I just finished (what I believe to be) my last page of homework for the course I am taking. Its been an intense couple of weeks, balancing homework, thinking and planning for the new school, processing lectures, time with God and keeping a good attitude in the freezing cold while sick and tired and homework from a boring (although very useful) course. It was not my favourite two weeks to say the least, haha. But my CHOICE to have a good attitude paid off and I got so much vision for the school and revelation for my life. God even did a lot of character developement through the circumstances, love it, kinda!
I have to do a simulated teaching session tomorrow, then I head home on Saturday to continue planning the school, preparing my staff team and training them for the school ahead. The school I am currently staff on will still be on outreach and returning home within the next month! I will also have to wrap things up with them. Specifically the three men that I am mentoring. I am quite excited for what God is going to do in the nations for this next outreach. I'm always excited about the individual growth and break through, but I feel like this school is going to be a school with momentum and we are going to be able to be very outward focused. I'm excited to be able to train people in and for missions rather than focusing on their relationship with God. I want that to be strong and it will be a training focus. But I feel like God is brining a school who is hungry and self motivated to know God, my job will be to train them to preach, teach and bring the Spirit of Christ to every nation they step on. Exciting stuff! I'm ready and more importantly WILLING. Here I am send me Lord!
Update soon from Brisbane. Blessings!
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
A Hello From Melbourne
Hey everyone. I'm down in frigid cold Melbourne at the moment and I have determined that I actually have less Canadian blood than I do Aussie, its probably about 10 degrees (maybe more and I'm just a wuss) and I am wearing long undergarments, tshirt, long sleeved shirt, jumper, scarf, touque, gloves sometimes...wooly socks...and I'm sleeping with a hot water bottle, its RIDICULOUS! haha. Anyway, in case some of you don't know I am taking on a new role on base of school leading, and I need to take a two week seminar on training and assessment that is basically designed to help me effectively transfer my passion and knowledge and funnel the speakers that we have passion and knowledge into the lives of our students. So far its pretty good, I have taken the first phase of this course and it was very boring, but also pretty useful, this course is supposed to be done over a year (the second part that I am doing now) but we are cramming it into two weeks and I will get a cerftificate for it.
It is a mandatory course so the tuition and the room and board are covered by my centre, but the flights and spending money aren't. It has been a while since I have really put a financial need out there, but this trip is actually setting me back quite a bit and support is becoming scarce at the moment, which is completely understandable and I thank you all for your continued prayers regardless of ability to give financially, its completely amazing! But I would just like to put a prayer request and a need out there that at the moment I am having to take care of some business for this next season of ministry that is requiring some financial costs and if there is anyway you would be able to help me in covering these costs I would really appreciate it and it would be extremely helpful so I could continue paying my bills with the rest of the support I am getting.
So if you could just pray for my financial situation at the moment and maybe ask God if you can fit it into your budget to help me in this specific time, that would be amazing! And if not, please help me through continuing to pray that God would finance what I do over here. I love doing it, I know its what I'm created for and God is continually confirming that I am exactly where He wants me to be!! So thank you all again for everything you support me with and your continued throughts and prayers. At the moment I am just praying about the outreach locations for the new school and I am thinking possibly India, Thailand and Malaysia, but that is depending on what the base is setting its sights on in the moment as well. And I may be leading a team to one of these locations come December seeing as we have limited staff on my school to do so.
I truly am excited for what God has for this school and how He is going to channel His vision for each life through me in this time, I just pray that I will be an empty vessel that He can work through.
At the moment we have 13 students I believe. 7 from North America, 6 from Europe, 5 girls and 8 guys (which is unique to have more guys than girls, I'm glad God is rising up some amazing men of God for this school). And the ages ranged from 17 to 29 so its an exciting and diverse bunch and we should have about 5-8 more students according to what God has spoken to me!! Praise God!
Anyway, my hands are too cold to type from down here, haha. If you would like to help financially get a hold of my mom at smarsh6216@rogers.com or 1041 Snowberry St., Oshawa, ON, Canada, L1K 2H9. Thanks so much guys!! Really appreciate it!! Blessings on you all. This is a cold cold Adam Marshall, signing off from Melbourne Australia!
It is a mandatory course so the tuition and the room and board are covered by my centre, but the flights and spending money aren't. It has been a while since I have really put a financial need out there, but this trip is actually setting me back quite a bit and support is becoming scarce at the moment, which is completely understandable and I thank you all for your continued prayers regardless of ability to give financially, its completely amazing! But I would just like to put a prayer request and a need out there that at the moment I am having to take care of some business for this next season of ministry that is requiring some financial costs and if there is anyway you would be able to help me in covering these costs I would really appreciate it and it would be extremely helpful so I could continue paying my bills with the rest of the support I am getting.
So if you could just pray for my financial situation at the moment and maybe ask God if you can fit it into your budget to help me in this specific time, that would be amazing! And if not, please help me through continuing to pray that God would finance what I do over here. I love doing it, I know its what I'm created for and God is continually confirming that I am exactly where He wants me to be!! So thank you all again for everything you support me with and your continued throughts and prayers. At the moment I am just praying about the outreach locations for the new school and I am thinking possibly India, Thailand and Malaysia, but that is depending on what the base is setting its sights on in the moment as well. And I may be leading a team to one of these locations come December seeing as we have limited staff on my school to do so.
I truly am excited for what God has for this school and how He is going to channel His vision for each life through me in this time, I just pray that I will be an empty vessel that He can work through.
At the moment we have 13 students I believe. 7 from North America, 6 from Europe, 5 girls and 8 guys (which is unique to have more guys than girls, I'm glad God is rising up some amazing men of God for this school). And the ages ranged from 17 to 29 so its an exciting and diverse bunch and we should have about 5-8 more students according to what God has spoken to me!! Praise God!
Anyway, my hands are too cold to type from down here, haha. If you would like to help financially get a hold of my mom at smarsh6216@rogers.com or 1041 Snowberry St., Oshawa, ON, Canada, L1K 2H9. Thanks so much guys!! Really appreciate it!! Blessings on you all. This is a cold cold Adam Marshall, signing off from Melbourne Australia!
Monday, June 04, 2007
Cont'
The second story that I did not get around to telling last week was about a Finnish guy I met in Airlie Beach. Joona (a variation of Jonah), had been backpacking through Australia for a few months at this point and stopped in Airlie to see the usual sites. He had been traveling with his girlfriend of 3 years and they had started in Sydney and gone all the way south and right up the middle through the outback, than down from the North through Cairns and stopped at this point in Airlie. This is a fairly typical backpacker route.
On this journey Joona and his girlfriend had made many friends from all over the world. And at one particular stop his girlfriend got a too close to one of these friends and cheated on Joona. Now Joona had to travel Australia with this girl and this guy or at least stay in Airlie with them. I won't go to into detail about what he was going through, but needless to say it was a tough situation for him to be in. Being in a foreign country on your own away from support or friends and actually immersed in a culture (backpacking) that tells you to escape your sorrows. Leave home, drink, do drugs, find false intimacy. People around him were challenging his character and suggesting that it was because of who he was that he lost his girlfriend. Telling him he had to be meaner and aggressive and angry. He was a great guy, but he was broken.
I was praying moment before I met him that God's presence would be so thick on the Chai Tent that people would walk in and just fall to their knees in tears understanding their need for Jesus and desperation in life. As I was praying Joona walked in and broke into tears and one of the girls asked him what was wrong and if he needed someone to talk to, then grabbed me to come and have a chat with him. We talked for a long time I prayed for him and encouraged him in who he was and to keep being who God created him to be. He just kept remarking that the wisdom I was giving him was completely contradictory to what everyone was saying, but he knew it was the truth and REAL wisdom. He asked how I could have so many answers if I have only just met him and heard his situation. I told him the bible has a lot of answers and God knows him deeply and intimately and its just a question of whether he wants to know God. We talked for many more hours and really got close. I took his mobile number and when he comes to Brisbane on his travels he is going to stop at our house and take a break from backpacking, hang around the base and plug into our community. Although he hasn't received Christ YET, he is only going to continue feeling empty on his journeys and will eventually get to the base and feel alive. God will definitely do something inside of him.
Praise God, please pray for Joona! He needs the prayers in this time. Yes that he would come to know jesus, but also that he would have strength in this tough time and meet REAL good friends.
On this journey Joona and his girlfriend had made many friends from all over the world. And at one particular stop his girlfriend got a too close to one of these friends and cheated on Joona. Now Joona had to travel Australia with this girl and this guy or at least stay in Airlie with them. I won't go to into detail about what he was going through, but needless to say it was a tough situation for him to be in. Being in a foreign country on your own away from support or friends and actually immersed in a culture (backpacking) that tells you to escape your sorrows. Leave home, drink, do drugs, find false intimacy. People around him were challenging his character and suggesting that it was because of who he was that he lost his girlfriend. Telling him he had to be meaner and aggressive and angry. He was a great guy, but he was broken.
I was praying moment before I met him that God's presence would be so thick on the Chai Tent that people would walk in and just fall to their knees in tears understanding their need for Jesus and desperation in life. As I was praying Joona walked in and broke into tears and one of the girls asked him what was wrong and if he needed someone to talk to, then grabbed me to come and have a chat with him. We talked for a long time I prayed for him and encouraged him in who he was and to keep being who God created him to be. He just kept remarking that the wisdom I was giving him was completely contradictory to what everyone was saying, but he knew it was the truth and REAL wisdom. He asked how I could have so many answers if I have only just met him and heard his situation. I told him the bible has a lot of answers and God knows him deeply and intimately and its just a question of whether he wants to know God. We talked for many more hours and really got close. I took his mobile number and when he comes to Brisbane on his travels he is going to stop at our house and take a break from backpacking, hang around the base and plug into our community. Although he hasn't received Christ YET, he is only going to continue feeling empty on his journeys and will eventually get to the base and feel alive. God will definitely do something inside of him.
Praise God, please pray for Joona! He needs the prayers in this time. Yes that he would come to know jesus, but also that he would have strength in this tough time and meet REAL good friends.
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