God takes its one step further.

Hey guys, sorry its been a long time since iv updated this its been a really full on month! Since this school has started its be go go! Its been so sweet tho! This school has really been Charging! They want it! There so eager to know God and are willing to lay down everything to further his Kingdom and just to know him. So yeah I’m just going to share some sweet story’s that have happened the past few weeks so hope you enjoy this!

So where do I start! Well the last week we went down to Byron Bay for evangelism week.

We had a pretty epic time and God just felt like showing his bigness in some amazing ways. We had Kevin (base director of Byron bay) speak. So that was a blessing in its self. Kevin is a really down to earth guy, very real and has such a huge heart for God.

So the first night of evangelism we did this thing called cardboard testimonies… I know what your thinking… yeah it is in your face… but when God speaks he Speaks and we just do as were told. So we went out in the city of Byron and we had our signs and we picked spots and just sat there… people walked past and read them and they just asked questions. We had signs like “Do you have hope?” things like that which just made people think. There was around 35 of us with these signs so you can imagine what it looked like in the city. Anyway there was a group of us who put our signs down and just played worship music and we offered prayer and know one came for prayer… but still me made God known we did have people sit down and listen to us so they were hearing the truth of God trough music! Was a sick night. I cant fully remember how many but there were 1 or 2 salvations that night so yeeeeew!

So the next day was another crazy night! We had a free night that night but we decided to just talk about stuff and leave it open to what God wants to do. We had this really cool discussion on laying down rights for your brothers and sisters so your not causing them to stumble anyway… some how we ended up praying for Jocelyn. She had a bad back I cant remember what its called but its when your back is curved or twisted? Anyway so we all laid hands and prayed for her. Then she mentioned that she had one leg shorter than the other… so we sat her down and she put her legs up and its was like by an inch and a half… so we just prayed… a few of us had our eyes open and its just grew!!!!!!!!! Iv never seen that before its wired…. Could see it growing was crazy!!! We instantly just thanked God he showed us something really cool! Then all night we just prayed for healing! The students just wanted to see there friends healed and just kept pushing God to so more stuff! He did so much inner healing that night as well was awesome! There was so much faith in that room and God just rocked us!

A lot happened that week I stopped writing this and its not that iv forgotten what’s happened I just suddenly feel like I need to share my heart right now god is teaching me a lot of humility this week so here we go… Well the past few weeks I really feel like iv had a 2 track mind. Iv really been finding it hard to trust God in an area of my life and its really been holding me back from hearing Gods voice clearly… Iv been really struggling to just get that connection back with God. I’m kinda just rambling its not like iv been rebelling against God and doing stupid stuff cos I haven’t its just because I haven’t put my trust in God iv been getting really burnt out and just running on empty.

God I pray for a renewing of my heart. I pray God that you will forgive me of my selfish actions and the people its affected and the hearts that have been neglected. God I pray that you will break me God I ask that you will strip me of everything… take away everything I own everything I have all my gifts my talents my passions my visions God take them all they mean nothing without you… God I want you to be first in my life. I want to give you everything. God I trust you with this aspect of my life I trust you, I trust you GOD I TRUST YOU! Please Change my heart. God but my focus back on you. God I need you I realise that I need you soo much. I need your comfort I need you to speak into my life I need your guidance in what I should do. Lord Jesus from this point on I want to give all the things iv taken out of your hands and give them back to you! Lord God I do really pray that you will restore all my friendships. You’re soo good to me God thank you for your grace that I will never fully understand. thank you for always being there for me and yeah your just awesome thank you God!

I wrote this before God had reviled some stuff too me. This week was prayer week. God just did a lot of heart healing. It was a week where we did 24/5 prayer so we had team in the prayer room praying all the time! Was sweet. In “lectures” they were just times of ministry. God would just lead it. We had Leon leading it out and we would do some worship then ask God what he wanted to do. Its really was just confession and prayer. Was awesome! Then on night we really had something just holding us up from God setting us free something was just there… so we prayed and Jay spoke and just felt it was that when we worship are we worshiping God? Or are we worshiping to see something cool happen? That tingly feeling… so it was a time of repentance and oh my gosh! God just rocked us!! He showed him self in a way I would never expected… was insane!!! Then we just thanked God and it was the most authentic and real time of worship I have ever had I could honestly say all I was thinking about was God and nothing but God! that’s how it should be every time and since then worship has been so different for me I feel so close to God its as if my eyes have been open. Find that point! Worship God don’t think about anything else! Think about the times when you have been sad or happy or when God provided and just worship God! Not what your going to do today or tomorrow just God he deserves it! He will revel him self to you in such a fresh way!

So yeah its been a crazy couple of weeks! God has shown me a lot basically the thing I’m holding on to is when God told me. TRUST ME, SEEK ME! that’s all you need. Its changed me so much! Really has I feel so close to God right now and he really is speaking to me again clearly its so sweet! Thanks God

Matt and Claire are here! Yeeeeew! They have been such a blessing! Just time away and just building me up and pouring in to me and its wired I’m doing the same for them its soo sweet to have them here there charging for God its sick!

Just want to let you know what we will be doing on outreach so this is the letter I sent out if you didn’t get it here it is!

This is the amazing January 2010 school!



I just want to thank you guys for all the support you have given me over the past few months both iv been so blessed to have you all behind me in what God is doing. every single one of you is just as much apart of what God is doing here as i am! its true.

This school is amazing it really is the students are really pushing into God and really finding out what it is to be a child of God. there living up everything just to hear his voice and be obedient if he says go they go its awesome to see that! there's been soo many break through with stuff they have had to deal with and surrender to God and yeah there Charging just to see Gods kingdom move forward!

To see this happen were taking teams on outreach. which is over seas missions. Callie (co leader) and i are taking a team of 2 girls and 3 guys to Bali (Indonesia) for 3 weeks where we will be doing skate/surf ministry and also we will be going into the slums and working in a children orphanage just really offering our service as much as possible it will be really full on! then for 5 weeks we will be flying over to Philippines! were we will be again doing skate ministry we will be holding a few skate comps and through that we will be giving bibles out and shearing testimony, then we will be working with a local church there and we will be supporting them in there local ministry's we will be doing Food support, again going into the slums and doing bible study s and going to help the single mums out there. we will be living in an orphanage with blind children so that will be a ministry in its self! also for a week the girls will be doing prostitution ministry in the main city where they will be rescuing girls off the streets. while us guys will be doing more skate ministry and also getting God out in the local wake-boarding park. then for the last week the church were working with holds a 5 day youth camp where we will be running it! scary! scary because there will be over 500 kids Christian and non Christians so i believe that God is going to save all thos kids!!! so this is really exciting stuff!

So this email is just to let you guys know what im doing. i would love you to partner with me in this epic journey that God is taking us on. so if you want to support me in this ministry i really need financial support monthly if possible! but i haven't yet got money for my flights there around £800 so praying that God would come through i know he will. i also need alot of prayer! so if you want to come along side me in this i would love to keep you posted on what God is doing out here!

I keep a blog i update it pretty often so you can read what has already happened and ill keep it updated on what is currently happening :)


If you feel that God is calling you to support me in this adventure prayerfully or financially! then email me at Skidies121@hotmail.com i would love to here from you and keep you posted on what im doing.

sorry this blog might be all over the place that what the past few weeks have been like haha

Thank you guys so much love you all!!

It’s a start to a new beginning

Hey guys! Its been along time since iv updated this I took a little break over the Christmas holiday’s not that don’t enjoy doing this its just not a lot of big stuff happened but a lot of personal stuff happened good and bad but I don’t feel like I should tell the world about it haha. So yeah this hope you guys had a good Christmas and new years. I’m just gona tell you some cool God storys! There always good right?? Of course!
I guess it starts just before Christmas! I just got back from Newcastle and yeah I was pretty much just done… I was so ready just to chill and not think about anything! So I hung out with one of my really good friends Mallory. It was cool God showed us something amazing!! That I still really cant explain… and we have never seen it again. We were down the beach just chilling catching up and we decided to walk around one of the points that personally iv never walked around before. So we walked and all of a sudden I saw like a little glow of electric blue in the sand. It was a little spec and it was like a pulse and I looked at Mallory and I was like you see that??!! And she didn’t say anything at first thinking she was the only one who saw it. So we went over to it and it glowed again so I picked it up and I couldn’t see anything it was like sand… so small. Cool huh? Well it gets better. So we carried on walking and we just saw more and more of them. They were every where… we looked back and our foot prints were glowing blue!! Was soooooo sick! every time we stepped the sand would turn blue. We could write our names and the bottom of our feet were blue was sooo cool. We both realised that God was blessing us with a pretty awesome Christmas gift! The best Christmas gift I could ever have! Its something I will never forget. God is so creative and so big. He’s awesome I love it when he blesses us like that. There really is no need for it but he did it anyway thanks God!
Its hard to think back to some of the stuff that happened there’s been a few ups and downs but I just want to take this time just to say thank you to God for the friends he has blessed me with! Umm. Its been hard out here being away from home for Christmas and a hot Christmas is just not that fun! Its just not Christmas! but my friends have really stuck by me and just encouraged me and just had my back. We have had a good time over Christmas. but it was till hard I know I wasn’t the only one struggling and yeah it was nice to be there for my friends too. It really was. I think a lot of us think we have so many friends in this world. But really ask yourself?? Do I have true friends? I think when it comes down to it. you will find that you would be lucky if you had one or two ‘True’ Friends. Someone who will go out of there way to bless you. Who will be there for you at 3 o’clock in the morning when your at your weakest moment. Someone who prays for you daily. Who will do anything they can to help you out. Who would give there life for you! Seriously think about it I know there are a lot more things that are important in a true friend but really think how many of your friends would do that for you… and also it goes the other way how many of your friends would you do that for?? Are you being a true friend?? If your not then look at the friends who are being true friends to you and see if its worth going that extra mile for them? Because if you don’t go that extra mile for the people who care about you then your missing out on a huge blessing that God wants to give you.

A GOOD FRIEND IS A RARE GIFT!

Yeah think God has shown me a lot about friendship this month and yeah guys keep your true friends close. Fight for them! Bless them! Go that extra mile for them! Because those friends will be there for you what ever happens. How ever bad you mess up however stupid you can be. They will always be there for you with a lot of Grace and your going to be so thankful!

So yeah The new school started on Jan 12th and its been amazing! Our staff team is So solid and we have been blessed with an epic school leader! A school leader who has such a heart for this school and is willing to go the extra 10k for it! Also willing to do anything God puts on her heart to-do! it’s a real blessing it really is. So if you could lift us staff up in your prayers it would be much appreciated!
School leader: Mallory
Staff:
Jay
Ben
Daniel
Isaac
Fleur
Heidi
Callie
Reba
Bryan
Tiffany

We could always do with prayer it does get a little stressful. Also please pray for the students they just did orientation and God kicked it off with a Big start! God did so much healing on Thursday we spent 4 hours in ministry just leaving it open to share what God has done in your life or want him to heal and yeah things that have sucked in the past that you want freedom for. God did it there was a lot of tears a lot of praying and a lot of healing. This day was a day of stuff that had to be explained to the students but Mallory had it on her heart to scrap the plans and just let God do something and he did in such a big way!! God is going to do big things on this school the students have come with such an open heart they want God to come into there life’s and if you want it God is going to give it to you!

Oh and yeah I’m going to Bali/Philippines for outreach!! Doing wake/skate/surf/slum ministry got a team of 7 solid guys! 3 girls 4 guys! Callie and I are leading it! Its going to be SICK! So pray for that! My head is hurting writing this haha but I hope it just shows a little bit of what God has done and I will be on top of keeping this updated and ill share all the cool stuff God does in the hearts of these students!

Other outreach teams to pray for:

India/Bangladesh - Jay & Mallory
India/Nepal - Fleur & Isaac
Thailand/Cambodia - Bryan & Tiffany
Chin - Ben & Heidi
Philippines/Bali - Me & Callie

Love you so much guys!

Just want to ask for one thing. I’m really struggling with finances money is quickly running out and I’m doing my best to budget and yeah I’m a little bit worried but I know God provides he will. So please guys I really need prayer that God will show his might in this area of my life!

Bad Head? i thnk so...

Ok sweet I’m back where I love too be! Really I am as a lot of you would know! Me enjoying writing?? Really? Yeah really! This whole blog thing has really helped me to express my self I enjoy it. I hope you guys are!



So Today was another day of learning. We started your day leaning abut assessments… seriously I wanted to shoot myself… really I was sitting there like “God I’m ready I really am!” We were thrown all this information and all these abbreviations of these stupidly long words. I really found it hard to take all the information in. It was going in through one ear out through the other it was hard… but I really did try! I was constantly fighting my natural instinct to shut down. And I didn’t! for me that’s like Winning The Billabong Pipeline Masters! ( its epic the waves are so big right now! If you get a chance to watch it the link is below! C.J Hoobgood He’s got this! Too easy! http://www.triplecrownofsurfing.com/pipelinemasters/index.html) so yeah it was a big step for me today. Then after morning tea it wasn’t so intense… Praise God. We were learning and discussing Small Groups and how to be a small group leader. I t was cool to learn this because my small groups on my last school kinda failed… so hearing all this stuff really pointed out all the things where I went wrong. For starters I should have actually planed something for my small groups… Now I realise how important it is to plan! That’s a huge thing I keep coming up is PLAN. Because I never have really for anything I just roll with it… so that was a big thing also to know that I do have spiritual Authority and I am appointed by God to LEAD not to just be there…and well yeah.. Read a few pages in the bible… so yeah a lot to learn for sure!

God has been doing a lot off personal stuff in my life right now its pretty intense… it really is when I get it all sorted out ill share what God has done! But a good book to recommend reading is “Wild at Heart” it sick its for guys but women read it too it basically talks about how God made Men and What our rolls are in this world and what it really means to be a MAN its sick I really recommend it whether you married or not its really help you understand some stuff!

Thanks guys for reading its only a short one but its been along day… haha but I’m sure you want a break form all the reading too!

Love you guys

Peace

Teaching wheels?

This song is so good let me know what you think



Ok time to write got distracted typical…
anyway had a sweet day if I do say so myself. Today we did your teaching assessments and I was teaching people to change the wheel on a car! Was fun really fun. I think things like this is where I really enjoy myself I love doing practical stuff I really I excel at it. I personally thin I did a really good job at teaching today and so did my assessors. And I now what your thinking… here we go now I got to read him go on about how amazing he is… but no I’m saying this because over the past few days I have been really struggling being here and trying to absorb all the information that is being thrown at me. Like I have said on the past few posts I’m really starting to understand the way I learn. And today was just a huge encouragement to me because all the information I have been taken in over the past few days came out today! I was able to teach a small group of people effectively and that is something I wouldn’t have been able to do before. Also God was in everything because I was no where near as nervous as I should have been! Me Speaking in front of people… no chance… well not now!! Ha-ha God is good right!!!

Also today I learnt how to clean paint brushes. Taught by Mr. Zach he did a sweet job
Then I learnt how to do stretches which is sick cos there really helpful with surfing! Taught by Miss Faith she did a Stella Job
And then learnt how to make welcome cards by good friend Callie Kidwell who has got this teaching thing DOWN!

So yeah was a good day not much to report about it was very practical and I loved that.

One thing, as most of you know iv been pretty down the past few days and a little bit home sick… but I dunno was talking to one of my good friends on skype and yeah I’m feeling so much better we had a bit of a whine together, its just good to know that people are there for you and do actually care about you! Also Was talking to my buddy Rhys LAD! And yeah dude thank you bro your words really encourage me thanks man it meant a lot it really did.
So guys really I just want you to take that extra step when you see a friend in need even just giving them a call can lift there sprits. don’t ever think that you calling them that your just being nosey or being annoying because your not people need friends so be that friend to the people who need you!

Christmas soon guys!
I have a day off tomorrow so shall give you an update Monday

Please keep praying God is teaching me so much stuff I’m so excited to use my skills for the up and coming school! Its going to be SICK!!!!

Just Want to say think you to all the staff at Ywam Tribe to Tribe you guys have been such a blessing to my thanks for all the help and support you have given me and the encouragements have really given me such confidents in myself so i just wan to say think you the next week is going to be tough but iv got this!

Peace x

The time has come to…. Teach.

Hey everyone! Just another day of learning. today has been really sweet when I walked to class this morning I just had my ipod on and was praying, one thing I asked God was that maybe he could some how make this day not so Intense! Because my head was still hurting from the day before… So he did!

So yea the things we did today weren’t new to me so I didn’t have to take in as much because most of it was already there. We were basically doing all of the paper work for our teaching session tomorrow. So the things we went through were risk assessments, doing a lesson plan and structuring our time. It’s cool because when I was studying engineering we did so many risk assessments! They are always a pain in the neck (if you have done them before you know what I mean..) but there pretty straight forward when you have done a few before. Planning a teaching program was really fun because I’m teaching people how to change a tyre ( tire for Americans )on a car so that’s something that’s practical and I love doing stuff like that! Surprising really as my Dad drilled it into me so much! Love you dad! No but seriously Dad thank you for teaching me all tho’s things and it shows even though you thought I wasn’t listening I really was! So yeah teaching something that you love doing is really fun. I’m actually really excited to do this tomorrow.

Organisation is a huge thing for this task, Its something I’m not very good at but as one person said to me… “you have to be organised to lead a team on outreach…” so that gave me a kick up the backside to get my self sorted! So this has been really cool I’m learning it! Putting things in order, organising my time I’m getting there!

If I was to say the main things that I have learnt today…
Planning! I don’t think I realised how important it is to plan. I mean I have always just rolled with things… and I don’t see that as a bad thing depends on the situation. But there has been times where I have had time to plan but have chose not to… which I see now is foolish because what ever it was I could have planned for would have been so much better and I would have covered so much more. Also people would have found it easier to learn because I wouldn’t be jumping all over the place… that’s what happens when you wing it you jump around.

I got a big day tomorrow! So I’m gonging to go practice taking a tyre on and off a car… and time my self its like being in a pit crew… so yeah please pray that everything goes well and that God helps me out.

Thank you for everything! Really! Thank you

Overwhelming!

Hear we go again another blog entry! So yeah today well… just a little overwhelming but that’s good right? Out of my comfort zone again (right where God wants me.)

Today we focused on Individual learning or 1 on 1 training. It was sweet we learnt really how to plan, do and review a 1 on 1. This is actually a hard one for me to write about. Because I have already done a school. I could see all the places where I went wrong or things i have missed out on doing. so hearing this stuff has hit me pretty hard. But I see that as good because now I can learn from the my past decisions so it give’s me more determination to actually Change because I can see how my actions and how I act in these 1 on 1 situations can really effect the student I am mentioning. I didn’t realise how important it was to plan a 1 on 1’s! I mean so many times I would be like so….. And the student would look at me with a blank face… (for all who have done these you know what I’m talking about!) it not like I wasn’t taught this stuff I think I kinda just took it for granted that yeah don’t worry things will be fine… so it was cool to have that plan thing refreshed in my mind!

I Guess the one thing I struggled with was keeping the conversation on track and talking about the actual topic that they have been learning about. not talking about how they hate there room mate… so we actually did some “practice” 1 on 1’s that was very interesting! I had this guy who just gave me such a hard time… he was the student and I was trying to find the learning gap and then do an action plan on how I could help him fill that Gap and help him turn to God for the answers and not to seek me for them. It was really cool to hear that our student's aren’t meant to rely on ME for all there problems. I say that because I wont always be there in there life but God will and that’s who we want them to rely on!

That’s huge for me because the past 3 days if I didn’t have God man I would have crashed and burned. I’m still struggling being here… I feel like I’m in a huge spiritual battle right now. The enemy wants me to RUN because he Knows that if I'm hear learning this stuff I’m going to be a huge threat to his kingdom! I MEAN I'M BEING EQUIPPED TO EQUIP PEOPLE TO FIGHT AGAINST HIM OF COURSE HE'S GOING TO HATE ME!! So I’m stoked that me being here and actually learning this stuff is getting up Satan’s nose!!! Sweet huh? So yeah I know how important it is to have God as your Rock, your firm foundation because I would have crumbled if I didn’t have God to turn to when things get heavy. The past 3 days when ever I’m on my own, I’m with God just chatting and telling him my problems and iv never had so much joy.

So back on topic… yeah Learning how to do 1 on 1’s is sweet because I want to be able to serve my students as much as possible! So were going to be doing that every day I think? Well alot anyway way.

So yeah that’s it I have learnt a lot today it been a bit overwhelming alot of information to take in. but I know that why I’m hear because I don’t know most of this stuff… And God want’s me to know it so I can serve him as a leader in YWAM!

so thank you guys for all the prayers and support you really are such an encouragement to me! I love you all

shout out to P MAC Thanks for reading Bro!

Prayer points

• protection against the enemy
• that God will give me a heart for Learning and also this place
• That God reviles him self to me on such a new level!
• Also the students are going on outreach Saturday and they have learnt so much so just pray that God will blow there minds!
  

learning how to learn

Hey guys, Just keeping you posted on what I’m really learning on this course. Today we were learning about Learning Styles. it was really sweet Learning different ways that people learn. auditory, visual and Kinaesthetic this was sweet because i got to find out how learnt stuff. i found out that I’m very very Kinaesthetic. this really opened my eyes allot to the way i react to "school"
The first day I got to Newcastle I was very shall we say scared? I say that because I didn’t know what to expect all I knew was that there's going to be allot of work... so I freaked out. when we turned up for lectures I instantly set my self up to fail. I was worried about the amount of homework, Learning so much in a small space of time (I thought I wouldn't take anything in) and also just not passing the course... all these things stacked up on me over the day. I really isolated myself, shut down and really wanted to go home... But that night I spent allot of time with God just talking telling him how I feel. After Sharing with the Big Man upstairs he really gave me allot of peace that I am here because he knows I need to learn this stuff because I don’t know it... Also because God put me here he knows that I can handle it!!!! But I was still worried a little bit you know what I mean? Also Skyped my Dad he gave me so much Wisdom on so much stuff Related to this and not related to this so just want to say thanks Dad. love you!

So today was soooooooo good! The main thing that hit me today was when we were talking about pushing students out of comfort zones and that being out of your comfort zone is where you learn the most! that was sick but also we talked about the natural Human reaction is when we get out of our comfort zones. for example there's the people who get aggressive, disruptive and are very outward in the way they express them self in uncomfortable situations and then there's the people who express it inwardly (ME) Shut down, isolate them self’s, Go quiet and Want/do Run away... But that was sick because 1. I knew I wasn’t the only one. 2 The teachers of this course know exactly what I’m going through and are able to help me get through this! sweet huh?
Then after going through that I had a sweet revelation of how I can actually use this to help the students that ill be teaching in the future. Because I can relate to them if they are going through what iv already been/dealing with. I also learnt that all of this ISNT A BAD THING Because its just the way we are! its the way we learn, its the way God made us. Now going back the fact I'm very Kinaesthetic means that i learn by doing stuff! And that’s not my fault so when i was put into the class room again I freaked out because I instantly thought oh no here we go again... I’m gona be sitting and writing for hours on end... which I don’t do well doing. but Because were lenring basically how to teach... and how to cater for all types of learning, actually Learning this stuff my type of leering is being catered for so it FUN! Now I can take all of this and when I go back to the sunny coast getting ready to staff the January school I can now relate to my students and cater for there way for learning. Also know how to find out how they learning and how I can help them! its so sweet! I’m super excited about the stuff I’m gona learn! while I was going through a rough time last night talking to God I was praying that he would actually give me a heart for this place and what I’m lenring... Can't you tell... He has already answered my PRAYER!

For the next 8 days I will be bloging everyday wont always be along one but I really want you guys to know what I’m leering its exciting stuff :)

Love you guys!