Happy 2013!
Can you believe we are already almost half way through January? I feel like so much has already happened in these short couple weeks, so let me give you a brief update of the end of 2012 into what coming for this year.
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Me pictured in Urbana Daily praying for a
student to be directed and given clarity. |
December I got the chance to travel home and spend Christmas with my family, which was go go go but good to have gotten that chance because I know I am not always going to get those opportunities. The day after Christmas I left and drove to St. Louis, MO to represent YWAM International at the Urbana 2012 conference where 16,000 college students who are all interested in missions came together to worship God, gain some amazing teachings, and check out all the options available to them for the desire to do missions here in the U.S. and around the world. It was amazing but I am not going to say we were kind of shocked due to our booth, though we had a large space, lacking when it came to the visual appearance of materials in comparison to the other booths around us. That's where comparison is definitely not a thing of the Lord. All we, 14 YWAMers from around the world, could do was pray and to seek God's heart for our booth and pray that He would bring the right students to us. Well it wound up being that we had the perfect set up, not meaning to but it kind of was like a trap because the students would walk in the middle of the booth thinking it was the ally to the next aisle which would of course allow us to talk to them. I was so blessed to listen, pray, and minister to the students. It was so cool to see a theme as the students came by the booth. I felt that Lord was showing me the second generation koreans, cambodians, vietnamese, etc. were all telling me while at the conference they felt like God told them to go back to their home lands and do ministry there which was the last place they wanted to go but so beautiful to see God restoring and redeeming possible hurts of past generations through this current generation. Another cool thing was to work with YWAMers from all over and it be like family eventhough we'd never met before the day we all arrived. I learned so much and was blessed by each other them and pray that our paths cross again someday.
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Back row standing from the left: me, Justin Henry, Wikus and Christine Vorster, Mark Fisher, John Henry, Ryan Dutra, Craig, and Kevin Tsui. Kneeling the front: Zack Stevens, Ryan Unger, Katrina Stevens, Gabby Hurt, and Greg Ruhland.
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One amazing thing that happened while I was in St. Louis was that on the 29 of December my niece Emilee Anne Wallace was born. So January 1 once the conference was over, I drove straight to my brother and sister-in-laws house in Springfield, TN to hold and love on her before I had to leave the next morning to come back to Florida.
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| Miss Emilee Anne and Me |
They day came to come back to Florida on January 2. So Michael and Sarah Young and their boys Nathan and Eli and I loaded up and started our journey back. We were all reunited that evening with the staff that will be working together for the next 5 months with the Discipleship Training School that starts on January 13. We had staff training, and worked up to the the moment students started arriving. They will continue to arrive today and tomorrow and then we'll kick off at 5:30 P.M. tomorrow what is going to be an amazing adventure. For the next 5 months the staff and myself are going to be fully available to the students here who are longing to dive deeper into a relationship with God. We will have three months of lecture including teachings as simple as relationships and get into deeper subjects like Father heart of God, and Making Jesus Lord of all in our lives. It is definitely going to be a journey, but we are soo excited to partner with God and these students in it. After the lecture phase I am going to get to lead an outreach of a team of the students I have been working closely with and take the passion for the Lord to the nations. I know this season is going to be a lot of work, and the Lord has already told me in my personal walk it is going to be a hard but amazing season.
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