Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Pass it on Tour.

We arrived home late Saturday night after spending the past two weeks visiting two country bush towns (Oakey and Dalby) on the Pass it on Tour.  The mission is to: Pass on the wisdom of God to the next generation.  The tour is a act of intercession and running.  Our teams physically run from town to town as an act of claiming the authority and land back as God's that we have given to Satan over the years.  We do different activities throughout the week we spend in each town including after school activities, prayer walks, lecture nights, free BBQs and island dancers.  Our goal is to promote family and encourage the youth in the various country towns.


Brad's healed ankle with our team!
Our team (Peru-I'm going to Peru in Nov. if I haven't said that yet!!) started running, we ran from Towoomba to Oakey and ran a total of 40km between 7 of us in a day.  We did a couple service projects, then headed to the next town, Dalby, to prepare for the big group coming behind us.  We were able to help out at a Relay for Life festival making homemade donuts and various other projects.

making donuts for Relay for Life
On Sunday we were asked to lead an evening service at a local church. I gave the sermon, a student shared a testimony and another sang a song.  We opened it up for prayer and so many people wanted prayer. We prayed for over 20 people probably and God did some sweet stuff!  Then we prayed for this young guy Brad, he had some pulled ligaments in his ankle and God told me to pray for healing.  We experience some healing that night and praised God for the progress we saw.  Then we saw him at school the next day without crutches walking perfectly normal:)  It was so fun to see what God had done!

Overall, it was a great time of learning, serving and growth.  We planted many seeds and helped the different churches in the community connect with each other.  Thanks for your prayers, we were in desperate need of them.


team Peru!

helping out with the local youth

work projects

Sunday, September 2, 2012

there is no security in what God is doing, only in who He is.

Kristina and Meghan at the Gold Coast
Idun and Meghan at the creek











We are one month into the DTS.  Things are heating up quite a bit.  I tried to send out another newsletter today, but had some technical difficulties, so I hope to get one out ASAP.  God has been doing so much in our lives.  He has been taking all of us to deeper levels of intimacy and relationship with Him.  He has been teaching so many student's about His Father heart and what it looks like to receive His love.  It's still so hard for us to believe on a regular basis that God's love is free, unconditional, no strings attached.


God has been revealing His love, but also the reality of relationship with Him.  He wants every bit of who we are, no more, no less.  He is only satisfied when we are fully relying on Him, surrendering every desire, comfort and security to Him.

We have been having some great conversations with people on our Evangelism nights in the city.  I had the chance to speak with a Hindu man for over an hour about faith and Christianity.  In the middle of the conversation he said faith was a bad thing.  Then after praying with him, he looked at me and said, "it's so good to be around people with so much faith."  Ha!  I love how God can change people so quickly!

We are leaving tomorrow to be part of a running tour around Queensland, called the "Pass it on Tour."  Check out the website for more info. www.gopassiton.org.  Thanks so much for your prayers!