What have we been up to?

That's an excellent question. For 3 of the past 4 weeks we have been in staff training, preparing for the upcoming School of Biblical Studies. Our staff has 8 members on it and we have had many valuable hours together receiving necessary training and praying for our students. These are pictures of one of our staff training sessions (taken in our apartment, by the way).

For 1 of the past 4 weeks (Sept 7-13), Hans and I were able to attend a YWAM conference in a nearby town. This was a University of the Nations gathering and YWAMers from all over the world were in attendance. There were 3 other locations for the conference as well (Ukraine, Egypt and Switzerland) and we were all linked via satellite. The theme of the conference was "For Such A Time As This" and the focus was evaluating where YWAM and UofN is at and discussing where we are headed. YWAM is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2010, so it was interesting to look back on how far it's come in the last 50 years. It was also exciting to look forward to the next 50 years. We made many valuable connections and were inspired to continue serving God in this organization.


This was one of our main meetings... there were close to 500 in attendance at our site.

The theme

meal time: where connections happened

The conference center housing... we did not get to stay in these Rondovels, but most of the attendees did. It was a beautiful area.