Well we have been here for two weeks.
We have survived culture shock. We have learned what noise is again. What cafeteria food is…ew! That 300+ people on base means that you only have to do chores twice a week rather than several hours every day. That that there are lots of new people to meet…but that means you have to actually talk to them. That knocking is a rarity. But mostly that it is very weird to be here without my family. This is the same base that we were here on five years ago…I was in my last year of high school so I did not participate in the DTS…which is why I am here doing it now.
No, overall the other staff and students here have been extremely welcoming and gracious towards us. They have known that we were coming since the beginning of the school so that is a blessing that we are not too much of shock for people.
The first week were here was full of confusion, meeting our team that we are going to Thailand with along with the rest of the school…it is a smaller school which is a blessing…only 25 people. I am still learning names though...there is a library here so it really can’t be helped.
Our first week here, a pastor named Nick spoke on evangelism, wow he was overwhelming…in a GREAT way! He had a whole booklet of notes for us to go through… notes that I am still absorbing. God has used him a mighty way over the years. At first, because of his upfront personality I was actually a bit scared of him. But then he came up to me one day and started to tell me things, that there is no way he could know unless God had told him. He started praying over me, praying the exact same things that four of the previous speakers had prayed over me. I was soo amazed/blessed. On Friday all of the staff surrounded each student and prayed over each of us individually…I cried more then I have cried in years! God has been speaking a lot lately and I am excited for the future!
This week we had our first women speaker…Mrs. Reona. Mrs. Reona was originally from New Zealand and she has been with YWAM for 47 years! She is a legend of faith! She spoke of spiritual warfare. She knocked my socks off. She was very intense, detailed and organized. We spent hours on dissecting the Amour of God…she explained the significance of every piece in such detail, with scripture to enhance each idea. She quoted scripture like some people talk about the weather. Many of us found ourselves say...”When I grow up I want to be just like her!”
For horsemanship up here we are loving on some lonely horses that have been pastured all winter, some of them have never been broke and none of them had been groomed of months. So we have had our work cut out for us, fixing fences, tearing up deer eaten water lines, grooming, and Laura has been shoeing and breaking them.
I am adjusting well and am actually starting to like it here! It still feels weird being here without my family, but God is all over us being up here…so there is no place I would rather be! We only have two more weeks before we leave for Thailand so pray for our team that we will grow together in unity and preparation!
Sunday, May 30, 2010
The Last of Wyoming
So I won’t even try to make excuses for not writing this last month, every excuse in the book would just sound lame. I am very sorry though and I do sincerely apologize. Here is a recap our last weeks in Wyoming.
Andy Taylor spoke on the fatherheart of God. He is a sweet pastor from Oklahoma. He is on the forefront of being change to the 21st century Church. His approach on the subject was from a different angle then I had ever heard. Godly ideas just presented in a very different way. His whole message could be summed up with the saying: “God is what He is, Father is who He is.” He spoke a lot on the orphan mentality and a generation who is growing up without any concept of who or what a Father is and how this dysfunction skews our understanding of God.
Scott MaCleod came and spoke the week after. Scott has been in the Christian Music industry for decades. He had so many amazing stories to tell about his switch from the industry to the pastoral. He shared on Worship as the occupation of the heart. He leads a frontier movement of worship and arts in downtown Nashville. He really got us thinking about Worship and what that means in the reflection of our lives.
Well it feel like we just got settled in a adapted to life out here, but we only have one week left. Jim Anderson.
Jim Anderson is a speaker/father from Washington who spoke on Relationships. He travels around the world speaking on a women’s heart…which kinda sounds weird..until you learn he is a father of six daughters and has a enormous amount of compassion and wisdom granted from God. He challenged us to exam our hearts about our attitude towards men, relationship, motherhood, prolife and get to what the Bible has to say rather then what might have been adapted from the culture or world influences. It was an emotional week.
As this was our last week, it flew by so fast! We were busy in class, chasing cows, packing and cleaning. On Sunday the 16th of May we said goodbye to our new friends in Wyoming and Laura, Danielle and I headed to the Lakeside, Montana base to meet with the rest of the team that we will be going to Thailand with. It was sad to leave Wyoming, but we know that God’s hand is in this plan and though we are worried about how large the base it 300+ people (compared to our base of 10 people)…we know we are headed to culture shock. …if you want the last pictures from Wyoming check out my facebook page.
Andy Taylor spoke on the fatherheart of God. He is a sweet pastor from Oklahoma. He is on the forefront of being change to the 21st century Church. His approach on the subject was from a different angle then I had ever heard. Godly ideas just presented in a very different way. His whole message could be summed up with the saying: “God is what He is, Father is who He is.” He spoke a lot on the orphan mentality and a generation who is growing up without any concept of who or what a Father is and how this dysfunction skews our understanding of God.
Scott MaCleod came and spoke the week after. Scott has been in the Christian Music industry for decades. He had so many amazing stories to tell about his switch from the industry to the pastoral. He shared on Worship as the occupation of the heart. He leads a frontier movement of worship and arts in downtown Nashville. He really got us thinking about Worship and what that means in the reflection of our lives.
Well it feel like we just got settled in a adapted to life out here, but we only have one week left. Jim Anderson.
Jim Anderson is a speaker/father from Washington who spoke on Relationships. He travels around the world speaking on a women’s heart…which kinda sounds weird..until you learn he is a father of six daughters and has a enormous amount of compassion and wisdom granted from God. He challenged us to exam our hearts about our attitude towards men, relationship, motherhood, prolife and get to what the Bible has to say rather then what might have been adapted from the culture or world influences. It was an emotional week.
As this was our last week, it flew by so fast! We were busy in class, chasing cows, packing and cleaning. On Sunday the 16th of May we said goodbye to our new friends in Wyoming and Laura, Danielle and I headed to the Lakeside, Montana base to meet with the rest of the team that we will be going to Thailand with. It was sad to leave Wyoming, but we know that God’s hand is in this plan and though we are worried about how large the base it 300+ people (compared to our base of 10 people)…we know we are headed to culture shock. …if you want the last pictures from Wyoming check out my facebook page.
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