Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The Last Month

THe Last 4 weeks have been really good. We had four very good speakers the topics where on Biblical world view, Strategic mission thinking, mobilization, and this week is on Church Planting. All of the weeks where very good. My favorite one of the 4 was the one on Biblical World View. The speaker was a professor at a Christian University in Lithuania and has been a missionary for 20 years and a pastor for about 15 years. But he is incredibly smart! He took us back to when the whorl began and then ended up now and talked to us about where we come from where Christians come from. It was just a really good week I like things about world view it was a lot of history and I like that! It was by far my favorite week of lecture sense I have ben in YWAM. Don't get me wrong all of the weeks have been real good and the speakers really good but that was just the best.

We also joined in with one of the churches here in Herrnhut and there was a 100 hours of continuous prayer. So we joined in, we also lead some of the prayer times I helped lead one of the times in prayer for the persecuted church. It was a really good time. As a school we were also doing a fast we could choose how long we wanted to do it. It was a great time of God showing me things and speaking to me. In my personal times of prayer a lot of it was for my country. I believe that America is in a very important point and it is a make it or break it moment. So I spent a lot of time in prayer for that.

We also have ben doing outreach in the surrounding villages, It was 2 times a week in the afternoons. Now we have also included night prayer walks in some of the villages. We go a lot of the time from 10pm to 2am and we have had some really good times one time we where doing prayer and worship outside a bar and they invited us inside the bar and let us do prayer and worship in there. We have got to do a lot or really cool things. I really enjoy the night prayer times. It just seems like they are more powerful when they are done at night, I don't know. On saturday I will be going to G örlitz a town not to far away from where we live and we will be joining in on the global day of outreach and doing street ministry and things of that nature so I am very excited for that as well.  







This is a cool video that we saw in one of our weeks of lecture.
I thought I would show it you you. 



Saturday, May 5, 2012

Week 1

This was my first week back! It has been a very good week I have enjoyed it. I have been adjusting to the time change very well, fortunately I adjust pretty easy. The First week of my school was very good. There is 8 people in my school which is good 5 of them where in my Discipleship training school with me, so I am glad to be with some of the people I know. I am staying in a house that is about a 40 minute walk away from the wasserschloß or the Base where we eat and do have the lecture everyday. We are required to go to a 6 o'clock prayer 3 days a week but it is my goal to try and go all 5 days a week and try and get the discipline I would like to have in my prayer life.

The leader is Sam Hoffmann he is a mighty man of God he spent 18 years as a missionary in India so he really knows what it is like to be a long term missionary. Because the school will really be preparing us for when we become long term missionaries he is a very good man to lead the school.  He was the one giving us our lectures this week. The were kinda preparing us for what the rest of the school will look like. It was lot of getting started in long term missions and also looking as missionaries in the Bible and ho whey did it. It was a very good week I enjoyed it and I am also looking forward to what the rest of my time in the has to offer. There will be a different speaker coming to speak to us every week so it won't always be the same speaker every week. Also on tuesdays and Fridays we will be doing outreaches into the city. It was rally good on Friday I got to Play cricket with some guys from Pakistan it was a lot of fun building relationships with them.

If y'all don't mind praying for a few things.

#1 pray for me during the school that God will show everything He has for me and I won't miss anything and also for the strength to get up and go to the 6 am prayer meetings.

#2 also for a openness with the guys from pakistan that I will have continued opportunities to tell them about Jesus.

Thank y'all very much and God Bless