London Nepal Outreach.m4v

Here is a short video that Matt made of our outreach. Enjoy!

Long overdue update.

We have been back from Nepal now for about 3 months and with jet lag behind us, we have finally been able to find our groove again. We didn't have any internet for a while so updating was difficult. Our internet is back up and we are excited to share what God's been doing in our lives. Matt is working hard as the head of communications and recruiting. Basically he is in charge of communication between our campus and potential students along with making sure the website is up, running, and accurate. Recently, Matt created a campus tour on the YWAM Nashville website that allows everybody to see our beautiful campus. He did a great job! Check it out! http://www.ywamnashville.org/.  I on the other hand am LOVING being a stay at home mom. Originally I was going to spend a couple half days at the base helping out wherever I could, but after working with the DTS and going on outreach, I decided I just wanted to spend some quality time with Liam. He is at such a fun age and I am having a great time hanging out with him.





I know it's been a while, but here are just a few pictures of our ministry in London and Nepal.

Prayer walking around the Olympic site!

Beautiful Big Ben

Praying and evangelizing at a Buddhist "monkey" temeple

One of their favorite pastimes (and mine): soccer!

quick family pic before preaching to the unreached people in the mountains!

Brick factory. Modern day slavery

Handing out Bibles to the children at an orphanage

building relationships with the beautiful people of the brick factory

The colorful streets of Nepal

Factory workers accepting Christ!

Girls from the orphanage

Liam traveled so well.

Sweet Nepali girl and Matt

sharing the Gospel with the Nepali people

Staying clean even in Nepal!

You get very creative after a while

London and Nepal

I was hoping to be a little more consistent with the blog while on outreach, but it has been a little crazy. 

We finished our two weeks in London on January 14th. We partnered with a ministry from YWAM Perth, Australia called Megacities. Each year, Megacities bombards a city with a population of a million or more with the love of God. We did street evangelism, worked with a homeless ministry, and shared the gospel with many different schools. It was quite an adventure as we crammed 15 people into a small bungalow. Let's just say we all got really close during the two weeks. Liam had a bit of jet lag for the first few nights, but eventually he adjusted well...just in time for another 6 hour time difference of course.

     We arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal on the 14th after a long day of flying. Most of the team experienced a bit of culture shock as we stepped outside the airport to find the busy city awaiting us. Quite a difference from London  for sure. We have been joining a few different ministries while here including working with kids in the slums, setting up a small health clinic for the families of the slums, helping at an HIV/AIDS house, but we have spent a majority of our time working with a children's welfare home run by a Hindu couple. Each day we had the chance to teach them english, color, play soccer, teach them songs, and just love on them. Each day we acted out different Bible stories for the kids and the couple. The husband and wife were devout Hindus but found our stories very intriguing. They would stop what they were doing and join the kids during the Bible stories. What we did there was simple, but by the end of our time there we had shared the gospel. We prayed for each one of them and all of them came to know the Lord including the couple! God is so faithful!

     This week had been a bit rougher for Matt and I. We both have been pretty sick and Liam has not slept well at night for about a week. We are feeling a bit sleep deprived and could really use your prayers. The team is doing well and we are looking forward to seeing what else the Lord has in store for us and for this amazing country! I don't have time to put any pictures up yet, but I will hopefully have the chance soon! Thanks for all your support and prayers!

Off to London!

12/30

We have officially left for outreach! We packed up our bags and headed to the airport this morning. We have successfully made it to our first connection in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Liam did great on his first plane ride. I was so worried about how he would do, but God’s grace was covering us all! He fell asleep about 30 seconds before takeoff and slept for the first half! We are currently sitting in the airport for our 5 1/2 hour layover and then we are off to London! We will be spending 10 days in London bombarding the city with intercession and evangelism! Then we will be leaving for Kathmandu, Nepal on the 11th where we will stay for a month and a half. I will try to update our blog as the internet allows. We covet your prayers as Matt and I lead 15 DTS students on this outreach. We are so excited for what’s ahead and can’t wait to share with you what the Lord does during the next two months! Thanks for your support!

1/1/12

Well we are here in London! God has been so good and has been providing already for our team. The airline switched our tickets so that Liam could have a bassinet during the flight. It was such a blessing for Matt and I as Liam slept through the night and we had extra leg room. We are currently recovering from jet lag in a nice Bungalow a church has provided for us. We start ministry tomorrow and I can't wait! Our team has been great and we are all anticipating great things ahead! We'll update again as soon as possible! Love you all!

25 weeks

happy "crawler"

Christmas Eve

"How you doin'"?

Christmas Eve

Outreah games

We are leaving at the end of the month for London! We can't believe it's coming up so quickly! In an attempt to prepare the DTS students for outreach, we as a base put on something we call Outreach Games. Basically we try to replicate a fake outreach to see how prepared they are. We let them know a couple days before to pack as though they were going on outreach and to be ready by 5am. We spend a day doing our best to replicate everything that could potentially happen during our two months overseas to help better prepare the sutdents. We turn our base into another country, complete with an 'airport' and village people from the fictional country of 'Burgerstan". The students have to endure a chaotic foreign airport complete with children begging them for money, crazy 'taxi' drivers', and food unique to the 'culture', and a chance to evangelize to the 'local' people all combined with a general fatigue as we are on the go from sun up until late at night...all without clocks or any way for the students to now what time it is. This year was a success as the students did a great job! Here are a couple of pictures of the students.

A few minutes of downtime

one of the students' children playing with Liam

daddy and Liam

Mommy and Liam

just hangin' out

21-24 weeks

I have been horrible at posting weekly pictures. Here are the last three weeks.

ready for church!

look at that tooth!