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Hey, everyone! Sorry this one took a while, life gets moving fast and next thing you know it’s May! Thanks for your patience! We’ve been very busy, and we’re excited to share more about it! Here’s what you’ll read in this update:
- Our first family outreach to Indonesia
- School of Worship is running strong!
- Our next overseas outreach!
- Indian Ocean Gateway
- Prayer Points
First Family Outreach
We went to Indonesia on a quick outreach! We joined Abi’s ministry, Worship for the Nations, for one week (we’re purposely keeping the location information vague because of security reasons). It was a really incredible time. We spent lots of time walking to key locations, praying, and encouraging our missionary friends there. Of course we were really encouraged as well! They are incredible and very committed to the people group they’re working with no matter how difficult the situation.
Levi did great! He is such a joy to our family and can’t wait to take him to other places God leads us to!
Worship for the Nations stayed for a bit longer, but we had to come back so Abi could prepare for the School of Worship that started in April.
(you can click on the photos for captions and a closer look)
School of Worship
The SOW has been going for 7 weeks and it’s been going really well so far! Abi has been leading the School of Worship since 2016, but this school has been around for 25 years in YWAM Perth! It’s a privilege to be a part of such an important and impactful school!
School of Worship provides training in the area of worship in a missions context. We look a lot at worship, prayer, evangelism, and scouting nations to provide accurate reports for future work in places that have a variety of needs (physical and spiritual). We also do a lot of song-writing with a strong missions focus! Joel just finished teaching on the school a couple of weeks ago, and Abi just finished teaching last week and will be teaching again next week! We’re very busy with the school, but the students are hungry for God and it’s very exciting to see them grow. They will make a big impact in their world!
The crew!
Our Next Overseas Outreach!
The School of Worship will be going to two nations in Southeast Asia from July to September. Unfortunately, we’re unable to say the specific nations on this website because of security reasons for our contacts.
We as a family will be going with the school for four weeks to one of these nations. We will be running a worship seminar for the local church there! It will include teaching on how to get to know and reach out to their area, the power of worship and prayer, and probably some song-writing in their own language that will serve them more as a church! We think it’s really important that nations write songs for God in their own heart language, rather than simply using a bunch of translated songs from English. Each language and culture has a unique expression to offer, and we want to encourage them in that!
The rest of the team will head on to the next nation, to reach out to people with prayer and sharing about Jesus (plus whatever else God says to do), and to complete a mapping project that will be a helpful tool to the long-term teams at work there. We pray this map shows the needs of the area and helps them reach out more effectively.
We’re still trusting God for about half of our monetary needs for outreach, so please be praying for us! If you would like to contribute, please send us an email or a message on Facebook and let us know!
Indian Ocean Gateway (IOG)
We just wanted to quickly share again what God has called us to as Youth With A Mission, Perth. God has called us to the nations, but there’s a particular set of nations that He’s asked us to focus on. We call this group of nations the “Indian Ocean Gateway” (IOG). These are the nations that are surrounding the Indian ocean, and it’s Perth’s backyard! We believe this is God’s strategy for us as a mission, and we’ve been investing in these nations for many years! However, we’re stepping into a special season, attempting to go to every nation within two years (as a whole base). This doesn’t mean we won’t reach out to other nations during this time, but we will be making special efforts to reach out to every nation in the IOG. Would you please partner in prayer with us? We love our neighbors and they need to know and experience the love of God.
Prayer Points
- Provision for our next outreach, along with wisdom and fun with Levi (he’s crawling and eating solids now; things he wasn’t doing our first outreach!)
- Wisdom for Abi as she continues to lead the School of Worship
- Continued physical health and growth in the Lord as a family (especially Joel; he was sick with tonsillitis after our outreach in Indonesia)
Thank you so much for your faithful prayers, support, and kind words to us! We can’t do what we do without you!
Abi, Joel, and Levi
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