What a privilege it was to be in Asia for the Christmas season! It gave us ample opportunity and an awesome conversation starter to prayerfully share the Gospel. Due to an increase of persecution of Christians, we weren’t able to attend as many Christmas parties as we were anticipating. Also many of the international and …
Perfection is Overrated
Growing up, perfection was always the goal. The goal was not simply to be good, but perfect. Getting 100 on a test was worthy of praise, anything less was worthy of shame. The shame of these mistakes pushed me into a more passive lifestyle, if I don’t try so many things, then I won’t make …
Winter DTS 2019 – The Choice is Yours
In the Gospel of Mark Chapter 10, Jesus encounters a man who is commonly referred to as the rich young ruler. It is a familiar story. The interchange begins with a question, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” and ends with the man walking away sad. I don’t think that is …
Expectations
Phindo. This stands for Philippines/Indonesia, aka our outreach locations. We were blessed with the chance to be able to minister to people in these two countries for our outreach. The Philippines is a Catholic country, so we knew that we would be seeing more fruit in our ministry there, as opposed to Bali (which is …
Love Comes First
A few years ago, some church friends and I went to the mall to share the Gospel. When we arrived at the mall, a fear of evangelism crept up inside me. But I felt that I couldn’t run away scared or make excuses to leave because, well, I wasn’t ready to be that honest about …
Learning to Hear God’s Voice
Full send. I always knew that there was more to life. I knew that there was more to God than what I had experienced so far. I desired to know more about Him, to find out what I had been missing out on. I desired to hear His voice over the loud noise of this …
Who does God say I am?
I had absolutely no idea who I was. Not a clue. Absolutely not one SINGLE clue. Well actually, I take that back. I had quite a few clues, but they were all absolutely, positively wrong. And toxic. And life-crushing. And in general, just not super excellent. I thought I was a good student. That worked …
What Does it Mean to Remain Constant?
Transformational Love of God: DTS student testimony
I came to YWAM Maui because I wanted God to tell me what to do,but instead, I learned how to live. With the transformational love of God in my heart, guiding my every step.