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5/5/07 Hello everyone. We have been so busy here in South Africa, working with street kids on the beach front. We started 2 weeks ago just trying to get the kids to listen. They were so demanding and expected us to be their servants. We have since been doing a lot of prayer for these boys who live on the streets. They sleep outside the church. The church has bars around it, also barbwire and it has 2 gates to protect it. The kids come in for about an hour and a half and we sing worship songs, teach them writing and math and of course the bible. A lot of them choose to live on the streets because they have a really bad home life. They are very illiterate and most cannot even do simple addition without help. One day they are friends and the next they are fighting and stabbing each other. They fight about the dumbest things like 2 of them have the same name, Street boy and a street girl. So one said its male and he wants it and the girl said she wants her name and the other has to change it. That ended up in a stab wound for the boy because she decided only one can have that name on the street. We have been on the beach almost everyday either having worship or just talking to people about Jesus. It has been amazing to see how God is moving in this place. COOL GOD MOMENT---One day we were having worship on the beach and a guy walked by on the pier like he was leaving. I talked to some other onlookers and then I saw this man return about 7 min later and I remember thinking that I wish I could talk to this guy. He was 27 yrs old, from the Indian decent and very well dressed. When he came back I started to talk to him and make small talk. I then told him the story of how we ended up in Durban. I asked him if he new Jesus Christ and he said yes. Then I asked him if he asked Jesus in his heart. He said yes because his parents converted to Christianity when he was a little boy. I said he has to make this decision himself and that his parents cant save him. No matter how bad they want to. I then asked him if he wanted to pray the prayer. He said the rest of his family were Christians. So he said yes and I led him through the sinners prayer. I asked him how he felt right after he accepted Christ and he said he felt excited and that very happy. He said he had joy running everywhere through his body. He said he was the lost child of his family & that he was the spoiled brat. His familys #1 prayer was that he would stop living a Drugy, Drinking, Womanizing Life. He said that he was going to go out with friends that night but something brought him back to our worship at the beach. I said this was a divine appointment from God. He is seeking after you. He is very happy about your decision today and the Bible says the Angels are rejoicing. Praise God that He is faithful to pursue us even when we are so lost and think we cant be redeemed. God comes and shows up and saves us. This man said he was going to go home and tell his family he received Jesus and not go out with his friends. COOL GOD MOMENT---ALMOST TRAGEDY SAVED BY GRACE!!! Yesterday I was at the beach with my team. We split into 2 groups. And my team decided to go to the Pier on the beach. As we walked there at 4pm. It was high tide and very dangerous to jump in. We had no idea how dangerous it was because we didnt know the rules of the Ocean. Dont go in after High Tide and keep away from the Piers at all costs. 3 of my friends not knowing this jumped off the pier into the ocean. They were fine at first but then a wave came and slammed them into the pier. I could not see them anymore I was on the top of the pier looking down. I thought 2 of them were gonners and that only Jake had made it. We kept looking and finally I saw Kari come out and so I was worried about Huey because he had went back to save Kari and then he disappeared. It was such a scary time. But by Gods grace Huey cam out third. He was slammed into the Pier a lot harder than the others. They all have several cuts all over their bodys and were very bloody when they came out. But God spared their lives and we learned a very important lesson. Dont go into the Ocean where the Rip Tides can pull you under or the waves can slam you into the side of the Pier. Thank God they are all ok and he saved us the Grief and Pain we would have had if one or all 3 would have died. Praise God. Please Keep praying for us. God Bless You Scott Rilley
Greetings from Durban South Africa. Here is the latest of what we have been doing. God is so faithful and has moved so much in this great city. Thanks for checking back and keep up to date on all i have been doing. Thanks for your continued prayers. I Love and Miss you all !!! Saturday 31th March Went to the prison... Jake & J9 shared the Gospel & their testimonies. There were around 23 prisoners in one of the small cell including 2 guards & one cleaning worker. We cramped inside & did a drama including some worship songs led by Huey. Around 18 people gave their life to Christ! Sunday 1st April Went to KCC for the sunday service. Very very very powerful! The church is so huge that it fits around 1000 people. Monday 2nd Apirl Day off... went to GATEWAY MALL. The biggest shopping mall in the southern hemisphere! Tuesday 3rd April Street evangelism at the SPAR & went to a village at night to share about the Gospel. Many of them asked for prayers and were deeply passionate to follow God. Wednesday 4th April Went to Kwa Mashu Community Health Center.. Into the waiting room which was a big room with benches lining up the whole way. It was a very random day when we went there not knowing what to expect. We were led by the Holy Spirit & Nathan & Anna spoke infront of the people. There were more than 150 people in the room. Many gave their life to Christ. We prayed for them and I managed to pray for 9 of them for healings...etc. In the afternoon we had door to door evangelism nearby where we stayed. We prayed for people & talked about God. One funny thing was when Huey did his kungfu style to the kids. Hahahah, you'll get to hear more about that during the report back For the rest of the days, we were busy helping out with the Good Friday & Easter Sunday service with the kids (around 800 kids!!!!!). It was a very challenging time but thank God for His grace and mercy!! One of my favorite experiences here was when we climbed up to the rooftop of where we stay at Kwa Mashu. We had worship and prayer there at night... overlooking the city-hills & especially looking at the stars in the sky!!!!! It was amazing!! It's kinda scary when I climbed up the wall & back down..but very interesting! For the rest of the days here in Kwa Mashu, we did lots of open air and door to door evangelism. God has been doing so many things in our ministry here in Durban. At the moment, we heard of 6 healing miracles (plus more- which only God knows...) & thousands of salvations. Thousands were prayed for too & heard the Gospel. Even after a couple of days, those people whom we prayed for, testify to us that God had blessed them so much and changed their life. Many prayers were answered. Furthermore, we've seen people totally changed by God just after we prayed for them. Personally, God has changed me so much especially in my view towards missions and reaching out to the souls. Please continue to pray for our team here as well as the other teams in South Africa. Gods Blessings On My Team Stats: 6 Healings 746 Received Personal Prayer 979 Ministered Teachings, Kids Church Bible Stories 6,071 Salvations 10,417 Heard The Gospel All happened between 3/27/07----4/22/07Gods Hands Are On Us & This City Of Durban!! Hello Everyone, God has been doing so much here in our first 4 weeks in Durban, The township of Kwa-ma-shu. The Stats Above are current in what God has allowed my team to do since coming to South Africa. God is so amazing. He has allowed me to personally bring 1812 young adults into his Kingdom through One-On-One Evangelism and speaking at a high School. It is so amazing to have God work through our hands and feet and touch so many peoples lives. This township will never be the same. This Week We: Tuesday 4/17/07 -Preached in a Primary School -Christian Group High School -Cell Group Village (all new Christians in the last month) Wed: 4/18/07 -Preached in a High School Ministry -C-Section Evangelism /Prayer Walk (The city is divided into A-E section) -In the Afternoon we were invited to go to the Paradise Valley Thursday: 4/19/07 -Feeding Ministry-The church feeds the Hungry every day we just had the privilege to help on Thursday morning for 3 weeks in a row. -Doing Door to Door Evangelism/Prayer Walking -Spoke to a Youth Service Fri: 4/20/07 -Shared Gospel with a Primary school of 1478 -Shared Gospel with a High School of 2700 -Went Prayer Walking Over the City & Praying for People in the Street -Went to a 4 hour Youth Service with a Radio Station and a lot of well known Christian Artists from South Africa. Sat: 4/21/07 -Prision Ministry. We had about 32 inmates hear the Gospel. We had 20 Salvations and God used, 2 guys from my group, me and a pastor to cast a demon out of an 18 year old boy. -Went to a Teen Lead Church Service. It was the first Service the Youth were able to have. -At night the Pastor and his wife had us over to his home for a time to relax and to just be blessed by them. They brought us dinner and we just had a great time to fellowship. They had more food than we could possibly consume. We were so blessed. Sun: 4/22/07 -We said out good byes to the church family, they had us come up and say good bye. They honored us in front of the congregation and the Pastor Thanked us for coming and blessing his city. He said his City was dark and now he said that he can Feel the Difference in the Atmosphere in Kwa-Ma-Shu. That was really great to here. He said he wants to have us back. His son Bonga who had helped us in so many ways said that we have made the Biggest difference of any team and that we were his favorite. He also said that he has changed due to us being here & that really blessed him. He is not much to put his feeling into words so that is a lot coming from him. He said the Impact that we had, we will never know because it has been so big. Mon: 4/23/07 -Now we have settled into the City of Durban and beach front. We will be working with street kids with the YMCA. They said an hour with these kids is all they recommend because they are very street smart. It will be much different than kids from church. These kids take care of themselves in everyway. Its amazing they are alive. Mostly from 9 years to 18 years of age. I will keep all of you in our prayers. Keep running the race and may God bless all of you! Scott M Rilley P.S. Send me an Email when you get the chance. I would love to hear what is going on in your world. A MESSAGE MY FRIEND SAGE HAGRE WROTE ABOUT HER TIME IN INDIA SO FAR Livin La Vida LOca" was playin in a cafe we were chilling at today. And I couldn't find it more relative, we are truly living the crazy life hey...THe more I learn about God, the less I understand HIm, and this is a thing of beauty..EVery time I try to wrap my mind around what our heavenly Father risks giving us the freedom of choice due to His unmeasurable love for us I am speechless... To know what it feels like to have a broken heart and know that it doesn't even tap into the hurt that God feels for HIs millions of children that keep walking away from HIm...And yet... God keeps pursuing us, He never stops loving us even though it hurts because we're His children and HIs love for His own is unshakable..The scientists have spent alot of time in vain trying to rationalize a God. The CReator of the Universe is nothing but irrational. Our minds can't even begin to conceive His pain or His love, but our hearts can feel the indescribabale power of HIs presense and this, this is worth living a life that defys all reason...Dang if i had read some of the stories I've gained here a few years back I'd think it was nonsense..Last week for example a guy from my team was praying healing over an old Indian man with abroken leg inside a Hindu temple..He persisted in prayer for twenty minutes massaging the man's leg and continuing to pray in faith for the man to walk again..The guy was unsure of the degree of healing the old man recieved due to the language barrier..But this was no hinderance, as the guy left the temple he turned around to see the old Indian man jumping up and down on HIs legs, crying and lifting His hands to the sky!! I Used to question why miracles didn't happen today like they did in the Bible..And I'm not sure, but I know that God's word says that Christ's disciples will be able to do everything Jesus did and more. Perhaps it's cuz some of us are intimidated by the thought, afraid to step up and out in faith..I think some of us still think we're not good enough to be used by God in such a way..The enemy has been attacking us with lies to keep us from experiencing the abundant life God's created us for..God can use us now, we just gotta accept His grace and believe that we were bought at a price to truly shine.. Condemantion is not from God, God convicts us, but it's only to bring us closer to HIm, it's covered in love...I was once one of those intimidated, prideful people...But the lOrd has been darastically changing my life her in India.. OUr God is a mircale worker, yesterday, today and always... So..a funny , not so funny lil story to tell ya'll:The other day I was in a shower stall in the process of washing off the intoxicating exhaust and 110 degree weather(note statistic: one day here in Hyderabad is like smoking two packs of ciggarettes)...pouring a bucket of water over my freshly shampooed head when through the bubbles cascading down my face I spotted something foreign to the shower floor.....A huge terd had floated up through the drain and was heading towards me!!!Needless to say I was traumatized and screamed for help...But unfortunatly, I had to spend a good moment in the stall dodging the terd cuz I couldn't just run out into the halls nude..Mmm the feeling of putting your clothes on when your still covered in soap...haha it's all good...So yeah i learned a fun little fact about the bathrooms here at the YMCA; the squattie potty drain connects to the shower drain!! And when tourists eat spicy Indian cusine and fill up the squatties, all hell breaks loose! =) But hey as the song from our last week in Lecture Phase,"It's gonna be worth it!" rings true in such times as these...haha what would outreach be without poop stories, right Indo?!? =) ABBY CLAYTOR IN INDONESIA WROTE: ok, so i can't even begin to explain to you all what the last three weeks of my life have been like. but i wish i could. i wish you could all feel the power of God like i have, see people be healed and lives radically transformed. i thought that i would come here and begin to understand God more, get to know Him better. and i have gotten to know him better, but everyday i understand him less. and i am so thankful for that. everytime i see a more clear picture of him, the less i can rap my head around. i'm so thankful i serve a God i will never be able to fully understand, but will always be able to learn more about. i mean try to understand this...he is daily in anguish over our sin and the things we do that literally break his heart. yet, it is because of his unmeasureable love that he chooses that hurt. i have asked God to allow me to feel the things he feels, and i have never felt so much pain in all my life. and then i ask him to allow me to have a greater understanding of his love, and i can't even begin to understand the depths of it. and it is because of that love that he goes through that pain for every person in the universe. if you can understand that i will be seriously impressed. take sometime to sit in awe of God..don't be afraid to ask questions. Trouble In India with Leader Megan Sanders: Well I suppose many of you have heard about our little adventure with the police.... I AM IN LIKE A BAZILLION NEWSPAPERS!!!! hahahaha Just to clear up any funny questions or mis understandings, I am going to tell the story. We were in the Hindu slums, preaching, and they told us to all get in the bus, once we got in the bus, there was a bit of a confrontation outside. people were pushing our translators and things like that. All the sudden the police rock up and take the translators and one gets into our van. they take us to the police station and we sat there in the van for a little while. There were ton of people outside the van, there were some men trying to stir up the crowd, chanting and what not. After a little while they came and asked for the leaders to go inside... Me and Angel were off! Christian and Andrew came with us upstairs to wait to be questioned by the commisioner. there were lots of men there, lots of cameras, lots of commotion. they tried to take videos of us, and they put cameras in our face. we finally got to talk to the commisioner. she was angry at fist but after enough of Angel and I smiling and saying all the things we liked about india, we had her laughing at the end. ( hint, always learn a bit of language when you go to a country in case this ever happens to you, they love it!) We answered her questions and she gave us an escort home. There were lots of police at our YMCA to take details and things like that. One reporter. But things have been pretty chill. We saw lots of newspapers with our picture, but we haven't had any problems since. God was sooooo good. There was such peace over all of us, and we are all so aware that he was protecting us. We are still praying about what our next steps will be, but life is good i have met some really cool indians....lots of muslims!!! they are so much fun! soon i will visit them and let them do hena on my hands!!! yeah! Jake Burton From My Team South Africa-Durban-Wrote: Over the last week I have come to find out something about myself that I always have known but never really knew why it was so important to figure out. This week I have recognized that I am a person that loves to be in awe. I love mountains and clouds. I love lightening and waves. I love sunrises and wide open spaces. This love is built in me. I do not know exactly why I am drawn to stop and gaze at a valley cut by a river, but I do know it reveals a bit about myself. Lately I have been setting my alarm for 5:45AM to catch the sunrise. My alarm goes off and then a sit up and look out the window. If I can tell it will be a spectacular sunrise I get up and go outside and climb the side of the building we are staying at. On the roof I watch the sun roll over the edge of the earth while at the same time it breaths colors into the atmosphere. It is at this time when I feel alive, and it is at this time I know my place. I find weakness in the storm as the wind stirs my spirit and as the lightnings shout rattle my being. It is at these moments I feel like I know my God and I know my place in his arms. His mountains show me his strength and his wind tells me of his spirit. One morning as I rose, I looked out my window and saw one of the most beautiful skies ever; I quickly hopped out and ran to the exit of the building. As a came to the door and turned the handle I realized it was locked. I started frantically searching for another exit but all the doors throughout the building were locked. I was in such agony because I was missing out on the beauty, missing out on feeling connected. Eventually I made it up on the roof, but much of the beauty had faded and the moment was gone. I starred at the sky I had wanted to see, and thought about my own life. I dont feel like a person who is easily impressed. I dont really like the city. Ill take a river over a pool any day. Ill choose a mountain over a building in a heartbeat. I know that God has wired me in such a way to be in awe of him and his power, to gaze at his beauty and just stand in wonder. And as I reflect on my experience of being locked in the building with no way out to experience Gods beauty and wonder, I realized I never want that experience to an image of my life. I dont want to be shut out on Gods beauty. If there is something to experience and see, I want to strive for it. If I ever come to a point in my life, where I dont stop and stare at a rainbow or see beauty in a dying sun, I know then I am ready for heaven, because I will have lost my sense of awe. If the beauty of God cannot be experience, then I dont want to live anymore. But if there is something else, a deeper experience, then I want to live a life that is about finding it. I so much do not want to miss out on the sunrises of Gods presence. I do not want to be locked out from knowing him deeper, from just standing before him and realizing the height of his power and the depth of his love. If there is deeper beauty in God, I will live my life in pursuit of just that. I am reading a book entitled The Ragamuffin Gospel, by Brennan Manning This book is all about grace, and at one point in the book, the author quotes a prayer of a rabbi: Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of Your universe. Delight me to see how Your Christ plays in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not His, to the Father through the features of mens faces. Each day enrapture me with Your marvelous things without number. I do not ask to see the reason for it all; I ask only to share the wonder off it all. I have now stolen this prayer and made it my own, All I want is a life that doesnt disappoint, one that doesnt miss out on what God has in store for me. I do not want to limit myself and the beauty that I can experience, by my own understanding and wisdom. There is more out there, more than we know. Sometimes I wish I could have grown up in Egypt during the Exodus just to experience the awesome power of God or been with Elijah on the mountain just to see the fire from heaven. I feel this applies to my time in Africa more than I know. I long so much to be in awe of something God does out here in Africa. So far I have learned so much and had countless great experiences, but I havent just been speechless by seeing God move yet. I know that it will come, but its just as matter of unlocking the door. I so much want to be stuck in awe out here, to have something from God I cant deny, some story to tell about the power of God. Sometimes I feel like we as normal present day southern Christians believe that God has stopped being a god who shows wonders, who heals, and works miracles. I highly doubt God has changed his ways that much. I dont want my own understanding to limit God. So I will no longer lean on my understanding, but in all my ways I will acknowledge him and his power. Dont limit God on what you think he is, his ways are mysterious. Step out of the boat, even if you dont understand. That why its called stepping out on faith, not stepping out on evidence or reason. All God asks of us is to put our faith and hope in his limitless power and love, and just stand in his presence in silence of his beauty. God doesnt ask us to use our own power and love, just he just asks us to use his and to believe in it with our whole heart. There remains to be beauty in the mysterious, awe in the things we cannot explain. If I could look at God once and know him fully, why would I ever go back? Praise God for his mystery, thank him that there is no end to his love and power. For it is in Gods mystery that we can have faith, and it is in faith that we can believe this same beauty cares for the hearts and souls of man. The most magnificent mystery of God is why he chooses to love the creation of man. There is mystery and beauty in the cross and in the grace and mercy of his love, and for that I could stand in awe of him forever
Kari White from my team South Africa-DURBAN- Wrote: hey from south africa everyone! so i've been here almost 2 weeks and its been amazing. we are staying in the township kwamashu which is a zulu community. so basically everyone is black except for us and i am pretty much the biggest ghost to walk the streets! the place where we are staying is pretty nice, we didn't have any electricity for the first 4 days but now we do. the view from our backyard is incredible, of the valleys and hills and so many homes. we ride in the back of a truck everywhere which makes for some cramped but good times. the guys and girls all share the same bathroom so that's definetely a new thing for this only child. we've done a bunch of ministry stuff like 1 day we went to an elementary school and did a skit and talk for over 1200 kids, then 1 day we went to a prison and talked to a bunch of inmates there. 18 of them committed their lives to the Lord so that was incredible to witness. we've done a few open airs at a shopping complex (so we perform skits and then people give testimonies) and have had the opportunity to pray for so many people. its super encouraging since people are so open to hearing about Jesus and are totally willing to surrender themselves. one day i prayed for a woman who was being bewitched by someone in her family so that was interesting. we've also led a sunday school, gone to a tiny village to speak, gone to a local clinic and prayed for people and done some door to door evangelism. we even saw a healing. we prayed for this old lady's feet one day and then we saw her the next day and she wasn't in any pain and the swelling was gone! so crazy! on good friday we led the children's program at the church, so picture 800+ kids and 14 of us! it was insane. we played games with them, sang some songs and just tried to control them on the blow up castle...such a crazy day. easter sunday we did the same but there were less kids and the service was only 2 hours instead of 3! we have 1 day off a week so we've come to the biggest mall in the southern hemisphere both times. yesterday we had an easter egg hunt and went to wilson's wharf for our leader's birthday. its was so much fun and nice to get away from everything. one of the guys and i got a volleyball so we play lots in our backyard together. gotta love pepper! the other day we got to go to chatsworth which is an east indian township to see the other team that's in south africa, it was so good see them. A MESSAGE FROM MY LEADER: KATHERINE OSBORN: AKA: KO Hello everyone... Currently in Durban, South Africa. I live in a Zulu township (aka myself and the 13 others i am traveling with are the only whites around...) and loving it!!! The people are amazing! The culture is one to die for... Just moved to the ghetto of durban in a place called 'Albert Park' most tell us it is the worst part of the city... I am excited! Will be working with heaps and heaps of street children that live off of nothing and sniff glue... sad. Then I will travel five hours north and work with the Sutu people and Afrocans... in a lil village called Piet Ritief... and into the country Swazaland for a week to work in a Rehab center... I love it! MIss you alll tho!!! So crazy traveleing with people I dont know super well... especially since i am "leading" them... ha. just imagine... yes me.. random me... but it is great cuz God's hand is in everything i do... so i have NO WORRIES!!! Sibonga! (thank you in zulu) Yababa (means 'hott') thats all i know... Cheers!
3/28/07 --NEWEST UPDATE AT TOP-- Hello Everyone, Thank You All for helping me go on this mission trip. It is awesome to see how faithful God is. God has really blessed me. He has provided over 6850 Australian dollars to help me pay for my schooling. I am so overwhelmed. God is great. I will be flying to South Africa on 3/29/07. It will be about a 12 hour flight. God has blessed me this week by: 1. Last friday i had a friend Anna here on base who looked at my Sandals and saw they were totally warn out. She is from Michigan. So she asked me my foot size. Sat morning she walked up to me and gave me Sandals. How cool is that. Free Sandals, Thanks Anna 2.Sat afternoon i was just sitting at a computer checking my email when a person walked in the door and i heard someone say "Scott is over there". I looked up thinking i new this person but i had never met him. Arie a leader here on base had lead him to Christ just 3 week prior to this. He lead this gentleman over to me and his Name was also Scott. He handed me $100.00 and said here is my tithe for the week. God is so faithful. I hugged him and told him thank you. I also told him a little about me and where i am going for Outreach. 3. A friend of mine here on base, Jimmy, donated $50.00 toward my outreach fees. The amazing part is that he is believing God to come and meet his need of $3500.00 by Sunday. He has total faith that as he stands in obediance that God will bless him for it & meet his need. He has amazing faith!! 4. A Check arrived in the mail for me from a Celebration Church Member $40.00. Thanks for your support, all you who have blessed me with prayers & support!! 5. We have seen 2400 salvations in the last month from Impact World Tour. We have been doing intercession, Feeding the performers, Helping with handing out bibles, and doing follow up. Reach them at: ImpactWorldTour.Com.Au That is a small city of Salvations. This will truly transform this city!! 6. God provided $4850.00 Aussie Dollars Since i have arrived at YWAM, from Unknown Donors. Praise God!!! God is So Good!! I love you all. Thanks for your prayers and support!! This could be my last email & website post for a while. I am not sure if i will have internet access in South Africa or how often i will be able to write. So please know that if i dont put info on my website that is why, Thanks. God Bless Scott Rilley
THIS WEEK GOD REALLY CHALLENGED ME, HE SAID, " DARE TO BELIEVE< DARE TO HAVE FAITH AND WATCH WHAT I WILL DO!! "
MARCH 1, 2007NEWEST INFO AT TOP ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500 People in total have given their lives to the Lord with IWT in the last week, they have only had 2 events so far. Praise God. Cool God Story-- Saturday night prayer was once again amazing, I have never seen such a beautiful sky, It was a dark purple with a hint of pink here and there. I was so amazed by the beauty of the night. I have never admired a night like this. It just felt like an exceptional night. I felt God ask us to go into worship but i didnt say anything. We started to pray and then Mike spoke up and said that he felt like we were supposed to worship. So we did & God gave us the Perfect song. "Lord the light of your love is shining, in the midst of the darkness shining, Jesus light of the World shine upon us, Set us free by this truth you now bring us, shine on me, shine on me, shine Jesus shine fill this land with your fathers Glory, Blaze spirit blaze set our hearts on fire, Flow river flow flood the nations with grace and mercy, send forth your word Lord and let there be light. It was so exciting that this song totally expressed our hearts that night, in the midst of all the beauty in the sky. It was so beautiful that it brought tears to my eyes just thinking about all God had done to create this beautiful night just for me. Also we noticed that the moon had lowered while we were out there. And it kept lowering, which i thought was unusual, i have never seen the moon go down so quickly. When i was looking toward the moon i noticed there was a lamp post below it. And the moon kept getting closer to the lamp post. Then i asked the guys about this, they also noticed it was lowering. Then i looked at my watch and in 3 minutes the moon had went from above the Streetlight to behind the building that was shorter than the street light and out of our sight. That seemed pretty amazing to me. I felt it was God saying to us that "Great things & Miracles are about to Happen & that God is going to do Great things through us." Then Adam said that if God had given Mike or I a hint or a passion of something God wanted us to do that we just need to do it and God will bless & expand it. Earlier in the day I just felt like i had been at the Lowest of Lowes. I asked God why & he said because all you can do is go up. You will see my hand in all that you do and recongnize that I brought you to where you are each and every day in your life. He is going to raise me up. Earlier i had been leaning on a tree and a thought came into my head that This is a tree that my heavnly father has created for me to lean on. Cool God Story 2--Comming soon!! Around 4am in the early morning on 2/27/07 God woke me up and asked me to pray. Almost immediatly after i started praying God gave me the name Lisa. Right away my first thought was that this is a person that is going to get healed. I began to pray for Lisa and I just started to weep. I was feeling that this was an answer to prayer, God is going to work a miracle for Lisa throught the hands of our team or me. I was overwhelmed with the goodness of God and his Faithfullness. I felt like oh man!, this is it, God is going to blow things out of my control and were getting ready to see Monster things happening because he is keeping his promise. I was so emotional. Then i felt like i should go to the Classroom to continue praying as i was still in my bed when he first spoke to me. After i was in the classroom i continued to pray. I went throught the steps to enter into the Holy of Holies. Then I sat at a desk and God gave me another name, Chelsea. I dont know a Chelsea or a Lisa. So i knew this was from God. God led me to sing some victory songs: I went to the Enemy's Camp and I took back what he stole from me and Satan is under my feet, Gods got the Power, and Theres Power In The Blood Of The Lamb. After this i felt led to submit and humble myself before the Lord so i got down on my stomach and put my nose to the ground and started to pray. As i prayed i started to speak out and this is what i was saying. After much intercession, praying authority over South Africa, Durban, and Piet Retief. GOD SAID-- "The power of God will move mightly over Piet Retief. Many miracles shall happen. Children in the Orphanage with HIV will be healed & saved & they shall translate the word of God to the other children in their native tongue". I was so excited for this word from God. This whole thing happened in about 1 hour and 15 minutes of prayer and intercession. Then i wrote it all down. Later that day i gave a copy of it to Katherine Osborn who is my outreach Leader. That night after she had read it she said she wanted to talk to me. As we talked she told me that God told her that Miracles would happen in the Orphanage as well. She had got this word the day after she found out she was going to South Africa as a Staff member. And God also told her exactly how many kids would be healed. She has kept that # private but i am so excited that God has confirmed her word from God to her, and my word From God to Me. Praise God that he works like this to confirm. This sure grew my faith. I feel God is saying to me, "IF YOU DARE TO BELIEVE, YOU WILL SEE GREAT THINGS HAPPEN"!!
2/25/2007 NEWEST INFO AT TOP ALWAYS UPDATE!! UPDATE!! UPDATE!! UPDATE!! UPDATE!! UPDATE!! UPDATE!! UPDATE Please continue to pray for Impact World Tour here in Perth, They have 10 venues total all over perth, AU. The first one was launched last week at a primary school and they saw 300 people come to Christ. Yes its in the Schools here which is very exciting. Thanks for all your prayers. For more information on Impact World Tour, Click here. or go to www.impactworldtour.com.au VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE!! i wanted to let you all know that i am going to South Africa for my Outreach. Durban first, for 6 weeks and then off to Piet Retief for 6 weeks. In Piet Retief we will be working in Orphanages with children who have aids or there parents have died of aids and they had no place to go. I am really excited to be able to work with African Children and hopefully perform some songs for them that we do in kids planet. Please take a moment now if you would and Pray for this Trip to South Africa. That our team of 15 would really impact the cities of Durban, and Peit Retief. That our teams would be safe. We were told that we cannot go out after dark. The saying is that When the Lights go out, The Machettes come out. Also there is alot of theft that takes place there. One man from ywam had his cell phone stolen at knife point. Not even 5 minutes later the person who stole the phone from a ywamer was killed for that same cell phone. The ywamer is doing great. So it is a serious situation that could arrise. We need prayer for safety, for Miracles, For God to really reveal himself to the people of South Africa. For the ability to talk in the language of the native people or to communicate and have them understand. Also that our health stays strong and no one contracts any sicknesses or diseases as you know we will be working with Kids with Aids. Thanks for All your prayers. God Bless You All. I would like to say a special thanks to all who have blessed me financially and prayerfully to make this mission trip a success. There is along way to go but i know that God is faithful. Thanks also to those YWAM students who donated $15.00 so i could stay in contact with my family. I feel very blessed and thanks again. Topic Of The Week Was: RELATIONSHIPS 8 Principles Of Relationships: 1) We as humans relate spirit to spirit as we conversate 2)Our true self worth & significance dosen't come from ourselves, but what the person we respect the most thinks of us. 3) In the beginning there were the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit & they lived in perfect harmony & relationship. 4) Satan dosent know a relationship because all that he does is as a selfish ruler trying to do his own will. This is why without God our relationships fail. Satan cants show you how to have a great relationship. He has no one to look to, He can look at God but he doesent want that one. 5) We need great relationships because the only thing we can take to heaven with us is people. 6)Other people teach us about ourselves when we live with them & have to co-habitate. 7)All people have a deep desire to be loved for who we are, and not for what we do. 8) 5 Keys to any relationship are: Love, Respect, Trust, Understanding, & Communication. Topic Of Last Week: Spiritual Warfare 8 Principles Of Spiritual Warfare 1) There are 3 absolute truths, "Jesus Is God", "Forgiveness is Key", "The Bible is Gods Word". 2) There are 5 obsticles of the Gospel going forth into every nation: 1. Language-People 2. Culture-we must learn there culture to relate to them. 3. Sub-cultures-we must relate to each sub-culture to maximize our efforts to reach the lost. 4.The Prejudice barrier-people against other people because of different issues. 5. The powers of darkness do not want the gospel to come in. 3) Everyone on earth knows about God & his truth, through creation, & their own conscious. They are aware of a higher being. 4)People dont turn to God, because of love of their sin. "They dont want to give it up". 5) Spiritual warfare is vitally important for evangelism & reaching the nations. 6)Jesus came to earth for 2 main functions: A. To Redeem & B. To destroy the plans & works of the devil. 7)We need to recognize that all christians are in a battle. 8)We need to understand that God wants to us us, so we need to be available & listen for his voice. Thursday, "Spiritual Warfare" Peter Warren asked us to either get prayer or to pray for someone. I wanted prayer but i remembered you must give to recieve so i decided that this time i would rather pray for someone. I then looked in front of me to see if anyone needed prayer. I noticed a girl that had her hand up but by the time I noticed her alot of people were around her to pray for her. So i turned around & saw Adrianne & no one had put hands on her yet. So i put my hand on her shoulder & asked God for a word for her. I also noticed that a leader Landon had also put his hand on her after i did. I took my hand off her for a moment and just concentrated on God & kept praying silently. God gave me the word "Comfort". So i waited to see if the leader was going to pray for her but he didn't. I think it was God wanting to work through me that didnt allow him to pray for her out loud. So i put my hand back on her shoulder and let her know that God wanted to be her comforter & that He wanted to take care of all the things that she was worried about and that He wants to meet her needs. That all the things that are dear to her heart are also dear to Gods heart. I prayed comfort into her life for about 5 minutes or so & let her know that Jesus Loves Her and wants her to feel the Fathers Warmth & Embrace. As I started to pray that prayer she just began to weep. God was speaking directly through me to the inner most part of her soul & assuring her that God is her Comfort. This is such an amazing testimony. I have never had this happen before where God has given me an exact word for someone. I have prayed for many but never spoke directly into their life with God using me. I was blessed after this happened and i was so excited. I felt like God has given me another Gift. Praise God!!!
2/11/07 & 2/22/07 Newest Info At Top
Last saturday God led Mike, Adam, & I, (my prayer group) to repent for all the times that God had led us or asked us to talk to someone about him and we didnt follow through. It was such a freeing time. After we had done that and we were walking back to the base God showed me a picture of the 3 of us walking in White Robes because we were as pure as snow to Jesus Christ. It was such a blessing to know that we had pleased God. I would recommend everyone repent for this. How many times do we really appologize, or repent to God and ask his forgiveness after not doing what he asked us to do. That is a sin as well and we need to be specific when we confess ours sins and ask Gods forgiveness. LORDSHIP WAS LAST WEEK!!! 8 Principles Of Lordship. 1) God is an oven & not a microwave. Dont expect to get an answer as soon as you pray. Be patient and wait. 2) Get over the past & come back to today. 3) Jesus is the lord, acknowledge it daily. 4) Plan for the future, but live like you dying today. 5) Get a dream & a passion for something Godly & that will help you establish healthy boundaries. 6) We are here on this earth to speak Life over Death 7) Listen to the Bible & Godly people. 8) Friendship of the world is the Enemy of God. ********************************************************* Let JESUS BE THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE. Cool GOD moment #1-- Thursday after class i was so looking forward to eating lunch. My taste buds were flowing and God Said to me. FAST. God never gave me a time when the Fast would end. Friday morning God told me I could stop fasting after going through the tabernacle & confessing all my sins & after communion. We had to be real and stepup to the plate and Speak them all out. The bible says confess your sins one to another. If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We had setup a tabernacle in the classroom. & we had to go through each part and follow as if it was real and do what they did. Our sacrifice was giving things we loved up to God. Things we didnt want to part with or quit. I was thinking that my fast would end around 12:30 Lunch time on Friday. Because that is when lunch is. But the Holy Spirit led the day & we ended up praying and seeking God until 6:30pm. So i was not able to eat until almost 7pm. So i finally got to eat after 2 days of fasting. God had told me right away that for my fasting all i could have was Juice and Water. No Soda or sugary drinks. So went and got some apple juice. Thinking i would drink it all by the end of Thursday night. By the end of my fast on friday at 7pm I had only drank a little less than the neck of the bottle. I thought i would be hungry, and i wasent. I thought i would be thirsty and i wasent. I thought for sure that i would be shacky & I didnt shake at all. God had met all my physical needs of Hunger and Nutrition. One of the things I had prayed for on Friday was for God to forgive me & deliver me from Glutney. On sat morning I was in my quiet time & i was looking forward to the day of Pancakes in the morning. We never have breakfast served here at the base. we have 2 meals a day. So it was a treat to have breakfast served on base. In the afternoon my Small group leader was taking us to his house to watch a movie & have dinner. So i had a full day of good, Non base food to look forward to. I had only had one meal since my fast and God said scott i want you to fast again. I said in my heart to God, no, im not going to Fast. I have all this stuff to look forward to today. I thought i had just given 2 days to the lord & i dont need to fast anymore. Then i continued with my quiet time and started to read my bible & i was firm with God that i was not going to Fast. about 3/4 of the way through reading the bible I spoke to God and said I would fast. Right away I felt God say to my spirit i was just wanting to see if you would obey me. I dont want to mess around with God i had just cleansed myself of all the unrighteousness i had committed and i was free. It has crossed my mind that God would say this to me but i feared that he would not just be testing me and i would have to give up all this food. But God did release me from having to fast but gave me some guidelines to follow. I didnt want to disobey God over something like fasting when i had just gotten clean. The guidelines for the pancake breakfast was i could only have a maximum of 3 pancakes. I only ended up having 2 and i was full. When we went to Robs house they had plenty of food. They said we could each have 2 hambergers and 2 sausages & chips, Eggs for the burgers, tomato and Lettece. I asked for 2 burgers and was planning on eating them. But after some chips and 1 burger i was full. then come out the Ice Cream Cake. I was so excited to eat it. We were each given a small piece of ice cream cake. When we were finished Robs mother offered us a second piece. But i had to turn it down because i had no desire for it. At dinner that night we had fish and potatos & salad. I took 1 fish fillet and a normal size helping of potatos. I normally would have taken a second piece of fish because the fish is usually pretty good on base and it never lasts at the table. God has taken away my desire to eat beyond what my body needs for survival. Priase God for Delivering Me. GOD DOES MIRACLES............ :) Cool God Moments # 2 -God leads if you just listen to his Voice and Follow. God answers Prayer. We have a 24 hour prayer chain and someone is praying on base for this base all the time. My time is on Sat night at 11pm till Midnight. We generally go over because we let the spirit lead. Anyway Mike, Adam and I were all praying together last Sat night. We started off the prayer night by following the steps that Mark Parker "LORDSHIP TEACHER" had taught us. 1) Give God thanks for who he is & his Charecter. 2) Praise God for all he has done & worship him in Spirit and in Truth. 3) Confess any undelt with sin & repent. 4) Enter his courts with praise and thank God for his forgiveness. 5) Now that you are pure you can ask God to take you into the Holy Of Holies. After we had entered the Holy of Holies we asked God to speak to us each individually & let us know what was on his Heart that we needed to pray for. Then Adam asked for us all to have a couple minutes of silence so God could speak to us. God first laid on my heart to pray for the city of Perth as a whole& as I started to do that he led me to pray for the Authority in perth, Cops, Fire Dept, Governer, Mayer, and anyone with a leadership or authoritive position. After i prayed for that Mike startedto pray for the city and the Red Light District "Prostitution Situations" and the Occult. Also for Demonic Powers to be stopped. After they were finished praying I had planned to continue praying for the City of Perth as a whole but when i opened my mouth. I also started praying against Demonic Powers. During this time we had all also prayed in tongues & just truely seeked Gods leading for the night. As we continued to pray God spoke to me and said we needed to march around in a circle like they did in Jerico 7 Times. But i began to argue in my heart with God because it didnt feel right or make sence to walk around in a circle 7 times in the back of the YWAM base. I was trying to figure out what part God wanted us to walk around & none of the area in which we were standing seemed to satisfy that request God had made for me.Then God spoke to Adam & said we were supposed to go to the stadium 2 blocks away. Then we started to walk there and Mike said he recieved a word that we were to walk around the entire physical stadium. But when we got to the base of the park we kept walking into the stadium park instead of walking around it. As we walked to the top of the hill God gave Mike a verse. EZK 3:10 Moreover he said to me:"Son of man recieve into your heart all my words that I speak to you, and hear with your "EARS". After Mike read this verse God showed me what we were supposed to march around 7 times. It was a sign that had the name of the Stadium & an entire layout of the stadium so people would know where to sit. This was a symbol of the whole stadium. So we marched around that sign 7 times and after each time around it, I claimed that walls came down and I said broken in the name of Jesus Christ & As we were walking we were praying the whole time. Then Mike was lead to try and get in the stadium to pray for it. We walked over to the gate and I noticed that the gates had holes in them, they were just big enough to get our Arms through. i felt that if we put or arms through, that is the same as being in the stadium because it symbolizes us entering the stadium. Then we began to sing songs that claim back the land & we worshiped God. We sang " I went to the enemy's camp and i took back what he stole from me". Our God is an awesome God. Take me into the Holy of Holies. Then Adam was led to pray for the doors in which people would walk through so we placed hands on the doors and God gave me the song "Open the flood gates of Heaven, Let it Rain". So Mike & sang that as Adam prayed. Then Adam started walking & Mike followed. We ended up in the middle of the field next to the stadium. After all this God told me that we needed to tell testimonies of Spiritual Warfare that God had overcome for us or people we know. It had to be personal. So i asked if they had stories but they could not think of any so i then began to tell them how God used me to help bring my Ex-Girlfriend to Jesus Christ & then how God used me to cast a demon out of her. After that i proceeded to tell them how 3 years ago at Kidz camp God used a pastor, a Jr Counselor, & I to casst a demon out of a 15 yr old boy.That was so inspiring to Mike and Adam. Then God told me to tell them that i had told those stories to them to Increase their Faith. Hebrews 11 gives a bunch of Instances that Happened BY FAITH. Retelling those stories also increased my faith. I had also told them about a woman who was healed "Paul Olsons Book-How To Touch A Leper" from Scales all over her body like a fish & a witch doctor who had been rebuked by a young child and could not stand until he proclaimed Jesus Christ as Lord. Then that witch doctor began preaching and telling the story of Jesus. After these stories we could feel a very heavy spirit over us in the middle of the field. But we also felt whatever it was could not hurt us or touch us because God was protecting us. then Mike felt like we should walk around the field and Pray over it. So Mike and I started to do that But Adam said he was going to stay in the middle of the field. Right as Mike & I got tot he edge of the field we heard Adam (19YRS) yell out a prayer proclaiming Jesus Christ over that area. Then Mike Said he felt like something was leaving the stadium as Adam was yelling his prayer. Afterward we found out that Adam had seen a demon and was rebuking it. He saw that It was hovering in our general area. As we continued to pray & walk we noticed a group of people on the other side of the field & they were not sure what to think of Adams Crazy behavior. We found out a couple minutes later that it was more Ywamers. So Mike and i kept walking around the field and one of the YWAMers went and started talking to Mike as i kept walking and praying. Then another one came and started talking to me. They said that Lara and Lionel had both heard a "Murderous Scream", but the other people in the group had not heard anything and they were in the same general area. As soon as he told me this my first thought was it was a person who was being kidnapped for prostitution & i began to Cry uncontrollably. I never cry when people tell me stories of thing that happen but for some reason i was crying. Then he told me how they felt the same heaviness by the stadium before they even got accross the street by the stadium. Then again he told me about the scream they had heard and i began to Cray uncontrollably again. The Craziest thing was that the sound was only heard by 2 people. EZK 3:10 Moreover he said to me:"Son of man recieve into your heart all my words that I speak to you, and hear with your "EARS". We felt like those cries were not in the area but rather God had made the Ears of his people sensitive to hear what is going on. So we could get a heart for the Voiceless. A couple weeks ago we had a speaker come and talk about this kind of stuff. Female Mutilation, Young kids being taken as prostitutes and she talked about all kinds of things like that. Also we found out later that night that a band that was from the Occult and did heavy drugs had been playing at this stadium the night before. Here is something even more crazy, If you remeber at the beginning of this story Mike Prayed right away for the Red Light District of the City "Prostitutes" and the Occult. IWT's last Venue in the City of Perth is the Stadium accross from YWAM BASE & we need to claim it for Jesus Christ. So this is why we believe we are under so much attack.
2/10/07 Newset Info At Top
FATHER HEART OF GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8 Principles Of The Father Heart Of God!!! 1)Intamacy stands for Into-Me-See. God wants to have intamacy with us. He wants us to see into him and he wants to see into us, we just need to open our hearts 2) We need to recongnize that the relationship we have with our Earthly Father effects how we view our heavenly father. 3) The father heart of God is what Jesus came and Died for. He did whatever his Father (GOD) asked of him. And was only able to do what he saw his father (GOD) do. 4)Jesus always points to the father (GOD) and what the father (GOD) would have him do. 5) As children we need to not worry about making mistakes, but if we do we need to ask forgiveness and know that the next time we go through that same situation that we will get it right. 6) As children we are totally dependant on our Father & Mother to provide for us. We need to be that dependant on our Heavenly Father (GOD) & always ask questions. 7) Don't worry about anything, instead pray about everything and ask our Heavenly Father for help & direction. 8) We need to live in total submission & dependance on our Heavenly Father just as Jesus did.
02/03/2007 Newest Info At Top
Monday Morning was on The Father Heart Of God!! Little did we know what was in store for us. It was a very emotional time as the speaker asked us how we viewed God. Because alot of how we view our Earthly father effects the way we view our Heavenly Father. We were also asked to write letters to our fathers about all the things that we have been hurt by growing up. Tuesday i had my tooth removed at 2pm. I was finished with the whole process and on the train back to base at 2:30. We had small group that night but i was not feeling up to is so i stayed in bed. After group my leader Rob took me to the store to get some cold treats for my mouth. Ice Cream is very expensive here. I payed almost 6 dollars for 2 liters (2 1/2 quarts in america). We can get a gallon with 5 quarts in the states for 6 dollars. Father Heart Class was amazing. We were asked to write a letter to our fathers stating the ways they had hurt us and rejected us. And how it made us feel. Wednesday we continued to learn about the father heart of God. Thursday we read our letters out to one another. The girl that went first was named becca. She is a pastors kid. She has piercings in her mouth, and in her nose. She had the most terrifying letter i think i have ever heard. Her father always chose ministry over her. He never showed love to her, it was always not right now sweety. So she was put on the back burner for most of her growing up years. Never having that father really embrace her or encourage her. As she was reading the letter there was a man who stood in as the father, and another man who prayed over her and encouraged her to let her feelings go. She has a soft heart but has had a Hard Bubble over herself for a while. She was so angry and crying so much, but i think it was a great healing for her and very freeing because they also lead us through a prayer of forgiveness for the father. Then the standin father appologized for all that her actual father did, the standin was a pastor so he was able to bring alot of help and healing to her. He spoke first on behalf of the father, then he switched into the role of God the father and told her what he thinks about her and how he delights in her with everything that she does. God the father loves her and has always been there for her. After becca's letter to her father, we broke up into groups because we have 107 people to get through and we didnt have all day. So i went and read my letter to my small group and it was great just to forgive my father. I think i had in the past but when an old issue comes up we need to pray about it again and ask God if there is still any unforgiveness or anger that we need to get rid of. i was pretty angry with my father for all that amanda & i had to go through. But i have fogiven him. He does not know how to give the love that i need because he dosent truly know the Love of Christ. I think he knows about it. But im not sure that he feels it. Therefore if he doesnt know the fathers love how could he possibly know how to give that love to others.You cant because God is Love and without Gods love there is no true love. So i forgave my father the years that have been lost because of his lack of meeting my need of love. Dad if your reading this. Dad you did a great job raising me. I appreciate all you have done for me and the ways that you have been there. I have not forgotten. But i also needed to forgive you for needs that you hadn't met and i held anger at you for that & im sorry for that. Im not doubting your salvation. Just questioning if you feel the love God has for you. If your not seeking him in Spirit and In Truth then how real is he to you really. It says in the Bible without Faith it is impossible to please God. Have you been a pleasure and sweet aroma to your heavenly father? Just something to think about. I forgive you and I love you & i know that you love me. My prayer is that you will find God's Love for you all over again & that you will Stop trying to fill that hole in your heart with anything other than the Fathers Love. Your Son Scott. Thursday Night we went back to the stadium like we did last week and read the bible over the grounds & prayed over the area as well. That God would set the captives free & bring healing and Salvation to the land. It was a great time. We read the book of John and made it to about the 12th chapter. We were laughing alot because the Pharisies kept asking Jesus who he really was but when he answered they didnt like the answer that He gave. So they asked over and over and he answers in so many obvious ways. It was a great night. Friday we had the Mother heart of God. its all about the motherly aspects of God. How he wants to hold us close to himself and comfort us and show us the tenderness of his heart. God is love and so God made the male and female aspects of love for each and everyone of us. He wants us to sit on his lap and just be held & know that everything is going to be ok. Friday morning in class becca testified of how God had spoken to her and asked her to take out all her piercings. She said at first i wanted to put up a fight because they were mine. But she said ok Lord and took them out. So friday she didnt have any piercings in. She also talked about a man who was on the train a week earlier that she had spoken to. He saw her on thursday night after she had taken her piercings out. He asked her why she removed them, she said I just wanted to take them out, he asked again and she said becasue God told me to get rid of them. So she was able to tell that person about christ because of her obediance to God the Father. Friday night we had the Church meeting and it was great. The speaker was talking about Algeria and how there are only 100 christians in that country and only 12 Mulitcultural Missionaries there. They showed a video about the country and it was very interesting and moving. We need more people in Algeria. It was a christan nation once in the 1700's.
1/31/07 NEWEST INFO AT TOP
Good News! God Answers Prayer. My Tooth was taken out in about 10 Minutes. I was only there for 30 minutes. It went very quick i think. As the nurse was holding my head while the doctor pulled on my tooth to yank it out. They only gave me 2 shots of Novicaine. So i didnt feel it till i got home. God Answered Prayer. My prayer was it would be as cheap as possible & that it would not take long, which would keep it cheap. It was only 168.00 US. 225.00 AU. But it was a blessing because they wanted anywhere from $500-$1000 in the states for the same thing. So i saved a ton by doing it here. Questions & Answers ??? 1) What is the hardest part of being in Australia A.Well besides missing family, It is very hard to find alone time, we have about 300 on base, we have 107 in my class & i have 12 in my bedroom on 6 bunk beds so we dont get a whole lot of personal time. I have to really search it out to get it. Also i am not a fan of cockroaches. 2) What is your favorite part of being in Australia A. I love the temp. Its never cold. It is so beautiful here & it is really exciting to get to meat people from 25 different nations. It is fun learning new culture and as im sure you know God is the same where ever you go. He is a never changing God. Praise God For That. AMEN 3) A. 4) A. 5) A. 6) A. 7) A. 8) A. 9) A. 10) A. If you want to ask me a question. Please write it to me and i will post it on my website for everyone to read. In the spots above Well the Talent show was a big hit. We had 22 performances including, singers, Piano players, a guy from Hawaii played his YUK A LA LEE & Sang, My friend Jason & i did some comedy as you read earlier, We had some Impersonators, & some standup as well. We also had an old man who did a poetry reading & all the kids sang, YES JESUS LOVES ME & did all the hand signs with it. We have about 20 kids who live here on base. They are great. i have got to know about 4 so far. Emaily who is 12-Girl-, Alex is 9-Girl-, Violette is 6-Girl-, & Yejan is 5-Girl. I had a pillow fight with these 4 the other day in the lounge(LIVING ROOM) area. While we watched Mary Poppins. They love that movie. Jason & I were #3 to perform. We were excited about that because we wanted the opportunity to be able to get the crowd to lighten up & just relax and have fun, which im sure we accomplished. Last week we learned about: Hearing Gods Voice Jesus Said, My Sheep Know My Voice 8 Principles Of Hearing Gods Voice: 1) It's a Dialogue Listening & Speaking to God. Most of the time we speak but we never really take time to listen. 2) The more you know God the less your mind will wonder, So stay focused on the father & you cant help but hear his voice. 3) God speaks through testimonies of others, such as teaching & preaching. 4) Through a scripture referance. 5) Ask for a Scripture in Prayer, intercession is a great way to hear Gods voice. You may get a word, scripture reference, or a book to start in or a person you need to talk to or pray with for your answer. 6) Be facinated by God himself. Never under estimate your God & what he can do. God is a invisible, personal, everlasting, infinante Trinity of loving beings. 7) God speaks through our hearing-the inner ear of our spirits, an audible voice, through music or poetry, movies & circumstances. 8) God speaks through what we see---Dreams, Visions, Angels, Inspiration to write, Pillar of fire or a Pillar of cloud, Rainbows & Writing with his finger. Tuesday last week we got together for small group. We went over notes from our last couple of classes of Hearing Gods voice & prayed together. It was a great time. Thursday night we split up into small groups & went all over the city where IWT will be performing & went & prayed over the land. We have intercession twice a week in the morning to pray for the city of Perth specifically for the salvations & IWT. I was assigned the stadium which is about 2 blocks from our base. They were playing professional Cricket as we were praying outside the gates. We also did some public scripture reading from the Gospels. It was a great time. I didnt want to see the night go without talking to someone. So i tried over and over again to get peoples attention. Most people just blew us off and kept walking, they would not even say hi, could it have been the bibles in our hands, who knows. Well my group of 3, 2 women & myself did happen to talk to a gentleman about Christ. His name was Otto, & about 26 yrs old. He is from New Zealand but has been living in Au for a couple years. We asked him if he new Jesus Christ, he said yes, he grew up in the Catholic Church, He said he dosent really sin, he is a good person and has very good morals. He just works & goes home. Before this gent would talk with us we had to put our bibles down, he was either uneasy when we were holding them or thought he was interupting something even though we started speaking to him. He was just on a smoke break, because your not allowed to smoke in the stadium. But we ended up praying for him as he took off because they were about to close the gates of the stadium. It was great to be able to talk to someone, we let him know the bible says that all have sinned & fallen short of the glory of God. He thinks he is very innocent. We also told him about a personal relationship. It was a great time. i really enjoyed it as it stretched me out of my comfort zone. Friday, We had our friday night church service, it was great as always. It is always great to be in the presence of God. Saturday, I just worked on my Journal, finished my book report, all this was due on Sunday at 5pm. Then we had the talent show which i have already talked about.
Date 1/28/07 Newest info at top
It was quite the week this week. We had 2 instant healing at our thursday class time. A girl named Mel had one leg shorter than the other & it grew right before there eyes & also another girl whose wrist was not able to bend very well was able to get full motion back in her wrist. Praise God that the Lord works miracles no matter what side of the World you are on. Our Topic is on Hearing The Voice Of God. It was an amazing Week of Learning. I will be adding more info in the next day or so about all that happened last week. PLEASE READ BELOW. THANKS Hey All, I have to go have a Wisdom tooth removed tomorrow at 2pm Tuesday Afternoon My time, 11PM Your TIME Monday NIGHT. It has been hurting since Friday with shooting Pain. If you could please take a couple Minutes to pray for the Operation & No infections, or any other problems. that it is Easy for the Doctor & That the cost is as low as possible. The less complications the less it will cost to get it done. It is not covered by my Australia Insurance & could cost anywhere from 150.00 to 450.00 AU. Take 25% off and that is what it would cost US. I have also been sick for the last week and could also use prayer for that. Please pray for me. Also wanted to let you all know that because of the Impact World Tour comming to town & having to get ready for that. i am not able to obtain a job during my stay at YWAM because of the busy Schedule. I had origionally planned to get a job & had asked for prayer in doing so. However I may be able to do fund raisers such as selling Baked goods i make. Not sure how much i can generate & it is still in the approval stage so please pray for that to go through. Please also pray that the funds for the rest of My Trip & For this unexpected Surgery will come in. May God Bless You ALL. Scott Rilley Thanks For Praying For ME!!!!!
DATE 1/20/2007 NEWEST INFO AT TOP
So i was on my way to downtown for the first time with my friend Jason a Canadian AH, We were going downtown to exchange money, & find some Laundry Soap. Jason had already been down town so he was my tour guide so i didnt get lost, because we have to take the train to downtown. I exchanged money first obviously and i was able to get $31.00 in AU for $25.00 in US. Which always helps. Things are pretty expensive here. If you go to the store a pringles can will cost about $2.50 or at a gas station about $5.15, just to give you an idea. As we were approaching the downtown area of stores i saw a woman about our age & thought that maybe she would know where we could find some laundry soap. So when she was walking by Jason & I, I said, "Excuse me do you know where we can find some laundry soap". She just kept walking by. We kinda joked that she must have been in her own little world & we were going to ask someone else & she came back and said " Were you talking to me". We said yes we were wondering where we could find laundry soap. She said O i love your Accent by the way & there is a wolworths store down the street here. We said ok and went on our way. Then we walked to where she had pointed & could not find the store. So we saw a Target & were planning on buying some there. But when we asked the clerks about Laundry Soap they said Target has never sold Laundry soap. I was like you have to be kidding me, Target doesnt sell laundry soap. So i asked them if they new where i could go. The lady said we could go to the Reject store. So we said ok and went on our way. We followed her directions & we had walked through the entire market area and had not seen a sign for the Reject store. So then Jason & I joked about how it really dosent exist and she had just send us Foreigners on a wild goose chase. We were laughing so hard. But as stupid as we felt we continued to persue this Reject store. So we asked another couple ladys where we could find the Reject store, once again we headed in the way they told us and we ended up walking the other way out of the market area & we had seen some stairs which she had told us we needed to go down. So just as we were about to walk down those stairs one of the ladys whom we had last asked stopped us and told us it was back the other way in the market. So we walked back the other way and finally found a set of stairs & then we found the Reject store. It was really funny because we said oh yea they sent us to the Reject store, The Looser Store, A store they send all foreigners to, to get them lost, because it doesnt exist. Every friday night we have a church service. We have to lock everything up during this time for security purposes, but It is really cool, we have people from the community come & join us as well. I think it lasted about 3 hours. We just really seeked God & it was an incredible time of worship. Saturday morning around 10:30 AM we all packed lunches, all 108 of us & had a Mandatory day at the beach. That is the first time i had seen the ocean with my own eyes. The water was a beautiful blue with medium waves & soft white sand. This was also the first time i had swam in the Ocean, my friend Laura from England said she wanted to be there when i stepped in the Ocean for the first time, so i waited till i found her to go into the Ocean. It was alot of fun to catch waves & kinda body float to the shore. After that i barried myself in the sand which was quite fun. We played Beach Volleyball which was great. My team was not very good but we had alot of fun. I was at the beach until about 5:00 PM or so & caught a bus home. The beach is about 30 minutes from base on the bus. While i was at the beach i caught a couple sunburns. I had used sun screen but apparently not strong enough for Australia. I was as red as a lobster. It was very painful. It has been a week later & i just started pealing the old skin away. I was bright red until friday night this week. I have used alot of Aloe & drank alot of water. I have a pic that my friend took the day after the burn. It was pretty bad. Sunday i worked on my journal. We are required to keep a spiritual journal of the things that we have learned & then we need to hand it in every sunday night. We are also required to read & do book reports on the books once a month. The first book we have to read is: IS THAT REALLY YOU GOD? by Loren Cunningham. It is his personal testimony. The favorite sport amongst this group is Rugby, followed by Cricket & then Ping Pong & finally Pool. We have a talent show comming up on the 27th of Jan. My friend Jason & I are doing like Mickey (my cousin) did at his high school where they made like 32 skits & then had people from the audiance call them out. We have 6 Skits. After we are finished with the skits we have a little teaching on spiritual gifts. We based our teaching on the verse. 1 Peter 4:10 which says: Each one should use whatever gift he has recieved to faithfully administer God's grace in its various forms. There names are as follows: 1. Roundabout 2. The Fun & Fab-U-Las Adventure. 3. A Mist Of Hits 4. Barbershop Quarette 5. The Cant Breakup 6. Dantastic After we perform i will come back on here & describe what we have all done. Some of my classmates have my web address so i dont want to give this away just yet. We did a little preview for about 5 students just to get feed back, we recieved alot of laughs & we also asked for feedback so we can perform our best. It was a great time. I cant wait till i perform in front of the whole audience. Tuesday was Rob our counselor's birthday & also small group night. So we went to a restaurant called Nando's. It was the first group outing we had taken, as Robs Group. We have 8 guys in it, from a 22 yr old to the oldest of 29. It is a really diverse group. This is also Robs favorite place to eat. We ordered 2 whole chickens & 2 orders of French Fries also called (chips) in Australia. It was really great chicken, it came off the bone very easy & it was in a spicy sauce which was Rob's favorite part. Rob has been a missionary in China for a couple years through YWAM & came back to be a counselor for our DTS & then he will head back out to China to continue being a missionary. My typical M-F day is as follows. 5:45 Am--Wake Up 6:00 Am--Workout as a group for a half our. This is to encourage quiet time before breakfast & to help us develop healthy habits. 8:00 Am--We have chores, vaccum, sweep, mop, clean toilets, wash off the computers & windows. 8:30 Am till 10Am we have a different special event setup. This could be worship, or memory verse memorization & putting in our journal what the verse meant to us & how it applies to our lives. Or creative presentation. Which is taking a foundation of faith, that ywam has as part of there core beliefs & either comming up with a Skit, Drama, or a reading that shows that specific foundational value. Such as Be Visionary, Know God, Make God Known, Be International & Interdenominational. It is pretty cool. 10 Am till 12:30 or 1pm We have our key speaker. This speaker teaches us for the entire week. Then we get a new one in for the following week. Lunch is sometimes later depending on the speaker & if they have alot to say or get on a roll. 1:30 to 3:30 is work duties. This consists from anything from dishes, to office work, to grounds work, or vehicle maintanance. From lunch till 5pm is free time for me because i am on the supper dish crew. So we start at 5pm & it generally takes us until 7:30 pm to complete the dishes. 5:30 pm--is supper After supper is free time unless we have specail events. --We have journal we have to turn in once a week on Sunday Nights. We have to read a book a month, & do a book report on it. It has to be 2-3 pages long. This weeks class topic was FORGIVENESS & REPENTANCE God is an Invisible, Personal, Everlasting, Infinite, Trinity of Loving Beings. He loves & takes care of the very beings that he has created. Repentance & Forgiveness will set you free & allow God to use you in a much bigger way. Your relationship will not be hindered. 8 Principles of Repentance & Forgiveness 1. If you keep on sinning you are serving Satan, & not Jesus Christ. 2. God would not have told the lady whom was a prostitute to "GO AND SIN NO MORE" If that was impossible for her to do. God dosen't want to set us up for failure. 3. If your going to be a Christian. Be a Christian Whole Heartedly 4. Take Responsibility for your Actions & don,t blame others. 5. Don't worry about what people will think of you, just consentrate on what God will think of you. 6. Don't reject Truth, Ask God to bring it on. 7. Take Captive your thought life. Rebuke bad thoughts & seek God in times of "ATTACK" of the mind. 8. If you agree with everything someone says then your not really their friend. Tell that person when he or she has messed up out of love. Don't fear their reaction. On Friday we had quite the Unique Opportunity. Throughout the week the speaker Shirley Brownhill encouraged us to make a list of all the people we needed to forgive & all of the sins we have committed that we have not truly seeked God & asked for forgiveness. The bible says in James 5:16: "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed." How often do we really do this. Especially with things we are not proud of or totally ashamed of. So friday was a very emotional day for all of us. We got into 4 groups. We had all made lists of our sins & then one at a time we sat in a chair with 2 counselors next to us and the group of about 25 & confessed to each other. There were so many tears, So many hugs, & So much love in that room. We spent about 12 hours confessing to one another but it was the most freeing thing i have ever done. When we were finished you could not take the Joy that all of us felt away from us. We could not stop Smiling & the Joy of the Lord was Shining Bright on all of us. It was the best day of my life. FREE!! FREE!! FREE!! Impact World Tour will be here in about a month & a half which will be drawing about 90,000 people from all over this city to hear the Word of God. There is a couple different teams. One is Power Lifters, another is Dancers like the ones we had come to Celebration Church on that Sunday Night a month or two ago. Still another is BMX Bikers, & Skate Boarders. Please pray for the city of Perth, & that all the things they need to come together will so we can put on this monster event. This has been in the making for 2 years and is very exciting that i am here at the time of Harvest. To see all that God is going to do with this Divine Calling on this city. On thursday night we had a prayer meeting, worshing God & Praising him for all he is going to do. We prayed for very specifc parts of the event, from Visa's for the Teams comming to perform, to Getting contracts for the land, to having enough donations to be able to put this on. So we got into groups of 3 and they would have someone pray for a minute for something, then the 2nd person would pray, then the third person would pray. So it was non-stop prayer for about 30 Minutes. Then we came back together to worship God again. It was an awesome night. Next week & until the event starts we will be going to the land that we have contracted and praying over it. Inviting God to come and let his Holy Spirit Manifest himself in that place. We have about 9 different venues within the city that we will be ministering at. | 
