Week one has come and gone.

YWAM Jax Beach Winter 2013 DTS: Staff and Students

It's gone already??

Well week one is finished. Funny how when you are in the middle of it how slowly it goes, yet in the grand view of things in a blink of an eye it's gone. I DTS. This last a very full week of details. We also had many chances to start getting to know the students and even getting to already hear real battles that they have overcome and are continuously fighting to overcome.  I also successfully made it through the week without injuring myself, referring back to the first week of the Fall DTS. I am so blessed and honored to be apart of what God is going to do through the above team and you can be apart of it too (I'll tell you how shortly). 

This week it has been awesome to see these students putting 100% into everything they do from work duties, to stepping up when challenged to share their testimonies, and even getting their out of class assignments done early. It has also been even more amazing to see that their hearts are truly engaged to grow as close to the Lord as they can, and are willing give everything they've got. I truly am honored to get to walk with them in this process. As for myself it has been a little strange because I have been dealing with insecurities, and stepping out of my comfort zones in areas that I in no way shape or form feel like I am capable to succeeding within, yet everything I've done I have completed and feel like God taught me through. I am definitely in a season of being stretched and in fact he's already been preparing my heart for that, by sharing with me in one quiet time that I am going to learn what it means to make Him Lord of All my life. So, I am excited for this journey personally, and the fact that I have close to other forty journeymen that I am going to get to travel with.

What's the goal??

We are all setting out as a full team of YWAM Jacksonville Beach to raise close to $250,000 in the next 5 months within this tuition free Discipleship Training School. Each student that was accepted was give the personal goal of raising $7,500 to pay for the expenses within a DTS. Yet, if they've done everything they can to raise the money we as  team would be raising so al funds raised goes to the benefit of the team as a whole. 

Yesterday, we were separated into 3 small teams which will be our outreach teams so we have smaller numbers to race towards. My team (that I will be leading into the 10/40 window to take the Good News) has a wonderful mix of people and contains 13 young adults. My team needs to raise a total of $82,500 to be funded fully (that's just the students). Ansley and I, as their leaders, have to raise enough for our individual monthly expenses, and raise the money for at least our plane tickets/visas so I will estimate that we need to raise probably close to $10,000 between the 2 of us. Calculating all the numbers my team needs to raise $92,500. Seems like a large sum, and in many cases that is a large sum, but we know that we are all where God wants us and are committed to working together to raise the funds necessary to complete the task the Lord has set before us. Note: any prayers you can lift up would be greatly appreciated and if you would like to partner us in the ministry through YWAM Jax Beach please feel free to give by clicking the above link. If you have any other questions just email me at mistylwallace85@gmail.com.

Prayer points??

-That we would raise the funds necessary to pay for all expenses of the school, and to raise over the amount to get the base out of debt.

-That our hearts would be open for the growth that the Lord wants to extend to us.

-That we as staff will acquire all the tools necessary to be there for the students in every way possible. 

-That we will be a blessing to everyone we come in contact with.

-That lives will be changed.

-Personally, that I gain the partnerships necessary to continue in the ministry that the Lord has called me to through YWAM Jacksonville.