OUTREACH
Its so crazy to look back at where I was at before I knew God.. I was planning on doing 2 years of community college and then transferring to a university and graduating with some kind of degree. I just picture God looking down and saying "dude you're crazy if that's all you think I have for you in this life, just wait." So here I am about to lead a team to MALAYSIA and INDONEISA A.K.A MALINDA doing the very thing that brings me the most genuine happiness in the world. Serving the most amazing God who just seeks to pour into me to have it overflow on to others.
While we are there, we'll be on the Island of Borneo the whole 7 weeks and for the first 3 weeks we will be working with the YWAM base out of Pontianak, Indonesia. The first week we will be helping out at an orphanage called "Living Waters" where they have over 450 orphans and they completely trust on God every month to provide the food and finances they need! After that we will be lead by our translator into remote villages for 2 weeks to share the gospel and provide help wherever needed. We then will take a sketchy bus 10 hours to go into Kuching, Malaysia where we will spend the remaining 4 weeks. The first week we will be doing more village ministry and the last 3 weeks we will be in the city of Malaysia doing a lot of church and youth ministry. Along with teaching dance, art, and photography classes! So as you can see we have a crazy packed schedule and that's just an overview of what our time will look like there. Usually some extra things will be thrown in there by our contacts.
We have a team of 9 including me and my co-leader and we have met twice already! In those meetings we have been praying for Malinda and asking God what we should expect and we really feel like God is going to do some CRAZY things through us! God was saying that its so important that we're all looking to Him and not at what other people are doing and that we are moving out of love, not to see miracles. We also feel like He's saying he's going to use us to bring them back to God. So as you can tell we have some big expectations for God to move!
THE SCHOOL
In these past weeks our school has experienced a lot of freedom from our pasts. We had the Father Heart of God lectures with our base leader Dave Neibling and he was talking about the reasons we can't experience Gods love towards us. Even non-Christians know the saying that God loves them but the reason why its so hard for us to experience it is because we have so much wrong with our identity. God never changes, he always wants to shower us with his love and to move in our lives but the thing that does change is how we act day to day. But even more then that a lot of our identity is conformed to what has happened to us in the past. So for me, I realized how manipulative I am to receive peoples love. I'll get people to do what I want so that I know they love me but even after, I don't receive their love because that's not actually who I am. I'll just act a certain way to get what I want. A lot of that comes from our peers. We have to act a certain way to fit in and be a part of a group and if you actually show something that you're passionate about then you will automatically get ripped apart. So instead of having a lot of people being themselves we get people who think they're individuals but actually are conforming in their identity. It's really sad to be honest and that's why people will never truly experience freedom in their lives. For the students and staff these past weeks have been crazy! We're finally getting to a place where we can be ourselves and not experience any judgment but instead be lifted up closer to God.
Also, we're at a place where the honeymoon stage is over. At the beginning its so easy to love God and the people around us because everything's new. But now you start to see the things that piss you off about people and you notice that some days you don't feel like worshiping God or talking to Him. But that doesn't matter because Gods the same as when you felt him in that crazy worship time as when it seems like everyone's out to get you! So it's really cool to see what they will do, if they're going to be "feeling based Christians" or "ALL in Christians". I'll let you know that they choose!
PRAYER POINTS
-That they will choose God everyday!
-That we will be unified as an outreach team as well as a school
-Experience a greater level of freedom
-That we will be completely obedient to God
I appreciate all of your guys support and thank you for reading! Message me if you would like to catch up or have any questions!
PEACE AND LOVE
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