The Halfway Point and Spiritual Warfare

This week, we had teachings on Spiritual Warfare from a local pastor named Jason King. It was good to get another perspective on what exactly Spiritual Warfare is. One thing that stuck out is that spiritual warfare is an everyday thing, even if we are not aware of it. The way we choose to live our lives every day has an effect. Our attitudes are an important part of who we are and we are called to live a life with which we honor God.

My team and I also had our first outreach meeting. We will be leaving on August 9th to head out to the Philippines. We will be spending about two weeks in San Fernando, then about two weeks in Dagupan, and then around four weeks in Cebu. Of course, things can change and we try to be flexible in order to let God use us in the best way possible.

I'm looking forward to what God has planned for us in the next many weeks as we have passed the halfway point and are continuing to get ready for outreach and preparing our hearts for the adventure.

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Thank you so much for all your prayers and for following along with my YWAM adventure!
God bless!
Erin

Power, Faithfulness, Mercy, and Love

This week, we had Blake Mattocks speaking on The Nature and Character of God. It was an intense week, covering everything from contentment to honesty. With each speaker we are able to glean more information. I'm glad we get to take notes, otherwise I would probably miss 80-90% of what is said!

One of my favourite parts of this week was outreach prep; the lesson we got this week was for children's ministry. Because of that, we got to learn what ways we can connect with kids effectively to show them the love of God. Many of those ways are simply loving on them and doing activities with them so we got to learn some different designs for facepainting as well as how to make balloon animals! It was like a welcome little flashback into childhood!

This coming week, we get to learn about Spiritual Warfare from Jason King. I am really excited for this week, also, because the students from Electric Mountain Lodge are staying with us this week and doing life with us. It means more people, but it also means getting to grow in community with more people!

Thank you so much for your continued prayers and support! It is absolutely appreciated!

It's A Choice

What a week! This week, we got to enjoy hearing stories from the outreach teams that just got back from the corners of the world. Our speaker told us his crazy story of what his father went through as a refugee from Russia into China and eventually into the United States.

I would love to say life is all rainbows and flowers, but it has been a hard week. I've been missing home and being tired all week wears on you!

The bright spot of my week was Friday, getting to be at the DTS graduation and getting to see where my classmates and I will be in 4 months! We got to hear some crazy stories and eat some delicious food!

This coming week, we get to hear a local pastor speak on "The Characteristics of God". I am looking forward to it!

Thank you so much for your continued prayer and support!

God bless!

The Relationship Week

This week was so good! If you have never removed yourself from internet and cell service and society (or haven't recently), I would strongly encourage you to do so! There is something so freeing about not having the pressures of expectations and society's hold- which is a lot stronger than we like to think.

This week, my school and I got the opportunity to go up into the middle of the Rocky Mountains and spend a week growing in community, hearing from our amazing speaker (who also happens to be my school director) and soaking in God's amazing creation. The location at which we were staying used to be a hunter's lodge YWAM Denver was given by the owner

Through this week, our speaker, John Murphy, covered the topic of relationships. His vulnerability, practicality, openness and content was such a blessing! God gave him the words to speak and I would say every person between the two schools he was speaking to was impacted by one part or another. Also, having grown up in the church and hearing "Relationship talks" every year for the past many years, it was nice to have a fresh perspective and new layers to all the aspects of relationships (both romantic, and platonic).

This coming week, our speaker is Peter Iliyn, who will be speaking on "Lifestyle of Repentance." Even though I'm not sure what exactly it will entail, I am looking forward to what the week will hold!

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As always, thank you so much for your support and prayers!