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