The School of Worship lecture phase ended with our last Song Cafe, last test, graduation dinner, commissioning night, and lots of hugs! All 12 of our students passed and as they shared testimonies and encouraged each other we were so proud of them, and so happy that God used us to help guide them through this school and see changes and breakthroughs in their lives. What a privilege!

Graduation Dinner

We are now in Spain, on outreach during the second part of the school where we put into practice the things God showed us. Our students will step out in leadership and lead worship and devotions, as well as teach and preach when needed.

Our newsletter will be out soon with more info, but for now we are sitting in a cafe that has free internet drinking ‘Fanta Limon’

Thanks for praying and believing in us. We couldn’t lead this team and step out in taking on the leadership of the School of Worship without friends and family behind us. We are so blessed to be used by God in this way.

Here is the ship we’re living on: The Next Wave

Speaker Quote of the Week:

“Our passion for Jesus is the fuel for our worship.”

- Kevin Norris

Topic: Passion For Christ

UPDATE: We just checked our mail box and there was $110 in cash and we needed exactly $110 so now we are at ZERO. YEAH!!!! $2,500 came in the last few weeks and we are so blown away!! God is SO amazing!!!!

Thank you SO much to everyone who prayed and gave, we really appreciate you!!

Our tickets are booked and we leave next Wednesday!

- Pictures and updated outreach info coming soon! -

Speaker Quote of the Week:

“Being a leader who serves is different from being a servant leader.”

- Dawn Masucci

Topic: Servant Leadership

YWAM Montana was donated a motel (12 rooms), plus the cost to move them!!!! A huge answer to prayer for desperately needed staff housing.  It was moved a couple weeks ago from it’s location 1 mile away… here are 5 pictures:

1 of the 3 buildings being moved onto the main road

3 buildings coming towards YWAM Montana! The width of the road!

Nearly on our property (bottom of pic)

Turning onto our campus (past the new maintenance building being constructed)

The guys who poured the huge foundations

Today the 3 buildings sit still on the flatbed trucks on campus and will be moved onto their new foundations in the next week or two. They will be inhabitable next Fall after we get them fully functioning over the summer. Exciting!!

Today we start week 11! It is a very busy schedule for the students this week – they have written 5 songs during the school and this week they are each recording one of those songs in the recording studio on campus. It is a huge privilege that we have this resource and we’re really looking forward the end result! They also have a research paper due in a week which is a huge part of their academic grade, as well as their normal weekly requirements.

An update on our outreach fees: As a couple we need $2,500 to go on outreach and in the last week we’ve seen $1,220 come in!! God is so faithful! Thank you so much to all of you who have been generous to us. The outreach is going to be SO good – working with established ministries and helping missionaries who are on the field long term. We still need $1,280 before we leave, this covers our flights and some ground fees. Please pray with us that it would all come in.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are very thankful for our family and friends, for each other, and most of all for our savior Jesus Christ who revealed Himself to the world to restore our relationship with our creator Father God.

Speaker Quote of the Week:

“You are the teacher and your job is to teach. If your students are not getting what you say, you have to figure out a different way to say it.”

- Sarah Morrison

Topic: Teaching Effectively

We also learned:

Preparing your lecture:

• Pray
• Consider your audience
• Choose a topic
• Study and collect resource material
• Set goals and objectives
• Determine the time you have
• Structure your lecture (opening, body, closing)
• Illustrate your lecture
• Write your lecture

Presenting your Lecture:

• Verbal communication
• Non-verbal communication
• Arrive early
• Pray over the classroom
• Pray for the students
• Allow for questions
• Make sure you review
• Don’t rush the ending

We still need $2,000 to go on outreach with our team and are looking for 100 people who want to give $20 towards this!

Please get in touch if you can help! We leave on Dec 16th

What are you doing on outreach?

We are working with the YWAM ship ‘Next Wave‘ which does ministry throughout in the Mediterranean. The ship is currently docked on the coast of Spain building relationships with the local churches. We will fly to Barcelona and meet them there and are preparing a Christmas program for evangelism on Christmas Day.

We then sail to the South of France and focus our ministry there with the ship for 3 weeks.

Then we fly to the capital of Hungary, Budapest, where we will work with the YWAM campus and their evangelism efforts in the city and helping to set up a coffee bar and prayer room.