Hey Everybody!
This is my first official update since I began serving on
staff with YWAM Honolulu!
For those of you whom don’t yet know, I have agreed to
follow Gods calling upon my life to serve on staff with Youth With A Mission in
Honolulu Hawaii.
During this period of my staffing experience I am serving as
part of the Discipleship Training School (DTS) staff. I will be working
directly with the DTS students and training them to be short and long-term
missionaries. Then supporting them as they go on outreach cross culturally for
three months.
This week as a staff we have been gathering daily for a time
to worship together, learn together, serve together, and grow together. Each
morning we spend time in small groups reading through 1 Corinthians and sharing
how God spoke to us through each passage. It has been so rewarding to learn
from Paul’s teaching to the church at Corinth.
On Tuesday we as a staff learned what it meant to have
vision and how our personal visions need to align with the vision set forth by
God. I was challenged to examine the purpose and vision God has given me. I was
reminded that as a Christian my purpose here on earth isn’t finished until
everyone has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Although during my
lifetime I may be serving God in a variety of capacities, my purpose still
remains the same.
We examined the vision of YWAM Honolulu, and I feel that in
our partnership together it is important that you (my supporters and partners)
know the vision set forth by God for YWAM Honolulu.
YWAM Honolulu is a community of Christians who are called
to give their time, talents, and resources for the sending and equipping of
long and short term missionaries with a passion for reaching the unreached
frontiers.
This vision has been
consistent since the pioneering of YWAM Honolulu in 1980 and is relevant today.
It is the heart of YWAM Honolulu to raise up missionaries who will reach the
unreached.
“Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a
slave to everyone, to win as many as possible…To the weak I became weak, to win
the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I
might save some” -1 Corinthians 9:19-22
Until heaven is full and hell
is empty
Joe Thompson
If you wish to know more about
YWAM Honolulu, I encourage you to check out our website at http://www.ywamhonolulu.com
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