Hello everyone, well I think last time I talked about a couple things I was involved in one was leading the August Beach to Bush school, and two was the Beach to Bush leadership team. But I was asked to be a part of the base vision team. I'm really excited for this, this base is such a fast growing ministry and like I said before we have got influence in many arenas. To be a part of the team casting vision and directing the base is very exciting for me, especially since its one of my gifts. I have a lot of fun dreaming and accomplishing dreams I have. We talked about a lot of things but everything we mentioned came down to the fact that our vehicles have seen their last days. We drive sometimes 28 hours up the coast for ministry. And just recently when we were about 15 hours up the coast two of the vans broke down and one of our trailers broke.
These vans are the arms of this base, without those vehicles our reach and influence can only go as far as we can walk, with backpack's on our backs, haha. So the vision teams first step is to believe for new vehicles. The Kingdom of God will not stop growing because a few vans break down. If you guys could just really pray for the ministry that God would open the flood gates and provide vans for us, that would be great. And if you feel so moved to actually be a part of YWAM Brisbane overall by making a Charitable Donation specifically towards vans on this base, you would greatly and actively be participating in salvations, discipling, building the Kingdom of God, it is SUCH an important thing for us as a very mobile ministry to have vehicles that work.
AND GOD, as it says in His word, own the cattle on a thousand hills, all the treasure on earth and in heaven is His. All He needs to do is take a brick out of the streets of gold and we have the vans and I believe He will do that. If anyone has any fundraising ideas we could do around here or around base, let me know, that would be GREAT! Thanks so much.
I also got to teach recently on evangelism. We have a program called Mission Adventures, where a youth group will come and go through some training on certain topics and principals. Then once they are trained and inspired, they head off to a location as outreach. The guest speaker for the week was a good friend of mine Nathaniel McGill (we call him Gill) he is Canadian/American, but grew up in Taiwan as a missionary kid. He has seen some amazing things, and speaks fluent mandarin, which is powerful for ministry in almost any oriental Asian country. He has been to something like 30 countries in the "10/40 window" (the largest group of unreached people between 10 degrees lat and 40 degrees lat). Anyway, hes an amazing guy and spoke some pretty wise, inspiring firey lectures. But the kids weren't really responding. And I really felt like God had something to say but I didn't know the group or where they were at. So I went in blind, and God showed up and I spoke some really powerful things and a lot of the kids finally responded and got excited about their future, about their outreach to Byron Bay, about the calling on their lives and about the saving the lost. It was quite amazing! God is good, and the glory was definately His, haha, cause I had no clue what I was getting myself into.
P.S. For these kids to go on outreach, again...a van needs to be used...haha, they are so crucial to every ministry this base is a part of please pray!! Thank you all. God Bless!
Friday, January 19, 2007
Monday, January 01, 2007
A New Year
Well, it has been a while since I have sent out a sign of life. So I figured its about time to let everyone know whats new. And theres plenty to tell. (Other than I'm alive) I'll start with the holidays though, thats a good place to start.
This Christmas was a lot harder than last actually, there was a lot of thinking about home and missing it. I think it was harder mainly because last year I was in India preaching the gospel to the lost, so I wasn't to preoccupied with where I want to spend Christmas, and what better way to spend it really! Telling people about the baby Christ, and the resurrected Saviour. This year I was serving on base building the new building and helping very practically, so I spent a LOT of time thinking about home. But I still know that what I was doing over this Christmas was eternally important as well. This building will be used to impact the world in big ways sending missionaries into Hollywood! From there they have a platform to impact the world in MASSIVE ways. Media is so strong.
But as for what I actually did this Christmas. I got invited to a friend of mines house for Christmas day and I got treated like a king, it was insane. We had lamb roast, pork roast and roast beef all for one meal, it was great. So I spent the day with a family, although not my own it was better than being alone. Then on New Years I went downtown Brisbane and watched fireworks on the River with some friends from the base, so that was also a great time. Overall its been a relaxing, fun holiday season.
Now for news on whats next for me, it has been confirmed that I will be leading the August Beach 2 Bush school, as well as joining the Beach 2 Bush leadership team. So my next years is full of new frontiers of leadership for me. I will be staffing one more school which starts up on January 14th I believe. Then instead of going on overseas outreach though, I will begin to plan the August school, which involves booking speakers, accepting students, spiritually preparing, getting a budget lined up and planning the itinerary for our internal Australian ministry and overseas outreaches. Its going to be a challenge for me, but its exciting to know that at the end of it I will have have acquired many useful skills for life and ministry. As well as doing all of this over the next year as a part of the Beach 2 Bush leadership team, I will be casting vision for the Beach 2 Bush ministry as well as helping to plan and make decisions strategically on cities we are trying to influence and places we are trying to gain favour in.
Beach 2 Bush is a ministry that typically attracts backpacker minded people and takes them in disciples them in biblical worldview and teaches them how to minister to post-modern thinkers. Then we take them out on what is called the backpackers trail on the east coast of Queensland and we travel with backpackers seeing all the sites they see and relating to them getting close to them and influencing them both through our lives, our love and our words. We often see travelers who are searching for something end up finding that eternal answer that they didn't even know they were looking for, in other words, many salvations. Now thats the beach side of things, in the bush we go to rural communities were there are few pastors and the do maybe 5 services a day at 5 different churches in 5 different towns. So we come and we serve the rural church like noones business. We show them the heart of Christ. And from that position of serving we have gained SO much influence, city councils and towns are now asking us to run events and giving us the town square to run an evangelism conference or just a concert for the youth where we can totally relate to the youth and befriend them and influence the town.
Thats the small picture of Beach2 Bush, the big picture is to gain sway with politicians and city councils being able to use that favour to run events, and what not. But this favour has even helped in getting us visas so the Lords workers can stay here and continue to work. Its helped in getting politicians voted in and getting the name of God out there, and it all started with and rides on the back of servanthood for communities. They love us because we truly show them Gods love and love them. Us a bunch of youth are having significant pull in political arenas and its only growing faster and faster. And THAT is what I get to be a part of for this season. Its going to be an exciting couple years.
And thats what my next year or two is all about. Exciting times. If you want to pray for something other than me pray for the influence of the Kingdom of God to continue to grow, and that he would use us as a willing vessel to do that.
Peace, Love and Prayers!!
P.S. - I hope this all flowed and made sense, I wrote it quite quick...maybe I'll proof read it if I have time later! Blessings in this New Year!
This Christmas was a lot harder than last actually, there was a lot of thinking about home and missing it. I think it was harder mainly because last year I was in India preaching the gospel to the lost, so I wasn't to preoccupied with where I want to spend Christmas, and what better way to spend it really! Telling people about the baby Christ, and the resurrected Saviour. This year I was serving on base building the new building and helping very practically, so I spent a LOT of time thinking about home. But I still know that what I was doing over this Christmas was eternally important as well. This building will be used to impact the world in big ways sending missionaries into Hollywood! From there they have a platform to impact the world in MASSIVE ways. Media is so strong.
But as for what I actually did this Christmas. I got invited to a friend of mines house for Christmas day and I got treated like a king, it was insane. We had lamb roast, pork roast and roast beef all for one meal, it was great. So I spent the day with a family, although not my own it was better than being alone. Then on New Years I went downtown Brisbane and watched fireworks on the River with some friends from the base, so that was also a great time. Overall its been a relaxing, fun holiday season.
Now for news on whats next for me, it has been confirmed that I will be leading the August Beach 2 Bush school, as well as joining the Beach 2 Bush leadership team. So my next years is full of new frontiers of leadership for me. I will be staffing one more school which starts up on January 14th I believe. Then instead of going on overseas outreach though, I will begin to plan the August school, which involves booking speakers, accepting students, spiritually preparing, getting a budget lined up and planning the itinerary for our internal Australian ministry and overseas outreaches. Its going to be a challenge for me, but its exciting to know that at the end of it I will have have acquired many useful skills for life and ministry. As well as doing all of this over the next year as a part of the Beach 2 Bush leadership team, I will be casting vision for the Beach 2 Bush ministry as well as helping to plan and make decisions strategically on cities we are trying to influence and places we are trying to gain favour in.
Beach 2 Bush is a ministry that typically attracts backpacker minded people and takes them in disciples them in biblical worldview and teaches them how to minister to post-modern thinkers. Then we take them out on what is called the backpackers trail on the east coast of Queensland and we travel with backpackers seeing all the sites they see and relating to them getting close to them and influencing them both through our lives, our love and our words. We often see travelers who are searching for something end up finding that eternal answer that they didn't even know they were looking for, in other words, many salvations. Now thats the beach side of things, in the bush we go to rural communities were there are few pastors and the do maybe 5 services a day at 5 different churches in 5 different towns. So we come and we serve the rural church like noones business. We show them the heart of Christ. And from that position of serving we have gained SO much influence, city councils and towns are now asking us to run events and giving us the town square to run an evangelism conference or just a concert for the youth where we can totally relate to the youth and befriend them and influence the town.
Thats the small picture of Beach2 Bush, the big picture is to gain sway with politicians and city councils being able to use that favour to run events, and what not. But this favour has even helped in getting us visas so the Lords workers can stay here and continue to work. Its helped in getting politicians voted in and getting the name of God out there, and it all started with and rides on the back of servanthood for communities. They love us because we truly show them Gods love and love them. Us a bunch of youth are having significant pull in political arenas and its only growing faster and faster. And THAT is what I get to be a part of for this season. Its going to be an exciting couple years.
And thats what my next year or two is all about. Exciting times. If you want to pray for something other than me pray for the influence of the Kingdom of God to continue to grow, and that he would use us as a willing vessel to do that.
Peace, Love and Prayers!!
P.S. - I hope this all flowed and made sense, I wrote it quite quick...maybe I'll proof read it if I have time later! Blessings in this New Year!
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