Karanga: the call

Kaahore te oranga o te tangata mo ia anake.

None live for themselves

it’s as simple as that.

Thunderstorms

It rained. For like the second time since I’ve been here. I don’t even remember the first time but Ashley said it did, so I assume it did.

We were in the middle of watching Narnia #1 – of course that is all that’s out – and heard rain… so we went outside and there was a thunderstorm and we danced in the rain. while the pavement was still wet. and of course my clothes that were just washed today got all wet as well, so i had to change again…

back to 6am wakeups tomorrow… praise jesus… wonder what happens if it rains

Weekly happening

Nothing really new happened this week… I learnt a lot about being silent before the Lord but I might update that later, I have my whole journal to do today.

Friday was Australia Day so we all took sandwiches for dinner and went down to the river to watch the Fireworks display… I bought a giant Australian flag, and yes, wore it wrapped around myself. Photos will come. 42 degrees… i swear, hottest day yet.

(:: Laptop update. Currently not good. Please pray. intercession and travail appreciated… it’s just like dead and media guy can’t even read hard drive files… and important ones aren’t backed up.)

Saturday I helped out with Youth Street… it’s an outreach thing that’s run by the nexwave (youth ministry) team here… so we prayed and set up from like 10, left at 12.15, ate lunch at Kaio, then spent the afternoon as part of the sports stream (they run music, dance, sport, skate teams) with 13 people, so we went to city beach. it was pretty darn hot, tho not as hot as it could have been because there were clouds. we alternated between swimming and playing soccer… and despite the fact that I DID mention to K.O carrying Angel to the water (which she said no to), I was NOT responsible for the crew who did make her get in!

Last night was the Talent show… YWAM Perth has some rather hidden talents… so that was fun.

This morning, I’m journalling… we have a BBQ for J9s birthday… pancakes, yum…, then journal most of the afternoon, methinketh.

Some substance?

I’ve been wanting to write a blog of more substance than ‘happenings on DTS’ which has been the all-too-frequent topic that I talk about on here… but there hasn’t really been anything processed… so this isn’t a new revelation, it’s already been processed a bit in the secret places of my heart…

There’s something about the night. There’s something about being up when everyone else is asleep, about standing on a field and looking at the stars and asking the Lord, “Who are you?”, there’s something about being in a tiny little prayer room at about 3am in the morning when you’re attempting to do an allnight prayer meeiting with the few and the faithful, and you realise that this is where it’s at… this is where I find God.

The DTS schedule doesn’t leave a lot of room for the nightwatch.. it doesn’t leave a lot of room to be flexible with my schedule. I know that the YPDTS does the Friday night hours of the 24-7 prayer chain which happens here on base, but as far as I know that just means that once every few weeks we’ll be scheduled to wake up for an hour and pray for YWAM Perth… but what with a 6am exercise, our room-self-set curfew is 10.30pm so right now I’m up after lights off, and there’s still stuff all over my bed so I have to keep this short…

Psalm 63, David talks about how he thought about the Lord ‘through the watches of the night.’ God comes and speaks in dreams and visions in the night, like the one that Jacob had in Genesis… Jacob also wrestled with God all night… God spoke to Gideon overnight by the fleece thing… Psalm 1:2, the man meditates on the Word all day and night… Psalm 42:8, ‘at night his song is with me’, ps 119.148 talks about staying awake all night to meditate on God’s promises, Ps 139 is about those who minister in the night… in song of songs the chick goes searching in the night for her beloved… anna the prophetess worshipped God with fasting and prayer… you guessed it, day and night…

so the night is good. maybe weekends. maybe after DTS. but i like the night.

i’m a kiwi. it’s a nocturnal bird. that explains it…

Pre-dinner update

Dinner is at some stage soon… I’m not actually sure where my cellphone is, I think I left it in the classroom maybe… or at morning tea in the dining room… who knows. So I have no watch.

Today we got up for 6am exercise… lovely brisk walk with Angel and J9… today was my last day of morning chores in the auditorium, tomorrow I will probably rotate to kitchen or gladstone or 228 or the bathrooms… we change every 2 weeks, hallelujah, praise Jesus… we love cleaning… yeah..

our speaker today (ruthie byrne still) spoke on ways that God speaks… its good stuff this week, i’ve heard most of it before, but its still really good to hear it again…

IWT, i spent making phone calls…

free time… went and laid on the grass, now i’m all itchy!

Just so you all know…

Laptop died today. Richard, one of the dudes in media, thinks he can fix it, thinks its just a windows xp start up error… but not sure how long it’ll take, most media…. most staff… actually, anyone who is a YWAMer is reasonably pressed for time!

Speaker this week is Ruthie Byrne, on hearing God and intercession… she’s fantastic. took 45 minutes to tell us the story of how her and her husband got married… big long ywam story… and, ha, guess where they met? DTS… they keep emphasising no dating on DTS… no ’special relationships’ either… but it’s good… but its just funny, the number of people who meet thru YWAM…

10pm, and i’m off as soon as chasity comes to get me, we have a video we’re presenting tomorrow in class and i stil need to edit it and i’m not doing it at 7am.

yeah. well. i think that might be all for now i may as well let others use the computers.

YPDTS

So, this last week has been really really busy… so haven’t had much much time to update… 6am exercises started on Monday, Tuesday night we had small group, Wednesday night was free time, Thursday night was an IWT-info/outreach prep night, and on Friday we spent from 8.30am till 12pm in the classroom for application of repentance and forgivenss…

apart from that, all else is good. watching the benchwarmers then headed for bed…

much love
me

i am still alive

i’m here.
just silent.
will blog on the weekend sometime.

YPDTS photos

Part of Kaio coffee shop… clothes…

This is the laneway… my living area on the left, dining hall/classroom/auditorium on the right…

The dining room… this is just under half of the width…

Some of our staff… from left, Jess, Alicia, Janine, Megan.

Guys playing beach volleyball

These are six of the girls in my dorm, plus me… we were all the early arrivals…

Communal timtam slamming… last night…

Me and Sage… she lives in a staff house… so we have to walk her home every night…

Train station!

This is cottesloe beach

Interesting things…

I still haven’t been on kitchen duty. And I’ve been here for two full weeks tomorrow.

The nature of God is the stuff, the essence of who he is… his character is how he chooses to exercise himself, based on the unchanging nature of who He is.

Agape love… sacrificial choice, for the highest good of another.

Cindy Ruakere’s new album comes out this week… you should buy it. Yes, this is a shameless plug for a friend.

Angel is lying on the bed next to me. She’s tired.

The ‘easy jog’ this morning (my option for exercise) became a harrowing, torturous run… but we saw dolphins… I think I already said that.

Beka owns over 2000 records (and they’re real vinyl.)

Angel got to dance with Britney Spears on stage… she owns a childcare centre with 600 kids… she’s engaged to Shawn… loves to shop… love language is quality time… and likes to eat and laugh… has a heart for Thailand. She has three months away from her fiancee… gets back, has a month, then gets married. Angel is my one on one.

Trin has a leopard skin sheet.
I have a sleeping bag in green. forest green. latest fashion accessory.