Music DTS @ YWAM Perth

Well here we are again. And what an adventure life has been! I currently lead an awesome

Music DTS.

here in YWAM Perth!

Here's my recent blog of the school and how Music affects us.

OH MUSIC...
why is it such a beautiful thing?
Music is the language of the world. It penetrates closed hearts. It moves the immovable. It can soften the hardest of the hard. Music is essential to life and echoes the heartbeats of young and old alike. It expresses our intimacy and reveals our worship. Music enhances, completes, comforts and challenges us.


Furthermore, did you know that all music began in Heaven? The sounds of our various cultures reflect His unique celebration and love for diversity. Whether we sing, play an instrument, or creatively communicate sounds, it is our response and our reflection of the Heavenly Father.


In preparing to share the good news worldwide it is essential to use music! This what the Music DTS is all about. Knowing and usderstanding the heart of God and using Music to communicate him to the world! Does that sound exciting to you? Well it doesn't stop there.


This year we have numerous people coming from different nations and bringing their cultures and styles of music and worship to our school. It will be an incredible mix of talents and personalities - it will be a dynamic adventure and I welcome you come!

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SportsDTS, wedding and life...

Hey well it's been a bit but I'm still alive and kicking and actively perusing God in
my calling here in Perth. I've been staffing the Sports Discipleship Training School which has been going well. It's all about knowing God and making God known in the context of using our skills in sports to glorify God.


Here's a few shots from recently:


Nathan's wedding (a pre-release photo)




Me jumping at the beach



Me playing gutiar one night. I'm leading the worship and invovled with the worhsip team for the base, the school and outreach. Still learning alot though and have so much more to learn.




I wish I had photos from the school but I don't sorry, I'll have to work out that. All the excitingness of outreach is coming up - we are off to Thailand, Burma and Western Australia (a place called Port headland)

OK gotta run

Adam

World Youth Day...

Well a team of 6 of us (5 left from Perth and 1 in Syd) served in the WYD08 in Sydney last week. 100's of thousands of young people from around the globe met together over the course of a week to worship Jesus. We were part of a volunteer group with other y.wamer's to serve the event. It was great to meet other young people from around aussie too and get to work with them, lots of fun.

Here's me all with the kit on the Sat night.. very official. (I wasen't even suposed to be on marshalling but we ended up helping cuz they didnt need any more caterer's. and i didnt need the walkie talkie either but.. it was fun)




I also had a good time meeting and encouraging young Catholics. The theme of the event is Acts1:8...

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

I really felt like this came across really strongly over the week, God was present and moving. The Pope spoke very well on this subject too, emphasising the importance of the Holy Spirit in eva.ngelism.

Here's me and the Pope hanging out



(it's a cardboard cut-out.. looks pretty real though a?)

Me and Lawrence hanging out outside the Opera House.. beautiful area.




Overall, a great time.. Go.d's amazing.




Well that's all from me, bless you..


Adam

Birthday Celebrations and Holiday

Hey friends..


Well life is going well in my 20's. yes that's right 13 days ago today I turned from my teenage ways and moved into a new era of my life - in fact a whole new decade.

Here's a couple of quick pics from a little holiday trip I took with Jason through the Southwest of Western Australia and other week... good times..




Me n J





O yeah I thought I'd also add this pic of us as a Property Crew in Perth.. Good times





Peace.

Review.. 3 months and back again.

Well my life's been intense over these past 3 months but what an amazing, exciting eventful journey it's been. God's challenged me in alot of ways and I love what He's doing in my life.


J-City was a really fruitful place to go to. We saw people really changed and I'm so encouraged to be apart of it..


Here's some pics..













Good times...

Bless ya

Adam

NEPAL

Well I'm living in the land of the cold for the next month! That's me on top of what I would call a mountain but they call it a "foothill" campared with the Himalaya's! You can't see there but the Himalaya's are acutally behind the "foothills" behind me. They are amazing. The cold isn't that bad, icy cold showers arn't the best though. A nice cup of amazing Nepalese tea generally sorts me out.


The ministry here is amazing. So so open. We've seen over 30 saved and many healed too - and we've only been here a week! He's really moving and it's exciting to be apart of the harvest.


So this is me carrying a bunch of fire wood. Very very heavy wood. The woman in the photo carry the wood everyday down a steep vally path. It's crazy.





Nepal is literally in the 1200's in some places. There are clay houses and farm animals everywhere. This one slum area we went to was so poor. The photo below is of woman washing themselves and their families' clothes in a very dirty river near their homes.





Hunger is common in lots of places in Nepal too. Unfortunately the outside appearance is very reflective of what's going on in their spiritual lives. Idols are everywhere, there is so much confusion. It's so sad. This is a temple we visited to pray in. The people at the base of Budda were bowing down. Sometimes I just don't understand. It's a golden idol that they built - just like in the old testiment. We all know what G.od thinks of that.





Oh yeah the people here call this temple the "monkey temple" because there are so many monkeys that live there! Here are a monkey's family that we literally had to fend off so we could eat our lunch!





I'm not lying - at one stage there were 20+ monkeys surrounding us while we were doing intercession. they looked like they were planning an attack so I decided it might be better to spilt into groups so we dont attract a crowd. kinda scary though.


All in all things are going well. The tea is also a definate highlight.


At chur.ches we say "joy/victory to the Messi.ah" in Nepalese when we greet people so:


"joimasih!"


Adam

Openess in J City...

Hey all


Here's a quick testimony from the team.


Well the other day we went into a slum area in the city. We saw it on our sheet as a slum area so we thought why not go there and see. So we got in 3 taxi's and told the cab driver to take us there. We just walked through the place, meeting people and trying to find the need for this area.

To my surprise, not only were the children so excited to see white people but they also started to follow us! It wasn't long before we had 50 kids around us!

On our way home we also met a lady who had a disability and we spoke about the need with her. Little did we know she was connected to a disabled people association and they were having their annual meeting the next day!

We went back the next day after p.rayer and seeking the Lor.d for these people. one of our girls took some people to go to their annual meeting and doors just flew open. She, and some others were able to p.ray for many and they saw a few get better that day too!

Meanwhile God had spoke to another one of our girls the night before about washing woman's feet in the slum area. Her, and two others started with just one or two older woman and that just blew open doors all over the place. They were able to share why they were doing this and were able to have full one-on-one sharing with a translator to many woman. Then these woman started asking for pr.ayer for all kinds of things. They were crying because they were being so bless.ed!

The rest of us heard from Go.d about doing games with the kids and doing face painting. We had an amazing time of simply loving on all the kids.

A thing that really stood out to me about this day is how bles.ed the parents were when we bl.ess the kids.

Another awesome encouragement is that their were quite a lot of Chri.stians that came out with us and many of them were real encouraged. I prayed for a guy who was partially blind with one of the translators from the chur.ch. She saw this guy get partially better and was so encouraged. She had never done anything like that before and was really blown away!

The day was gold.



Adam.