Love Feast - Outreach

Aloha! Welcome to the NewYear!

I have been horrible at updates again, time is flying!

Here's what we did for Christmas :)

Christmas was fantastic! We went to King's Mansion the Friday before Christmas, which is about a 20 mile drive and had a fabulous Love Feast before the students left for Outreach. 

King's Mansion has quite an awesome story behind it.. In 1973 a YWAM student (Cindy) had a dream; she saw this house in her small group as they were praying for direction for YWAM in the Hawaiian Islands. One woman envisioned a large white house on a hill with a veranda and green shutters. As she spoke this out, Cindy had a vivid picture of this house - even where it was located on the island. Of course none of them had ever been in Kona before. Several years went by before Cindy and her husband, Tom, were in Kona for the first time. Loren Cunningham (YWAM Founder) picked Tom and Cindy up from the airport and took them to the new property that YWAM had gotten not too long before. It was King's Mansion, exactly as she has seen it in her prayer! 

I believe the property was purchased in 1977 and to this day is used by YWAM. It's legit!

King's Mansion

My one-on-one and small group girls

*Jesse, Grace, Annemarie, Chana*

My girls

Our DTS ladies

Our ladies are legit

My dear sweet Renee and I

- After our Love Feast we spent the weekend cleaning. With everyone leaving for Outreach, it means we have to deep clean our bedrooms, make sure the students rooms are all clean, deep clean the classroom, deep clean our new classroom and then move everything in! It's crazy and semi-exhaustive. This campus is huge! But definitely feel accomplished when it's all said and done.

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Monday, December 24th, we spent shuttling our students to the airport! This was a sad day. I was ok with staying and staffing the next school when the decision was made a couple months prior, however, when the day arrived for them to all depart, I was so sad! I literally had empty nest syndrome. Their rooms were all vacant, their door signs were down, they were the last school on campus to leave for Outreach which meant the entire campus was bare! I was very blessed and spoiled by my first school and miss them like crazy! 

Our Gracie girl cleaning out her room!

Tradition: drive around the flags a few times! The rest of our school made a tunnel!

My students.. At the airport.. Sad day! 

This is a little video of our tunnel :)

All teams will be gone for 8 weeks!

The Fiji/Christmas Island Team

Their first couple weeks have been spent in Christmas Island, where they were welcomed and immediately tossed in to ministry! They learned traditional dances, have been performing, speaking and completely embraced by the islanders! They have been such a light to these people, it's amazing! 

It's kind of hard to described exactly what their outreach team will be doing because they are pioneering this path and are going with the flow day by day. Their intent is to build relationships with islanders, speak in their churches, do physical labor where it's needed and basically be a blessing wherever it's needed!

The Brazil Team 

Our Brazil team will be traveling up the Amazon River by boat, stopping in different villages, building relationships with the children and adults. Speaking in churches, playing with the kids and sharing the love of Jesus in any way possible. Their leader Kyle, the one hanging upside down in the tree, went there on his outreach so they are following up! They also get to sleep in hammocks, which is pretty legit.

The Caribbean Team

The Caribbean/Grenada team will be partnering with the Caribbean Reach ministry and sailing on their 74-foot sailboat to several different Islands in the Caribbean, Venezuela, and Colombia. They have the incredible opportunity to serve the local communities by helping with various building projects, teaching in local churches, facilitating youth programs, working with seniors and disabled, street evangelizing and serving peoples physical needs. Basically showing the love of God to the people in these nations.

So that's where my students have headed out to! It's been such a privilege and blessing getting to know them these past three months, and I CANNOT wait! to see what they're like when they return from outreach! Seeing people's lives changed, witnessing healings, being a blessing to people in need changes people, and I cannot wait to hear their stories.

Jesus is real.

God is alive and at work every single day.

It's such a privilege to be able to do what I do.

I'm grateful everyday.

Keep them in your thoughts and prayers :) 

xo