Fall SOME 2008

Welcome to our last week of outreach! We´re currently enjoying the south in Birmingham Alabama. We have discovered that sometimes things close super early here...we were evangelising on monday and discovered that everything in the area closed at 4pm and no one was around! So we did alot of interceding instead.
Today and tomorrow we´re working on a house with Habitat for Humanity. We didnt really know what to expect as most of us don´t have a great amount of building skills...Our contact had really simplify her explanation so we could actually understand what was going on.
We did have alot of fun though, at one point this afternoon Lori felt she could better relate to Noah after our building extravaganza. It was a pretty entertaining day.
 
We´re all shocked that outreach is going to be over the a matter of just days! It´s been an incredible two months.
With the end of outreach comes a great amount of debriefing...and thats going to cut this blog entry short. Sorry ´bout that.
Peace out,

Well we´re almost finished week three in Miami! We have been so blessed with great accommodations and incredible contacts thus far. We´re all really loving it here!
We´ve been working on the Miami Dade College Campuses with a campus ministry called WAVES. We spend four days a week on one of the two campuses chatting and praying with the students. This has been a really great experience for all of us; God is definitely working through us in incredible ways. Most students are pretty open to talking with us about what they believe and hearing what we think as well. This experience has really been a blessing for the team.
The past couple days have been spent doing "prayer stations". This has been a cool way to reach out to students as most students will admit they need prayer regardless of where their faith lies. We´ve been able to connect with a lot of students and begin building relationships through this.
On weekends we´ve been doing ministry and evangelism on south beach. We were able to spend new years eve there evangelizing to the party crowd until about 4 in the morning; we met some incredible people and were really able to meet people where they´re at. People were pretty open to hearing Gods truth and it was a really good night.
Since we´ve been here we´ve seen 15-20 people give their lives to the Lord. Praise God! It really has been incredible to see God working.
We´ll keep ya posted!
Peace,
Sarah Jane

Each week our students spend time focusing on prayer and hearing God´s voice. As we listen God often give us a chance to pray for other people and nations. We call this intercession.

Jake - Intercession is to pray on the behalf of others and praying specifically for certain details in individuals lives with a desperate and passionate heart.

Stacie - Intercession is a dialogue with God. It is getting Gods heart for a situation.

Eli - Intercession is like a family get together to focus our minds on the things above and to hear what God has for the nations.

WonJung - Intercession is talking to God and he lead me to future and forgive me.

Juliette - Intercession is asking God what to pray for, listening to his answer, then praying it out. It´s a totally awesome way to find out whats on Gods heart and impact the nations through prayer.

Brian - Intercession is God working through us. We ask Him what He wants us to pray for, He tells us, and we do it.

Blaire - Intercession is an intimate conversation with God; a time to listen and hear the desires of his heart.

Nathaniel - Intercession is hearing Gods heart and praying for it.

Sarah Jane - Intercession is a conversation with God in which one stands in the gap for another; hearing his heart and praying it out.

Aaron - Intercession is a clear way of communicating with God to understand his heart and/or love for a certain person, nation, continent or issue.

Kara - Intercession is standing in the gap for someone...coming to your daddy on behalf of your friend and at times putting more spiritual pressure where they can´t.

Sarah - Intercession is where I go to God completely submitted to him, praying on behalf of someone. I am asking God to reveal his heart to me for the situation, so I can pray it out declaring God´s promises.

Our School of Ministry and Evangelism students got a chance to hear author and international speaker, David Hamilton, share about world missions. We asked them what they thought about the subject he taught on.

Juliette: World Missions is seeing Gods desire for all people to know Him and finding ways to fulfill that desire.

Blaire: World missions is a passion of mine and i believe the key element in making Gods dream of all His children being saved come true.

Sarah Jane: World Missions is a calling to bring the gospel to all nations. Each individual has a role in this whether it be the call to go or the call to support those who go.

Brian: World Missions is an important part of every christian life. It doesn´t mean everyone needs to go out to a different country, but at least support a missionary that does.

Sarah: World Missions is here now, everywhere you go you can speak life into people´s lives. It doesn´t matter if you travel in your town or around the world.

Stacie: World Missions is going into all the ends of the earth and sharing the truth about Jesus.

Nathaniel: World Missions is taking Jesus Christ to every part of the world and showing his love through our words and actions.

Jake: World Missions is the need to accomplish the kingdom of God. It is what I am to live for all the days of my life.

We asked our School of Evangelism Students to tell us what their impression of YWAM is.

Jake - YWAM is a family that surrenders a time of their lives to know God and make Him known.

Juliette - YWAM is recognizing that God can and does call people of all ages, from all places, to do His work.

Brian - YWAM is a family whose mission is loving God, loving others, and bringing the gtospel to those who have never heard.

Blaire -YWAM is a family. People you trust, love, learn and grow with.

Nathaniel - YWAM is a group of people with a passion for sharing Christ with the world.

Stacie -YWAM is a community of people seeking to love God more and live a life telling the world about what He has done.

Sarah Jane - YWAM is a community of people all seeking to know God and bring His truth to the world.

Aaron -YWAM is a group of interdenominations. Inter-culture organization with a missions focus of training and sending out for the great commission of Jesus Christ. To know God and make Him known in the world.

Kara - YWAM is people that keep youthful zeal going...as they lay down themselves to seek the Lord and use their individual techniques to interact with their lost brothers.

Sarah -YWAM is an organization that is truly a family who love Jesus and deserve his heart for themselves and for the nations. YWAM reaches out to the lost by bringing friendship, commitment and Gods love.

This week Larry Allen spoke in the SOME about Presuppositional Evangelism. Here are a few choice quotes from the students regarding what they learned:

Nathaniel: This week with Larry Allen not only taught me but it caused me to think about ideas and ways of thinking about life for more than i ever imagined.

Sarah: We learned about value. Biblical view. Material view. Pantheistic view. Things basically dont make sense unless it is steamed of the truth of the word.

Blaire: I liked Mr. Allens explanations on value. It helped to get an even deeper understanding as to why God gave us guidelines like thou shalt not murder. Now I can explain why it is morally wrong, why God desires to protect his children. It also opened up my eyes to a whole new perspective on my and God´s relationship. It´s amazing to have a God who so desires to relate to us on all levels!

Kara: I learned that the trinity loved so perfectly through servanthood they created us out of that love. And through that, we learn how to love like the trinity in our relationships; which bring together teams. If we love in servanthood we will become one.

Sarah Jane: The Law of God is an expression of the Love of God - this really stuck out to me, God isnt making rules just for kicks.

Stacie: This week I learned about the fact that we are more valuable than stinky rotten tomoatoe juice because God created us in His image. He created us to live in relationship with him and that is how people differ from everything else on earth.

Juliette: This week taught me why christians believe as we do. Larry used presupposition to show us ways to poke holes in the logic of materialism and pantheistic religions.

The students of the School of Ministry and Evangelism took some time to share about this weeks teaching and what they personally learned from it. Here is what they said:

Eli, from Haiti
I love Ezra´s teaching on evangelism.

Sarah from Alberta Canada
This week was good, I was encouraged in that there is not just one way to evangelize. This week made me feel like I might actually be able to do this.

Brian from Minnesota
Through this week God has really shown me His heart for the different people groups in the world and how we need to share our faith, but do it with respect and sensitivity to other peoples beliefs. Evangelism isnt about winning a debate, it is showing others a way to live.

Blaire from Colorado
In my first week I was given tools to use when I go out to talk to people about Jesus. I was shown how to engage people in conversation and how to answer some of the most difficult yet common questions that people may have when it comes to christianity.
I think the greates lesson I will take away from this week is that even though we are going out and sharing the truth we have to stop and think about how we are going to deliver the truth. Soemtimes it needs to be blunt, sometimes it needs to be emmersed in sensitive language or actions. It helped me to see that even though I may be right in what I´m saying I need to be sensitive in how i present it.

Juliette from South Carolina
Learning about evangelism - specifically evangelism to other religions was eye opening. I have so much more confidence in how to reach out to people. God used this weeks teaching to give me a greater heart for the unsaved people.

Jake from Illinois
I learned how a good question to ask a muslim is...Do you read the Quaran?

Stacie from Oregon
This week showed me that God uses underqualified people all the time. He is able to use me just as I am even if I feel inadequate.