News From Chase!

Chase sent an e-mail today from India sharing a little bit of what is going with him. We thought we would share some of what he said on here, since he will not be updating the blog himself much, if at all.

"I am in Daharmsala India, living up in the mountain called Nadi, staying at a YWAM base. This place is so unbelievably beautiful, it almost feels like I am on vacation! The house is tucked up in the mountains with a our view out the windows of snow cap mountains everywhere.

Things are awesome here, we do local evangelism and also teach one on one classes of English with the Tibetans wanting to learn. Kind of a hard but good thing. The food here is ok, but no meat. The YWAM base here is vegetarian, but I’ll get over it. Things are pretty cool here.

We arrived in Deli and man o man, is it a packed city, crowded, dirty and tons and tons of people everywhere. I have never seen a third world country like this. Pretty intense, and will really challenge me to work on my faith. Definitely miss you guys, and the Aussie base with all my friends.

This Easter Sunday I am going to be preaching at the church we are attending. We have the whole service, Andrew will handle the worship, and others will be sharing their testimonies and bible verses. I felt led to take the sermon, so I will be starting with Genesis and moving to some of the prophesies of Jesus and then into His life. I feel God really wants me to hit baptism as well, leading to Good Friday and Easter. So, keep praying for me that I don’t offend anyone and get us into trouble.

I am really starting to love this place. It is not as crowded up here where we are, but still have many people. There are seven different cultures up here, one is the Monks, the Dali Lahma actually lives here, where we are, we went and held some prayer walks around his home. I really love the people up in the mountain of Nadi. We will be trekking into the mountains for about five days reaching some of the villages that are harder to get to. Should be really cool."


We also looked up some pictures of where Chase is exactly and thought we would share them. It's fun to be able to visualize all that Chase talks about, so we hope you enjoy these pictures!

chase is going to India and Nepal!

Chase is on his way to India! He will not be updating this blog while on outreach but together his team has set up a blog for their time in India and Nepal. The webaddress is http://indpal2010.wordpress.com/

Please feel free to check it out!!

Thank you so much for all the continued support and prayers for Chase!

The past few AWESOME WEEKS!!

Hey everyone!!

Sorry it has been so long sense I have last updated this blog, its been really hard for me to get on to the Internet lately. Thought I would give a brief update on how things have been going the last few weeks. The topic after prayer week was "The living Word" that was taught by one of the staff leaders on our school his name is Bryan Husffberger. I was so glad to have him for that week, he is the most knowledgeable guy I have ever met when it come to the Bible. I have really become close to him these past couple of months so it was really nice to have a speaker that we all had a close relationship with already. That week might have been slower compared to prayer week, but it was perfect to have after that, teaching us through a quick study through the Old Testament and a more in depth study in a couple of the New Testament books.

The following week was the "Character and Nature of God" taught by Jason Bell a YWAM staff at the Brisbane Base about an hour and a half from here. He was a really cool guy that love the Lord. He has a passion for film making and has a real gift in it. He has produced a number of big time movies that have been out in the theaters and has started to become known in Hollywood, yet he stays humbled and strong after God. I would definitely say that I could relate and enjoy talking to him one on one, rather than in his lectures. He was a fantastic guy to have for that week.

This last week was the topic of "Relationships" from one of he base directors and his wife Ryan and Kristin Kerk. They originally are from Canada and have been all over the world with YWAM for the last eight Years before join this base here, they have a two year old daughter named Seighla (say-la) that is Polly the cutest and smartest little girl I have ever met. This was an awesome week, so real and such a full force of God. The week was started out with the relationship with you and God than moving to friendship relationships and finishing with romantic relationships. This was such a good topic to have here. Relationships is where it all matters in life with Gods greatest commandments Love God and Love people. That's what were meant to do here on this world. It was really interesting to have a couple have this week,it was really informational and fun specially when the guys and girls split up and we went with Kristin and the girls with Ryan. I love to here the girls perspective on things.

These last few weeks were really awesome and great, just all have helped to develop who I am in Christ.
Thanks again for all your prayers and support.
BLESSINGS!!!!!

Prayer Week

New Doors being opened more and more!
This last week was so big I can’t put any words to it!!! I can’t even start to explain it, except that it was all God and his majesty from every minute to every hour of every day!!!! It was such an awesome week it just makes me want to scream!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
The first day was really cool!! The best way to start the week off! Monday morning bright and early at six a clock my group got to start the week off by getting the first prayer slot of the week, then immediately after, we had all base worship as we normally do at eight a clock. Today was a special Monday; they have these every so often their called “Giving Mondays”. This was something that God really showed up on. The point of it is that, everyone involved in YWAM is there, all students, staff of the base, the skate ministries staff that our base is involved in and anyone of the locals that would like to come they can. Then if anyone has need of anything (ex. Outreach money, debt, computers, cars, rent money, surf boards) and in need of some help you would write it up on the white board in front of the room with your name. When we totaled the amount up of everything that was needed there was an amount of just over 68,000$, yeah huge!!!! We than went back into worship and if we were lead to we would go up and write on a piece of paper of what we were giving and how much with our name. God just came through and people just kept giving and giving and we just saw the numbers going down and down it was so amazing to see it happen! When the papers finally stopped coming in there were to staff members up there with calculators and there was a total of 40,000$ dollars was brought in and given to everybody up on the board with two laptops, surf board, two IPods a few bikes and a lawn mower. How cool is that to see? There were some people in real need of help and for God to show up like that how AWSOME is that!!? This really shows how NOTHING is too big or too small for God!! After that our speaker Leon Rusel from New Zealand a.k.a a “kiwi” came in and talked for about an hour, until he felt led to just have some time of intersession and worship, God was just starting to show us on how much he was going to impact us this week in these first couple hours of prayer week. There were just convictions after convictions that people had to face and to defeat the fear that the enemy tries to put into our heads so much. Then to come up to the micro phone and speak it out and to receive prayer from our whole group if you felt led to and were obedient to Him. This broke so many people down, bringing many to tears and not just the girls many of the guys were just broken, we all were transformed and changed by God through this week in such dramatic and sincere way. It’s so amazing to always walk everyday in Freedom that we all have. This week was turned upside down from the normal week, with the 24/5 prayer going on and we had three night lectures this week rather than one that sometimes they would go until two in the morning. Every lecture was always on Gods time and finished when God wanted us to finish, making our lunch cooks really mad at times when showing an hour and a half late to lunch. The prayer times were the most impactful to me this week. My prayer times were at 6 am Monday morning, 12 pm Tuesday, Thursday at 4 am and 10 pm and then my last set time was at 6 am Friday, they were all two hour sessions and just a full time of prayer and praising God!!!
God had shown us such GREAT things this week through the prayer, the fasting and the worship that was going on during the week that I can’t explain or have any words to even describe it a little. God did not only work through our lives but He also brought many to us to preach the Gospel to, while we were in the prayer room a group of guys just walked in the room. At first they were outside laughing at us than one of my mates walked out there and invited them in and a few came in and just started pouring their whole lives out on us. Just from talking to them you could just sense that God wanted to us them so badly in their future. Some of them had come from terrible pasts with drugs and abuse in their lives, but they totally got rocked by God. One of them now feel that God wants him to write a book to reach out to kids that have dealt with the same type of stuff, they were totally turned around into the right direction after that little step into our prayer room. Praise God. There was another testimonie that was really exciting to see, one of the guys here on the DTS named Daniel Wilson from Washington woke up one day and really felt the Lord telling him that he needed to go to the work out place along the beach. He was battling it in his head not to go, than finally was obedient and took off there, as he was walking down he felt that he was going to meet a guy named Gerry and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend and was going to commit suicide. Yeah pretty heavy but that’s what he felt just beating on his heart. He finally got down there and saw this guy sitting on a bench, he prayed to God is this the guy? Daniel sat down at a different bench and was just fighting that fear of doubt and fear of man that the enemy was trying to put in his head to keep him away. He tested God and said if he sees three birds come sit on his bench he would go. Then of course three birds came and plopped up on the beach, how crazy?!! Then Daniel the smallest guy here with the most faith In God that I have ever seen got up and sat next to the guy on the bench, introduced himself and found out that this guy’s name was Gerry and that he had slept on the beach last night because he had just broken up with his girl friend and she was his ride home. He was just down in the dumps and had a 36 pack of beer; his plan was to get as drunk as possible and swim out to the sea and not come back, how sad was that he had two kids at home to. Well than brave little Daniel just started talking, he said words just started flowing out of his mouth, they weren’t his words and they kept flowing out word after word, the Holy Spirit was just flowing out and using Daniel to convict this guy. Daniel said that Gerry started to cry than he started to cry, the first time he said he has ever cried sense he has been here. This guy ended up accepting Christ into his heart and now lives in FREEDOM and saved his life. PRAISE GOD!!!!!
This whole week was like this!! So many stories, too many to tell!!! God has changed our group even more than he has!! I know God has such a huge plan for this DTS and for our outreach teams. I just can’t wait anylonger!!!!!
THANKS again for all of you, for your prayers, your support and all your love!!!
GOD BLESS!!!!!

The Lord is Love

Whats up yall?

Hey just wanted to get on here give ya a little bit of info of whats coming up ahead!
This is Sunday today for us A.K.A "Valentines Day", just finished off of the week with Glen Vines speaking about the "The Fear of the Lord" which I said earlier he was such an Awesome speaker to have this past week. There were so many stories that he shared with us, that really have brought my Faith stronger and made me more dependent on God with my daily life. Yesterday there was about twenty of us took a about an hour drive North to the Kanillila falls! This was the coolest water fall I have ever seen, we also could jump off one part of the water fall which was about twenty some feet up so not to bad, but good enough for me! This next week is called Prayer week, this should be a fun and hearing allot from God week. One thing that will be really cool is that we have split up into groups of three to four and one or two leaders and we will be taking two hour shifts at a time with our groups in the prayer room with it never being empty! So it will be going non stop for five days with people praying constantly, my first shift is Monday morning from 6am-8am not sure of my other scheduled time, but we are most definitely allowed to be their longer at anytime. Some of the base directors will be heading it up. This should be such great week, I'm so excited for it!!!

Hope all is well back in the cold!!!
Gods Blessings

Half way through the lecture phase!

GOING SO FAST!!!!

This is the begging of the half way point, it has gone by way to fast!! This is our first week back sense being back from Byron ( which was such an awesome and growing week in my faith). This week we are focusing on "The Fear of the Lord", our speaker Glen Vines is originally from here in the Sunny Coast, but the past 15 years he has been in and out of Tibet, India and Nepal. Which is really cool considering that's where I'm going for my outreach. I think this is the most impactful teacher we have had here so far! This guy really brings the fire of the Lord when he preaches, back home he is known to be the pastor to preach for eight to nine hours non stop!! I feel so many different leadings form the Lord this past week, really trying to focus on his plan for me, but keep hearing Him say to me to just wait, just wait!!!This last week has realy been teaching me different things of Gods ways, speacialy just giving him control of everything that happens. Have been preparing more and more for our out reach that's just under two months away, the whole group has been feeling from God that huge things are going to take place, things that we cant even imagine, even hearing from our speaker about what God is doing there. This past week the out reach teams of the DTS school before has come back for their debrief week before they come home, have herd many cool and encouraging stories.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR SUPPORTING ME THROUGH THIS AMAZING JOURNEY THE LORD HAS ME ON!! THERE IS NO WAY I COULD BE HEAR WITHOUT ALL YOUR SUPPORT AND PRAYERS!!!

GOD BLESS!!!