Pictures!

All these photos are of the SOME team in philippines, they helped with feeding rebuilding and handing out Operation Christmas Child presents to the children in Tacloban, Philippines the most affected area of the typhoon that devastated the area. Please continue to pray for the people in the Philippines as the clean up and rebuilding of this area will be years in the making. Also please continue to pray for our team as they are in Bali right now working in slums, and helping with sex trafficking. 

Merry Christmas!

“God is real, He is active, and is moving!”

     Recently, the School I am running went on an outreach! It has been an amazing ride, and in a lot of ways it was hard. There were some really fun times getting the students to get excited about missions. Just seeing their eyes open up to the need of missions in the world was just wonderful.

         Also, seeing their passion to tell the lost about Jesus was remarkable! However, we had to make some tough calls that people didn’t agree with, and me being me I really want everyone to like and love me, but the more I get to know God, the more I realize that he thinks nothing like me or the people that are living in the world. God always test our hearts to show us if we are going to listen to other people’s opinions. And God showed me this quarter that I have to work on not being such a people pleaser. The thing that I am living for is Jesus, he is what I need to keep my eyes on. People will always have their opinions on what I am doing or how I do things, but in leadership you are never going to make everyone happy so you always have go with what you feel like God is saying! Bill Cosby once said “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everybody.” This, I think, is the most important thing I have learned this quarter.  I need to let God be God and not worry so much about people’s opinions. I cannot please man and God, I have to choose one.  So I choose to listen to God and that’s the direction I plan to go in life.                                                                                                              

         God isn’t just amazing, he does cool things as well. Over the past couple of weeks he has provided so much it has been incredible!  Not only is people’s generosity and belief in our school in YWAM mind blowing, but so is what God has been doing for our organization. A couple weeks ago a guy in my school needed 1100 dollars or he couldn’t go. God provided the money within a few hours.

     I just picked up a DTS team from the airport in Kona.  They have just flown in from Nepal and they reported they saw hundreds of healings and salvations! That is amazing! God is doing so much in Nepal! They told me they prayed for a man’s leg to grow back and it did! There are only two options for what they told me, either they were lying to me, or God is a real active God. They also said that they prayed for a mute child to get healed and his first words were daddy in Nepal! Man, God is incredible. He is real, he is active, and is moving. I want more of that in my life.

How things are going…

    Anyway, the biggest news is that the team from my school left for outreach  a couple weeks ago! They went to help with the disaster clean up for the big typhoon that just devastated the country.  We received a few thousand dollars to help with the work there to rebuild and help clean up!  They did really well  and now they are in Bali doing so much more ministry! I am so proud of them. I can’t wait to see what God does through them, they are such a great group of students that love Jesus and want to see him move.  

   One more change of plans, which we decided as a base to run the School of Missions and Evangelism school in April 2014. That means we are running our school twice a year! It’s really cool because it seems that what I am doing is being blessed! It also means that I am now going to be twice as busy. It is amazing what God is doing here in Honolulu and in my life. I couldn’t be happier! I know this is where I am supposed to be and what I am supposed to be doing with my life! In other news because of lack of finances I will not be able to come home for the holidays. I will be coming home in January though (that will be awesome). My heart really misses home. I can’t wait to get home and see everyone. I love all of you, and I am sorry I couldn’t come home for the holidays. Hopefully, at some point in my career in YWAM, I will have enough support to come home whenever I feel like it.  Anyway, I miss you and can’t wait to see you in January!

Please consider praying for the following:

-That God will speak students to come to our school in April

 -That God will provide more staff for our school

 -Pray that God would protect our students and staff on outreach in the Philippines and bless their ministry with healings and salvations and revelations.

-Pray that God will move in Indonesia

I hope that all of you have a great Christmas

Daniel

Christmas is coming! HOME!

Hey family! Just a short update on what has happened over the last month! Our school is going so much better than I ever thought it could! Our students are incredible they are falling more and more in love with Jesus! They are getting greater a heart for evangelism and mission. Our speakers this month spoke on contextualization, evangelism,  and missions! They were all amazing. We learned so much about how to bring the gospel into different cultures and making it something that they can understand, and not bringing our western ideas into the picture.  Relating culturally is so important because it makes people understand that Jesus is not some western God with western ideas, but he is a God of all peoples and he can relate to all of them and God is their God not ours.  I think as a church we need to update so much of how we do church so that we can reach the people around us and not make church so intimidating for people from the outside to go in. Anyways, It was very challenging for me I am learning so much!

Our School just  got back from a missions trip on Kauai! We had so much fun! The trip was great  preparation for our school . We got to work as a team for the first time in doing ministry. It was great preparation for the school going to Bali Indonesia. They leave on December 4^th to go for 3 months to bless the people of bali. Anyways, While we were in Kauai we got a chance to bless a Christian school by running their fall festival, and tearing down for it. Kauai is a very spiritual heavy place with lots of religions, heavy drug abuse, alcoholism and domestic violence. so we had the opportunity to minister to pastors and missionaries living there we had a night to pray and worship with them and encourage them. We also had the chance to go work at a festival with people from the Island of Ni’ihau, this was awesome because the island of Ni’ihau is illegal to go to for anyone else but the Hawaiians that live there. It is the last place for the Hawaiians to have their own land. This was really exciting to meet real Hawaiians who spoke Hawaiian we had a great chance to minister to them. It was also great to hear worship songs and the bible read in Hawaiian. We really just wanted to bless the YWAM contact Josh there who is trying to get YWAM Kauai established again. It was great to see him and minister to him and help get YWAM Kauai on the map! It was well worth the money spent on the trip.

Our school lecture phase ends in 4 weeks! They leave for outreach so soon. I cannot believe its almost coming to an end! I need prayer to finish well! I am really tired but I have the next couple days off so that is really good so I can get some rest to finish this thing out right. My hope and prayer for this school is to see the beginning of young people getting a heart to pioneer in the unreached places of the world to make Jesus known. The more I get to know him the more I want people to know him he is literally the greatest thing ever! I want people know the greatest thing ever. He is not just a religion but a real active God.  Just a testimony of that, we had a girl in our school that had a peanut allergy our speaker last week was speaking on super natural ministry and how God was real and active. Our speaker prayed for her and now she can eat peanuts! It was crazy. I was blown away. Jesus is amazing.

I have some prayer requests if you guys would like to pray for me.

1. I am speaking at our Thursday night meeting next month, I am really nervous so pray for me.

2. I want to buy my plane ticket to go home next month so pray that I can get enough money to pay for everything I need to here and then I need 900 dollars to fly home for the holidays. It has been over a year since I have seen my family and friends, I would really like to see them.

3. Pray that the students will finish well and seek Jesus even more that they will get a greater heart for missions and telling people about Jesus.

4. Pray that they get all of their money to go to Bali.

Have a great November!

He meets us through faith

God meet us when we step out.

This month God has been so faithful to me. Back in January when I was in China. I started out my quiet time (or devotion)  it was ordinary nothing really special about this time, I just wanted to hang out and spend time with Jesus. During this time Jesus spoke to me about this program that we run in YWAM (Youth With A Mission) called the School Of Missions and Evangelism (SOME). During that time he spoke to me and gave me vision of how the school should be run. The schools main goal is to give people a heart for the areas of the world that have no churches or Christian witness and send them there long-term to pioneer new works, most of the work that needs to be done is in Asia, So our school focuses on sending missionaries primarily to Asia. There are about 2 billion people in this world without a Christian witness which means theres not Christians, no missionaries, no church nothing. Most of these area are also the poorest and the most needy places. These areas for so many years have been completely ignored by the church. I feel that God has spoken to me to train and send missionaries to fulfill the great commission.

When God spoke to me about the school I had no idea what I was doing. I just knew that God spoke to me. So I just walked forward in it. God met me and gave me a great leader and staff. They are incredible. My biggest surprise though was how many students came to the school. The SOME the last few years has been a very small school or we haven't ran it. We just started the school and we have 13 students, I know that doesn't sound like a lot but its huge for the first one we have ran in a long time! Its incredible to see how when God speaks to you about something and he meets us when we step out.

I feel the last few months have been some of the most growing times of my life. I know no more than ever that you get to know God more intimately when we step out and go on adventures with him. He does want to know everyone, but you get to know the God at an even greater level when we step out and go for him. We may fail sometimes yes, but we get to know God that much more. I can say that God is faithful and speaks to us because of what he did the last few months. I can't wait to step out more in the future because I know that God meets me there. God meets us in faith.

We are met for intimacy with God and one of the greatest ways we meet God is in faith. Step out and get to know God let his Glory shine in the nation and he will shine through you. 

The best part about this whole thing is getting to know Jesus more. God is trustworthy I know from experience that is amazing.



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Obedience: Trusting in Gods Faithfulness: Issue 3

                 Lately, I’ve been thinking about myself as a human. How fickle I am. In the same day I can be excited about something and in what feels like a moment I am over it. The more I think about it the more I’m so thankful God is not like me.  If I was God, the world would be an awful place. The same goes for my relationship with him, one moment I am completely in love with and the next moment I’m not. I always seem to let something bring me down out of that high.                                               As a result, I have been thinking a lot about how to continue that fire. In a real way, not an emotional thing, but something daily that will keep me reminded of how amazing and wonderful God is. “Quiet times” are too forced for me. They become a legalistic thing for me. Sometimes, I don’t read my bible and then I feel bad,  like God is pissed that I didn’t read it. Or I don’t pray and I’ll feel bad and I think I’m a terrible Christian because I didn’t. All this brings me down a path of thinking I’m a terrible Christian, so, sometimes,  I give up and say well I’m terrible and I can’t do anything about it.  My relationship with Jesus has to be more then, quiet time, bible memorization, and journaling. That doesn’t work for me and I’m guessing that it doesn’t work for a lot of people. God doesn’t love me more for doing that stuff. The reason I am on this rant is because there has to be more to our relationship with Jesus than this. God is bigger and has way more for us than a half an hour to an hour a day.  I’m just saying Jesus said that He is, the way, the truth, and the LIFE. JESUS IS LIFE. He is supposed to be the thing that brings you, me, and the world life. I think God is bigger than your quiet time. Your salvation does not lie in how many quiet times you have, it lies in knowing God.                                   Moreover, I have been coming to the conclusion, lately, that Jesus is and wants to be in everything we do. He cannot be compartmentalized. He is not just a check on the list, that makes feel better about your salvation. HE is God, and wants to be with me in everything.  Which seems more like who He is, a living and active God. He wants to be with us now; when I am at the store, the beach, on vacation, reading our bibles, out with our friends, cleaning the garage, and mowing the lawn. God wants to move through me and speak to me. Jesus wants to be glorified in this world He wants me to be with Him in everyday life. God wants to give me a revelation of Him everywhere I am ,and whatever I’m doing. God is not just in church or in doing holy things. In order for us to reach the world, I have to view God this way. Peter and John were just on a walk to the temple and they healed a crippled man. They did this kind of stuff almost every day, and God used them because they knew that God wanted to be glorified in this world.                                         

                 We don’t have to go on evangelism times or do big outreaches if our life is glorifying God. It should be normal for us to tell people about JESUS. God wants to move always.  Are you willing to be open to him moving in your life and in all things? I’m starting this journey because I want Jesus to be in my life and not just a part of it. I want Him to be in everything (quiet times are not bad they are just not everything).                                                                        

                The theme of what I feel like God is telling me, throughout all of this, is that we have this mentality, as westerners, that God “saves” us from our sins, so that in the future we will go to heaven, because we are afraid of hell. So now we have to be good people because we don’t want to go to hell. We are terrified that God will send us to hell for sleeping with our boyfriend/girlfriend, so we don’t because God wont save us in the future (which is terrible theology by the way, and I am not telling you it is okay to sleep with your BF/GF before marriage). We think that as Christians, that God is a God that saves us and does things in the future, but what I am trying to argue is that God is and always has been a God of the present. God is here now, and when our mentality changes from a God that is going to do something later to God is going to do something now. If we change that, how we live life changes. We start to live in a world of possibilities, of what God can do right now, instead, of thinking of what God is going to do in the future. Doesn’t matter who you are, how old you are, and how smart you are, or what has happened to you in in the past. God wants to reveal himself to his creation NOW. He wants to use us to do it because he chose us the church to do it. God wants to meet you here and now. He wants intimacy with you here and now. Are you willing to surrender everything, in order to hear from him?

How things are going…

By: Daniel Whitson

September 19^th is the schools official start date. It is so close! I am so nervous about how things are going to work with the school. We have about 10 students, which is so much more than I expected .There is so much more that needs to be done. Pray that God will unify our staff as a team. That we would be humble and work together.                       

Working in the kitchen is coming to an end. I am happy about this, since I have been doing this now for the past 6 months I’m ready for a change, but it has been agreat learning experience.                                                                

 I am praying about what to do after the school. I have been considering staffing our Discipleship Training School in January. I am not sure about what I am supposed to do in that area, but it would mean that I have to take an outreach. It would also mean that I probably won’t come home until the summer time. I really want to come home for a visitm I really miss everyone. September 1st will be one year since I have been gone! This year has gone by so fast! I hope that I can come home for Christmas but the plane tickets are  between 800 and a 1000 dollars.  Pray that I can get the finances in order to come home!

My main prayer request is that I will stay focused on God during this school and not let my worry get the best of me and lean on myself. I really want to trust God, during this time, work hard, and not get paralyzed by stress or worry. God needs to be my strength and identity, not the school. I don’t want to worry about what other people say just worry about what God is saying. I really want to do this school well and I know that if I worry instead of trusting God that he is going to do something through this school than it won’t be as good then if I do. I will enjoy seeing God do great things if I trust him! Pray for faith!

How you can help…

     In order that I may continue to help equipping future missionaries and continue my mission work, the last thing that I am trying to do is reach a goal of support for the summer. I want to raise enough money to pay for my staff fees, car bills, gas, and bills for the summer.$4050 will cover all of my expenses for the summer. This doesn’t include spending money or savings. I hope that you will pray about sending me a onetime gift to support me through the summer! I have gotten 10% of my goal. Pray that God will provide the rest of the funds I need!

Your gifts are tax deductible

You can send your support to:

 Daniel Whitson, 2707 Hipawai Place, Honolulu, HI 96822

Checks made out to “YWAM Honolulu”  and put my name on the “For” line

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     Even if you can’t afford to send me support this fall, I would ask that you just pray for me and the school

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Contact Info:

Email: danielwhitson@gmail.com

Cell - 443-289-4517

Obedience: Trusting in Gods Faithfulness: Issue 2

“Lets go deeper”
 By: Daniel Whitson

       Lately, I have been thinking about modern day Christians. We as Christians are being influenced by the world way too much. We are always trying not to offend people. We care a lot more about the opinion of man than the fear of the Lord. If we want to see the world reached, we must take our eyes off of it and focus on Jesus and what He is saying. He is what is drawing people to Himself. We are just a vessel for Him. We can try to do things for God out of our will, but it is all in vain if we do not have the Spirit. Only God grows the seed. We can come up with as many church planting strategies as we want, but if they are not what God is saying, it is in vain. We are, as a church, in need of the Holy Spirit. We are in desperate need of the spirit because our man made strategies are failing. Church is boring, our programs are boring, and our evangelism is lifeless without the Spirit.  We need to stop being nice.
         I can’t tell you how many times I have heard nice Christians say, “Oh, well these non-Christians act like better Christians than actual Christians.” It makes me really angry when people talk like this. If we are trying to draw others to God by how nice we are or how giving we are, that’s wrong. If all we are looking for in Christianity is behavior modification, and that’s what it does for us, than we are just like any other cult, religion, or creed. We might as well become Mormon, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or a Muslim. If nice people are what we are looking for, then we should just become one of those religions or just be a nice person, do whatever we want and die. It’s not worth all the crap we get for being Christians. IF that is all God wants us to be, than screw it. I’m done. I’ll move to Kauai, get stoned, and live in a hut walk around naked all day. I’ll be a nice naked guy.

So what does it mean to be a Christian?

       Think about the apostles, they were Jews coming from a religion of nice people. They didn’t need to change their religion to become nice caring people. Jews took care of the poor and the sick.  Look at Jesus, He wasn’t making any friends among the Jews, it seemed to me that He pushed them away. Yes, He loved people. Yes, He loved the sick and wounded. He fed the poor and He was compassionate, but it didn’t seem like he was trying to draw people in by being really nice. It seems to me that he drew people by His power and the Apostles seemed to have moved in the power of the Holy Spirit. When I read 1 Corinthians 2, Paul says,  he didn’t try to use nice words or deep wisdom, he said that it was the spirit and power moving in him, so that our faith wouldn’t rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Moreover Jesus said, “Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you cannot follow me” (John 6:53). He also said, “Unless you curse your father and mother you cannot follow me” (Matthew 10:37) I am tired of trying to be really nice so that people will come to know Jesus and I don’t think it works. I think that people are looking for a Christian that is not nice, but a Christian who is real. People need something real to place their faith in because there are so many fake things the world puts in their way. A real Christian truly believes that God is here and now, and not only must a real Christian believe that God is real, but, he or she must have faith in the power of the one TRUE God. 

       God is here and now. God is powerful.  The only thing that is holding us back from a God that is active in our lives is obedience. Are you willing to move further into obedience with Him? The more we lean on Him the more we will see Him move in our lives.  Is our focus on God, or is our focus on our comfort? For most of us, it is our comfort. If we really cared about God and the nations, we would live far more radical than we do now.

       Let’s get crazy about Jesus, lets lean on Him, and watch Him do things that we couldn’t think or imagine.

How things are going…

By: Daniel Whitson

       My main job at YWAM Honolulu is to recruit, train, and write the curriculum. This job is getting more intense by the week. We need more students and are currently looking for teachers, and a classroom.  So please be praying for that. We start very soon, so pray that God will provide all we need so that we can train the best missionaries possible.  Every day, I get a little bit more stressed about the school. We currently have 8 students but are hoping for 15-20. We have a few confirmed speakers, but there is still so much we need to get done by September!

       I continue to go down to china town weekly. I have made friends with a few homeless men in Chinatown.  One in particular, Chuck, has been breaking my heart. Every week, I meet him across the street from where we do prayer and worship. He is usually drunk. He usually tells me the same stories and asks me the same questions.  Every week, he tells me that he is going be out of downtown the next week. He cannot walk because he has been sleeping on the street so much his legs can’t take it any longer. He gets drunk because it takes the pain away and he doesn’t want to take drugs. At first, I thought it was my job to try to get him off the street and save him, but it doesn’t seem that he wants to get off the street or change his situation. In Hawaii the homeless situation is the biggest problem for tourism, so they throw millions of dollars at programs and housing programs to get them off of the street. Most of the time in Hawaii, when people are homeless it is by choice, not because they can’t get off of the street. Now I realize that all I can do is pray that God will change his heart and love him like Jesus would love him. I love doing homeless ministry, it is one my favorite times of the week. I get blessed by blessing other people.  We as Christians have the greatest gift to give others, the love of God. The greatest injustice in the world, is that people don’t hear about Jesus, his love, and forgiveness toward us. It is up to the church to share the greatest message. We as Christians should burn to tell the world about Jesus, because he really is the only way that we live.

       My other job on the base is to cook in our kitchen, I cook breakfast and lunch for the base every day. Lately, I have genuinely enjoyed working in it. I like learning to cook and serve people, it truly is service.  Since I don’t get paid to work on this base, it challenges my heart everyday to view this as service. Learning to serve is the greatest thing that I can learn

       There are a couple of other things I do on the side. First, I lead worship at the base several times a month. Also, every Thursday, I play the bass guitar in the new worship band, for our weekly community meeting.  I feel so blessed that God has blessed me with a little bit of musical talent to where I can lead worship. It’s amazing. Furthermore, I am on a team where we try to take care of the people YWAM has sent out long term to Asia. Every week, I share about their ministry and what they are doing in Asia .Then we pray for them and take an offering. YWAM Honolulu is trying to take better care of our long term missionaries. Moreover, this is a way that I can practically help to encourage them, pray for them, and take care of their needs. Our base is currently running two schools. One is called Discipleship Training School (DTS), and the other is Chronological  School of Biblical Studies(SBS). Our  Korean DTS has  8 students they are in the first weeks of DTS. The DTS is a great program that  radically changes the lives of people who do it.  We have one DTS team that is currently in Bangladesh, they are seeing people come to the lord and are going to unreached areas to preach the Gospel all over Bangladesh.  We are so proud of all of them and are stoked that they are bringing the gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth. Our SBS is studying the bible chronologically, which is one of the next steps in being trained at our base. Also, in this program, the students study the Bible inductively trying to see from the eyes of the original readers, see how they would have viewed it, and taking that and applying it to their lives now. These school are the way we train our missionaries, so that when they go out to do long-term missions they will be as equipped as possible.

How you can help…

     In order that I may continue to help equipping future missionaries and continue my mission work, the last thing that I am trying to do is reach a goal of support for the summer. I want to raise enough money to pay for my staff fees, car bills, gas, and bills for the summer. $4050 will cover all of my expenses for the summer. This doesn’t include spending money or savings. I hope that you will pray about sending me a onetime gift to support me through the summer! I have gotten 10% of my goal. Pray that God will provide the rest of the funds I need!

Your gifts are tax deductible                        

You can send your support to:

 Daniel Whitson, YWAM OAHU, P.O. Box  61700, Honolulu, HI 96839

Checks made out to “YWAM ”  and put my name on the “For” line

Let me know if you want to use a CC.

     Even if you can’t afford to send me support this summer, I would ask that you:

Pray for our school:

·       That God would send a lot of students that are passionate about frontier missions

·       For more staff because we are expecting our school to be pretty big and we need six more staff

·       For the right location for our school because we are out growing our YWAM base and are in need of another location to run the school

·        That God would raise me up to be the best most effective leader I can be for the school

Pray for this ministry:

·       That YWAM would have a permanent effective presence

·       That Hawaii would come up with greater solutions in getting people off the street, into permanent housing, and bringing people to know Jesus

·       That God would bring solution to addiction to meth in Hawaii

·       That there would be revival in Chinatown in Hawaii

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Contact Info:

Email: danielwhitson@gmail.com

Cell - 443-289-4517

Obedience: Trusting in Gods Faithfulness: Issue 1

“I’m going for it.”

By: Daniel Whitson

I live my life according to what God tells me to do. Some people call that crazy, but I don’t mind it because to know God, to see other people come to know him and understand what real true life is, makes all the negative criticism worth it.  I am not talking about the laid back, “I believe in Jesus just to get into heaven type of Christianity,” but a “Hey, God is reality. He is not something I make up in my mind type of Christianity”. He is going to ask me to do bigger and crazier things in my life the more I am faithful to him.

     When I was 18, I heard a call from God to go and do a DTS (Discipleship Training School) at YWAM (Youth With a Mission)in Honolulu HI which, at the time, I thought was crazy. I learned in DTS, that my life was no longer my own if I surrender my life to Christ,  that God ran it, I am not the boss anymore, and that to obey God was faith because it meant I trusted Him. As a result, I have endeavored to live my life that way.     

     Everyday, I pray and I trust that He is speaking to me and I move in that direction. Every Friday, I go to Chinatown here in Honolulu, with a group of trainees or seasoned staff, and we reach out to the homeless. Usually, we try to buy some McDoubles and hand them out to people on the street. The other day, I was talking to a man that lives on the street, named Cliff, and he told me that people would come around tell him about Jesus, tell him to change his heart , repent,  but he told me, “All I could think about, while they were telling me about Jesus,  was that I was hungry.” So it helps that we hand out the McDoubles because it makes room for us to share about Jesus and show them that we actually care, that we are not just trying to shove religion down their throats. During my time in the mission field, I have learned that people need to see that love is genuine; McDonald’s hamburgers apparently help us show that at times.                                  

    Ever since I learned to trust Him, I have lived my life completely reliant on God, and He has never come up short. I may not see what He is doing, but that is not up to me because it’s about simple obedience.  Obedience helps me to trust God, which helps me to get to know Him, and as it turns out, knowing Him is eternal life. God not only wants us to obey Him in order to bring glory to Him, but he also wants us to obey Him so that we can share in eternal life with Him. That is the point of faith. That is why I do what I do, to get to know God, and to live my life as it was meant to be: In complete obedience to God because that is True Life.

    One day, I will look back on the times when He spoke to me and say, “Hey, God this time is hard, but I have seen You move in my life. I’m going for it, I’m moving forward because I trust You, and I want to see You move in miraculous ways.” This type of faith brings freedom, peace, revelation, but it’s not easy. The environment around you tries to make you feel like you’re a loser and you amount to nothing. Throughout my time as a missionary, the latter criticisms are all things that I have felt or heard from people. As I am getting older these negative criticisms seem to be getting worse, but I trust God. I trust in His faithfulness, not only because it says it in the Bible, but because I have found Him to be faithful in my life.

       Earlier this year, YWAM appointed me the new leader for The School of Missions and Evangelism (aka The SOME)! Through this school God has used people to help pioneer YWAM India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Taiwan. As a result, thousands of people have been affected, discipled, and come to know Jesus through YWAM in these areas. This position is very intimidating to me, but I know that, with God, I can do anything, I have the confidence that this is going be amazing, and God is going to work through me in awesome ways. My personal goal for the school is to send out 45 missionaries over the next 5 years that live and work in unreached areas. The goal may be big, but I know that God will send us the right people to train, and inspire to go out. So I’m going for it!

My other job on the base is to cook in our kitchen, which takes up most of my day. Working in the kitchen has been challenging for me. It challenges my attitude and faithfulness. Honestly, I do not have the greatest attitude toward cooking everyday, but God is challenging me to be faithful and keep a good attitude in everything I do. However, I am learning things about cooking I never knew before, and I love working with people in the kitchen. They have been very thoughtful and kind (and very understanding, too).

My main job at YWAM Honolulu is to recruit, train, and write the curriculum to make the best missionaries possible.

       There are a couple of other things I do on the side. First, I lead worship at the base several times a month. Also, I play the bass  in the new worship band, every Thursday, for our weekly community meeting.  I feel so blessed that God has blessed me with a little bit of musical talent to where I can lead worship. It’s amazing. Furthermore, I am on a team where we try to take care of the people YWAM has sent out long term to Asia.

     Every week, I share about their ministry and what they are doing in Asia .Then we pray for them and take an offering. YWAM Honolulu is trying to take better care of our long term missionaries. Moreover, this is a way that I can practically help to encourage them, pray for them, and take care of their needs. Our base is currently running two schools. One is called Discipleship Training School (DTS), and the other is Chronological Biblical Core Course (CBCC). Our DTS has 6 students and they are going on an outreach to Bangladesh, which is a very poor unreached country. We have 3 teams out right now on their outreach that we have trained and sent out one in Cambodia, one in the Philippines and one is in New Zealand. All of these teams are serving and making an impact. We are so proud of all of them and are stoked that they are bringing the gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth. Our CBCC team is studying the bible chronologically, which is one of the next steps in being trained at our base. Also, in this program, the students study the Bible inductively trying to see from the eyes of the original readers, see how they would have viewed it, and taking that and applying it to their lives now. These school are the way we train our missionaries, so that when they go out to do long-term missions, they will be as equipped as possible.

How you can help…

     In order that I may continue to help equipping future missionaries and continue my mission work, the last thing that I am trying to do is reach a goal of support for the summer. I want to raise enough money to pay for my staff fees, car bills, gas, and bills for the summer. $4050 will cover all of my expenses for the summer. This doesn’t include spending money or savings. I hope that you will pray about sending me a one time gift to support me through the summer!

Your gifts are tax deductible

Support Address: Daniel Whitson, 2707 Hipawai Place, Honolulu, HI 96822

Checks made out to “YWAM”  and put my name on the “For” line

Let me know if you want to use a CC as well

    

Even if you can’t afford to send me support this summer, I would ask that you:

Pray for our school:

·       That God would send a lot of students that are passionate about frontier missions

·       For more staff because we are expecting our school to be pretty big and we need six more staff

·       For the right location for our school because we are out growing our YWAM base and are in need of another location to run the school

·        That God would raise me up to be the best most effective leader I can be for the school

Pray for this ministry:

·       That YWAM would have a permanent effective presence

·       That Hawaii would come up with greater solutions in getting people off the street, into permanent housing, and bringing people to know Jesus

·       That God would bring solution to addiction to meth in Hawaii

·       That there would be revival in Chinatown in Hawaii

Email: danielwhitson@gmail.com

Cell: 443-289-4517