The Final Leg

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you! I pray that God will seriously bless your lives and increase them in this New Year, but I also pray that we would all learn new depths of blessing others and blessing God in exciting ways as well. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Christ, the church, you, me we are all blessed to be a blessing, whether serving someone, selflessly loving someone, encouraging someone, being generous with our lives and overflowing. I hope your Christmas season you were blessed as we enter another season of overflow into those around us.
Some amazing things have happened over the holidays! God has really been showing me that He is with me and will be no matter where I am. I have been on Holidays and not on our centre or "working" for almost a full two weeks now. I have travelled to Toowoomba, Mt. Tambourine and gone into the city to see some beautiful fireworks. And in this time God has put people around me who have either been inspired by my life or just felt like they should talk to me, two of these people came to know Jesus during this time.
This is really important for me knowing that I am coming home in a month, working and going to University. I am leaving, though only for a season, the mission field. BUT God has shown me while on a two week holiday that the love of God overflowing from my life is not going to stop producing fruit just because I come home, it is changing multiple lives even over these two short weeks. God has given me a vision to be in school, but to also be networking with Christians, meeting as "home churches" and heavily influencing people around me through God's heart.
One of these guys who got saved went to church the next day. He texted us and asked us to visit in Mount Tamborine this coming Sunday to visit and talk to him about God. We met at Mt Tamborine, he came over and talked to us and said that he just new he had to talk to us. He poured out his life and as we were leaving and had to go, he stopped us and said that he was sorry for talking so much, he wanted to hear who we were and what we did, because he felt drawn to us and wanted to know "what we were about".
We shared with Him for about 3 hours about God, about relationships, sex and how God sees them. About God's law and why God has boundaries, not for the sake of rules but for our own well being. We gave him counsel on relationship issues, told him how to stand strong in the Army (which is what he does) and influence rather than be influenced. But most of all, we encouraged him and he couldn't stop saying that he had the most fun he had had all year with us and was inspired by how we live. He and his girlfriend are finding a home church, we prayed with him and he is truly pursuing God. He will have many struggles but is headed into the arms of God.
Again, all of your support and people who are actively praying and creating a financial support network that allows me to do what I do...you have enabled me to be where God wants me in this time. You have allowed me to be in God's will, and therefore producing fruit like this consistently over almost four years. Thank you so much.
I just want to update you on my needs, seeing as I am coming home and have many at the moment. I am needing to find the finances for a plane ticket home, for my last couple months rent, food, and just before I leave I get my electricity bill (unfortunately), all up this is going to cost me about $2500 Canadian. This is a mountain for me as I have been struggling financially for that last while, I have great friends here and many of them have paid for me to enjoy a vacation at Mt. Tambourine and Toowoomba this holiday, but many of them are in situations similar to mine. If you are interested in helping me in these final months of my time in YWAM Brisbane please let my mother or I know. It would truly be a blessing and would enable me for two more months. I do need to start hunting for a plane ticket in the next week to make sure that prices to go up to much. Thank you all again, I really do love you all and am looking SO much forward to getting home to visit!

Your friend, son, brother, sister (wait no...) in Christ
Peace, Love and Prayers!
Adam