

Thank you Lord!! I know I've been reporting on money for quite a while, so I will make this quick. I now have all of my outreach funds in, $2000 came in within about 2 weeks or so, maybe 2 and a half. But I received it from unknown sources on our base...a random donation to our school staff team from Europe of about 250 Euro...someone noone on base knows! Anyway, its been another crazy financial journey! And here I am leaving for Solomon Islands in two weeks!
Our school will be leaving on a 14 hour bus ride north to Airlie Beach, where the base is putting on an Evangelism conference with a Chai tent, bands, guest speakers and quite a few YWAM bases will be there as well as possibly churches (there are usually churches there). I was asked to share one night and preach on Evangelism and the power of words specifically. So that is what the next two weeks will contain. Some backpacker ministry for our school and the "Impact Airlie Conference". After that we come back to the base and have something like 12 hours before we are off to Solomons!! YAY!!
As for the Solomons, things are running very smoothly, the budget is done and the administrative side is finally sorrted out (thank goodness, lots of work) and God is really giving our team an excitement and sense of urgency about the message we will speak there. The students have prepared two teachings each, we are equipped with some powerful dramas (which I can't stand doing, but the islanders love it and it crosses language barriers and gets the point accross, haha) and we will be preaching and running kids programs.
Most of our teachings are targeted at really casting a love for missions in the Islanders hearts, letting them know they are not just the mission field, but the missionary's!! I'm very exciting to cast some vision and get some Islanders ready to take off into the world and uncompromisingly take the gospel to "the ends of the earth".
These are my upcoming adventures! And the way I'm anticipating Gods move!! HOW EXCITING!! Nothing greater than when God tears the heart of stone in someone out and replaces it with a heart of flesh, while seating them at His right hand in heaven!

God Bless! Shalom

God's Blessing's

The grace of God seems huger every day doesn't it?! Well my outreach fees are down to needing $900 AU. Thats miraculous in itself. I'm still needing the finances for my monthly staff bill, but things are always right there in Gods hands. Today I had a staff meeting and we were discussing our financial situations. I was starting to realize my financial situation, not stressing, because I understand Gods promises to me and His character, HOWEVER, I was seeing the biggness of the miracle that has to come. I walked home from the house the staff meeting was at and my mind was stuck thinking of outreach, and finances. I got back on base and within 10 minutes I had a free pop, free chocolate bar and $200 in my hand. haha. God is so wacky.
Just to encourage me He threw in the pop and chocolate...and what timing, I haven't stressed about money in a long time, just trusted...and right when I was all of this came about. It may seem small to some, but it was so encouraging and it was a spiritual language God spoke to me saying "Every little things gonna be alright, remember my promises and provision".
Again, thank you all for your support. You are all truly a manifestation of the Holy Spirit. The prayer are what keep me going and the finances are what keep me alive. Thank you all so much. And mostly, thank you God.

Much Love

My Identity

The biggest personal news would be that God is really working on my identity! He's teaching me that my Identity is my Destiny...they are one and the same. He may call me anywhere in the world, but that is just an appointment. I don't have to wait to be in a certain place to be in my destiny! If I am walking in my gifts, and working for the kingdom of God then I am in my destiny. Having said that I know that right now my appointment is right here in Brisbane, but my destiny is not being here, its what I do with myself here, how I relate with others right here, how I relate with God right here, how I serve the Lord right here - right now!
In regards to my identity, I'm starting to realize I'm a man of faith. A man God sees as faithful and so He shows His faithfulness to me! When I ask something of God He is very prone to give that to me, because in our relationship He asks things of me and I give them. I haven't been as disciplined in this as usual lately, but I am stepping back into that and again seeing God move in new faithbuilding ways...having said that...
Gods provision - I was praying about buying a mobile phone (what they call "cell phones" down here) and I felt like I wasn't supposed to because it wouldn't be being a good steward of my finances, simply because of the lack of finances at this present moment with my outreach coming up. But the reality is that in my ministry, "Beach 2 Bush", we are constantly on the road and all over the place and the staff are constantly all over the place in many different remote places. I lead many weeks, meaning I organize the speakers, arrange accomodations in churches or campgrounds...set up ministry..etc....and I do NEED a mobile phone at times. So I prayed that God would provide one in this case if He saw fit...I didn't mention this to ANYONE. It took two weeks then a guy on the base said to me "God told me to give away my mobile phone, I prayed about who to give it to and He said you, so here ya go" and I now have a mobile phone!
# is 0432495185
God provided...
My outreach is $1900 final budget total. I got $500 of that was brought in last week and the school was praying for $500 exactly to come in for my fees last week! God answered prayer through my insanely loving mother, who worked 40 hours overtime or something so I could do Gods work down here. I have 10 days to get $1400, and I'm not worried in the least, God is speaking to people left right and centre and I love my Lord...even when people aren't who He wants to use He does even greater miracles!
The Solomon Islands outreach team now has their Itinerary and knows what our outreach looks like, so check out godinsolomons.blogspot.com to see how the power of God is going to move in the solomon islands in this next season!

Those are some of Adams wacky adventures at this point! Much Love

Solomons and Stuff

Solomon Islands team now has a blog for when we are all on the road, as well as for when we actually get there! That blog can be found at godinsolomons.blogspot.com
I heard back from the Solomon Islands YWAM base the other day, it is a very small base. It turns out they have a team going up to Choiseul the same time as us. Whether we will connect with them or not is undetermined as of yet. But its an interesting opportunity. I think they want us to connect with them. However, we have a pastor setting up our outreach from Vanuatu, and this team will probably set up their own. So, its an interesting scenario that will take some prayer to decide!
I'm very excited for our trip though. God is really moving around base and we know our prayers are soaking the land and the people, getting the area ready for our arrival. God is truly going before us! Please pray if you feel inclined, its a very malaria prone area, worst in the world. There have only been a couple teams who have gone where NOONE got malaria, and they covered the land and team in prayer. I have complete faith that our prayers will combat malaria. Our God is far bigger than anything we will encounter on this earth! And having said that I really am not worried and am very faithful in Gods character. I know Gods favour is upon us. Its great being in Gods will, there is no safer place.
Thanks for your prayers and support. I do have another prayer need as well, which is finances for my plane ticket. You are all so supportive and I am so grateful. My monthly bill is always paid to the dollar. I'm just asking for prayers that God will provide the 1350 that my plane ticket will likely cost for the Solomons. On the base the team I lead pays for my ground fees and food, but the plane ticket is still my own cost! So that is my issue now. But God is a provider, and I think I'm going to be surprised about where it comes from. Even people around Brisbane that I've never met!!

Thanks so much, God Bless you all.

Back on the Base

Hello all!!
I wish I could write more on the road. Now I have so much to say, but I'll try to keep it brief!
The school me and my staff team are preparing for outreach just had a week that changed the team in many ways. We were talking about the Lordship of Christ, servanthood, and laying down your life (or your rights for Christ). Our team hit a plateau and then backslide, farther back then they seemed to be when they got here. When they got here, I thought that they were ready for outreach right away, mainly because of their willingness and their outward focus. But at the point they were at a couple weeks ago, I don't know that they could have handled outreach. I'm not going to go into heavy detail about what happened on this destiny restoring week. However, I learnt two things...the power of intercession, and the power of fasting.
I had always heard about prayer and fasting and being in constant prayer in the bible. But I never understood how they could do that, and how it was possible to feel power in that. I've had powerful prayer times, but they are not ofter planned, or lengthy and purposeful. But we needed to break some strongholds in our school and territory that the enemy claimed as his own, so we prayed for a week straight with brief nights, and fasted for 4 or 5 days! literally from 7:30am till 11pm, we prayed without eating, or breaking. It wasn't even tiring either, the Holy Spirit was our sustenance, our rest and the power in our prayers. There was tact to our prayer plan that looked very much like a military outline, and I learnt much in that week that will forever change my life and equip me for further SUCCESSFUL ministry!
We saw powerful healing (from diabetes, dislocated shoulder, viruses going around), prophecies that brought deliverance (from depression, generational strongholds or curses, or just brought vision and confirmation to lives) and full on demonic deliverance (something I've never seen before, but was real and powerful to see the authority of our God at work, and our victory in Christ exercised).
God moved that week and I believe it was all tied to our discipline and obedience to follow "hunches" as to what was hindering our school and what needed to be broken...and even how to approach it. The Holy Spirit leads us through life and its often a still small voice that we hear and not a booming shout, but those hunches (when in line with Gods word) are powerful opportunities!
I have officially been taken into a new level of knowing God after that week. I am comstantly growing in my relationship with the Father, but there are always new "stages" where you are on new unchartered ground, and its offically a new place for you and God to commune. And thats what i jumped into. Its exciting and God is so powerful and Hes got amazing plans for each of our lives. No matter what they are, He wants to move so powerfully through us all at all times! I'm excited for the future of the body of Christ and whats going to be restored and produced out of it!

Much love!

An update from Emerald

We have started outreach. We are in Emerald, helping churches running mission services and seeing CRAZY things happen, reconciliations in churches, churches uniting, people being sent into missions, salvations!!
Its amazing to see crazy things happening around here. It hasnt rained for 12 months and it hasn't rained for than a day in a row for like 10 years or something. It started raining over our bus on the way here and hasn't stopped yet. And not just drizzling, but an all out downpour, it kinda sucks for us sleeping in tents and all. But we realize the land and the farmers need it and its a blessing thats following us as we prayed for it.
Needless to say with all of the great things happening many people are under attack. Theres about half of our team of 50 or so thats sick. Very violently ill too. Theres also a lot of fatigue and spiritual heaviness around!!
What Gods teaching me though, is spiritual maturity. I am so used to insane spiritual connection with God and FEELING God, but Im spiritual dry and oppressed and don't get much out of my alone time with God. But Im realizing more and more that although you often feel Gods biggness, when you dont it doesn't make all the awesomeness that His word claims Him to be disappear, so im learning more and more to cling to His word and knowledge of His character for relationship. And its totally overwhelming, a tough process, but amazing nonetheless!

Compromise

I've stopped sharing revelations really, and now I just share plans. So, I thought seeing how this is my online journal, I will also share what God has been teaching me lately.
Compromise reminds me of the tower of Babel. So many people believe that rather than themselves being created in the image of God, God can be created in the image of man, aka THEIR IMAGE. They bend and "out-of-contextualize" God to suit their compromise. Whether in political views, personal convictions or the softening of the gospel message! All of this is trying to be God rather than serve Him (hence the tower of Babel relation). The tower of Babel was mans attempt to reach God...without God, and in their own strength. So often we set an agenda then fit God into that agenda, rather than understanding God's agenda and living by it. Dieing to our own rights and pre/mis - conceptions.
If we bend God to the agenda of man we a create an imperfect, limited being in the eyes of others. Even to ourselves, because God can be anything we don't allow Him to be in our lives. As we yield to Him we see Him. And our minds limit Him. We basically taint Gods character with our own opinions and make Him look like an idiot! Because is more of us people see than God!

Much Love

Teachability: The Key to Success

HELLLOOO ALL,
It was a great week, we had 3 international speakers with much experience and authority! Armando Benner, a messianic Jew from Venezuela, who has produced a movie, written books, pioneered an urban ministry in Amsterdam, and started an international ministry called Nations to Nations! Edwin Fillies, pioneered a YWAM base in South Africa under a devout hindu government, also worked with Armando in establishing Nations to Nations. Jon Dawson, who has written many best-selling books, "Taking Our Cities for God" etc... and is now the YWAM International President!
Anyway, they were all amazing, but Armando and I connected best and I received a lot of revelation from the Holy Spirit while he was speaking and teaching. Even things that were not connected to what he was saying directly, God was just really speaking to me in very specific ways! I'm starting to realize the need to have impartation from a mentor who has been through the type of ministry that you may be going into. Experience helps for teaching and preaching, but for DOING you need to start with receiving wisdom from those who have done! I feel a pull to connect with some international ministry workers and pioneers and work under them, just serving their mission and receiving from them! I also was told by God to start writting again! So I need to do that! As well as some major confirmation through VERY specific prophecies that I have heard about 5 times now. Still waiting on God to speak sovereignly as well! But overall it was a very exciting, faithbuilding, drive producing, clarity of vision, and destiny imparting week!

Shalom!

The Weeks Ahead

Here I am, getting down to preparing for our trip to Solomons and still dealing with staffing a school. We just had a topic called "The Father Heart of God" and we had a speaker named Ken Helser who totally rocked the students world. He introduced them to God the Father (Abba) in a whole new intimate way! And they responded amazingly!
As for the trip to Solomons, the students now have their vaccinations and we have drawn up a budget! Just pricing plane tickets now!!
Personal Revelation...well, God has really been speaking to me about my generation! How we are generally a generation of hurt, and neglect. Not just as Christians but globally! And how the generations before us were very strong and have done a lot, but being strong in themselves has made them a hard generation to work through sometimes. God is taking the hurt and brokeness of our generation, a generation where life is even more a gift than ever with abortion, where so much of the generation is either fatherless or comes from a broken family, a generation dictated too by so many commercial bodies....and our redemptive God is picking us up and using our weakness to create a dependancy on Him, as a crutch!
I've seen so many very broken people redeemed and turned into broken dependant pillars of strength in the past months, its amazing and I'm so excited to see what God has in store for this Joshua generation!

Much Love!!
Shalom

Your Prayers

I need a prayer shield for the weekend. We are going to a church that has some spiritual oppression over it. Many weird happenings are going on and we know its going to be an intense battle because God is speaking so much about it. A few things He has said are to contact people as a prayer covering from home. That my family should be praying for themselves! So do that!! As we take an on sight victory here, the enemy will be throwing some punches to hinder me outside of my own situation and try to oppress you guys. But you have the victory, now that you are aware of the situation!
As a base we are holding ourselves accountable also for the revival of Australia and the revival is starting from the small rural towns in Australia. And that was also a prophecy, this church is seeing at least 1-4 people saved a week in it consistantly. But now some spiritual issues are coming up in the form of sickness and cunfusion, chronic fatigue...etc... SO we are being sent in to bring revival, which will flow from this church, this town, this region forth and God has spoken and said this will lead to a massive revival in Australia. Needless to say there will be little sleep even if we wanted to, the enemy is going to be attacking at all times...I don't think that he will let us sleep, haha. I AM pumped for this war though! Its turf God really wants to take! There are only a few of us who are sure we are called and supposed to be there who will be going. The enemy is ready for us...but is he ready for God and the light that we possess!?

Peace, Love and Prayers!

Some Changes Being Made

I've found out my next outreach location for sure and I'll be leading a team in the Solomon Islands! We are planning on going to completely unreached people groups...generally outreaches for our school would consist of going to familiar locations and discipling churches of nominal christians, along with limited unreached ministry. But we will be going to unreached terrain with strictly, "the gospel message". If all goes well anyway! Its going to be an amazing adventure and I know we are going to see some amazing salvations!

On a side note, I now drive standard mom and dad!!! In Australia. AND they asked if I could take the test to get my bus license! So we'll see what happens!! But don't worry, I'm really good at stick...I've only almost crashed a couple times!! (muahahaha, just messin with you guys!)

I'm also starting up my focus group today on being a Revolutionary...a radical christian whos idea of balance is being radically sold out for Christ! I want to focus on radical faith and being a martyr for the Lord, in the sense that we are already dead to ourselves and living submitted to Him.

Peace, Love and Prayers!

A new beginning

I'm so pumped for this new school starting up. I just took the students down to the park near the base, they really feel out of place still, and played volleyball for about 4-5 hours, even past sunset. It was totally amazing, by the end all the staff and school leaders had left and it was just me and the students. I can't believe the openess and readiness they have. God has got amazing moves to make in their lives and their hearts are open. I'm pumped to be leading such a great, open group of young people who are laying it all down for the Lord.

God has really been speaking to us about this school as well. Hes been saying that although our priority may be to help the students along and to offer them God in new ways. Our focus should be harnessing them into the mission field and we should be pushing a new extreme of evangelism. Even before we met the students God was telling us that they were incredibly strong in the spirit and ready to be used for big things. He hand picked them for a specific mission, and we have a responsibility to intercede and seek to bring them face to face with God. I never expected strength like this though. Its amazing!

There are 10 Canadians, 8 Americans, 2 Aussies, a dutch, a finnish, and a swedish guy. So its going to be an authentically North American team. And the Canadians can all frown at team Canada's performance at once! But at least we have some great Canadian intercessors down here for team Canada, they can't lose! ;)

Peace, Love and Prayers!

The New Role

Hello all,
I've finally transitioned into my new role in fulltime ministry as a missionary now! I'm in charge of:
- Running a class on the life of a Christian according to the book of Acts.
- Running a class on the role of apostles and prophets
- Teaching on Spiritual Warfare
- Teaching on Faith
- Preparing a team to go to Indonesia (potentially Indo anyway)
- Leading a Backpacker evangelism week in one of the Hippie coastal towns
- And I'm arranging and heading up a state-wide youth conference with an evangelism focus, its about 2 weeks long. There will be bands, a speaker, and events to co-ordinate.

So this is where the next 6 months are headed. They are keeping me busy down here, but its amazing how much potential they can see in a person. They really harness the strengths you have and catapult you into things they know you can handle but stretch you like mad. They see a lot of creativity, leadership and visionary qualities in me and are allowing me to use those effectively doing things that are so completely amazing and huge! I'm really pumped to take on these amazing challenges!!
Thanks for your continued love, prayers and support. It really means a lot to me!

Shalom!

Hey everyone, I'm goin through a period of training for leading these mission trips. Therefore, its a little dry for the blog. I thought I would post a friends latest mass email, to let you all know what else goes on at the base! Its never dry here, no matter what I myself am doing! Its really exciting with things always going on all around me!

Jen's Experience

WOW. I just love this life, and the thrill of knowing that I am doing the right thing. I have a few stories to tell you and I will try to keep this short, since I have a few reports to make from the past month.
On Boxing Day, we ran a week long Discipleship Training School for a bunch of high school kids from the Philippines. The theme was “resolution” …. And we saw God do some incredible things. You might say, “Like what Jen, how do you see God do incredible things?” Well, I just have to say, take my word for it. Out of the 15 kids, 2 of them came honestly saying, I don’t believe God… I don’t believe his love, I don’t believe he died to set me free. And by the second day after teaching on hearing God’s voice and Identity and destiny… they said, WOAH> I am ready to know him. In from of all their friends, they said, God, bring it on. By the 3rd night, we had a time of worship “with a twist”. Sort of a night where we set up a whole scene, a bowl to wash their hands of sin, a cross where they could write them down and nail them there… and a Holy of Holies tent set up, where they could enter the very heart of Heaven and realize that they were free from all bondage. (its sort of a visual thing…) Inside there, they ate communion, one on one with their King. Let me tell you, as I waved a red flag and declared war in the spirit for these kids… they wept. I am talking, they fell to their knees CRYING out for God. For his heart, for their freedom, for their friends. It was pretty much the most incredible thing ever as they began to pray for one another. Soon enough the night, turned into a celebration of Joy in the freedom of God. And by soon, I mean, a few hours later. We dance around, just like a bunch of crazy kids… just praising our God.
It was a total blast, and their lives were changed forever. During the week we also covered such topics as the nature and character of God, and Evangelism… as we prepared to go to the streets and into high schools with the power of our testimony!
I must mention the most amazing part of our time with these kids, were the times when we would have small group, and the girls would share openly with on another their struggles… and fears, asking for accountability. The girls would jump to encourage one another and build each other up in faith. We also discovered more of our spiritual gifting together and saw in what ways we are ready to be challenged to step out in boldness to minister to our friends.
Ha, I speak as one of the kids, because I love learning along side young people! Even when I am the one teaching them! Their faith is incredible. Never loose the faith of a child.

Shalom!

Thank-ya Jesus

Well, the long awaited results of the visa situation are in. And of course, God pulled through yet again. God is the what?!? super-freakin-natural man...
The situation surrounding this whole ordeal was again pretty ridiculous...and I really learned no matter how unfaithful I am to God, He is yet again solid!! If you want to know all the details behind this new leg of trying to get my visa, let me know...theres lots to tell. But right now I'm in New Zealand and short on computer time here in this internet cafe.

Shalom...and thanks again for all of your support!

God is the freakin supernatural man

Well, I was told by God I am staying, but I didn't know exactly how it would all work out! This is just a small story to tell of Gods faithfulness! I have never understood Gods character or trusted in it more than right now after this event.
I sent for a new visa to stay in Australia for another year, but I had to be out of the country, so while I was in India I had my application mailed in. I spent my time in India thinking and praying about getting my visa. As the days were winding down I was beginning to think about what I would do if I didn't get the visa. As the last days drew near God told me again, don't worry about it, its in my hands. So I left and figured I would get it in the mail when I was back on the base. The only tricky part is once I come in the country on my old visa the application for the new one is void unless its been accepted! SO if I enter the country and everything ISN'T a-ok, then I am going home.
When I get back in the country I find out there is no visa acceptance in the mail and start preparing for coming home. Then the office here at the base gets a call saying "We'll grant his visa" and the person says "But hes in the country" and the man says "he is, oh....ahhh, well, even though hes supposed to be in India because it was an application from India, just send him to New Zealand and we'll grant his visa, he just has to be out of the country".
Somehow I slipped through immigration and they didn't know I was in the country, and that never happens, ESPECIALLY in Australia, they are crazy at customs!
Then, having only $300 in my bank acount and needing 500 just for my training and 450 for my first months living expenses and for saving up for my next trip, I need on top of those figures 430 for a plane ticket to New Zealand. I was up late all night stressing and ended up at 2 in the morning looking at a computer screen with a potential online plane ticket ready to be purchased that I didn't have money for.
God says, "buy it"
I said "I'll do it tomorrow morning"
and He said "trust me, you've been in my hands so far, and you still are."
So, I bought the ticket I didn't have money for immediately regretting it after I clicked "confirm". The next morning after little sleep, I check my bank acount and had pretty much exactly what I needed for all of those expenses. My bank acount jumped literally 1000 dollars + overnight...thanks to my mom and my family I'd say!
Although I realize there are tough times ahead, tiring days, with not much sleep and lots of work, days full of potential stress, if I choose to stress, and days with financial difficulties. I know that God has equipped me with the faith for it all, and all it took was goin on a wild ride with Him to get to know His character better. There days of leaning on Gods strength ahead, days of choosing not to worry because I know a supernatural God and He's my Father and my Friend and days of financial mircales. And frankly I know I'm getting that visa when I go to New Zealand on Monday, BUT even if I didn't I've taken away lessons and knowledge about Gods character that have changed me for life!
God Bless!

Free Kids Party

We had the kids party. We have seen a lot of amazing things since we have been here, but this was the most fulfilling ministry. We played with the kids...and as they just expected us to throw food at them and tell them to leave, we showed them a love like no other, the love of Christ! Honestly, we took so much interest in the kids they were actually a little confused. Day after day I see white tourists come in and just throw them out of the way as they walk by, and other indians smack them and kick them when they ask a tourist for money, hoping to win favour with the tourists for riding them of these nagging kids. We have constantly told them we love them and Jesus loves them and handed out fruit to them and given change whenever we have it and can spare it! This has already made an impression on them, but they still don't understand it. When we had this party we got a chance to tell them where this divine love comes from and show them more of it than ever.
We started by playing hacky sack with the kids and just hanging out with some Christian rock music on. Then we played some games, like red light/green light and "star wars". They had a great time! We sang some christian nepali songs with them and showed them the actions! They really enjoyed it and laughed as we made ourselves vulnerable and joked around with them! They have never seen people so full of joy, or thats how it seemed as they looked at each other wondering if this was all real.
Then we did a skit explaining Christianity very basically. How man chose to seperate themselves from God and Jesus came, died and rose again to reunite us with God. They loved the skit and watched intently. Afterwards, one of our goods friends (he was also our translator) shared the gospel message in words with them, he has a muslim upbringing and most of them also did. He related with them so well, and they were intently listening, more intently than I think I've ever been in church even, haha...it was seriously amazing, the Holy Spirit gripped their attention. I was in tears as he spoke, the Holy Spirit was seriously in the room in such a huge way. Then after all the nepali preaching (we had no clue what was being said) he started praying in nepali, but they were repeating with eyes closed and hands folded...We didn't really understand. But after we asked what happened. He said they all wanted Jesus and accepted him right there. The kids seemed so alive and excited right after. We prayed for them each individually and they all received the Holy Spirit, healing and blessings on their life and family! Then we had one more skit, gave them food and "loot bags" that had toys, food and necessities in them. It was such an amazing experience, the kids left on a spiritual high, and I know their families will be impacted also!
Even more exciting is that I still have a train ride, a jeep ride and a plane ride with at least a hundred people who don't know the Lord yet...Plenty of work still ahead. And when we land in Australia, I'm sure we will see at least a hundred people in the airport who don't know the Lord. And throughout my life, what...millions maybe who are lost. My outreach won't ever end. I haven't learnt a ministry, career or even a way of life...I've learnt life...period. THIS is what life is all about, and no matter where I am the lost will see the way...whether they choose it or not is up to them! I challenge you all to live with that same zeal, and I know I won't always live in it, but I always want to, and now its just if I'm willing to go against my flesh, be a living sacrifice and martyr my desires for the sake of the Kingdom of God. I will keep pushing into God until the day I die! I pray you feel the same compulsion to know God intimately and be in constant communion and fellowship with Him. There are some glorious days ahead for the Church as the body of Christ! Be prepared and know God intimately!

Peace, Love and Prayers!!

P.S. This is my last post until Australia this Saturday! Much Love...Adam ;)

Final Giant Ministry Opportunity

Every moment is a ministry opportunity, but as we wind down time wise we are coming up to our last big planned ministry is a Free Kids Party! There are many sick and lonely and COLD street kids. So we rented out a room and are having some free time, snacks, bible stories, skits, games songs....and then loot bags with toothbrushes, soap, bibles in nepali and jesus bracelets! These stories and bibles will make home to the parents also!! haha SCORE!
Anyway, we have made some great friendships with these kids always buying them fruit and playing hacky sack with them in the city square and we bought them all Christmas presents, it was really great. Now we have an opportunity to minister to them in a more evangelical way with translators and thats exciting. Seeing them smile is great when you play with them, but when you know they have no future, no victory and no Saviour in their life, it makes you realize that life is so much more than all of the smiles and full stomachs! I wouldn't stop feeding them because of that, but to give them food for today and not the gift of eternal life that I have freely is just selfish and wrong...I don't want these kids to perish! They can have hope!
I leave this saturday to fly back to Australia! I'm a little excited to see all my friends on base, but I'm going to miss India, I love it here and living in Gods will like this is the most fulfilling and exciting way to live! We are submitters, not overcomers! Christ is the overcomer! And its only when we bend the knee and surrender our every thought and action that we will be completely happy!

Shalom!