tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377001472012-01-11T02:13:34.889-08:00Aloha Ke AkuaBCFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02047908630120533941noreply@blogger.comBlogger721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37700147.post-6190129543467861062010-08-22T20:03:00.000-07:002010-08-22T22:45:36.561-07:00

Ok, so now that I've been back in Atlanta for about two months, I thought I'd start up my blog again. Since I'm no longer doing full time mission work, I thought I'd transition the blog to some thoughts I've been having about life, living in Atlanta, and the church. We'll see what happens... So last week I was driving down to Valdosta early in the morning, and I heard something on the radio

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Here are some videos of people from our latest outreach teams. Hope y'all enjoy!

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First up, Nepal. At first glance, Nepal is a hopeless place. The caste system that is in place there determines people's worth to society, the people are poor uneducated and what most people in the west would call backwards. It's a Hindu nation, which means that the entire country is pretty much chaos. There are temples on every street corner, cows running in the streets and little to no

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Ok, so now that I'm back in Maui and over my jet lag, I think it's time to let everyone know what all I did the past two months.Going back to Georgia for Christmas was really good. I got to spend a lot of quality time my family and some friends, although it's hard to hang out with everyone when you only have two weeks. Christmas with the family was great, but far too short of a time to be at

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These past few weeks have been incredible. Mom and Dad were able to visit last week, which was really fun. It's such a blessing to be able to spend some quality time with them, and I think the have a little better understanding of what I do (and I think that Mom is happy that I don't live in a complete dump of a house!)While Mom and Dad were here, our Summer outreach teams came back from Asia as

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Our office staff from left to right: Luke, Eric, Jess, Joanne, Stephanie, Christina, Me, Ben (on the bottom), Loretta, Larry, and Ashley. These are the people who have to put up with me everyday, so pray for them!Shew Dagon Pagoda: by Ben CordyTwo Boys on a Banana Tree Raft: by Ryan FitzgeraldWest Lake sunset: by Eric Fritz

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This morning, Danny Lehman, a member of YWAM's Global Leadership Team and the Director of all of YWAM Hawaii visited our base.  Danny comes here about once a quarter to update us on what's going on with YWAM as a whole and any new big projects that are in the works.  Danny and I outside of our staff meeting room.  That's right, I run with the big dogs (or at least take pictures with them)!It's

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Ok, so I promised that I would let everyone know when my trip to Asia was actually going to happen, so here it is!  We are heading back to Asia for about six weeks in January.  The dates aren't exactly set yet, but I'm thinking that I'll leave from Atlanta and go to Bangkok, Thailand just right around the New Year.  Using Bangkok as a stepping off point, I'll be traveling with my friend Ben Cordy

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This fall I'm leading a "growth group" (kind of a Bible study discussion group) for some of our short term volunteers at YWAM Maui (we call them Mission Builders).  The guys that are in my group are Andreas and Jonathan, two European guys that are really fun.Jonathan is always fun to be aroundJonathan comes from Sweeden and is a musician who can play just about any instrument he picks up.  He's

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This weekend I got the chance to head over to Oahu to hang out with some people from YWAM Honolulu. Hawaiian Airlines had a special for $50 roundtrip inter-island flights, so I thought it was a good time to connect with some other YWAMers and see some stuff on Oahu that I hadn't been able to see yet.At the infamous Banzi Pipeline, but where are all the waves?!?Friday and Saturday my friend Jason

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Sometimes life here at YWAM Maui feels like a roller coaster.  It's such a transient place with DTS students coming, going on outreach, returning and then going back to their homes. Sometimes it's such a calm, relaxing place to be, but then the next week it'll be mass chaos.  It's almost always an interesting place to be!   Speaking of mass chaos, as of this Saturday we'll have over 85 people

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I'm working by myself in the Communication department this fall, which presents some challenges (now I have to do everything on my own!) as well as opportunities. One opportunity that I've gotten the chance to take advantage of recently is playing around on our Adobe Photoshop program. I've been interested in learning some graphic design since college, but never had the time to play around with

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This past Saturday, I got the chance to go with some of our DTS students to see the sunrise on Haleakala, the volcano here on Maui.   This is one of the "absolute must" attractions for tourists here, and although I've lived here for over a year, I had never really gotten the chance until this weekend (or maybe I had and didn't want to get up at 3 a.m...). About 30 minutes before the sun came over

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Thought I'd do an update so everyone will know what I've been up to this past month.  After returning to Georgia for a few weeks of meeting with supporters and relaxing at Salem Campmeeting, I headed down to Disney World with my family for a week of fun and spending time with my nephew, Myers.  We had a great time golfing, swimming at the pool and going to the parks.  Until then I really had not

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It's amazing how much work it takes to get to the point where you can go on vacation.  This Thursday night I head back to Georgia for about a month of meeting with supporters, speaking at churches, fundraising and vacation with my family, but in the meantime, it's been absolute chaos here at YWAM Maui.  Seriously, I need a vacation!Last week 22 of our DTS students came back from outreach in Asia,

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Here is our new DTS promo video which is up on YouTube and Facebook, and will be on our website soon.  Since we have an awesome camera and film in 16x9 high definition, my blog is cutting off part of the video, but you can see the whole HD version HERE

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Summer is officially upon us here in Maui, which means the plumeria and mango trees are blooming, the winter trade winds have died down and it is HOT!  It's a great time to be here at YWAM Maui though, because it means that we've started another DTS school and have a few new people on staff.  New DTS schools always bring a new sense of life and anticipation to those of us on staff, which is

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Since I forgot to bring my camera hiking this weekend, heres some pictures of Iao Valley I got off the internet:Part of the river that runs though the valley.  It's cold and feels great after a long day of hiking!An amazing picture of the Iao Needle.  This is also the site of a few famous Hawaiian battles to unite the islands under one king.Looking towards the ocean from the base of the Iao

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A short update on what I've been up to here at YWAM Maui: Also, here's the Truth Project promotion, which explains it much better than I can!

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Since I feel like I haven't updated this in forever (even thought it's only been about two weeks), I thought I'd fill y'all in on a few things that have been going on here at YWAM Maui.  First, community outreach has been going really well.  It's nice to have our entire staff involved in outreach projects all over the island.  I've been doing a variety of things in the past few weeks, from

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Thank goodness!  The website is finally done!  I think we're all really happy with how it turned out, and we've already been getting positive feedback, so I guess we've done something right.  If you haven't seen our new website, check it out: www.ywammaui.com and let me know what you think.Yet another picture that didn't quite make the cut for the new website.This spring, I've been asked to do

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This past Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the entire YWAM Maui staff went camping for our quarterly staff conference.  Staff conference is a time for us to plan for the next few months, fellowship with each other and just have some fun.  We went to a "town" called Kaupo, which really is just a general store and a few houses in the middle of nowhere.  Most of the land surrounding Kaupo is 

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Ahhh, finally some calm!  Yesterday, our Winter DTS students left for their outreach locations, so right now the houses and office are eerily quiet.  It's always strange when people leave on outreach, because we all really wish we were going out into the nations too.  I'm determined though, that the Lord uses us in mighty ways wherever we are working; whether it's in the jungles of Indonesia or

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Ok, so here's the video update... I don't have anything Hawaiian this week, but I'll have something extra good next time to make up for my lack of interesting material this week!

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This past week, we've been working really hard to finish all of our promotional materials for "The Project"(that's my excuse for the late post this week!).  The Project is a long term effort in the same area of Asia that I was in over Christmas (hopefully y'all know where I went by now...).  We're planning a pretty large and permanent ministry there that will involve a "social enterprise", which

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There are a lot of cool things that have been happening on Maui recently.  One of these things is a prayer ministry that some of the guys I do jiu-jitsu with are heading up.  It's called Revival Maui, and they are simply praying that God would bring revival to the people on this island.  Every few weeks they organize a "prayer rumble" which is just a time for people from all churches and

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Ok, so the Communication department here at YWAM Maui is pretty busy and I thought I'd give y'all a sneak peek of one of our new videos that Maria has been working on.This summer we're doing a condensed version of the DTS lecture phase that will be about three weeks instead of the normal three months. We're doing it for people who may not have time to do a full DTS school, but still want to come

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  This week our DTS students are at the YWAM base in Kona (on the Big Island), attending "The Gathering".  The Gathering is a time each winter when all of the DTS schools conducted in Hawaii get together for a week to learn and worship together.      The Kona base is a little different than our Maui base.  First of all, there are over 1,000 people who live there full time.  Maui has about 40 full

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  Just thought I'd give y'all a little more information on what I'm up to as the new Director of Communication here at YWAM Maui.  I made a little video update, but I'm having a bit of trouble uploading it, so until I can get it working, I'll just write what some of my new responsibilities are.     First, I'm in charge of the communication budget, which is not my favorite thing, but I guess it

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OK, now that things are back to normal, I thought I'd get back to updating my blog on a regular basis.  As most of you know, I've been back in Georgia for a few weeks visiting supporters, friends, family, and of course, my new nephew Myers.  It was a really nice to catch up with some people and just relax for a little while.  I didn't get to meet with everyone because my time in Georgia was short

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Wow!  It feels like forever since I've updated my blog.  A lot has happened in the past three weeks.  My trip to Asia was a huge success.  I met a lot of contacts that could be very helpful to us in the future, got a few hours of good footage of the area, and got to know a lot of great people through different "organizations" and on different university campuses.  I can't even begin to explain

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!Joel decorated his bed, which now has a very festive glow at night.Yes, we have a Christmas tree!  Even though we have almost no evergreen trees on Maui, these trees are easy to come by at Wal-Mart and Home Depot.  They ship them from the mainland, so they die pretty quick, but they're nice while they last.Ben Cordy, dressed like Tiny Tim and singing

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This morning (Wednesday), I took our DTS students to the airport to begin the outreach phase of DTS.  It was a bittersweet time for most people here at YWAM Maui.  During the three months that we have students here for each school, we spend most of our time eating, working and living with our DTS students, but until it's time for them to leave, I never really realized how close I'd become with

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Here at YWAM Maui, we had a 4 day weekend for Thanksgiving, meaning that I got a chance to get out of the "YWAM bubble" and relax with some of my friends for a few days.  Thursday, All of our DTS students and some staff helped a few local churches pass out meals for the homeless around the island.  Po'okela Church and Waipuna Chapel cooked something like 100 turkeys in an imu, which is a

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Thinking about the Thanksgiving season, I thought I'd make a little list of some of the things I'm thankful for:1. I was raised by an amazing family in a house full of love and encouragement.  I used to always take this for granted, but I see so many people that come through YWAM and people here in Hawaii who don't have a good family life, I realize what a blessing it is.2. I live in what I

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Ok, so our worship music is a LOT better than this, but I had to post this, I've been laughing at it all day. Enjoy!

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Hope y'all enjoy!We had the pleasure of going sailing this past Sunday afternoon on one of Jim Coon's "Trilogy" catamarans. A relaxing day of sailing out on the harbor.Capt. Jim Coon and his crew, hard at work.Me and Kyle, one of our DTS students.

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Hope this works!The interior of the truck, nice and clean!The rear bumper has some rust, but its nothing too bad.Runs good, and looks pretty good too!  It also came with a camper top, but I need to clean and wax it to get it looking good again.

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This past Saturday, 33 people (some are involved in YWAM, others aren't) ran 7 miles from our property in Hai'ku, to Manny's, a house we used to own in Paia.  The deal was that all the guys grew mustaches for the run, just as a way to get out and have a little fun.  We had a big cookout afterwards, and I got to meet some new people that live in Paia (including a guy who's name is Zuber- no joke).

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   This past week has been eye-opening to me.   Sometimes, being in YWAM, it's easy for us to talk about how much people in far off lands need Jesus, while we completely miss the fact that plenty of people need Jesus right in our own community.     This past week, I helped a lady move from a homeless shelter in Wailuku (actually the shelter is right next to the county jail) to Pukalani (upcountry

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Steven and Gus digging holes for the fence posts   As I've written before, I'm leading community outreach for our DTS this quarter.  One of our projects is helping Celeste, a lady from Waipuna chapel (one of the churches YWAM goes to) start a garden to help give the homeless on Maui fresh fruit and vegetables.  Yesterday was our first day working in her "garden".      Amy, Katie and Sophia

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   Last week, Andy Huddleston, a YWAM guy who's been around for over 30 years, came to help us with some stuff around our base.  It was really good to be able to hang out with him, because he's a long time missionary and really knows a lot about big time fund-raising.  Right now he's raising about $400,000 to help a YWAM base in Costa Rica buy some land (it's in Heredia, where CFUMC youth went on

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A picture from the last outreach team that went to "C"   Well, my request to go to Asia for about 2-3 weeks in December has been officially approved!  I'll be heading out for that big country that starts with a "C" right around the second week of December.  I'm joining up with our DTS outreach team to help them minister to the people of that country, and my other major goal is to put together

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This past week has been a roller coaster. In starting a new department here at YWAM, there are far more issues that come up than I thought. When I first got here, Maria and I got thrown right into the mix, and didn't really have any time to deal with the basics of setting up our department. Now that we've accomplished the urgent tasks, we've been able to step back and start to plan how

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Our DTS had it's first week last week, and now is in full swing.  With lectures, community outreach, intercession and small groups, our base is running at full throttle.  The first week of DTS lectureTuesday morning I spoke about my DTS outreach to Tibet in the morning lecture, which was really fun.  Most of the students haven't heard much about Tibet, so it was good to be able to share with them

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Our tables for dinner.Rachel Whaby, one of our DTS leaders.Some really dirty students coming back from their camping trip.After dinner, the DTS staff washed the students feet to show that we are here to serve them.

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Well this week the Fall DTS students arrived, meaning that if I thought life was hectic before, now there are 29 other people to have fun with/drive me a little crazy.  It seems to be a young school, quite a few 17 year olds, and I don't think many of them have been away from home for an extended amount of time.  They all seem a little anxious, but I suppose that's normal for anyone that comes to

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This past week was definitely out of the ordinary. Monday was Labor Day, which I got off--well sort of. I got to go out to Hana, a small town 35 miles from anywhere, and hang out at a red sand beach for most of the day. At night I had to catch up on some work and make a few phone calls.A waterfall on the way to Hana. You knew sooner or later I was going to put an "island" picture up!I'm

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This past week the entire staff of YWAM Maui met to prepare for the upcoming DTS school. What started out as a simple 9-12 meeting every morning quickly turned into something much more powerful than what anyone here expected.The unofficial theme of our staff conference was "the fear of the Lord". Not exactly the motivational topic you'd expect before a bunch of DTS students come into town. We

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Taking a break from work at the office.This past week has been really crazy, but good. I've started my job in the Communication department, which is brand new here at YWAM Maui. That means Maria (the other person working in the Comm. department) and I are trying to figure out how this whole thing should run. We have a lot of big projects that our leadership team wants us to get up and running,

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Our humble abode, nicknamed the "Testosterhome" is small, but a great place to live! Right now we have 10 guys living here, but as soon as the Fall DTS starts, that will double, so right now we're enjoying the space that we have.This is the main house where the girls live, and also where we eat, hang out, etc. It's in the small town of Hai'ku which is an old plantation town on the North Shore

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I'm finally in Maui! It's been a long process, but I've finally made it to YWAM Maui and everything is good over here. Wednesday was the epitome of a stressful day. I didn't get much sleep the night before my flight, had to get up early, fight traffic to the airport, and of course have the bittersweet moments of going out to serve with YWAM, but leaving Mom and Dad, friends and family, and home

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A small portion of the conference hall during worship.This past weekend I had the pleasure of going to St. Louis with some youth leaders in my church for the National Youth Workers Conference. It was a great time to get away from the craziness in Conyers and spend some quality time learning and hanging out with over 3000 other youth workers from around the country.We left Friday morning and when

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Ok, because I'm promising everyone that I'll keep my blog updated...I think another post is in order.First things first. I added a new video bar on the right side of my blog. Click on any of the videos and they'll pop right up at the top of the blog. These are all YWAM Maui videos, so check them out and see whats going on out in Hawaii!My dog, Riley on a recent camping trip. I mean seriously,

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Here they are! Links to a few videos of my DTS outreach, as well as a tour of the YWAM Maui base so you can see where I'll be living for the next few years. Enjoy!!Tour of YWAM MauiThailand Outreach Tibet Outreach

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So here it is....as of September 13, my application to YWAM Maui has officially been accepted! I will be reporting to the base in the lovely town of Haiku, Maui on January 2nd, 2008. If everything works out as planned, I'll be helping out with designing promotional materials in addition to working with Surfers for Missions (SFMI), Discipleship Training Schools (DTS), and YWAM's ministries in

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Ok, so it's been about two months since I've been back in Georgia, and a lot has happened! First things first, I'm planning on going back to be on staff at YWAM Maui! This opportunity is a great chance for me to learn, serve and share the gospel for the next few years of my life. I'm planning on going back at the start of the New Year, and hopefully I'll be able to hit up Matt Laskey's

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Ok, so I'm finally home, and there is lots of updating to do! First of all, this picture is Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, where the Dali Llama Out trip to Tibet was amazing, but tough. Tibet is basically a really cold desert, and there is literally nothing there except for a few small villages and Lhasa. We would drive for 6 to 8 hours a day before we came to any towns, which usually

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Wow! What a week. We went to a village near the city (well, it's a small town really) Jiri, where we taught about 40 pastors and some other random people. We started out by driving 8 hours to some small, dark, depressing town in the mountains, then had to walk for about 4 hours to the village. I was sick the day of the trip (don't ask, it was pretty rough) so I did this entire trip without

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This past week I was in the town of Pokhara, in the northwest part of Nepal. We were teaching at 6 different churches while we were there, so we kept pretty busy. It feels weird sometimes to teach to 30 and 40 year old pastors. I feel like I'm just some kid teaching to all these men who are leading churches, and I definately feel unworthy sometimes. But almost none of these men have had any

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Ok,ok, so here's the update. I've been teaching these past few weeks, usually in the mornings, then in the afternoons either working on some farming projects or meeting with Nepalis I've met and talking to them about Christianity, Jesus, etc. The farming projects are a big thing that is taking off in the Nepali church. The church here has always been supported financially by the West, which means

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It's been a while....it's hard to update this thing in Nepal because the internet is dial-up (soooo slow) and there are power outages here almost every day. But as the Nepalis say, "Ke garne?" (What can you do?)Nepal is an amazing but strange country. The mountains are amazing and there are a lot of beautiful places, but at the same time, there is trash everywhere- in the river, on the streets,

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First an explanation of the pics. The first one is our men's breakfast (the girls went out for the weekend, so we walked around with no shirts all weekend and ate bacon and pancakes). The second is good 'ole Matt Laskey playing the bongos in worship.So Wednesday is the day! I'm almost all the way packed up and ready to go. We leave the house at 4:45 a.m. and we have probably the craziest

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Oh, wow, it's been a while since I've put an update in here! I was actually going to do it last week, but I got sick and was a little unmotivated. So a lot has happened since last time I've put an update in. Last Monday was my 24th birthday, which was fun. I got the afternoon off and so I went into town just to get some coffee and corndogs (it's a wierd combo, but I love it!), then I went down

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The first picture is just the guys hanging out in the house, which we have nicknamed the "Testoster-Home". The second is me cliff jumping this past weekend, and the third picture is Jonathan Libag, the Nepal team leader.Today marks exactly one month until I leave for outreach. We are actually flying to Thailand for out last week of lecture, then heading out to Nepal. Our outreach will consist

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So I think we've hit a new level of ghetto here at YWAM Maui! I woke up this morning to find that there was no light bulb in our bathroom. Our bathroom is in the middle of our house and there are no other lights near the bathroom, so it was pitch black. There were no lightbulbs to be found in the house, so I got my flashlight to take a shower. I turned on the shower to freezing cold water that

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Ok, so let me explain those pictures for you guys. The first one is me taling to my parents on the phone while skateboarding. It's illegal to skateboard on Maui, so we had to seize the day while we were in Kona. The second pic is the tail end of a worship session in Kona. There were a lot more people, but I think they were having hamburgers for dinner, so the place cleared out pretty

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This past week I spent in Kona on the Big Island at Ho'olaule'a which is the gathering of all the DTS's in Hawaii. This gathering is a chance for all six DTS's in Hawaii to get together to learn and worship as a whole as well as share our visions for our outreach locations.Kona is a very different YWAM base than Maui. There are 3 DTS's going on at once, as well as other schools and a total of

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Aloha!So the last week has been pretty sweet. Last week was the first full week of lecture, which felt busy, but now I think I'm getting the hang of going to school full time again. I do mean full time too; our typical day starts with worship at 7:30 or 8, then we have prayer or quiet time, then we have lecture from 10 to 12:30 team time or work duties from 1 to 5, then lecture again from about

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So a lot has happened in the past week or so. I've been super busy and our internet has been down, so sorry I haven't updated earlier. I got here to the base in Haiku on the 11th, and our whole team went on a 3 day camping trip (our "Exodus") just to get to know each other and spend a lot of time together. We also ate a lot or Ramen noodles and plain oatmeal, which does some bad things to your

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This past week or two has definately been a whilrwind. Between leaving my job, trying to see friends before I head out and now trying to pack, it seems like theres just not enough time for everything! Leaving my job was a strange expierence. On one hand, I know that this is God's will for my life, but on the other hand, I had a good job that I left and it seems counter-intuitive to leave a

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