Discovering Outreach

The DTS (Discipleship Training School) that Christy and I are currently working on now know where they are going on outreach. Over the last week the staff team for the school here at YWAM (Youth With A Mission) Holmsted have, with God speaking clearly, arranged two different outreach opportunities for the trainees. Once we had done this we asked the students to go and spend last weekend praying and asking God about colours, then when the teams were determined by colour the locations would be revealed. We did it this way so that people would not pick based on locations, but on what God was asking them to do.

When we got the papers back we were so grateful to God that the teams were divided evenly, 7 in one and 8 in the other. That the trainees had listen to God and taken a step of faith.

The team that Christy and I are leading will be spending time in both Spain, mainly in the south (for 2 months), and Brighton (for almost 3 weeks). We are really excited about this and so is the team. We are made up of 7 nations and will be 10 people in all. We are known as the green team, as this was the colour that represented our team when we asked people to ask God for a colour.

Praying over Brighton

Each week Christy and I take a group to Brighton to pray and talk to people about God. We felt that we should do things a little differently last week. So we took the group to an area on the South Downs here in Sussex called Devil’s Dyke to pray over the city.

It is an interesting place and the legend of the Dyke is this:

“The legend of the Devil’s Dyke runs that the Devil tried to drown all the Wealden churches by cutting a huge swathe through the Downs towards the sea at night. An old woman saved the day by lighting a candle to see what all the kerfuffle was. The Devil, so close to finishing his task must have been a bit tired, because he confused the candle with the rising run and scarpered, leaving the Dyke unfinished.”

It was probably one of the most significant times of pray we have had over Brighton and God said so much to us all about the city, His heart of it and how he wanted us to pray for it. We all came away from this time greatly encouraged by it.

We have really enjoyed having a larger group to come with us each week. It has really helped us to reach out wider in the city and has also allowed us to be able to cover more ground in the city itself.

Half the night

Christy and I are working on a Discipleship Training School (DTS) Here at Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Holmsted. One of the things that we did with the school recently was a half night of prayer for the nations. We started at 8 in the evening and finished at midnight.

It was a really significant time for the trainees we have here at the moment. We spent time in a mix of worship and intercession (praying on behalf of something) for the whole time. The presence of God was very strong and He led us to first pray for this current generation and then the next generation. Speaking both life and identity over them as God was leading. During this time one of the people praying felt God say that we should carry the nations in prayer and so we found all the spare flags that we have and everyone put one on. We then spent time praying on behalf of the nation we were wearing and asking God to bless the nation, and move in power through the people who live there.

It was a really significant time for two reasons. Firstly God was definitely leading the time, we all felt his presence strongly and felt closer to him when we finished. Secondly it was a time of breaking off fear in individual lives. Everyone stepped out of their comfort zone as God was leading them, and we all had so much fun.

A New School

We are currently helping to lead a Discipleship Training School (DTS) here at Holmsted Manor. We have 15 trainees from 10 different nations, mostly European, but also Canada, USA and South Korea, which is very exciting.

We have been together for about 4 weeks now, and it has been great to see the group grow together well, and how much they are excited to learn and meet with God. We have local outreach once a week, which involves going to different places close by and both serving the local community and sharing with people who Jesus is.

We are both really excited to see what God does with all of the trainees over the next few months. Where they go on outreach and what they do with God in the places they go. Everyone has a special story and it is such a privilege to be apart of it, even for a short time, and see where it leads.