Week One - Outreach

So much travelling. I have always considered myself a pretty good traveller and patient with planes and such, but 32 hours later I was definitely ready to get off of the plane. We left the base at 3 am on the 22 I think and from Denver to Salt Lake to Seattle to Tokyo to Bangkok. We arrived the 23 and headed to the YWAM base at 3 am for a little bit of sleep. That day we had orientation and then onto a bus for 12 hours to get down to where we are now, called Phuket more specifically Patong, where we have been focussing our ministry time. The place we are staying is called SHE ministry and it is an amazing place that helps to train girls with skills allowing them to get out of the sex trade and work as waitresses, housekeepers and other common jobs here in Thailand. It also helps to teach the girls English, since much of the tourism here is from Americans and Europeans, and it is amazing ho many tourists are packed into a little, beautiful country. The building is modern and fairly clean and surrounded by trees, flowers and many other plants. Five of us were able to stay in the upstairs of the building and the boys are all on the second floor and the rest of the team of girls is in the basement. I am on the top floor :) The view out over the lake and into a forested area is one of the most beautiful landscapes I have ever seen and the small town that we overlook has a beauty in its simplicity. People who are dressed in beautiful clothes and driving really nice cars live in tiny little houses, that have roofs that resemble huts. The streets are surrounded by tropical plants but next to this beautiful life, there is piles of trash. I love the crazy heat and humidity and the warm hospitality that is all over the place, but it is so confusing that all of this life can live next to dirty areas. There are animals that roam the street almost everywhere, the most common being chickens and dogs, and there is nothing that comes around to clean up after the waste. I think most every home that we have passed has at least one dog to either protect or invite. The area that we are staying in has a lot of really modern looking homes and apartment building type complexes that are developed and beautiful, but right next will be a more run down set of homes, so within the contrast it is amazing to discover the culture.
Food is amazing and extremely cheap. Money is called baht here and for each dollar we exchange around 30 baht. The average meal for our whole team is 1200 baht - converting to 40 dollars. This a whole team of 23 people, full meal and no one is skimping by being hungry. Fruit stands are in abundance and we are able to buy pineapple (cut into the coolest design) for 20 baht, a bunch of bananas that have not been covered in preservatives are 25 baht or so, depending on the weight, and it is so fresh! We have found how much faster fresh fruit goes bad, but how much more satisfying it is to the tongue. Authentic Thai, has a wide range of flavours, but we have found that locals love spice! They realize that we are foreign, or "forongs", so they take it easy on the fresh peppers and ground chili-powder. Our Mexican friend is about the only one who can take the heat with them here. I can not complain with the taste though, I am beginning to being adapted to the spice and the food that isn't, is sweet and easy on the tongue. Rice is in abundance for most ever meal and if not it's a rice noodle type thing that acts as a replacement. Rice is my favourite staple, so I have been extremely content. We were warned before coming that Diarrhea is not in short supply and each of us should expect to experience it for a least a little while, but hardly any of us have had it!! I have been blessed to not get sick from anything we eat and all water is bottled, it's been amazing!
The climate..... I am made to be here! It's probably 30 degrees average and it's incredibly humid. We can't put out clothes at night and expect them to dry, because everything that's not being scorched in the sun has a damp feel. This includes things like gum, chips and other snacks. Food, clothes, shoes, hair and skin. Everything is moist which I enjoy coming from using a chapstick a day in Denver. Lotion has not been a necessity and that is that same with lip chap. I love it here! We are beginning to become acclimated, but all of us pasty white girls are experiencing curly hair almost daily. We sweat quite often and a run in the morning is like a bath. We are blessed with being able to shower in real showers here, and wash clothes in an almost manual machine. The culture actually promotes cleanliness and showering more than once a day is common, so this is a little weird for me being the person that I am, but I have been enjoying showers a lot more than I ever have before.
Oddly enough, the nation carries an unpleasant odour almost everywhere you go. There are portions on the streets that smell amazing from food, some that don't see, to have a smell at all and then three steps later there will be the most putrid smell - I don't understand where it comes from, but I think a bit of the infrastructure could use some work.
The people. They are warm and welcoming for the most part. Walking around the little town we are in yields many invitations to sit and talk, share food or just play with children. There are street vendors all over as well and people who sell food and drinks from a bicycle, so it is easy to create community over these little things. Not many people have been able to travel and almost all are eager to learn English, so it's great to be able to talk to everyone and there is a mutual appreciation from the conversation. I love that hospitality is natural and not forced out of reading the Bible or feeling that it is the right thing. The majority of people here are Buddhist, around 95%, second Muslim and third Christianity at 0.7%! It's is incredibly small, and there is still such a warmth to the culture, Jesus is at work here even though statistics or technicality doesn't show it.
Some odd cultural things to me are that the bottom of the feet are extremely offensive and pointing your foot at a person is comparable to flipping the bird. Seeing the bottom of someones foot is a no no in general, so sitting is a little different. In contrast, the head is seen as almost holy, so people do not touch another persons head without getting permission as a spiritual protection. Along with this, there are many monks in Bangkok all dressed in orange robes. A women is not allowed to touch them in any way and if buying something where a women is the sales person, she has to hand the item to a man and then to the monk. If a women accidentally grazes them at the bus station or deliberately touches them, they then have to take 20 days to become clean again. I haven't yet ran into a monk on close terms, but it is apparently pretty important that I keep my distance.
With Buddhism being so prominent here, there are things called spirit houses all over the place. They are little and very well decorated and intricately carved. Here is where they house the different spirits of the world and I'm not too sure what else they are used for, but they are in abundance. Idols, decorated trees and walls built to honour the Buddhist belief are all over, and they carry an extremely heavy spiritual feeling with them wherever you see them.
The King is LOVED by the people here, and when asked ANYTHING about him, the only appropriate response is, "He is a great king." Also there are pictures of him and his wife all over and whenever people drive by they honk at the picture. His song will be played out in public areas and all commotion stops and people look at the flag until the song is done. They mean business when it comes to the king. The dedication here to so many things astounds me and I wish that I could take even a portion of their discipline in meditation and apply it to my walk with the Lord! They are amazing pre-Christians I tell ya.
 So for my time here. It has been spiritually heavy already with being in a new place and not being in the comfort and constant direction that I am used to. Being away for Christmas was a little odd, but it honestly didn't feel like it was Christmas so I was able to avoid the homesickness that I hear others have to live in that day. The time difference is ten hours from the Denver or Lethbridge time zone, so I have not yet been able to call home. I spent a few days wishing that I could see everyone at home again and that I could wake up in my own house and surprisingly, I really wanted my car, but for the most part I have been able to just enjoy what we are doing her and the country because I know that I won't be coming back in this context again. We spent most of Christmas Eve in orientation or on a bus and woke up Christmas morning on the bus again. The country, though small, is extremely long, so bus rides are a bit of an extended period. We spent the rest of our Christmas getting a little settled in and heading down to a damn area for a BBQ. There were many people there and there were a few more teams staying at this ministry which was really nice to hang be around on the holidays. Being able to speak English with no issue is a huge blessing since many people can speak some, but not fluent. We spent time in worship and reflecting on the huge sacrifice it was for God to give himself to us in flesh and though we celebrate His life and birth, but that He came to die. I never thought so heavy about this and that Easter is truly something that needs to be more heavily emphasized in my life. I spent some time reading through each gospels different perception on the birth of Jesus and reminding myself of Jesus' love. We also ate at this lovely local place called the blue hut, which has amazing food and is extremely welcoming to us all of the time. On the 26th we ate there for both of the meals that weren't provided to us here at SHE. Every morning we eat cornflakes, and I love it! I feel blessed to enjoy the food here because I know that other outreaches have not had the same thing. There aren't really churches for us to attend, so on Sunday we had our own church service as a team and spent time in worship and personal time with God. We had not yet done any ministry, so everyone was getting antsy and our attitudes were getting not so awesome, so it was a day for us to re group and build the unity we were lacking from before. Once we started ministry, this hasn't been much of an issue at all. Each day carries its own spiritual heaviness for each person, but it has been great since as a team we are realizing that we need to speak out our struggles and cover each other in prayer and support. It's hard to be vulnerable sometimes with our weaknesses, I have recently found, but I think most people have let others know of some sort of struggle in their life and each time it brings a new unity to the team. Also we spend time in worship every morning and every night before we head out for ministry. We also have time each morning we also have quiet time, so God has been so alive to me personally and really been present in my prayer walks and daily rituals. I am nervous about what life's going to look like without the structure of "quiet time" and  corporate worship, but I think God has been growing me already in so many ways, and I see that I have so many weaknesses that have never been evident to me before. Honestly, every day I see how much I need to grow and it's so hard to live in, but I love that God is there with me and growing in me. I love that I have to be dependant on God here and how alone, I honestly would burn out in one night, conflict or early morning, but God is with us!
Week two's blog will talk a lot more about the ministry we are working with and the amazing ways that God is working in it!
I truly am learning what it means to just love, so I love you the best that I can! and I hope each day that capacity increases.

Weeks Eleven and Twelve YPDTS

My final weeks of DTS lecture phase. I am currently in "outreach mode" but still in Colorado.
The last two weeks have been a little different, but good. They weren't as emotional for me as the earlier ones, but I think it's a good thing and it's getting me prepared for the strength God will have for me in the spiritual oppression of Thailand. We had a speaker who did a really good job of making Bible Study seem fun and possible for anyone to do. She just spent time in getting us comfortable in our Bibles as well as with concordances and what sort of questions are appropriate for each type of audience. The next week we had different speakers who spoke on different aspects of missions and worship. There are so many ways to live a missional life and I really feel God's tug on me to be involved. I know that there is a lot going on in our own backyard that we can be a part of, but I am excited to be part of the international great commission and know that God is backing me one hundred percent. The different speakers made me question a bit how God would have me be involved in reconciliation of mankind, but it's exciting to know that taking baby-stepes will allow Him to guide me into where He would have me. I have been struggling with the idea of "what's next" since lecture phase is now over and outreach is only two months. I am trying to seek God on what He has for me and in what time, but as my face tells I am stressed out and having a hard time hearing His call for me. I realize that I am only eighteen though, which makes it easier for me to know that I have time and it's not too late for me to change my mind or have a new direction from God. I really want what I want though so it's been a battle letting that go and making it about serving and not about how it will benefit me. The deeper I get into the humility, the deeper I get into realizing that I am a lot more in love with myself than I ever thought. That's okay though, because I know that God will complete the work that He has started in me and it's a marathon not a sprint.
Anyway that is what has been going on internally a bit, but as a collective I have been learning a lot about what it means to live in true community and to really love people, "thinking of myself less instead of thinking less of myself" (Pastor Jay from Vineyard). Our one speaker that same week spoke on different ways that we are able to worship, one of which being giving things of monetary value. I struggle with this so much. I love the things that I have been blessed with to the point that they become higher to me than the blessing and the "bless-er". So we each had time to seek God if He had something that He wanted us to remove from priority and use to submit to Him all the more and give Him control once again. So as I took it to Him, I denied every idea that popped into my head and told myself that it didn't matter what I gave that anything was good, but God made it clear that wasn't His plan. So I gave away valuable things to my heart and it ended up being great. God used it to bring our community together as a family and to have a hunger to serve each other instead of thinking what we could gain. That whole week was one of unity and being the true body of Christ and there was an attitude of recognizing the value of a human, instead of the things that they can do for you. It's so weird to think that even being in the body of Christ, people aren't held as valuable as they should be, when we are told that this is the case over and over. I was able to be in a community that really felt this though, which was amazing for all of us and I hope that I will be able to remember that for ALL people that I meet. Unlikely, but God is more powerful than any evil I could scheme up, so I have faith that His pursuit will be life-long with me and me of Him. So in essence, it was a great week, sad that it occurred so late in the quarter, but better than never.
We also had an event called a Christmas Love Feast on the Saturday which was so great! It hasn't felt like Christmas at all here, odd since we are focused on Christ, but this really just brought the spirit alive. We spent the whole day cooking and preparing ourselves and each other for the night and I don't know if I've ever curled that much hair in one sitting in my life. I'm not sure that anyone ever has to be honest, but people were looking beautiful. It was nice for all of us to be able to look our best and have fun with each other and each of us had drawn a name earlier in the week that we would make a little box for with an encouragement note in it. The anticipation might have been what made it so fun, but we were each told to, as a room, make a love offering for the rest of the school. It was a pretty way of saying we were having a mandatory talent show but since a lot of us don't have a specific talent we wanted to show the world, the majority were hilarious. My room took all of our outreach drama's and dances and made them into a big dance all combined, completely ridiculous, but there was joy in the room - so it was so worth it. The next night we went to a fancy Italian restaurant where we were all able to dress up again and have fun. All together a fun and unifying weekend. The next night, unplanned, we went to B-Dubs and watched people eat more wings that should be humanly possible and watched a football game. All these little things together made the last week go out with a bang and all of us realize how much we enjoy each other. I love the small things that do that for a group.
Week Twelve was sad knowing that this was it for us as a group. We had class with the director of the base and the other DTS that is living down at the base in Arvada, the Musicians. We talked about being prepared for the battle field we are entering into and being able to recognize that it is a supernatural fight we need to be involved in. Asking God for true discernment in seeing where His heart is in all of the nations we are heading to and to be able to really look beyond what we see. Knowing that we are going to be attacked by the enemy because we are doing what he hates, but that the Holy Spirit is going with us the whole time and the authority that the name of Jesus gives us. Satan and death has been defeated already by Jesus, so we just need to be His hands and feet and make the choice to defeat the enemy daily so that the cross wasn't in vain. Peter Warren (the director) was a very good speaker, so I have about 12 million pages of notes, but I feel so much more prepared for the battle ahead of me and I have a peace that has been long awaited for the whole idea of outreach.
This week was also one of getting everything cleaned up and packing our bags for the next DTS to come in. I am thee biggest girl on the planet for sure because I wasn't more stressed about anything this whole quarter than trying to fit all of my stuff into my bags so that I can fly home in February. Resulting, I am giving away a few things that I definitely don't need when I get home and I sent a package back early - I pack heavy apparently. That's okay though because it all worked out and I am ready to go. We as a school came down for the secondary school's graduations and for our last day as a whole YPDTS. We had some outreach shopping we had to do and then after that and the grad we all went bowling! Possibly the most ridiculous sport for amateurs, but a good time and enjoyable way for us all to say goodbye. It was really hard that whole day during worship to pray for each other knowing that we were going to be leaving and this was the icing on the cake, but it's cool to know how God is going to be working in Colombia and Thailand through a bunch of students who worked through their own issues together for a few months. I am encouraged at how powerful God is that He can use a bunch of us who are struggling ourselves to be a change all over the world. I find power in my weakness here, because the lower I place myself, the higher He can be. I want to be able to do this in all parts of my life and for God to break me over and over as we are away from comfort and with a group of people who all have different ideas, opinions and personalities. I ask for a net of prayer over our team that we can be unified and not allow the enemy to use anything against us to break from each other. Part of this is holding short accounts with each other and choosing not to take offence to the slip ups each other have. I struggle with this too and it has been our team prayer, so I am excited to see how it all shapes up and the sort of things God can do if we give Him control and walk in obedience.
I'm not sure how often I'll be able to get these out while I don't have a computer, internet access and electricity in some areas and even lacking a bed in others, but I will do my best to keep you updates as much as possible.
We are flying out on Wednesday at 7am and will be arriving in Bangkok around 11pm our time. It's a 16 hour time change, which should take a few days of adjustment, but we're going to get ourselves in Thailand mode the day before if at all possible. We will be spending a few days at the YWAM base there learning about cultural things and how to make sure that we are acting appropriate and such then heading to our first ministry called SHE. Here we will be working in the red light district and we are told it is spiritually the most heavy and draining ministry, but that's okay, we should have energy still at this point. From there we will be heading to work in schools, an orphanage and I'm not too sure what else that contact has for us, but some lighter work. And finally service at a village where we are able to sleep in tents and bathe in a river. I am so excited in all honesty and there is so much opportunity to physically serve here and literally be Jesus' hans and feet, that it's going to be a great way to end. I don't know much of the specifics, but as I know you will.
 I love you and miss you and wish you a Merry Christmas and encourage you to remember the reason for the season. It is so easy to get caught up, but take time you love! Thank you :)

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Weeks Nine and Ten YPDTS

So I got to go home last week which was pretty awesome. For the days before Wednesday, everyone was getting tired and antsy to go home, which caused everyone to be a little distant, but still good towards each other. I'm also not too sure what was the last thing that I wrote about so I'll try to hit all of the major things that have been happening in the last little while. Two days ago we got to go snowboarding! It was really fun and was the second time that I was able to go here in Denver. The first time that we went,  I ended with a really hard spill so I was a little hesitant on Friday, but with a little bit of prayer, God gave me a lot of confidence to hit the hill and I was able to improve so much. I know that there is not a  lot of eternal significance to the skill of my snowboarding, but it was really awesome to see how much God cares about the things that we care about.  I was very encouraged.
We have also been getting really close as a room. It's too bad that it's been such a long time coming, but we do have two weeks together still and we are having such a good time together. There is a mass tiredness spreading through the camp and a bit of sickness, so one morning all of us layed in bed, coming up with the most serious illness we could have that would cause us not to have to get up and experience the day. It's pretty ridiculous, but the comfort level has risen to a whole new level since we have been back from "Thanksgiving" and it's really great! Sad that we are all leaving each other so soon though.
I'll go back to the beginning though, Kevin Verone was our speaker for the three days that we had before our short break and it was really great since he just let us have time to process what we've learned. It's great for me having a lot of information thrown at us in the short time, but I and others have had a hard time reviewing what we've learned and being able to let it really sink in. So him just asking us to tell him what we've learned and expanding on points that we were foggy on was amazing. He also talked to us about what our identity should look like in Christ, very profound. He talked about how God, like a father, wants us to be able to make decisions that would make Him proud without Him having to tell us. It seems so simple, but it was something that never really registered to me before. I think it's so amazing that He has enable us to be His stewards without exact direction and it makes me very hungry to be reading His word and learn of His character as well as to be able to become comfortable in His presence. I feel confident that the decisions I make, will become more and more a reflection of Him, the more time that I spend with Him. I love how every new topic ignites the Holy Spirits fire within me again and makes me hungry to know Him more. God's crazy depth and mystery is awesome, I can be sure that I will never stop learning more about Him!
I was also able to spend time on that Monday to go on a local outreach like we do every week. We went to a place called confluence, and we were able to just do a prayer walk around a neighborhood who hasn't yet welcomed the Lord a lot. It was amazing the impressions God was putting on my heart though because I have never before felt the need to pray for a building, but that night I was drawn to one specifically and the words that flowed out of my mouth were definitely not mine. Not only the building though, I was walking down one street and I felt God telling me to claim the ground that we were walking on as His, and Holy ground. Seems crazy because it was just a sidewalk, but it was awesome how much I felt His presence with me that night.
After the short week, I headed back home!! It was so great to see my family again and the few friends that I could see, but I realized that getting back into a routine where I have to discipline myself is going to be crazy hard. I spend all day everyday, learning and loving on Jesus so when I am in an enviroment that isn't centred 100% around that I'm going to have to be strong all on my own and that scares me! I know that my family is there to support me and I appreciate the wisdom that they have for me, but it's just so different being here where all everyone is trying to do is be closer to Jesus. I think it was good for me to be able to have a little taste of what post-DTS is going to be like and to be able to recharge and see the people who know me best and love me! I didn't realize how much I missed everyone until I got home, but it's been amazing how God has been making me so content with where I'm at, wherever that is. I have been able to be almost stress free about the future and just so confident in what God has for me now and how I can be closer to Him, so I'm just ready to take on outreach and whatever else comes at me while I'm still here in Denver. I feel like I'm a missionary already, even though I'm not technically on the "mission field".
When I got back, I can't believe I've only been back for a week, but it felt almost surreal or like it was my first day at DTS again. I had a hard time feeling like I fit in again, but we jumped right back into outreach the next day and I was forced, thankfully, to get right back into the swing of things. Before outreach, since I had no laundry, I spent three and a half hours reading the latest book that we are assigned, "Peace Child", by Don Richards. I honestly could not put the book down and I am so excited to go to heaven to hang out with some of the inspiring Sawi men. I would suggest the book to anyone who can handle a little bit of evil, before redemption. Then I had a very relaxing outreach, where I got to paint art supply bags for a non-profit called "Art For the Nations". It was a nice, simple way to get back into serving Jesus.
This week we had class on Bible Study and I am, for the first time, confident that I have the tools to understand what God wants to tell me through the Bible. I have never been confident in understanding what He wants to say to me, but I realized that I shouldn't be stressing out about what the Bible says to other people and how I can understand it in the deepest way possible. God just wants me to be able to relax in His presence and be someone that I love being around and feel comfortable with instead of someone that I feel that i always have to prove myself to. This should have been something that I always felt, but it actually was a revelation the Holy Spirit gave to me and I am so excited to begin this new way of reading in Isaiah. We also learend a lot about how to lead Bible Studies, use concordances and all of the real in depth stuff that I think will help me a lot. I also have a desire to learn Greek so that I can just understand the New Testament in it's original form. But I can't see that being a realistic plan, so I'll take it as it comes.
We also had Thailand/Colombia team meetings and God has putting the idea of passionate prayer on my heart for our team. He just showed me that He wants us to be so broken for the pain and injustice going on around us and that when we pray, we need to be so full of passion and want to be praying for everything that we choose or He chooses us to pray for. I struggle with my prayer life, but it's something that God's working in me with and I am excited that He is revealing to me, the farthest thing from a prayer warrior, that this is what He has planned for us doing His work. It's really amazing how He is moving in us all here.
It's been great to see people come out of their shells and find their identites in Christ. Being able to fellowship with believers who are all at different places but all wanting the same thing and learning together is the most valuable thing that God has given me and I am so excited that He has been pursueing me the way that He has.
Today was an amazing example of the relentless pursuit He has for me. I have been struggling to get back into the groove a hundred percent because I had a set schedule and idea down that worked for me, but today He pulled me back in again. I was running alone after church and I went much farther than I do when I was in my group. I felt God wanted me to listen to worship music and like every other run, I focussed on prayer instead of the physical exertion. The first person that I felt to pray for, I later found out was being prayed for by all of the girls here and that she was having a really hard and discouraging day which was soo cool. Then I was praying for people as well as thinking about the sermon that we were assigned to prepare for our outreachs. As I was invisioning what I would say, God took hold of my heart and was like "Hey Karly, this is what I've been trying to say to you." It was crazy how thinking about Jesus hanging on the cross, taking all of our sins inside Himself! Just because He loves us got to me like it did when I first decided to commit my life to Christ. I was so broken and He once again unleashed the tears for me so that I could be overcome with His presence. I scared a man on His horse, but it was so symbolic of the safety that I have in God and that He cares about me not only spiritually, but emotionally and physically too! Ah it was the most amazing run I have ever experienced and I am so excited to be able to dedicate my physical body to God's work too, even in times of excersize. It has been a rollercoaster of  a couple weeks, but I am excited to see what God has in store for us and ready for outreach. We need prayer for safety and still support for a few of our teams members.
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Week Eight YPDTS

Week eight, not so intense and prfound as six and seven, but a good one none the less. This was special because I have been praying for God to give me His joy, not the temporary kind that we can create, but His real, deep joy and He's been giving it to me big time! We had outreach prep week this week, which was full of dramas, skits and dances and late nights. By wednesday, we were all already extremely burnt out, but God just gave us so much energy for the final day of learning, which were dances. I learned a dance, HA, and actually had so much fun because we were constantly reminded that this wasn't about us and that looking silly or untalented didn't matter as long as we were giving it our all for God. I was able to have so much fun and confidence in performance just for the small fact of knowing that I wasn't doing it for me. This makes me wonder how much differently we would step out if life didn't always revolve around us and if we were living lives to reflect Christ instead of ourselves. This is something that I and many others here struggle with, but our previous speaker Dean Sherman gave us a phenomenal quote to digest. "You should only refrain from doing things out of wisdom, not fear", and we have an unlimted amount of wisdom available from God when we are willing to ask. This is not to say that I have left fear to the dust and am now able to go through life completly lacking fear-of-man, but I am able to take baby steps towards that reality. Not only did Dean Sherman give us that idea to contemplate, but also he reminded us that, "There is zero possibility that God will not be with you when you are obeying the great commision." These have come to life for me this week in how I need to decided that when I go after something, it needs to be with 100% of me. So, in turn I was able to have a good time being part of God's work in preparation for Thailand. The thing about this week that was pretty crazy though was that it started as one of the worst weeks for all of us. We are getting to the point where we are tired and getting to know each other well enough that it's fair to be grumpy - so monday and tuesday weren't a hundred percent awesome. After a really intense worship time though, the attitude of the school had shifted. We were able to take communion mid week, as well as spend two straight hours just being with Jesus and we were able to wash each others feet. This was a great way for us to refuel and has made me realize how important it is to recharge with praise. The book that I just finished is called "The Power of Personal Prayer" by Jonathon Graf, and he made a statement in there that "Praise poises us to battle from a position of victory instead of for victory." I thought this was extremely profound and almost forces me to value praising God so much more.
This week we also started to pray everynight as roomies. We throw prayer requests out to each other and just end our night with thankfulness and petition. It was crazy to see the closeness that tiny little act brought, but not surprising since prayer is extremely intimate. We also started a prayer wall in our main lounging area which was cool so that we could all come together and rise up as the body of Christ instead of just individuals.
With not so spiritual stuff this week I got to shred for the first time!!! Saturday we went to Breckenridge and for the first time for most of us, got out to snowboard for the season. It was amazing and I couldn't help but thank God for the beauty and fun that He has created! We also, on Thursday night, went to this wear house that has trampolines over the whole floor and the side walls. It was the most intense workout I think that I have ever done in my whole life, but it was crazy fun. A group of 15, 18 and olders walking into a childrens birthday party hotspot felt kind of ridiculous, but it ended up being a ton of fun for all of us and we saw some pure talent after eight o clock when bed time hit for the kids who had school the next day.These guys who came after were AMAZING and had core strength that I have never expereinced in fraction so I have found my newest hobby to pursue. Just kidding, but there is some crazy things that people can do on a trampoline. I also spent the night after we got back laying in bed feeling like I was bouncing, which was kind of cool but made me dizzy too. I also learned a little bit of how to salsa this week, I realized my hips are very much attached to my body and unfortunately I was not blessed with rhythm, but my dance partner was a girl.. so either way we looked ridiculous and everyone else was just as brutal as myself so we just got to have a good time together.
This week was amazing for God providing joy to us all and I have been able to recognize God's presence in things so much more than just worship, class and church. It's about the baby steps and just working to live like Christ. He is more interested in the process than the product so here I am in process, faults, struggles and shortcomings which are all made perfect through Christ.

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Week Seven YPDTS

I was very moved by this week. We were able to have another DTS group from our base in Arvada stay with us here at Eagle Rock. We took class together, worshiped and fellowshipped together and were able to just have fun and get to know some more people with the same goal of knowing Jesus as us. We did not have a Monday night outreach for this reason, but the week was full of growth and love with Dean Sherman speaking on Spiritual Warfare. I was overwhelmed with what he was telling us since it was never something that I thought existed around me, but it surrounds us all every day! We all have a spirit inside of us that has to choose daily to follow the world or the kingdom and principles of the kingdom are universally appreciated but often hard to follow through with. I realized that I am a hundred percent in the kingdom of God, even when I sin. His grace is ready to fall on me as soon as I repent and in His powerful name I can rebuke the enemy with all confidence that he has no power over me after that. I was able to really see how much power Jesus’ name holds and that I never have to fear death, because He holds the keys. His love was so evident to me this week and the goal coming in was to be able to feel the intimate relationship that Jesus offers us, when we are willing. This week I was finally able to feel some of that real intimacy. Each day with Dean Sherman reinforced that as a believer of Jesus I never have to worry about not being worthy to spend eternity with Him, He is the redeemer and was absolutely perfect in His sacrifice. There isn’t a level of holiness I need to reach because He already gave me that when I decided to choose Him as my saviour. I feel like I’m reiterating the gospel, but I think this week it really came alive for me again so I am excited to share it in any way that I can. Not only were the teachings and everything great, but being able to hang out with the Musicians DTS (MDTS) was also really great. We were able to just enjoy each other through games of volleyball, worshipping and just getting to know each other. I am thankful to the Lord for blessing me with so many friends and allowing me to be surrounded by so many people who encourage me to continually get to know Him more and choose the Kingdom every day. I am blessed beyond what I could ever imagine. Not only with my new friends here but also all of you back home and of course my family, every week that I spend here I realize the blessing that they are to me and God must have something pretty amazing planned to have allowed me to live in the greatness I have been.

The MDTS left that Friday as well as Dean Sherman. We were able to have an amazing worship time where Jesus performed a miracle in our midst. My roommate has been suffering from intense, chronic back pain for the last two years and has seen about every doctor that she could. She was still in pain and found it uncomfortable to just sit and worship. By an act of obedience another girl here began to pray over her during worship and another girl and I felt called to join in, in praying over her. Each of us felt a specific direction from the Holy Spirit of how to release her from her pain and after much praying and allowing the Holy Spirit to penetrate and release familiarity of pain, she was healed! Her pain was gone for the first time in two years and though we were expecting that it might come back, four days later she is still free of pain and each day we are thankful that she can go through the day painless. It was amazing and surreal to me since healing was something that I thought of as only a Jesus and disciples thing, but He always comes through and shows me that He is more powerful than I had contained Him to. That night I was also able to go to Kingdom Night and here I paired up with three boys, one whose fire for God was something of a spectacle to me. The confidence he went out in and just the assurance that God was with us the whole time, gave me special confidence and I spent a lot of time watching and learning. I was able to talk with a few people and generate a few smiles with Jesus’ love, but most of all I learned. It was really great and I am excited to be able to get back out and continue to learn and share the love of God. I was also able to go the infamous Tijuana Taco’s which everyone around here talks about and I was pleasantly surprised. Authentic Mexican food is great I would like to say and if you ever decided to come to the Denver area, I would highly suggest hitting this place up. Also order yourself a horchata (don’t pronounce the H, I was laughed at by our Mexican student) since it is amazing! I also ate cow intestine here, which was kind of gross I’ll be honest, but it didn’t taste that bad. I was told that heading to Thailand I better start getting ready to eat whatever was put in front of me no matter what it was, so pray for me.... if you know me at all you’ll know how picky of an eater I am and how easily my stomach reacts to EVERYTHING! I’m going to need some major transformation ha.

Anyway, Saturday was the day that really made me realize a ton about myself and my relationship with Jesus. We were able to have a worship time with United Pursuit band (AMAZING! Get there music as soon as humanly possible).  There was just a room full of us, packed into our worship center down at the base learning these new songs and allowing the Holy Spirit to penetrate the room like I have never felt before. Everyone was so all consumed by Jesus, that they didn’t even look at each other or care about how badly they were singing. Here is where I realized that Jesus is the only one who can wreck me. I generally don’t cry, most people know that since I have an extremely hard time doing it around the people closest to me, never mind others, but here I could not even contain it. I have found throughout worship times that I cannot hold in the tears, but here was especially strong. After about five minutes of trying to fight it back, I just let it flow and the amazingly real presence of Jesus in the room was so evident to me that my worship experience was much more than just singing. I was prayed over here and even though neither of us really knew what was being prayed about I felt the Lord working in me and I was able finally relinquish my trust to Him. Not only was I touched, but I had the most amazing image of intimacy given to me that I can truly say that I understand the type of love that God wants to give to us, in fractional form. I was transformed. I was excited to hear that many people had the same sort of experience as me and that throughout the whole school, there was a new hunger for knowing more about Jesus. I love it and I am excited to see where it takes us up till outreach as well as when we go out into the world to share the truth that we have been immersed in for the last three months of our lives, 24/7.

This week was really a God week. Though class and other weeks have been great, I was able to really feel the intimacy that God is pumped to have with us as well as to really be confirmed of how much he loves me. There will never be a way that I can earn myself into heaven, and I am so grateful for that because grace is the most amazing gift that I could ask for. His provision and grace was shown this week when the launch of Jesus Freaks happened just yesterday.  Over three years and just under one million dollars was put into this YWAM documentary, but mostly just about how Jesus transforms and is in constant pursuit of His people. We are praying that this goes absolutely global and that the world can be touched by the story of a few students and a girl who died, loving Jesus the whole way. Please go to the link that I have posted below and watch the webisodes. If you are loving if, attach it to your facebook status, blog or whatever other internet option you have because when people search Jesus or freak on google, we want this to show up and just show the world that they are never too far gone to experience the grace of Jesus. “..but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly”, Romans 5:20. I was so blessed this week and I hope I know that there is a lot of Jesus stuff in this one, but I think that’s what this whole experience is about.

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Week Six YPDTS

I'm sorry I haven't been doing a good job of keeping this consistent, I often just get caught up in the little things and find that it's bed time before I know it. These last two weeks have been extremely intense with our speakers and very out of schedule for us which has made things extremely busy, but also really has been challenging me if I'd like to take what I'm learning and keep it in my head, or to apply it to my heart. Each morning I have to wake up and either out loud, or in my head say that today I am choosing Jesus because sometimes without the commitment, temptation is more attractive. But last week we had a speaker by the name of JR Pohlemus, a pastor and speaker, and he spoke on the Holy Spirit. We have been working a lot in the Holy Spirit this whole quarter in just being able to hear him, feel him etc. but we got more into the gifts of the Spirit which were fairly new to me. We dove right in and on our first day, JR spoke about the tongues. It was amazing to see how many people had the gift and that it was available to every believer who believed and was willing to receive. It was something that I was very interested in, but I felt a very unsettling feeling come over me when we were able to practice the already given gift to us (by the Holy Spirit) and turned into something much deeper for me. The unrest was overwhelming and I just started to feel that I needed to talk to God about what was going on and why this was something that I was so afraid of. I wanted to intimacy that a spiritual language with God could provide, but there was so much blockage in the way. This turned into something that was amazing, because the Lord blessed me with a yearning to find this blocking sins and where they might root from. I began to mind map and just think about the different things that had taken me to the spot that I'm at with sins that are separating me from God and here a journey started. Healing is painful and disciplined but the Lord is already working in me because as willing as I am to be closer to him, he is 100 times more willing. This was also a revelation to me this week that God pursues me as his child. I had heard people speak about how God pursues them and wants them and is constantly reeling them back to him but I hadn't had that revelation myself. Then we were sitting in worship, and at the end of a song someone got up and just said hey guys, let's thank God for what he's doing in our lives every day. Just being able to be in a community of love like we are and so forth, after that I was so humbled. The Lord showed me what a pursuit he had had on me that I would get to a community like the one I was blessed to be in. I felt an impression so strong after that of "Karly, I love you", something I obviously knew already, being fundamental, but it was something that absolutely broke me to realizing how much the God of the universe wants me. His pursuit is on and he doesn't give up, that's what is so amazing.
 Later in the week, JR brought his daughter to help with teaching and she gave us the idea that when we look back to situations that brought us pain or bitterness to see the source of pain in that situation and Jesus right beside us because he was there with us. He was so much more hurt than we were at what was happening and he was there to love us, especially when we weren't getting love from people around us. To know that his love is so unconditional that it doesn't matter what I do or what circumstance I'm in is so comforting and I can be as confidence in his love tomorrow as I am today. The whole week was one that was really interesting and hard because I didn't have a lot of knowledge on the Holy Spirit and His gifts, but I feel like I have a lot more knowledge of even the bible and how I can apply that to my life, when God and I are ready.
This week I also went to Kingdom Night (evangelism in lo-do). It was crazy since there are usually a lot of people, but there were only six from our school and maybe 15 or 20 from the other schools. I was able to talk to a few boys from the area as well as a man who challenged me a lot on the credibility of everything I believe and made me more inspired to look for the roots of Christianity (obviously Jesus, but the translations of the bible and such). It was an amazing ride back to our school also, since the group was so small we were all able to be real with each other as well as just have a lot of fun. Sunday also was great because the church that I am going to is speaking on idols. This week was the idol of religion and each week that Pastor Jay has talked about a different idol I have felt convicted to change my life and follow God so whole heartedly and put all other things secondary to him in my life. I am seeing so much progress! It's amazing. Just being able to take my thoughts captive and treating people with the love that Christ flows through me is the beginning but intimacy with my Creator has stepped it up a notch which is what I am so hungry for. I am finding that the more that I learn and know about God and his character, the more hungry I am to learn more! It has been great and I would love to write about week six, but I will do that tomorrow since it is bedtime right now. Please be praying for me and my team with the outreaches creeping up and that their funds will start flowing in. We trust in the Lord to provide, but prayer is always part of the plan so thank you!

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Week Three, Four and Five YPDTS

I apologize that I have not been more thorough with my blog writing for the last few weeks, but with a broken computer and a trip down to Albuquerque I have struggled to be able to make time and find a way to be writing. I have had an amazing last few weeks though and I feel like everyday almost I would have been able to write something exciting which is so cool that God is working in us so much. Week three was one that changed my life. We had a speaker named Jeff Pratt who was amazing and had a gift from God to make the Holy Spirit so present to each of us that it was impossible not to feel him working inside you. He was speaking on the Father-heart of God, which is something that I have often struggled to see God as, but after watching videos, hearing scripture and his words, I am working on an intimate relationship with my heavenly Father who is un-like any other. Mr. Pratt spoke of bricks around our heart that created a wall to separate us from God and one day we each had 45 minutes to spend alone with the Lord so he could tell us what those were. I have found that I have many, but God placed on my heart over and over that I need to let go of wanting to please man and have attention from the people around me. His attention is what satisfies and is unchanging, but unfortunately I struggle with living for man. The Lord equipped me with courage beyond anything I have ever experienced before though because when he called us to share with our class what we were struggling with, full of tears I told my classmates. It was an amazing thing and I have found that there is extreme importance in sharing with at least one other person what is going on within you, because the enemy loves us to keep secrets in our hearts and keep ourselves full of condemnation. Also amongst the crazy intensity of this week, we had a lot of fun living in community. I became the resident hairdresser and cut a few girls hair, like legit cut and then died a boys hair from bleach blonde to black!! It was really fun though and I know it's different than normal communal living, but I can see why it is so fun. This week was also the start to me really getting involved in intercession. Since before I came here I didn't really think that God talked to people directly, it was hard for me, but this week I felt a lot from God and that he was giving me things to tell the group out of obedience. As the weeks have gone on, it has gotten much more specific and personal with God and I. This was also an intense week at kingdom night. This is where we go down into Denver and do street evangelism. Though I wasn't able to see someone choose Christ as their Saviour, I was able to have conversations and pray for different people which were really cool and new for me. People have also been prophesying over me that Evangelism is something that the Lord is calling me to and that he has gifted me in this area if I begin to trust him and value what he thinks over what the world thinks. Overall this was a pretty awesome week. The only prayer requests I ask for are for my friends here who don't have their outreach money yet and for the nightmares that I have been having quite regularly.
Week Four:
The honeymoon phase is over. Though there is not a lot of fighting or anything, there is definately a more real dimension to all of us and we are starting to notice that "bad" in each other as well as the good, which is cool because we are able to grow more out of it and love each other more wholly. I also had a creative project due, which was super stressful for me since we were the first group to present and I didn't know what to expect, but it went well and now I couldn't be more thankful that it is over so that I can just spend time working on my assignments which makes life a little less stressful for me. This week's corporate intercession was also aweomse, because our group was split between Egypt and Sudan, so we decided to pray for both countries and we ended up finding out they are in strife with much of Northern Africa over a monopoly on the Nile! It's really cool how God put that all together for us and that is what I will be praying for every monday with my intercession group, so if you would be interested in praying for that too, it would be greatly appreciated. That same day we were also able to go to a pumpkin patch and pick out pumpkins to carve which I'm super excited about! I have relaized here how much I love halloween which is weird, but costumes and such are extremely enjoyable for me. We were able to help out with a kids carnival at the chuch I am attending here last night, and it was nice to see the simple joy that children have and I feel like God is offering that to us all of the time, so it makes me more inspired to live for him with joy from him. The rest of this week was relationship week which was something good for me to hear I think, especially since I'm not pursuing a relationship right now. There is a lot of biblical suggestions on relationships and it's really interesting to look at a relationship as something that is honoring to God and not only ourselves and each other. It wasn't so much an intense week like the one that I had before, but I think that it will be something that is quite helpful when I decide to pursue a relationship again. This week was one that I struggled to keep my chin up and have a good attitude about what was going on in my life, but when I headed down to the base I was encouraged by a guy that I had never really talked to before and I just saw how amazing it is to have a fellowship group that is so comfortable and focused on loving like Christ does. It is something that I need to work on and try to bring home with me.
Week Five:
This last week. This is the most fresh one in my mind so I'm sorry about the last two weeks looking more like a journal entry than a blog, but I did go through my journal to try to remember the little details that made those weeks really significant for me. But, this week we were able to go down to Albuquerque from Sunday to Thursday and minister in a jail, womens halfway house and homeless/battered womens shelter. The Lord worked in us and me so much and though we were still in America, I felt that I was exposed to something I had never let myself experience before. I spent the first two days in the jail and though it was minimum security, there were many people who were anxious and felt in danger, God protected me from this feeling though which was amazing and I was able to be so excited everyday going in. It proved to be amazing too. We spent about an hour in pods of around 50 or more people. Here we did the dramas we had learned and just spent time talking to any of the inamtes who were interested in prayer, accepting Jesus as their Saviour or just talking to us and being able to learn about each other. The first day was so encouraging to me and the men that I met there were such real people and it was obvious that some of them had just made a mistake like many of us had, but got caught in the process of it. I think it was good for me to see how real every person there was and I struggle with praying with others, but I was able to pray for many guys that day and just talk with them about their lives and what God has done in mine. The second pod that I went to, a man seeked me out right away and asked me if I could pray with him about accepting the Lord to be his Saviour for the first time ever! I honestly got so excited I think I missed about half of the salvation prayer, but there were other guys who already knew the Lord and I was able to give him a bible and there were reading calendars that were passed out to help with how to read the bible and make sense of what it all means and what God wants for us. I talked and prayed with a lot more guys and I know that a lot of them were just excited to be able to see a girl for the first time in a while, I was blind to eyes and words of lust and the Lord just filled me with love that has never been so present in my life before. It was amazing! Finally, our last pod was one that was called "God's pod" and it was one that we werent' supposed to be able to go into, but the Lord provided and we were able to go in. All of these men were more dedicated to the Lord than myself and many of the people that I have met who are following the Lord. Unlike any of the other pods, they were lined up all around the outskirts of the courtyard area by their cells and were completely silent when we walked in. Every other pod we were subjected to cat calls, loud games and conversations and many men would not even stop to look at what we were doing, but all of these guys were so respectful of us and even brought us seats to sit on. I have never been treated with so much respect in my life and it was in a jail, so cool. But in this pod we did our dramas and talked with the men for a bit, then they sat us down and sang, rapped and one man sang acapella for us. It was amazing! These men were so talented it was crazy and the rap was something that was divinely blessed and the man that sang acapella had never performed for anyone before us, which was so cool. The other inmates told me that they had never heard him sing before and it was so cool that God called him to share that with us and they prayed for us and told us we would continually be in their prayers and this whole time I had the biggest smile on my face ever. I was actually in a little bit of pain, but I couldn't stop smiling! It was joy that was beyond what I could ever create for myself. Then the next day we went out to the jail again and it was another day full of encouragement. In the last pod Temp, our leader, gave his testimony and an alter call. He asked the men to be completely open about this if they decided that they wanted to follow God to put their hands up in front of everyone, honestly over 30 people put their hands up and even after Temp explained it wasn't an easy life even more guys put their hands up. I was able to pray with so many men and hand out more bibles than I have ever seen in my life. There was a group of men who prayed for us in that pod also, and there was so much passion in their prayer that I couldn't help smiling again. In this pod there were two men with 666 tattoo'd on their forhead and arm. There was a lot of spiritual warfare going on there and I could tell that they were so full of hate the whole time, but the Lord worked through it and the Holy Spirits presence drown any presence the enemy could have created. The whole time that we were in the jail for both days, I realized that I was a prayer warrior in stressful situations. That pod, required me to spend so much time in prayer, but it was cool because it's power was very obvious, so please be praying for this jail, because God moved so much in there those three days. The next day we were able to go to the homeless shelter and it was an extremely depressing place, but the joy of playing with the kids there was amazing and changed the whole atmposphere of the place. Being able to serve the people, talk with them and just play with the kids was something I will never forget and I'm sorry that I wrote such a novel but I think that I will end it here and the next few will nice and short so that it doesn't take you a year to read them again. Thank you for your support and the prayer, please continue to pray for us! I love you and miss you and pray that the Lord is moving in you continually.

Week Two YPDTS

I think I must have changed into a entirely new person since I left home because this week I BY CHOICE woke up at 4:45 am to go on a three hour hike beginning at 5am. I'm pretty sure that I have never in my life have had motivation to do something remotely physical ha, but reaching the top was the most amazing thing. We decided to start so early so that we could see the sunrise between the peak of two higher mountains the the top of the one that we were on and singing songs of praise, while the sun rose over the most beautiful creation has sprouted a new passion in me. I have realized how much hard work pays off and believe me, climbing a mountain in pitch black is something of a struggle, but the Lord blesses his faithful servant, even when their actions are directed entirely towards him. I have been reminded of the difference between special and general revelation this week also, and never before have I appreciated general revalation so much. I also experienced his pleasure in bringing his creation joy while searching for a small purple flower that had brought be joy in the last few days whenever I would pass it. As I was reading the Word, I was trying to find this little flower everywhere and I couldn't seem to find it in all the places that I thought I recognized from before, so I settled on a fallen tree with beautiful needs and branches overlaying each other. When I sat on the trunk admiring the auburn needs, one small, purple flower had weaved through the branches and stared right at me. I fell in love with the Lord all over again and realized how much joy he finds in pleasing his favorite creation. God is good.
This week was something much different than last weeks adventures. It was the first week of classes and school like experience and again I feel like I have known the people around me for a life time, but each day goes by so quickly I am learning that I need to appreciate every day as its own, because they go by so fast. Our speaker this week spoke on the character and nature of God and I am reminded through each characteristic that God is so worthy of our praise. Not only have I been able to spend a lot of time in his theory I have also for the first time experienced his personal messages! I was so excited because everyone here seems to have a back and forth conversation with the Lord and I have never had that before, but this week in our time of intercessiong the Lord blessed me with seeing his will and putting  his will on my heart. God's voice is beautiful and perfect, I am shocked that in my former years I wasn't searching for this, because now that I know what it's like, I don't ever want to lose it. The Lord is definately making his presence known in this place even through our relationships with each other and I am so thankful that he is our Saviour and that he gave us the absolute best there is to offer, himself/the Son Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 2:19(b) "..for man is slave to whatever has mastered him."

Week One YPDTS

Week one of YPDTS is now complete and it feels like I have been here for a month and a day all at the same time. The Lord has blessed me with amazing people to fellowship with and being around a small group of people so intensely living for God has been extremely benificial for me already. Not that I don't have amazing fellowship at home, but being in a place where focus is on the Lord number one and everything else second, has allowed for a breath of life to once again flow into me. We have spent most of the week in times of bonding and put in situations where we either have to get to each other really quick or be awkward and so far there has been nothing negative I can report about the way people are interacting. I value being able to observe how others follow Christ and espcially being in an enviroment where dating and marriage are not number one on everyones minds. This has allowed for comfort and ease in worship and other aspects of living in such close community. We were ableto clime on of the many beautiful mountains earlier in the week in Estes park and a group of us ended up taking an unplanned, extremely difficult offroading detour. With the heat (praise Jesus!) and the quite steep, rugged terain I didn't even give myself the energy to look around, but when we were stopped and told to turn around, the view was idyllic and the whole trip and extra effort was worth it for once chance to see how amazing God's creation is. This is an example of what has been going on this week, but we have had extremely intense worship times that God has used to moved so many people already and being able to go to church with a new community was nice as well just to see how other people praise and worship the Lord. I have found myself taking comfort in knowing that  God is going to be my only Rock and stability in this next five month adventure but I am blessed with the people he has put around me for guidance. I am struggling with the type of identity that I need to pursue to be a follower of Christ and hearing and being able to distinguish his voice from the other voices going on in my head. Though I am not so good at this yet, I have felt and been enlightened of my immense authority to rebuke Satan out of my life and by being Gods child, he will protect me! Well this was only week one, so I can imagine that the transforming that is going to happen in the next while is going to be crazy! But I am excited to take you all along with me and let you see a bit of how God is working in me. I am encouraged to hear from home and I miss and love you all, but this is part of me learning how to take up my cross daily and follow Christ. I appreciate your support and prayers, I am definatley going to need them!!! as well as everyone here at eagle rock and YWAM around the world.
Love you xo