THE ROOMIES!!

The view from the Airplane

The weeks are starting to fly by!

Its been awhile!! sorry!



These days are going so fast now, the weeks are feeling like days! I thought I would update you all on a little bit of info now that everything is becoming clear and in order!! Last week we had our first speaker come in for our first week of lectures, the title was " Knowing The Father Heart Of God!! Our speaker came in flying from Miami on his way to Thailand where he has been a full time missionary their for fifteen years!! It was very impactful and interesting the way he spoke about God and the way God Works!! He was here from Monday morning lecture until Thursday morning lecture. This week was a little bit different than the normal routine. This week was " Hearing the voice of God",but with Australia Day on tuesday (there national day) we had it all differnt. Our speaker for the week was a guy from Germany that is one of the Base leaders that also owns two skate boarding shops here in Queensland his name is Borris. But he didnt start until wedensday, he had one of his empolyees of the board shop that did his DTS here at the sunny coast last year come and speak for a couple hours on monday, Than tuesday a lady involved in the church where we are located came in and talked about Australia and there history. When Borris came in and started speaking he used ways of talking that I could learn from. This week realy has brought different aspects to my thinking of God, how to come persue, push Him and understand the way He speaks to us all!

For future stuff..

This next week our whole base is going down to Byron Bay for " Evangelisim Week" and meeting up with that Base down there!! It should be very exciting, Im not totaly sure on what we will be doing yet but, its always good if its for the glory of God!!

My Outreach team is becoming more and more prepared. We have started planning on where we will be going, have not made the details on what type of ministry were going to be working with yet. But we are leaving that up to God to decide as well as the whole trip! Im not sure if I told you who is our team. There is a total of eight of us, four guys and four girls including a male and female leader. The guys would be Andrew frome Tennesse he is Twenty and has an amazienig talent of singing and worship that is out of this world, Peter from Miami but been living in South korea for the last five years he is 19 and Isaac the male leader from Florida he is 26 years old. The females are hellene and Mariane there both twenty and from Norway, than we have Breezy she is 19 and from California and last but not least Fleur from France the female leader!!

So this should be AWSOME!!!! Im already having visions form God and knowing that he is going to do MAJOR WO

Wow First week gone already!!!

Im saying sorry ahead of this post with not much to say, cosidering that I had just typed for a half hour and my computer just shut off on me and deleted my post!!

But besides that...
Everything here is getting better and better each day!!! The weather is realy HOT, the beach is Gorgious, and the warmest water I have ever beeen in!! Im lovening every moment here!!! We have been getting closer and closer as a group every moment PRAISE GOD!!!! I have fallen in love with this culture down here with everyone just so freindly, nice, laid back, relaxed not going... going... like we always are. I absoultly love how they are so chill even walking into any store with out a shirt or shoes, its just a way of life down here. Every day we have had lectures from eight to twelve with some days the spirit just out pooring that we kept going. Two day ago we had a chance to share our testimonies with echother listening about how we got to YWAM and anything else we had wanted to share. I think that was such a defining moment for all of us!! It was so awsome to see how the spirit realy opend up some of the guys and they shared to all of us! Im prety good with all the names now being able to remember them now, it sure was getting embarassing talking to a girl and calling her the wrong name. We have free time from after lunch to dinner time, we all leave as a home to the church for our meals ten to six, so we do have alot of free time. With all that free time we do have work duties, they consist of dinner crews, house facility crews, house cleaning cres and lunch crews wich I would be on, I put the tabels, chairs away and vaccuem the roome we eat and have lectures at. Yesterday was pretty sweet!! After the lectures they talked to us about our out reaches and where they would be, they were China, India/Bangladesh, India/Nepa, Philipians and Indonisia and gave us fifteen minutes to pray and write down what we wanted. I said let it be Gods choice for me so any of them would be fine. All of us students were haveing a hard time being pacient!! I think we got the leaders a little sick of us last night!!! they came out to and told us today!! I would be going with a group of six students Andrew, Peter, Breezy, Mairiane and Hellen and a male leader Isaac a female Fleur to a place that we are going to rock with the LORD!!! INDIA/Nepal, so I will be able to see MT. Everst. that will be pretty cool PRAISE GOD!! so thats all i got time for today!!! Hope you can understand my terrible writting skills!! THANKS SOOO MUCH AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR PRAYERS!! p.s maybe i can get some pictures on next tim!! GOD BLESS!!!!

My first post in Aussie land!!!!!

Hey GOODAY MATES!!!!!!

WOW!!!! HOW AWSOME IS GOD!!!! CREAATING ALL THAT WE GET TO ENJOY IN THIS WORLD!! Specialy this B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L, Warm, and amazing country "Australia".

I realy have so much to talk about, just in these past few days I have stories beyond the limit!! As you can see my family loves me us much, by updating the blog for me while I couldnt.

Not quite sure what you guys want to here, and i dont have alot of time to get on the blog/internet as much as i would like to considering that only one of two of the girls houses have wifi, and the base church that we have our lectures at every week day from eight to one one thirty includeing lunch and snack at about ten thirty which they Call "Morning Tea". this place down here is a dream come true to me by having all these student coming from all over the world. We have four houses, two guys and two girls, there all with in walking distance from echother as well as the BEACH!!! My house we call the Bungama house, the other house is called the DEUCE!! My house has two leaders Ben and Jay from North Dakota and Florida, and two staff workers from Switzerland. I have three roomates that are students in the DTS, Andrew from Tennesse, Johny form Switzerland and Mathew from Australia. Imediatly we all cliked and have had some AWSOME bondingtime and fellowship.
I have got to run now...
Sorry it has been so long, its been realy hard to get the net, but i think as time goes i can find ways to get on the Blog.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR PRAERS!!!!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!!

Chase is down under!!

Chase is in Australia (praise our Lord), we will get on the blog when arrives at campus later this day . He arrived at 6:30 am Sunday and got through customs ok. (they are 17 hours ahead, thanks Sydney you were right, I was not doing the math correctly) He tried to call me and was not able too as T mobile gave us the wrong numbers to attach to our numbers. Still not sure if we got it right yet. He ended up paying a couple bucks and emailing me, good thinking on his part.
It is a God thing, I have had my phone with me constantly, but not paying much attention to my computer as I thought we were all set with the phone, well of course it was over a half hour since they should have landed, so your mind starts thinking the worst, and he hadn’t called yet. I just kept praying that he is fine, and all of a sudden I heard an email come through, stopped what I was doing, checked and it was Chase! It definitely was a noise that said check me! He couldn’t get through and so went on internet paying a couple bucks. So glad for our technology. Well I thought I might try to call him, and it worked. He was going to take an earlier bus, so he is now on the last part of his journey to get there. It is long day for him, and I think he is a little nervous and tired, but excited to be there. He said they are all driving on the wrong side of the street!
He also met a guy on the airplane that lives in Brisbane, about late twenties, and loves to surf. He was visiting his girlfriend in Toronto. They have traded emails, and he said he would be happy to teach Chase how to surf. His outreach has already begun.
All for now, hopefully Sydney will update blog tonight when he gets there. They are having a barbeque to meet everyone tonight, with school starting tomorrow morning, or orientation anyway.
Thank you for all your prayers! Thank you sweet Jesus!

Love and blessings to all of you
Lisa

Chase is on his way!

Chase is now in the air! He is on his way to Los Angeles, where he will have about a five hour layover and will then board his flight to Australia later this evening. Thank you to everyone for all the support, especially the prayers for Chase! I know it's meant a great deal to Chase, as well as my family and I. Also a special thanks to the Lindahls for opening up their home for Chase last night to say his goodbyes! I saw a huge burst in his spirit after that time of prayer and chance to reieve encouraging words. Though we are all sad to see him go, this is a huge step for Chase and so exciting! What an experience to leave what is comfortable to him and put all faith in God, trusting and following where he leads. God has BIG plans for Chase, just as Michael Manders kept saying over and over today at the airport, and with Chase's servant and open heart, he is giving himself fully to the Lord.

I will update the blog to let everyone know when he has landed in Australia, which should be about 2:30 tomorrow afternoon!

Thank you for loving and supporting my brother!!

Sydney

Packin' Away!!

Trying to find the last pieces of my downUNDERWEAR to throw in my backpack!