week one

wow...what an amazing week. 8 days ago on the 20th, 51 people from Washington, California, Montana, Ohio arrived in San Diego ready to come down and serve for a week here in Ensenada and left yesterday after a life changing week. I lead
a team of 10 amazing students from a youth group in Ohio through a week of outreach and ministry throughout the city. I was so incredibly blessed to see these kids serve others and be a tangible expression of Jesus' love at orphanages, colonias, churches, and at the base interacting with the other students. I got to talk to all of them about their experience throughout the week and every single one of them left different with their lives changed in some way. Some received healing for the first time in their lives as they were able to forgive, one heard the voice of God for the first time, one considered himself born again in his faith, and all of them learned more about themselves, God, and the world. They also touched so many peoples' lives in the city, mainly children, during their outreach. They shared the gospel and made God known to kids at an orphanage, a part of a neighborhood, and through daily programs at a church we worked with for 3 days. It was so great. Apart from my Ohio group, there were 3 other youth groups as well as one family that came down to serve! The other 2 youth groups and the family shared the gospel and did lots of physical labor with other local ministries just like my group. The other youth group from Montana built a house for a family in need and changed their lives forever. All glory be to God for the work done through these kids and adult leaders alike, and a special thanks for these people that were willing to surrender themselves for a week to bring the kingdom of Heaven down to Earth. God also reminded me to everyday die to myself and keep seeking him and his heart for the people I would meet everyday and for his vision for the ministry we would be doing that day. To be obedient and step aside and let God work through us. Man it was such a great week and im sad it had to end. Oh well...this will happen almost every week till the end of August! Pictures to be posted soon :D yay!

Hey Yall!

Well hopefully I will actually be able to keep this thing updated unlike to one from my DTS haha. Well for those of you who don't know about me I've been living in Mexico since September 2010 working with YWAM. I've done a DTS and now staff a camp called mission adventures (which you'll find out what it's all about if you keep up with me!) God's using me to really impact some people's lives forever and to bring Heaven down to Earth every day. Its a pretty great job with an even better boss haha. Well right now the staff here is going through a training and preparation time getting ready for teams of youth from different parts of the world to come and do mission work with us here in Ensenada. On Monday the 20th our first teams come down to start the summer cycles. We will have new teams every week for the next 3 months! So. Much. To. Do. haha. I'm so ready for them to get down here and for God to use them to do some pretty amazing things. Well...ill keep yall updated on whats going on down here and share with you what God is doing in these peoples' lives as well as my own. Thanks for reading! one love