Week Eleven

Well, this week has definitely been an exciting one. The week started out with us going down the mountain on Monday, like we always do, but what we didn’t expect was to be spending the night down the mountain too. That afternoon around 3pm it started snowing at Eagle Rock, but didn’t reach Arvada until about 5pm. We left early that night to head back to Eagle Rock, but soon discovered when we were only about a quarter of the way up the mountain that we weren’t going to make it……my van had already fishtailed three times, and we soon discovered when we pulled over to put the chains on (before the worst part of the mountain) that one of the three vans was missing the chains. So, the decision was made that it was safer to come back down and stay in Arvada for the night. The 57 of us (staff and students) were split among the Arvada base and YWAM Denver staff houses for the night, and we just had a fun sleepover – we all just looked at this adventure as preparation for outreach.

We started out Tuesday morning with class down the mountain and made it back up the mountain by the afternoon. Our teaching for the week was on Evangelism, and I enjoyed our speaker, Richard Thompson very much. One aspect of Richard’s teaching that I found to be interesting was when he talked about the four reasons why many people do not do Evangelism. The four reasons are: Bad Experiences / Bad Examples, Apathy, Unbelief, and Fear of Man. We then talked about how to model Evangelism in the way that Jesus did it.

Tomorrow night we have our Love Feast with the entire YWAM Denver community. The students in my DTS, as well as all the secondary school students, and all staff come together at the end of the lecture portion of the school for a big celebration of what God has done the past 3 months, as well as a send off for the outreach portion of training. There is always a theme for Love Feast, so ours is Winter Wonderland (kind of funny since it is suppose to snow again tomorrow). I am looking forward to Love Feast and just “hanging out” with my fellow classmates, who are going on a different outreach than I am. I still can’t believe that the Mexico outreach team leaves a week from Sunday, and the Argentina team, and my team, Colombia, leave three days later on Christmas Eve. It seems like the first three months have flown by.

I pray that you all are doing well. Please let me know how I can be praying for you.