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Hard to believe but our January DTS has almost finished its outreach phase. There is just one last week for the teams before heading home to the Sunny Coast for Debrief and Reentry week.
The teams have been having an awesome time sharing the gospel and seeing many people come to faith in Jesus.
Just as a reminder we have teams in Uganda, Taiwan, Philippines, and Indonesia. I was in Uganda for a couple of weeks and was able to stay with the team and catch up with them – man they have been going hard. The team have been doing lots of seminars, open air crusades, evangelism and kids ministries and have seen hundreds of people come to faith – watch this space for a final count. Obviously, the need is for discipleship – and that is up to John and Naomi our YWAM staff who are pioneering a base there in Uganda. Right now they are running a pastors training school that has 75 participants and more are enrolling for the next years school already!
Team Philippines arrived after spending one month in the jungle villages of PNG. Since arriving in Philippines they have been working with out long time contact Pastor Pat and his church helping to run the Kingdom Builders Camp, doing skate and wake ministry and hosting a discipleship training week.
The Surfers team just arrived in Kupang and got connected with a local to do some ministry for a couple of days. They got to share a message to a school as well as stories about what Jesus has done in their lives, and it was great. All the kids loved it and were really hungry to hear more about Jesus. They also got to share at a small training week which was for young local ladies to get trained to be midwives, so they could go into their villages and deliver babies as well as being able to share about Jesus in the villages. This sounded like an awesome idea and it was great to see 20+ locals stoked on Jesus.
Finally, here is a little update from Team Taiwan -
” A mens prison was the location of our first morning of ministry! Arriving into a hall packed with over 200 men all in prison uniforms was an extremely daunting experience! We were informed that these men had mostly committed crimes relating to robbery, drugs and murder. It may have been hard to imagine at this point that our performance could have made any impact, but we were all in for a surprise. After finishing our final ‘Saviour’ drama, Luke began to explain the gospel… the power of the gospel came alive. God was clearly moving amongst the men as so many of them were crying. At the end of the message some people raised their hands to accept Jesus- right at that moment seven prisoners entered God’s Kingdom! The man who gave us the opportunity to perform in the prison was the prison pastor and so he was able to take note of these seven men so that he could give them bibles and disciple them.”
All the teams arrive back on the coast this coming weekend – so we are looking forward to hearing more stories and sharing in the celebration. The school will graduate Friday evening June 3rd.
