Luau and Street Evangelism!

It's the end of week 9! It has been the busiest week yet but in the end a lot of fun! This week our subject was evangelism. Stevie Lujan from another base in Australia came to speak to us. He was a lot of fun and had some amazing stories of evangelism that he has done. On Friday for application we prayed for a bit to see what God might want us to do and then went into the town square area. We were able to talk with people and share with them about Jesus and even pray with some. It was a really neat time. Evangelism is really easy when you think of it in terms of building relationships and telling your story. We all have a story of God's faithfulness to us in our lives. We just need to be willing to talk with others about it! I find that I enjoy praying with people. I was able to talk with and pray for about 5 people during our time. It was great!

Friday morning we participated in One Voice, a worship time with 9 bases around the world. Bases in Hawaii and Coatsville from the US, Mexico, Colombia, Switzerland and Australia participated through a Genesis link over the Internet. Each base had a band that led a worship song at different points in the morning. For us, the worship was from 5-7am. It was a great time and so neat to realize that we were all worshiping from all different parts of the world at the exact same time.

Friday night we all presented our research projects that we have been working on for the last few weeks. We all chose a topic of need in our world and then an area that we would research about. My group studied homelessness and because we are heading there in a few weeks we looked at homelessness in Mexico City. We found that Mexico City has a lot of street children and squatter communities throughout the city. We definitely learned a lot and look forward to having times where we can talk with and minister to people that are without homes.

Saturday was a Luau on base (see pictures)! Island Breeze is a ministry of YWAM that ministers through cultural dance. Most of the dancing is from islands in the South Pacific. We had a great time at the Luau. The food was phenomenal and the dancing was so much fun! It was fun to see everyone dressed up from our school as well! The Luau was a fund raiser for the base towards a building fund that they are currently raising support for. Overall the night raised about $17,000.

This week looks to be a big week as well. On Wednesday all of our outreach fees are due. I know that people have pledged money to me and I believe I am close to having what I need. I don't know though that I'll have all of it by Wednesday. We are having one final fund raiser this week as well. On Tuesday we are having a walk-a-thon. As a school we are walking a 12K on Tuesday morning. We are hoping to have people support us per kilometer. If you would like to support me in the walk-a-thon you can do that one of two ways. First, you can pay by credit card by going to the Ywam Perth website (www.ywamperth.org.au). Once there, go to the donate/pay section. Fill out the form and put my name as the recipient. The other way is to send a check to my church for the amount. Make the check out to Suburban Life Community Church and send it to the address on the right hand side of my blog. If you have any questions you can leave me a comment and I will answer that! Thank you all for your support of me. Please pray with me that I will be able to have all my fees by Wednesday!

Thanks also for praying for my condo. From what I hear the pipe and condo below has been fixed. It was a bit cheaper than originally thought (Thank you Lord!!) and I'm pretty sure my insurance will cover at least part of it. Thanks for your prayers!! I am so grateful for all of you! Thanks for reading!!