This week we got back into lectures after the last at the Acts One Conference. I was excited to get started again. Our speaker was Kristy Wilke from YWAM Montana, and she spoke on relationships. Wow, wow, wow. It has been easy for me in the past to feel like I have heard stuff repeated, being raised in Christian school, ministry, and church. But Kristy presented every aspect of relationships with a beautiful, new freshness that I've never heard before. I literally have 22 pages of notes. Some of the things we learned about are emotional maturity, social skills and how Jesus used them, things that make us relatable to other people, conflict resolution, toxic relationships, codependency, relating to parents, practical honoring, relating to unbelievers, Christian sexuality, sexual issues, and romantic relationships. As you can tell, she basically covered every end of the spectrum, so it was a really intense, deep week with a lot to process. There was so much "meat" to every single thing she said. I really admire her for being so passionate about speaking the truth into our lives in such a practical way.
Miracle moment! On Monday when we were supposed to be paying half our outreach payment, one of my friends, Alyssa, found out her tuition wasn't even paid off yet. There was a miscommunication somewhere in there, so the staff gave her until Thursday to raise about $1500. God has been doing such an incredible work in her life, it was crazy for any of us to think she might be leaving. Of course, God blew us away and totally provided for her! Wednesday night she was able to sleep in peace knowing she would not have to go back home over mere finances. God is so faithful!
Last night, I decided to go to Kingdom Night, which is street evangelism in downtown Denver. I didn't know what to expect, but it was amazing. We went down with some other people from the Arvada base to sing on the streets, talk to people, listen to their story, pray for them, and minister to them about Jesus. I decided I will be going every week from now on. Here are some pictures to give you an idea of what it was like.
Katie, Alyssa, and Stefan talking to a guy named Romeo, who was finally able to forgive his father for abusing him as a child
Sandy and Jonathan ministering
This is Gabi, one of my best friends here
So it was a great night of ministry to the people in downtown Denver, and I'm looking forward to going back!
Also, my final announcement because I haven't made it public yet....I'll be going to Costa Rica for my outreach! To be honest, it was the last place I wanted to go when I heard it was an option. But, I am THRILLED that God had something else in mind because I'm going with an awesome team! My team leader is Lars, and this is some of what we have planned so far: a week working on the Pacific Coast with children at risk, doing arts, crafts, dramas, games and even teaching some surf lessons; one week of wilderness survival training in the forests of Cartago Province (NIKO); serving an indigenous community in the Talamanca Mountains, Earthquake relief work in the Guancatse Province, possibly even a boat trip to a remote tribe; we will be doing work projects of various kinds, local evangelism, intercessory prayer, speaking and working with churches, youth, skate kids, and definitely doing some Bible distribution. I know this outreach will be a once in a lifetime opportunity. We had our first team meeting two nights ago, and Lars had us play a team game to see how we worked together. He was surprised to see how well we worked together right away, so that was exciting! We signed some papers and are getting more and more anxious to go :) I want our lives to be the most powerful and attractive evangelism for the people of Costa Rica. I'll be leaving December 15th and coming back February 9th. I'm SO stoked.
Next week, Dean Sherman will be coming to speak to us about Spiritual Warfare. The Musicians DTS, about 50 students, will also be coming up to Eagle Rock. It will be a little crazy with that many more people here, but I'm really excited for it :)
Keep the prayers comin'! :) Love you guys!
Lynelle
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