February Update!

Hello Everyone! 

It has been a crazy month trying to get ready for CAMBODIA! I cannot believe how quickly it's coming up...only 32 more days! I would love to tell you all about it, but I feel as if the Lord is telling me to show instead.  I've put together some videos of our Engage students here in Kona during their lecture phase.  I've also found a few more showing activities and how the Lord is moving here at the University of Nations campus . 

On Mondays we have lecture in the mornings, and then at night we all meet together in the Prayer Room for Ministry Night.  Here is a little look of what it is like...

The Lord moves in new ways every single week and is revealing to us who He is more and more. Some nights it's pure worship, other nights it's a time of prayer and silence.  People are being baptized in the spirit and the Lord is revealing little parts of Himself to us all the time!  Ministry Night is one of my favorite nights here on campus :-)

Every morning, Monday through Friday, we have lectures in our classroom for three hours. The topics that we have covered up to this point are Hearing the Voice of God, The Call and the Cost, Knowing God, The Nature and Character of God, Pure Heart, Sure Foundations, and then this last week we dug into the Bible and looked at different stories where God was making Himself known to His people. Our speaker, Trent Sheppard, had our students act out different Bible stories, which we will use on outreach, so here is a little look at one of those days.... (P.S. our students are AMAZING!)

Thursday evening is basically a church service called Ohana Court. The whole Campus comes together for worship and to hear a message from a speaker of one of the schools that is in session. This is just a great time to come together and worship as a community! This is also open to the Kona community, so we usually have over 500 to 600 people!  This video was from last quarter:

This next video was from this last Thursday night...

At the end of the week we pray for our speakers and pour into them because they have poured so much into our lives during that week. This was the first week of our Engage Discipleship Training School and we had 8 different students praying in 8 different languages for our speaker. What a blessing it was to be apart of such an amazing experience.  I love our students so much and God has amazing plans for this class!

At the end of the week we have Outreach Time! This is a time that our class breaks up into individual outreach groups and spends time together organizing and prepping for our time abroad, but also spending much needed time coming together bonding and becoming a family.  For our outreach time last week I knew everyone was getting tired, so I wanted to take them to go do something fun and have some much needed bonding time...so we did this :-)

I adore my girls so much and I am so beyond thankful for them. They have been so great, real troopers in  learning the Khmer language, and just bringing so much to this team already! 

Here is a little video of UofN Cambodia that gives a brief description of Cambodia, the struggles the Cambodian people face, how YWAM is serving this beautiful nation, and showing glimpses of different ministries we will be helping them with! 

I hope you all are doing well and I will be updating more next week once I have more information on our outreach.  Please continue to pray for our team as we begin final preparations.  I would also like to ask that  you place our financial situation on your prayer list also.  We are still in need of monetary support, so if you would like to help our little team of six in following God's call to serve the people of Cambodia it would be such a blessing.  We still have quite a ways to go in having our needed funding...any little bit can help and would be greatly appreciated.    

Love you and miss you all!!!