YWAM Sunshine Coast | Queensland, Australia

Praise God for the work He is doing amongst Australians up north through our resident evangelist and Apostle to Australia – David and his team! They have just returned from an outreach stretching from Darwin-Broome-Perth.

As usual our project involved other community development initiatives, where we taught them good hygiene, helping out with domestic chores, basic support services, building repairs, responsible living seminar, budgeting and breaking addictive patterns.We ended up giving out thousands of New Testaments. There were also souls won to Christ and also many miraculous healings!!
Thank God for His protection, provision & grace for us all over the last few months, also over the outreach teams and the positive reports coming back!!
Praise God for 2012, thank Him for the incredible gift of knowing and serving Him!

Merry Christmas to all our friends and family wherever you may be!
Just a quick update – all our outreach teams got away safley and are in location doing ministry galore. Thanks for your prayers for team Uganda – it was tight for a while but they got there in the end.
Back on the home front – today we had our annual Christmas cookie morning. As a staff we all bake cookies, bring them in and package them up to give to business’ and other people we work with throughout the year. It is a fun morning, seeing who baked what, and of course sampling the wares! Now we are busy dropping them off around the coast and spreading a little Christmas cheer at the same time.
Sunday is our Staff Annual Christmas Party (SACP for short….except SACP does not run off the tounge – we will work on that) and it is exciting. Every year we have a competition for the best Christmas costume. Past years have been pretty awesome with people coming as whole Nativity scenes, and fully functioning Snow Globes! Who knows what this year will bring. We also have a fun surprise – but you will have to wait to find out what we are doing this year.

Hey, did you know we have a facebook page? Yeah, its true. Go on over to YWAM Sunny Coast and add us to your fav’s and stay in the loop.

Outreach teams

We have several teams just finishing up from outreach and travelling home this week – please pray for them.

We NEED prayer for outreach teams that are preparing to leave in a couple of weeks on December 3. One of the teams is heading to Uganda and is still in need of funds. Please pray that all of the outreach funds come in for all the teams involved.

10K CHALLENGE
If you are a former student or staff of YWAM Waves – we want to know how you are intentionally living for God now.
Please check out our 10K challenge page on this website and then email us a picture of yourself and a little update of how you are living intentionally for God. We will put your info on our 10k board and be praying for you!

It is all go here on the coast. Our July Waves and Around the World DTS are already in full swing. The students are pressing into God and He is showing up big time! It is an amazing time to set aside and just press into God and get His passion for the nations and his creation. There is awesome worship, passionate prayers, stretching lectures, and inspiring local outreach…and we are just getting started.
We are also enjoying some of the most beautiful weather we have had this year. After a wet start of the year, the days are now sunny with beautiful clear blue skies. The day time highs are around 21 degrees / 72F – as we say here, “beautiful one day, perfect the next!”

The SBS graduated in June – it was so inspiring to hear the students tell their journeys over the past nine months. SO much growth. If you have done a DTS and want to get the best understanding of the Bible you can get in nine months then the SBS might just be for you. We guarantee you will be stretched, but will come to the end having grown and with a deep understanding of the word of God that will set you up for life. The next SBS starts in late September.

Our skate ministries are pumping – and we have some very exciting things happening next month…but we will tell you about them next time! Stay tuned.

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.