Team Blog
Gods provision!
So this is Amazing. I have been praying for more monthly support because I am barely making it with rent and such. Then one night I got really down because financial things seem so big and hard to get around. I guess I had forgotten that God is in control and is taking care of me. Anyways, it hit me one night that I would need money to pay for our 2 week mission trip to Amsterdam, money to go on outreach to Asia, and I had been wanting to go home in August but it was too expensive. Also my best friend’s wedding is in June in Atlanta (she's in the photo and did the DTS with me last year). She and her fiance had been saying that I should come but I was telling them I had no money to save to go. Well one night I was with my friends and they were saying that I should pray for it and I was a bit discouraged because it seemed that God hadn’t really been moving much lately in the financial area. I kinda half-heartedly prayed and carried on with what I was doing. The next day around 5 in the evening I got a text from a friend and I thought is said “I want to pray for you to go home to America in June.” I was like ok you can pray for me if you want. That’s strange that you asked if you could pray for me. You could have done it with out asking. Then I read it again just because I thought it was strange and realized that it said ‘pay for you to go’ not ‘pray for you to go’. I said “WHAT?! She surely missed out a letter!”. But sure enough she’s paying for me to come home in June for 2 weeks and I get to go to the wedding! She said she prayed about it and felt God wanted her to bless me. Thank you God. I felt He was saying to me that a daughter doesn’t only ask her Father for a few things because she thinks He won’t have much to give her. She askes for what her heart is longing for and believes He can give it to her. I need to do the same. That He has much. So so much and if I ask for little that’s what I’ll get. Ask big of God. So once again I can testify to the statement that God is Faithful. He takes care of your needs and wants.
By Nan Hurd
4:37pm, Sun May 18
Author: Carl
WELC and Spring Harvest
Following another week of working in the local community we embarked on a three week adventure that would take us through Europe and back again. We all piled into our maroon mini-bus and under the cover of stars journeyed down to Dover. As the sun broke out over a sleepy Dover we sailed over to Dunquerke and then drove the rest of the 15 hour journey through France and Belgium to the small town of Delden in Holland. We were here for the YWAM Western European Leadership Consultation, a five day conference drawing together 200+ YWAM leaders to discuss how emerging YWAM should look. I had been commissioned to make the bedhouin style prayer tent and to also make a series of installations, each day finding rubbish around the conference centre and using this rubbish to create art. I completely relished this opportunity and threw myself into it. Each day a new piece would go up on the stage. Carl, my base leader who had been heading up the conference suggested that I should get up in front of everyone and explain some of my work, as I did this and throughout the week God began to birth something in me.
As people responded to my work and engaged with it I realised afresh the power of art to communicate. As I chatted to people of various nationalities over food I began to catch vision of the possibilities that art has to unlock a lost generation, to communicate the kingdom of God in a fresh, exhilarating way. I could feel vision beginning to be conceived in me, a wave of excitement washed over me and it felt like dust had been shaken off and I was, really, truly alive, I could and still can feel this vision kicking inside of me. I don’t know how its going to manifest itself but I’m stupidly overexcited about the potential art has to communicate.
With all this throbbing in my mind and heart we left Holland and headed down the graffiti covered motorways of Europe to Dunquerke, on to Dover and then on to Minehead. Minehead every year hosts an event called Spring Harvest – a massive family festival held at Butlins to refresh and envision Christians. This was going to be our home for the next two weeks as we weaved ourselves into the kids team working with 8-11 year olds.
Kids are amazing. Full stop. We have so much to learn from them. The two weeks was both exhausting and inspiring. We had the huge privilege of seeing kids really coming out of their shells and genuinely meeting with God. Teary moments, tantrums, laughing, eating, crowd control, profound questions and revelations were all thrown into the mix.
By Dave Neveard
3:39pm, Wed Apr 23
Author: Carl
Carls time at B2B.....
Last week of Aug. and first week of Sept this year I led the 13th B2B which this time was in Scotland, YWAM's Seamill Base. For those of you who don't know, B2B is a basic leadership training course that lays foundations in leadership formation with a YWAM ethos. It is an intense, but brilliant course and often sees a number of breakthroughs in peoples lives pertaining to the outworking of vision.
This year we had a leadership community of 30 people. I say it like that because although there are a number of staff we work it in such a way that we are learning from one another and trekking the developmental journey together. Some of the team I had to help me were a couple who have been in YWAM from its very beginning, missionaries from West Africa and Afghanistan, young and old, mixed annointings and giftings. It was probably the best team we have had in years and the students that came were an awesome bunch of people with HUGE potential. I was so encouraged by their passion and determination for God and desire to reflect who he is in the world.
You should check out more info about what B2B is, curriculum etc at www.ywamb2b.org
I love being part of this training programme and seeing people step into their vision with faith with all the questions and fear that it brings. It is scarey stuff for some but potentially life changing. There was vision for YWAM in Glasgow, West Scotland, Milan, South Wales, Birmingham and much more. What an honour. Please feel free to email me if you have questions about it.
Carl
ctinnion@ywamyork.com
9:09am, Mon Oct 8
Author: Carl
The Blog Begins
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