Our 12 week lecture phase has just concluded and we are now heading into our 7 week outreach portion of the school. We ended the school with a final teaching of evangelism. It was such a great teaching that got the class all fired up to speak about the love and wholeness of Jesus Christ.
We will be departing the 14th of October and spending nearly 4 weeks in Bali and have our accommodation arranged with the YWAM base in downtown Bali. We will be fully emerging ourselves into the busy 3.2 million people population with a mindset of straight evangelism. We are planning to be visiting hospitals, prisons, and rural areas to really immerse ourselves into the culture for the short time we are there for. Indonesia is considered the largest Islamic nation of the world with the outer main lands of Indonesia being populated with over 220 million Islamic believers, although Bali is nearly 95% Hindu in there belief systems.
After our 4 week outreach on Bali we will then fly into Christchurch In the south island of New Zealand to be a part of the rising up of 30,000 New Zealand youth into the idea of helping the world’s justice and poverty issues. Were all packed up and ready to go so please be praying for us as we head off into such an amazing and intense place such as Bali, Indonesia.
On the 4th of October I had the opportunity to have a live video call with North Hills Church to be able to share with all of my friends and family what God has been doing in my life while on the mission field and they so kindly took an offering for me to help me with my finances in getting a plane ticket home and paying my staff fees. The church raised over $3000 for me which covered both airfare and staff fees. It was a complete answered prayer for I was trusting God for a lot at that time and I knew heading into outreach it would be very difficult for me to be raising support while in the 3rd world. I would like to give a huge thanks to all my friends and family over at North Hills Church for there amazing love and generosity towards my financial situation and simply just bringing me the well needed encouragement in perfect timing. It is so amazing to have the support of my family and friends while being nearly 3000 miles away from home. I feel so loved. Thank you once again for being vessels that the lord can use to bless others.
Also I would like to thank everyone for there amazing prayers and support towards me over these past 16 months. Without your guys’ prayers I wouldn’t be here doing what I am doing in the mission field today.
Continue to be praying for Gods protection over both teams going out on outreach. The other half of the team will be leaving for Papua New Guinea on the 15th and fly back into NZ one day after us. They will have quite the journey as they are heading into an extremely rural location such as PNG.
I will my best to keep you all posted throughout the outreach but please feel free to email me anytime you would like. Thank you for reading my latest Blog and Bless you.
