Thursday, 4 December 2008
The WIND Up... The Pitch!!!!
We're planning on having the big sendoff tonight after dinner, then tomorrow the first of us disperse to our various airports to fly to Asia. If all goes to plan we should all be out there by the 9th. We're all getting mad excited to see what God's going to do, and that makes us all the more eager to get out there.
Thanks ever so much to all of you who have been keeping up with us and praying for us! It makes a massive difference.
Blessings----Benjaminitis Rowllech----
faith & Finances, Renewing the mind
So this week was about faith and finances, with renewing our minds...
we had a great time with a buddding new speeker... Emma Wagner.
She was a great youthful fresh breathe of air.. hot air... just a joke. She Was great.. It was a chance to take a step back and evaluate what our rooted beliefs were.. Its crazy that we have so many distorted truths in our lives, were we have left things linger and getting balled up and became a place were no matter what God or others say we believe our truth and don't let the truth flow. so we evaluated these things and put the truth in the right spot.
Emma also shared her personal faith in finance stories.. They give off a mind set were you feel That God can do any thing can happen with a God who Provides for his people..
We even Had a American Thanks Giving... We had a big fest played some games and gave an offering for our outstanding school fee's... We all watched God provide for all our needs right there..
... JM
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
The Father Heart of GOD...
This week was a fast fun new crazy time with God the Father, Jesus the Brother/Redeemer, & Holy Spirit the councilor and joy giver... and he likes to give out the Joy of inner restoration.. with many laughs and tears...
Andy Glover was the one bringing all this to us.. he was full of Wisdom and first hand experience on the things that keep us from being real with ourselves and how we stop ourselves from receiving the Fathers heart because we are ashamed at whats deep down in side of us...
In the course of the week we even had a time of getting freed up from the strong holds in our lives... with a joy session, we went to have lectures at time but then the Holy Spirit would start moving again and half the group would be laughing with the Joy, God did some major inner healing with in us...
We ended the week with a whole weekend of Abba's Touch. A seminar where Andy shared his personal journey of coming into the Experience of the Fathers amazing love. That's where we ended up with a 2 1/2 hour "Love tunnel" a place where people can get filled with Joy and A impartation of the fathers love upon their lives we spent that time praying over people and sharing words and pictures from God to them...
The teaching from Andy is a Message that i can't fully write about it hits every one differently. and that's our God he won't give all of us the same outlined picture of what his love must mean its a individual thing for each of us personally with our Daddy God...
The BIBLE yes thats the book for me!!!!!!
(a)That we had the Authority from when Adam was in the Garden of Eden...
(w)That we gave it away to Satan....
(e)A wole lot of years past by.... many things happened...
(s)A priest Named Zacharias was the first man in 400 years to here from God, and he doubted that God would give him and his wife "Elizabeth" He is God... But his wife did conceive a son and he was "filled with the Holy Spirit" from Conception....
(o) That a young Girl named Mary had a choice to carry the son of God... And She Said yes... although She could have been put to death , Because her and her betrothed were not yet Married...
(m) That Joseph Accepted this and said yes to being Jesus' earthly Father.. and raised him as his own, despite all the shame and disgrace that fell upon them in the situation and time..
(e)That Jesus' first miracle on the face of the earth in his life time was returning honour to a family during a wedding feast.. They had ran out of wine on the first few days of the feast that would have ended it early a could have been very shameful on the family of the bride..
and that all equals AWESOME... and that's just a little bit of it if you want more feel free to join YWAM Carlisle and sign up for the 2009 DTS its not to soon....
See ya ,
Jenean
Monday, 17 November 2008
the eyes of Ken Lowe
This was an extraordinary week. Instead of our usual programme of lectures, small groups, intercession and work duties in Carlisle we all climbed aboard a minibus, driven by Richard the Base Leader, and headed 200 miles south to Nuneaton near Birmingham. It is here that YWAM have one of its largest UK Bases called the King’s Lodge. The whole team travelled down in order to attend one of YWAM’s week long DNA Conferences. The Carlisle DTS were assigned a church hall to sleep in which was interesting! Sleeping on mats on a wooden floor is possibly good preparation for outreach. The standard of catering was excellent all week and we only had one work duty for the entire conference which was washing up after lunch on the Monday. A diminution of work duties was appreciated by all!
So what was the DNA conference about? Who better to explain than Youth With A Mission’s founder members themselves - Loren and Darlene Cunningham. They wrote of the conference: "We have a growing anticipation in our hearts regarding the dreams in God's heart for this time! Our sense is that this is to be like a family reunion, with all the extended family members coming together to meet with the spiritual fathers. What a wonderful, faith-filled gathering we're going to have! During this time, we will focus on Jesus and His call to us as a Mission and as individuals. As you are probably aware, we as a Mission (especially Loren!) are not known for focusing on the past. YWAM is a visionary, forward-looking movement! But the New Zealand Maoris have a wise saying: "you walk backward into the future." By that, they mean that you must understand and embrace your past in order to be productive into the future.
In our case, that means we must rehearse the Words of the Lord, identify and understand the values and principles that embody our unique call as a Mission, and make sure that they stand as the firm foundation for what we build into the future. That's why we're calling this a DNA Conference: "DNA" refers to the essential genetics of our missions tribe that we believe God wants to multiply into successive generations of YWAMers for health and fruitfulness.
During this time, we're expecting God to ignite new passion in our hearts for the things on His heart. And we're expecting that together He will speak new things to us for the future. We are looking forward to a wonderful time together of fellowship, networking and hearing from God."
Another key person associated with the conference was a man called Maged (I was sure his name was Maggot until I saw it written down…. Oops! No offence!) He wrote of the conference: "I remember a year ago Darlene asked me "what is on your heart?" I said "for the family in the UK to get together to hear about the vision, values and the journey so far, in this wonderful tribe called YW AM." It's a time where we are going to refresh old friendships and hopefully build new ones. It's a time to listen to the stories of our history so far and glean from the lessons that have been learned along the way. We are looking to build for the future – bringing pleasure to God’s heart, in the dream for YWAM in the years ahead. I hope we are going to have great fun laughing and worshipping together, eating and catching up with one another. We want to hear the Lord and dream into the future to see his will be done and his kingdom come through our obedience. So let’s enjoy His presence and remember His goodness, provision, protection and anointing over the years."
I think in all areas the conference was a great success and for the 250 or so who attended it was very challenging and worthwhile. It was great to see and hear Loren though Darleen had to remain in the States to look after her mother and her teaching was via Genesis which is YWAMs video conferencing system. It was also good to be able to hear the many amazing stories associated with the foundation and development of YWAM from the people who where there from the start and who have pioneered so many different kinds of work over the years.
So after 18 teaching sessions, great worship times many meals and a 25th anniversary celebration for the King’s Lodge we quickly demolished a packed lunch on the Friday and set off back to Carlisle arriving back around 5pm.
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Spirit&Soul&Body
This week’s speaker was Mariette Louw an awesome woman of God, originally from South Africa, who now lives in Seamill in Scotland.
Mariette introduced herself as more of a coach than a teacher and that she wanted to start off with prophesying over each of the DTS students. It was really encouraging to hear the prophesies and to get words or pictures for other people. Mariette was really helpful in guiding us through it saying to stay in tune with the Holy Spirit to see what it had to say to each person.
Another thing we looked at was 1 Corinthians 2, as a guide on how to use and be connected to the Holy Spirit. We also looked at how the soul is made up (Mind, Emotions, Will) and what part that plays on our personality. Then we looked at 3 parts that the spirit is partly made up of Conscience, Intuition and Communion. I can identify that my emotions is the stronger part of my soul and that although Communion is the strongest part of my Spirit there is still some work to be done in all three parts.
We also talked about Spiritual Authority. One of the main things that struck me on this topic passivity causes us to co-habit with evil, therefore we should have a passive attitude when dealing with Spiritual Authority and should act where we see the need to.
Something that I hope to be really helpful in the future is a technique for looking at the Scriptures. Instead of just reading through it, take a bible verse and write it out. Then look at which words speak out to you and why they speak out to you and right that down too. If questions have arose from what you have written, take time to listen to God to see what answers he has to give and allow a dialogue to build up with him.
The final day was on the fear of the Lord (Hating Sin & reverence/respect of God) and how we should fear him over man. We also looked at the blessings that we receive through fear of the Lord. The ministry night gave everyone a chance to choose to fear the Lord and to confess any fear of man that might be standing in the way. It was a powerful time hearing everyone being honest and a great finish to a really good week.
Craig Swainson.
Friday, 31 October 2008
Trees
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Relationships
This week was about relationships, it was a lot of fun and we learned a lot! The first few days we talked about sexual- and non-sexual-intimacy. We noticed that we (YWAM’ers) go to a very deep level of relationship in a very short time and that sometimes we should spend a bit more time getting to know each other on a more basic level. Further on in the week we talked a lot about SEX, how God made sex so beautiful and how he intended it to be etc etc. Just amazing how everybody opened up and we had really honest conversations about sexuality. Jo is a counsellor so she has this amazing gift of listening to people and we’ve learned a lot from her. Also she had a lot of creative ways to talk about this subject such as group discussions (either small or big groups), games and stories. But the most I’ve learned from here own life story, she was so open and honest about her own struggles in life. This taught me how to be honest and open in relationships and how to accept other people there differences.
Friday Jo left and we went as a group to Scotland, there we went to a Buddhist temple. This was a huge experience for me because I never went to a Buddhist temple before. This place didn’t look like Scotland at all only the bad weather reminded me that we really where in Scotland. We learned a lot on this day about the culture of the people we’re going to meet in Asia and we could experience a little bit of how it is going to be living around people who believe in Buddha. All the monks and nuns wore red robes and they had bold heads, and our guide explained a lot of the symbols behind the traditions and attributes in the temple. Overall this was a great week, we’ve learned a lot and we have become closer as a group. I think we all look forward to the coming weeks and to our outreach! I hope my English made a little bit of sense… and I’m sorry if it didn’t make sense at all. But the key thing is that Gods love you and that he made us to be in a great relationship with Him and with each other!
Gods zegen (God bless),
Vera Arents
Monday, 6 October 2008
Another week bites the dust.
Friday, 26 September 2008
Week 3
Week 3 22/09 - 26/09 Calling and Identity.
Well this week involved a lot of filling in questionnaires which for some was more difficult than others!! The joys but it definitely helped us to get a handle on how we interact and why we may react to some people more than others. It was quite amazing how much it helped to show how we have been made and what God has placed within each one of us. And the best bit is its all really good because he made it!!
The biggest thing for me was a revelation on how I work which was awesome but now comes the more tricky part of managing it! Good job God’s so faithful!
We had our fist proper ministry night on thursday which was really great we all confessed and chuck out the crap that was holding us back which totally opened the door for God to come in and BLESS!! The DTS went through a tunnel which symbolised a womb sounds really odd but it was all about birthing new things in God and walking into calling, now we had more of a grasp on our identity. The words that were spoken over them and the prophecies were amazing!! God was definitely speaking and he was pouring out his goodness for a good 3 hours! after a great night of the spirit at work we headed home at about 1145!! so glad Emma said we could start an hour later made such a difference!! So thats a summary of our week with Mr Richard Lowe. Lets see where next week leads us!!
God Bless, Lucy x
Thursday, 25 September 2008
week #3
Thursday, 18 September 2008
First DTS Week
words escape us..
Sunday, 7 September 2008
God Bless!
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
BLS Week 1
We are in the first week of the Basic Leadership School. There are 5 of us. 2 second year staff Jeremy Hughes USA, Jenean Mayer USA. and 3 first year Ashley Hughes USA, Ben Rowley CANADA, Lucy Belton ENGLAND .
with Emma Wagner SWEDEN as the School Leader.
We are all looking forward to this years DTS ' Discipleship Training School' they will be arriving within the next 2 weeks. We have been preparing for them all summer. The House we will all be living in is a lovely English town home. Painted a lovely shade of yellow that matches the warm sun.
We the people of the BLS moved into the house on Saturday the 23 of August. Since being there we have turned the empty space into a house of missions. The beds have been made, bathrooms cleaned and stocked, kitchens unpacked, lounges put together and hidden the camera's.. wait no camera's.. With some praying for the students in the meantime. We are expecting great new things this upcoming school. God Bless untill next time,