well, the church serving week went well. but, now that it's back to "real life" i've been beginning to understand so much more. so much in the spiritual rehlm, so much in the personal rehlm and so much more in general. it's good to finally be discerning through God. to have his heart. and, i'm really hopeing that this will keep on going.
thailand's been on my heart a lot lately. and, as excited as i am, i really want all of this to be God breathed. i don't want to go to thailand and try to do things by myself. it just won't work then. so, i just want to be discerning in this area, to let God lead... and to know that he will.
anyways, just wanted to say hi, and this is where i'm @.
DK
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
what shall i eat next?
hey everyone. things seem to be going well out here. it's really interesting as how kiwi families work. also, we are in our outreach teams this week, so it's quite fun to learn about how outreach may look like. i really enjoy the group that i'm in and think that it's going to be rather exciting, when the rubber hits the road.
what else? the sermon went well. i actually loved fear factor. i ate so much increadible stuff! i joined a team. first thing i had to do was eat an entire onion by myself. no worries. then the next i had to eat kidney and heart i believe. i downed that sucker! first one to finish... along with this smoothy that kinda tasted like chilly... but was not @ all. anyways, the youth and i had a great time! along with the other ywamers (which didn't too much)
what else? i am going to be leading worship on tuesday. oh ya i guess i didn't say that. i am in the worship team at the base, rotationally. and this tuesday it's my turn to lead. i'm kinda nervous about it mainly 'cause of the lack of prep time with others. but, i do think that it will be alright. got a little song list ready. so, i think that it'll be alright.
umm, ya things are good, and i hope they are the same w/ you!
what else? the sermon went well. i actually loved fear factor. i ate so much increadible stuff! i joined a team. first thing i had to do was eat an entire onion by myself. no worries. then the next i had to eat kidney and heart i believe. i downed that sucker! first one to finish... along with this smoothy that kinda tasted like chilly... but was not @ all. anyways, the youth and i had a great time! along with the other ywamers (which didn't too much)
what else? i am going to be leading worship on tuesday. oh ya i guess i didn't say that. i am in the worship team at the base, rotationally. and this tuesday it's my turn to lead. i'm kinda nervous about it mainly 'cause of the lack of prep time with others. but, i do think that it will be alright. got a little song list ready. so, i think that it'll be alright.
umm, ya things are good, and i hope they are the same w/ you!
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
church serving week
hey everyone. if i'm not responding to your e-mails this week it's b/c we are on chruch serving week. we are in a small New Zealand town called "Leestown". it seems to be going well. we're working on the new shed that will be used as a youth center later on. and we have been working with the youth quite a bit as well. it's interesting to get to know them, and really fun to just be apart of their community. we are doing a fear factor night on friday and i will be giving a 5 minute "sermon" for around 80 people. we also shared with a smaller group yesturday, around 50 kids, and each of the ywamers said their testimony. it went really well.
during this week we are staying with a NZ family. it's awesome! they're dairy farmers and i woke up on tuesday to go out milking. it was so cool! we got all the cows in to do the milking, and we got everything organized for the automatic milking system. it was so worth doing! and the family kind of reminds me of home. it's so interesting!
see ya later!
during this week we are staying with a NZ family. it's awesome! they're dairy farmers and i woke up on tuesday to go out milking. it was so cool! we got all the cows in to do the milking, and we got everything organized for the automatic milking system. it was so worth doing! and the family kind of reminds me of home. it's so interesting!
see ya later!
Thursday, May 17, 2007
thank-you all!
hey everyone. just wanted to tell you that i think about you often, and miss you too.
things are pretty good out here. i'm really enjoying it. but, i would love to ask for your prayers for this next time. i would like your prayers for thailand... and where God wants me to go there. just that he would be able to show me what he wants, and that this will be able to really fill me up for God. to be totally open and willing to hear from him. because i know that if i will focus on the outcome, rather then what place would be best for me, that i would not be prosporus. so, i just hope that i'll be able to just be submissive to God's will for me in the next steps.
anyways, i love you all and hope that you are all doing well. keep me posted on how you are doing.
with love,
DK
p.s. thank you so much for your prayers already!
things are pretty good out here. i'm really enjoying it. but, i would love to ask for your prayers for this next time. i would like your prayers for thailand... and where God wants me to go there. just that he would be able to show me what he wants, and that this will be able to really fill me up for God. to be totally open and willing to hear from him. because i know that if i will focus on the outcome, rather then what place would be best for me, that i would not be prosporus. so, i just hope that i'll be able to just be submissive to God's will for me in the next steps.
anyways, i love you all and hope that you are all doing well. keep me posted on how you are doing.
with love,
DK
p.s. thank you so much for your prayers already!
Saturday, May 12, 2007
thailand... here i come!
hey everyone. sorry about the lack of communication, i took one week off of the internet and then i've used it only on limited things afterwards.
anyways, so my week off the internet went rather well. it was really intense as the speaker was Mark Parker, and although that name doesn't ring any bells, i believe that he is the representative for YWAM in New Zealand. anyways, he is in his 50s and has more eneregy then i do! he was so amazing... he was speaking on the topic of "Lordship". basically the focus was on God that week, and how mighty he is and how much we should do for him. it was just really eye opening, and amazing to see different things that God wanted me to give up for him this week, so i would be totally focused on his mission for my life.
speaking about life missions, my travel itinerary wasn't working to go to South America. I would have had to paid an extra 500NZ$ just to go as far down as central america, and then i would have had to make my own travel plans to go any farther down into south america, bringing extra costs. so, i was really seeking what i should be doing, asking God, and looking at my own intrests. the whole south america thing wasn't sitting right with me lately anyways, and so i was open to whatever. i began to have this large impression that i should go to Thailand afterwards. so, i prayed about it, and recieved this overwhelming peace about it. so, as of now, my plans are to travel back to thailand after our outreach (at my own expense, which is fine as i would have been paying around the same amount anyways anywhere else i had to travel due to the limited milage on the around the world ticket). i will be going there for 6 months... so it's going to be quite a commitment... but i have a peace about it. so, unless God says anything different, that's where i'll be going!
other details, we finish school on the 20th of sept. then i will be traveling to jordan on the 22nd (we'll hopefully go on a camel caravan!) and staying there for 5 days. almost everyone from our school is going there after we're finished. then i will hopefully be going to egypt to see the pyramids. i am quite excited for that! the reason i say hopefully is because this is overland travel, and so things could be flexible depending on all the variables of travel. after that i will be traveling back to Amman, Jordan and then flying out to thailand. i'll probably just relax for just over a week to catch my breath. after that i am open to ideas. i'm looking into contacts out there right now as a couple of my friends have either been to thailand or know some people out there right now. and, if anyone has some other info regarding thailand, or has any contacts, i would be more than happy to hear them! hopefully i will be able to work with people regarding helping children either get out of the sex trade (or child trafficing), or work in preventing kids getting into the trade in the first place. as an outreach team we will be going to thailand, and we will be working with a company called "Children of the Golden Triangle." they are a Christian organization that works to prevent children getting into the sex trade industry. they do this by taking them out of risk situations, which children would be picked up off the street and traded into thailands sex industry. this sex industry is a huge problem with thailand, as their main tourism income is based on this demand. children are taken for the trade for various reasons, but can range from ages of 8 until 18... so it's pretty intense.
anyways, i'll update you more when things get a little more settled. but, i am here and doing rahter well.
anyways, so my week off the internet went rather well. it was really intense as the speaker was Mark Parker, and although that name doesn't ring any bells, i believe that he is the representative for YWAM in New Zealand. anyways, he is in his 50s and has more eneregy then i do! he was so amazing... he was speaking on the topic of "Lordship". basically the focus was on God that week, and how mighty he is and how much we should do for him. it was just really eye opening, and amazing to see different things that God wanted me to give up for him this week, so i would be totally focused on his mission for my life.
speaking about life missions, my travel itinerary wasn't working to go to South America. I would have had to paid an extra 500NZ$ just to go as far down as central america, and then i would have had to make my own travel plans to go any farther down into south america, bringing extra costs. so, i was really seeking what i should be doing, asking God, and looking at my own intrests. the whole south america thing wasn't sitting right with me lately anyways, and so i was open to whatever. i began to have this large impression that i should go to Thailand afterwards. so, i prayed about it, and recieved this overwhelming peace about it. so, as of now, my plans are to travel back to thailand after our outreach (at my own expense, which is fine as i would have been paying around the same amount anyways anywhere else i had to travel due to the limited milage on the around the world ticket). i will be going there for 6 months... so it's going to be quite a commitment... but i have a peace about it. so, unless God says anything different, that's where i'll be going!
other details, we finish school on the 20th of sept. then i will be traveling to jordan on the 22nd (we'll hopefully go on a camel caravan!) and staying there for 5 days. almost everyone from our school is going there after we're finished. then i will hopefully be going to egypt to see the pyramids. i am quite excited for that! the reason i say hopefully is because this is overland travel, and so things could be flexible depending on all the variables of travel. after that i will be traveling back to Amman, Jordan and then flying out to thailand. i'll probably just relax for just over a week to catch my breath. after that i am open to ideas. i'm looking into contacts out there right now as a couple of my friends have either been to thailand or know some people out there right now. and, if anyone has some other info regarding thailand, or has any contacts, i would be more than happy to hear them! hopefully i will be able to work with people regarding helping children either get out of the sex trade (or child trafficing), or work in preventing kids getting into the trade in the first place. as an outreach team we will be going to thailand, and we will be working with a company called "Children of the Golden Triangle." they are a Christian organization that works to prevent children getting into the sex trade industry. they do this by taking them out of risk situations, which children would be picked up off the street and traded into thailands sex industry. this sex industry is a huge problem with thailand, as their main tourism income is based on this demand. children are taken for the trade for various reasons, but can range from ages of 8 until 18... so it's pretty intense.
anyways, i'll update you more when things get a little more settled. but, i am here and doing rahter well.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
it's time to travel baby!
hey everyone! it seems like so much has happened lately that i don't know where to begin...
well other than all of the friends that i'm making, it seems to be quite the time to spend with God as well. it's really intense most of the time, but it's nice 'cause then everything seems to be getting out in the open. it's so nice to get everything out in the open, deal with everything, and then be able to move on and really listen to God and what he wants.
sooo, i'm going out to the ASIA PACIFIC! so, i'll be hitting up fiji, phillipines, thailand and cambodia... then ending in isreal. i'm so pumped about it! it's going to be soo awesome. and, the people that i will be going with are alyssa, this other 18 yr old canadian chick that's pretty sweet. we're getting along pretty well, and it's good to have another canadian on the team. then there's this girl val. she's awesome! i'm getting along with her really well, and we may travel afterwards... we'lll see! then there's this guy called andres who is nice. i haven't really gotten to know him very well yet, but i like how he questions a lot of things, and is really inquisitive. it's really good to have a different, bolder outlook. then there's suzanne! now SHE is sweet. i love that girl. probably because she is from alaska, but you know. j/k. she's just so chill and really nice all around. those are the guys on the outreach. then there's nate and wendy, a married couple that will be leading our group. i'm really looking forward to it. it'll just take a while to get to know them... as the dynamics of the base are a little different for them. wendy's not with us all the time. she's the registrar, so i don't see her that much. but it seems to be alright. i mean i talked to both of them about their outlook on the outreach and what was going to be going on... how open they'd be with us and everything. it seems to be really good. so, i'm really pumped about it!
after we found out about our outreach destination we also were told about the around the world ticket that we will be recieving with it. so, basically with my ticket i will have 3 stops in europe and then 6 stops in central and north america. anyways, we have to have all of our desitnations in by this thursday, so the 26th. long story short, i'm probably going to greece and then traveling some other places in europe until the 15th of october. then after that i'll be going to south america with this funny german bro called christoph. we're still trying to find another person to join us... so we'll see where we go from there. but, i have a lot of peace about it all. God's just totally doing a number to me on that one. it's just faith! and, it's pretty nice. alright, so in mid october i'll be going to south america, and then travel up through central america into the states and then travel to new zealand afterwards. we're not sure about the time line yet, but that's the plan so far. so, it looks really good and i hope that it'll all work out the way that God wants it too...
a huge theme for me lately has been kids. i really am enjoying them here, and we'll see where God wants me to go, but we were having this world awareness night out here, and we were talking about people traficing. mainly it's in the area of the sex industry, and my heart just lept out for these kids/young adults that are going through all of this! we'll see what God wants in the end, but i'm totally willing to do whatever he's calling me to do... no set plans yet!
well other than all of the friends that i'm making, it seems to be quite the time to spend with God as well. it's really intense most of the time, but it's nice 'cause then everything seems to be getting out in the open. it's so nice to get everything out in the open, deal with everything, and then be able to move on and really listen to God and what he wants.
sooo, i'm going out to the ASIA PACIFIC! so, i'll be hitting up fiji, phillipines, thailand and cambodia... then ending in isreal. i'm so pumped about it! it's going to be soo awesome. and, the people that i will be going with are alyssa, this other 18 yr old canadian chick that's pretty sweet. we're getting along pretty well, and it's good to have another canadian on the team. then there's this girl val. she's awesome! i'm getting along with her really well, and we may travel afterwards... we'lll see! then there's this guy called andres who is nice. i haven't really gotten to know him very well yet, but i like how he questions a lot of things, and is really inquisitive. it's really good to have a different, bolder outlook. then there's suzanne! now SHE is sweet. i love that girl. probably because she is from alaska, but you know. j/k. she's just so chill and really nice all around. those are the guys on the outreach. then there's nate and wendy, a married couple that will be leading our group. i'm really looking forward to it. it'll just take a while to get to know them... as the dynamics of the base are a little different for them. wendy's not with us all the time. she's the registrar, so i don't see her that much. but it seems to be alright. i mean i talked to both of them about their outlook on the outreach and what was going to be going on... how open they'd be with us and everything. it seems to be really good. so, i'm really pumped about it!
after we found out about our outreach destination we also were told about the around the world ticket that we will be recieving with it. so, basically with my ticket i will have 3 stops in europe and then 6 stops in central and north america. anyways, we have to have all of our desitnations in by this thursday, so the 26th. long story short, i'm probably going to greece and then traveling some other places in europe until the 15th of october. then after that i'll be going to south america with this funny german bro called christoph. we're still trying to find another person to join us... so we'll see where we go from there. but, i have a lot of peace about it all. God's just totally doing a number to me on that one. it's just faith! and, it's pretty nice. alright, so in mid october i'll be going to south america, and then travel up through central america into the states and then travel to new zealand afterwards. we're not sure about the time line yet, but that's the plan so far. so, it looks really good and i hope that it'll all work out the way that God wants it too...
a huge theme for me lately has been kids. i really am enjoying them here, and we'll see where God wants me to go, but we were having this world awareness night out here, and we were talking about people traficing. mainly it's in the area of the sex industry, and my heart just lept out for these kids/young adults that are going through all of this! we'll see what God wants in the end, but i'm totally willing to do whatever he's calling me to do... no set plans yet!
Friday, April 13, 2007
africa, asia... is it all the same?
hey guys, so i would just like your prayers/thoughts if you have time. the options for the outreach came in and since this is such a small school there were only 3 options compared to the 6 options that we were shown on the internet. although i thought that i was originally going to go to south america, it seems like to be a hard option (as we won't be going there). anyways, our options are africa (south africa, kenya, uganda, morocco), asia pacific (fiji, philippines, thailand, cambodia) or central asia (hong kong/china, india, oman, yeman). all of these will be ending up in israel. so, i would just love clarity in this area. i think that i'll probably be going to the asia pacific, but we'll see what actually's going to happen. i just am kinda worried about it all.
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