Mexico City and Bangkok

So we found out our outreach teams and locations last week.  Everyone is going to Mexico City for 7 weeks, and then after that we’re splitting into 2 teams, going to Sydney, Australia, and Bangkok, Thailand.  I’m obviously on the team going to Bangkok!  I can’t wait for this.  In both Bangkok and Mexico City we will be partnering with the local churches in doing evangelism, and really just mobilizing the local church.  As well, in Bangkok we’re going to be working with a YWAM base there, specifically working with their programs in the slums, as well as with children-at-risk. 

Bangkok is the largest human trafficking port in the world.  The average age for kids to get sold into this industry is 4.  I can’t wait to be able to go there, and give these kids hope, and a joy in life. 

If you guys could be praying for us as we go out on missions, that would be awesome.  The one thing that keeps coming up right now is team unity.  Just because we’re living in such close proximity, and are all together all the time, having unity is a huge thing for all of us.

Also, if you could pray for support to come in.  I need to raise about $4500 to be able to go to Mexico City and Bangkok, so if you could just pray for that to come in, that would be awesome.  As well, if you would like to help in this way, that would be amazing.  You can either If you would like to support me in this way, you can either go to the YWAM Perth website: https://www.ywamperth.org.au/007/payonline.asp. If you are donating this way, you can put my name the line that says ‘recipients name’, then where it school payment, go to Discipleship Training School –Sports – October (if you have any questions you can email me, or talk to my parents). The other way you can pay is to send a cheque to my home address (34915 Champlain Cres., Abbotsford, BC, v2s 5p3), and make a cheque out to either me or my parent (Mel &Monika Dick) and they can put it the rest of the way to YWAM from there. Because this is with a school, it is counted as education, not as missions, so it is not tax deductible.

Thank you so much for your continued prayers.

Perth City Evangelism

So every month the base picks an area of town to do evangelism in one night a week.  This week s Perth City, which means about a 2 block area of downtown, where their mall/shopping area is. 

Today was the most amazing evangelism I’ve ever experience.  Way better than even any of the evangelism nights we did in LA.  We went into the city, and started with a time of worship, basically the whole point of it was to show the city that church isn’t boring.  So we sang a bunch of camp songs, the banana song, the funky chicken, it was great.

After we went out into the city, and were told to just pray and listen to whatever God told you to do.  So some people ended up talking to the people sitting around the city, other people bought meals for people, stuff like that.  I went out with 2 girls from my school, and we felt like God was telling us to just kneel and pray for the city.  So we did.  People stared, and took pictures of us, called us idiots.  I’ve never felt so good about being called an idiot before, it was such a freeing feeling.  It was so amazing to actually feel God come over the city.

1 Month Down, 2 To Go

 

This is Perth.  It’s looking away from where I live, but this is it.  Actually, I don’t really live near this at all.  I live kinda the direction that the river is coming out of the screen.  But still in the city, which you can see in the middle.  The city is huge.  They barely have any tall buildings like in Canada, but its incredibly spread out.

I’ve been here for a month now.  Classes are amazing.  So far we’ve had weeks on The Character and Nature of God, Hearing God’s Voice, Sin and Repentance, and Intercession and Worship.  I’m trying to pick a favourite, but I don’t think I have one.  I love being able to go to school everyday, and learn about God, not about things I don’t really care about. 

Also, we found out the first part of our outreach location.  We`re in Mexico City!  At first I was sort of bummed, but then I heard more and more about what was happening there and I`m really excited for it.  There`s a link on my facebook that`s a report on what`s been happening there through YWAM Perth over the past year and its amazing.  There have been healings, and salvations every day.  I can`t wait to get to be a part of that, it`s going to be so amazing.