On the 9th Week!!

The Last two weeks have been awesome!! The 8th of Nov. to the 13th we went to Mandeville Jamaica and stayed at the YWAM base there. That week we really focused on doing outreach in the community there and team building exercises as we prepare for outreach in our individual teams. We got to go out into the town, going door to door spreading the good news of our Savior and praying with people. We got to work in the school on the property and teach in class about friendships and the qualities of a good friend. We also got to go to hold a youth service at a local church and go to a old persons home for retired veterans. It was such a great experince for us as a school. We got to sing for people, cry with people, hold people, and just show the love of God to so many people! Truly awesome!

So our outreach though for real is coming up in a little over a month. Our school is going to two different Nations besides Jamaica for outreach; St. Vincent and St. Croix. Renita and I and another couple on staff will be heading up the St. Vincent team. There are 4 students on our team. We are truly excited about this. Our team is really gelling well and the Lord is really speaking to each person on the team.

After the week in Mandeville we had an elder Jamaican woman come share on REDEMPTION and RELATIONSHIPS from the 16th to the 20th! It was truly an awesome week for Renita and I to listen to her teaching and really soak it up. She has been married for 51 years and she always tells us that her marriage continues to grow stronger each day! She is a truly precious woman! This really sparked a lot of things in the students and Renita and I were able to walk through/minister to some students at a real heart level. It is really awesome to see God be made bigger in persons lives knowing that God is actually using us to further His kingdom plans in other persons lives. We are so grateful for what the Lord is doing. Please continue to keep us in your prayers as we step into things that are unkonw to us. Praise the Lord they are not unknown to Him!

As far as outreach goes we are coming along well with direction for evangelism and ministry and accomadations, Praise God for all this! We have a contact actually on Mayreau who is the pastor of the only church on Mayreau. This is a huge answer to prayer. The pastor is really excited for us to come and minister and work along side him. We desire as a mission to partner and build up the local congregations not seperate them and hold ourselves higher than the church. This is also a very good thing as we go into long term relations with the church. We are super excited!!!!

We are doing well as a couple as well. We are looking forward to coming home for Christmas in three weeks. But we are really enjoying ourselves here in Jamaica working with the school. Its quite intense but We continue to look at each other and say "This is benefiting us more than the students." We are so blessed to be where we are even though it is hard in a lot of ways! Thanks to God for His Grace. We would be lost with out it. Thank you for your continued prayers!

7th Week: Fire to Freedom

Wow, the last three weeks have been much fuller than the weeks past. We are doing well though. The Lord is giving us Grace and He is pursuing Renita and I passionately right now. We feel like He is really purging us even more, which is kinda hard right now. But We know that it is for our own Good!

The DTS is full. We had a wonderfullast two weeks, just a little fuller than we would have liked. We didnt get to have a weekend off, we actually had a 13 hour lecture on Sat. and a 8 hour lecture on Sunday. So Renita and I are looking forward to this weekend and the students as well. This past week of teaching was on Discipline and living a life that is Concious to God. The week before that we had a Sexual Purity teaching and it was filled with ministry and some of the students and staff being set free from footholds and different things. At the end of the week of Sexual Purity the students wrote up a Covenant to God and they were given Purity Bracelets. It was excellent. The Lord used it and He is prospering us all!

One of the main things that you can be in prayer for is our planning our short term outreach in January and February. We bought our tickets and we will be flying to St. Vincent on the 8th and we wont be getting back to Jamaica until the 18th of February.

Also this upcoming week we will be going to another YWAM base in Jamaica(Mandeville) for the week. We will be evangelising and also building Team unity as we get ready for our outreach to St. Vincent. Thank you so much for all your prayers. Much blessings!!