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 4th
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!
