Outreach Overload

Hey everyone! I hope you are all well. I realize it has been a long time since I last wrote, so enjoy this overloaded summary of the past few months.

After I last wrote we spent two weeks at YWAM Southlands Melbourne, one of our sister schools. Here we finished lecture phase with Lordship week taught by Steve Ahern, and Radical Jesus week taught by Pablo Nunez, our old base director.

After those weeks we flew to the Philippines, where we spent 6 weeks, working with 3 different groups of missionaries.

The first ministry we worked with was Buhay, which means life in Tagalog, the language of the Philippines. While with Buhay for 3 weeks we spent time in the slums of Pasig Manila, Payatas Manila, Puerto Galera Mindoro, and Calapan Mindoro. In each of these places we got along side the Buhay team as they do life with the people in these communities. Kids parties in Pasig and Payatas, where we got to not only make 100's of kids day, but we got the champion the other volunteers at the same time. Home visits, prayer/worship walks, evangelism, late night hospital visits, and visiting sponsor children. I loved getting in and supporting Buhay in all they are doing.

The next week was spent with YWAM Manila, in the center of the city. During this week we did prayer walks, hospital ministry, and university ministry. One of our girls had the opportunity to preach at a local church, and I along with another girl in my DTS led a young adults Bible Study.

The last two weeks in the Philippines was spent with YWAM Nasugbu Batangas. We spent a lot of time with Kings Kids in a fisherman's village near by, doing a kids program, and we also taught the youth, World Changers, for three nights and spent a lot of time with them at a kids camp we ran, and a seminar we taught in Tagayatay. It was really hard to say goodbye to the Philippines, especially the World Changers.

After arriving back in Melbourne we met the YWAM Southlands Tasmania DTS for the first time as well as YWAM Byron Bay, Sunshine Coast, and Gold Coast. We hit the streets and evangelized for Flood Melbourne leading up to Awakening Australia, a massive event resulting in many salvation and baptisms.

After that week in Melbourne we drove back to Adelaide to prepare the base to host YWAM Tassie. This past weekend was spent at schoolies as part of the Green Team, a Christian Organization partnered with Encounter Youth who put on schoolies in Victor Harbor to give the school leavers a safe place to party. it was an exhausting but amazing 3 nights of rubbish pick up, photobooth running, and evangelism. I saw a few physical healings and a few emotional healings, I also had some deep conversations, and only had 2 people say no to prayer.

This week our base director Andre is teaching the Tassie DTS on Identity (my favorite lecture week) and we are serving them and doing evangelism in the city in the afternoon. Saturday we fly to Tassie where we will complete our last 2 weeks of DTS!

So there it is, my attempt at summarizing outreach so far, I can't believe how fast it has gone, and I am excited for the next 3 weeks, to see what God has in store.