life-giving

The days of this season are drained from being well spent.  All this pouring out convinces me all the more of the existence of supernatural energy (Holy Spirit defying laws of human logic).  Living for a higher calling, fulfillment, welcome to the good life.  All this made possible by the one and only, the resurrected, -Jesus:)  2015 marks the beginning of a new life-giving era in this life of mine.  After 3 and a 1/2 years of running the YWAM Honolulu Hospitality Guest House, a drastic transition has occurred.  As of the beginning of January 2015 I have officially joined on as a YWAM Honolulu DTS (discipleship training school) staff!

"To know God, and make Him known." ~YWAM

The YWAM Honolulu DTS is a 6month program; our first 3 months are held at the YWAM Honolulu campus "lecture phase", our last 3 months held throughout Asia Pacific "outreach phase". Then, repeat on an overlapping rotation.

I am excited for this new life journey of discipling, and going out into the nations.

Here at YWAM Honolulu we are currently in the midst of the lecture phase.  Each week a different topic is taught by a guest speaker.  Along with weekly ~15hrs in the classroom, we participate in our campus corporate times of worship, intercession, work duties (assisting our operational departments on campus), community outreach, and evangelism outreach around the island-community of Oahu.  As staff we are also responsible for student one-on-one mentorship, leading small groups, grading homework, leading different activities throughout the week, including leading the local outreaches (-we are serving at; Chinatown River of Life center for the homeless, Kalihi elementary school tutoring, Manoa Valley church after school program, Waikiki homeless evangelism, and Chinatown street evangelism).  As well as all this, some of the DTS staff (including yours truly!) who will be leading the student teams overseas, are planning the upcoming "outreach phase", for some locations this means starting from the ground up.  Responsibilities, trusting and seeing God's goodness!

(On a side note; I continue on as the worship ministry co-lead at my home church New Hope Town. Also, I continue on ~5hrs per weekend at a local hospital as a M.A. for a little income and stewardship of medical skills.  These things + everything from the paragraph previous = a full plate. By God's grace I am enjoying it all!)

~Personal Prayer Requests~

*Increase of ABILTY ushering God's presence leading worship on multiple platforms. (vocals/guitar/keys, plugged-in leading ~12hrs weekly, multiple bands and often solo, with many additional hrs of practices and spontaneous acoustic sessions).  Loving doing what I love, desiring to steward this well.


*Increase of UNITY, growth, and breakthrough, within this January 2015 YWAM Honolulu DTS.  Including a select team of 8 students and 1 co-leader who I will be traveling with through Asia Pacific for several months come the beginning of April.  That God would direct us even now, and that we would love well.


*Increase of SUPPORT; prayer and financially.  
      ><> Prayer covering over this life being lived out on the front-lines as a full time missionary. Committed spiritual intercessors for protection and ministry release. 
     $ Resources for upcoming travels (please consider if you are willing/able to partner in any way, for any amount).  I will be generating an intentional support-raising newsletter with more details within the next several weeks, please let me know if you would like to receive (email or hard-copy). 

THANK YOU, GOD BLESS!

Community outreach, Chinatown, Oahu

In the streets, Chinatown

The team, oh the adventures that will be, Oahu and beyond

In the mountains, outreach prep, Manoa Valley

Team outing, sharing the beauty, Hawaii Kai

Sunshine and Hurricanes

*Last week's view during a YWAM Honolulu summer-staff hike on our island Oahu, home sweet home! 

Summertime in Hawaii, on the most isolated and populated chain of rocks on earth.  The only state that grows coffee, along with being 1/3 of the world's pineapple supplier.  Historical landmark in the forcast (8/8/14), hurricanes and tropical storms on the horizon, the sky darkened and news websites possibly got more traffic then facebook (...possibly).  For many, all the excitement somehow jaded by previouse natural disasters crying wolf.  Yet an underlying understanding of the first sentence of this paragraph.  So, we fill up a few extra gallons of water, close our windows and doors, and wait and watch from a valley in the hills here at Ywam Honolulu.  Knowing the first island in the chain, the Big Island, was our buffer.

....the day after; a few extra leaves on the ground here on the island of Oahu.  Yet, as for the Big Island, there is a contrasting story.  Noticeable damage, even now more then a month later, electricity out, trees blocking roads, flooding, homes ruined.

Disaster releife on one island and a booming tourist destination vacation industry barely blinking an eye on the next island over.  Puna vs. Waikiki, welcome to the Hawaiian islands.  Varying in geography, ethnicity, and cards delt.  Yet in light of all that, all still in need.  One would have to ask the question which is better off; much less or much more?  Whether a hurrican victim in Puna or a tourist in Waikiki, these are people passing through this thing called life, slowly dieing. -The bad news:( The bondage of death.  Searching and struggling.  The struggle of humanity's deepest needs threads through every extreme and in between.  There are miserable rich and poor.  But there is good news:) -Freedom found in truth, Jesus beat death. Strength found in Jesus Christ!  Do you beleive it? share it!

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Ywam (Youth With A Mission)
One of the largest separate-entitied networked worldwide Christian para-church non-profit mission organizations.  Specializing in training, short and long term outreach, partnering, pioneering, and limitless creativity.

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Honolulu (Oahu)
The capitol, the largest city in the Hawaiian islands, a seaport on the island of Oahu.

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Ywam Honolulu (Youth With A Mission Oahu)

A family-style-community of people who love Jesus and are all about sharing His love with the world.  A 3 acre property in the Manoa valley where an average of 100 people do life together for the Kingdom come. A place where God is sought, His ways are taught, and desired to be lived and multiplied out.  This "base" or "campus" (one out of hundreds around the world) focuses on running multiple Discipleship schools, and additional advance schools in Biblical studies, and Missions & Evangelism. Ywam Honolulu's outreaches primarily focus on Asai Pacific, and to the people on the island of Oahu.  A place where countless short and longterm missionaries  have resided, and have passed through, over the past 3 decades. A place I have called home for the past 3 years.

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This summer 2014 quarter has been by far a unique quarter out of all the quarters that have happened over the past 3 years of my full-time voulunteer staffing as; the Hospitality Guest House manager, one of the Worship leaders, and one of the local Community Outreach point persons.  For the past several months we have not been running any training schools.  Minus a week debrief for our Spring quarter English DTS students who returned mid August from outreach (so proud of them!).

Some of our recently graduated students, during a local community outreach I led weekly in Chinatown Oahu during their lecture phase, prior to their last couple months in South East Asia.

This summer 2014 we've been running with limited operation staff, keeping connections with local community outreaches, and preparing for the future.  Much investments have been made on our structures; physically, and as a family unit.  To some degree we've all become construction workers, along with thoroughly enjoying our weekly summer mandatory "family fun nights" and staff outings*.  God has brought our buildings and hearts to new places, the stage is set for a new thing.  We have great anticipation for our upcoming fall quarter.  In a few weeks ~45 human beings from around the world will be moving into our dorms, living rooms, and closets.   We will be running an English Discipleship Training School and a Chronological School of Biblical Studies.  Looking forward to the new life and transformations to come.  Nothing is better then aligning our hearts with God's will (-it's that freedom mentioned in the third paragraph of this blog).  I'll be getting the privilege in hosting speakers for the schools, missionaries, and others passing though the Ywam Honolulu Guest House.  I also will be coming alongside one or two students who will be working two afternoons each week in the Guest House as part of their curriculum.  Also, I am really looking forward to leading worship music (voice, guitar, piano, cahone) multiple times weekly for our corporate times of worship, prayer, and ministry in our famous "Tin Cathedral",  while championing others to do the same!

Join v. 1 to connect; unite 2  become a part or a member (of) ~Webster's New World

Join in prayer... as we start this new exciting season at Ywam Honolulu.  (Fall staff training begins 9/14/14, students arrive in the week following!)

Join in coming... to our missions night services "Launch" in Ywam Honolulu's Tin Cathedral.  (See details at www.ywamhonolulu.com!)

Join in partnering... with me financially.  I am a missionary, living off support and a small supplemental income from a local Hospital job ~5hrs a wk.  Blessed to be a full-time volunteer at YWAM Honolulu, a nonprofit able to distribute tax-deductable receipts and who graciously processes my support with a 0% cut (minus a small take by credit card companies when processing withdraws).  Any personal questions for me regarding this -email me directly at hospitality@ywamhonolulu.com.  Financial support; one time, automatic repetition, or even anonymous monetary gifts can be set up through the YWAM Honolulu accounting office at manoaaccounting@ywamhonolulu.com or by calling their direct line #808-988-1694.  (Also, see options on this blog's sidebar!)



Thank you for taking time to read my blog:)  I pray you live in the freedom; the victory of Jesus Christ, the empowering of the Holy Spirit, and the blessings of the goodness of God! ~Christina Gray

half past 2014

My 2014 has been....  Countless hours of singing in microphones while switching between guitar, keys, and drum-boxes, on stages almost every other day.  Chauffeuring addicts from the street, with my '92 Honda held together with prayer and duct tape, to the front doors of rehabs.  Resting my head in the middle of a high-class neighborhood, on a "vintage" once-upon-a-time army base, postcard beaches minutes away, and mountain jungles for a backyard.  My race and language the minority in my household of 100+ on a cozy shy-of 3 acres.  Somehow balancing part hippy, part rockstar, part nurse.  I couldn't even start to make this up, loving God and this life.

Tests
Considering over the years those little tests that have be taken, and sometimes repeated in new seasons.  On this life path of mine these have become of great value.  To not be misunderstood, AND to not misunderstand.  To have awareness of the gift mix with-in, AND around.  A key to ministry, AND community living, AND people.

a glimpse at me...

{For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. ~Ephesians 2:10}

{As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace. ~I Peter 4:10}

Myers Brigg- the Executive

top Spiritual Gift- Discernment 

June has arrived, 2014 is half past, and I'm once again surprised by the flying time. As well, we are more then half past the lecture-phase of our spring quarter here at YWAM Honolulu.  Transformation has been in full swing, students learning who God is and who they have been created to be.  Starting to now ready themselves for an upcoming several month mission to various locations around Asia Pacific, commissioning out around the end of June.  As for the operational staff, including yours truly, we continue on.  Turning schools, like turning rooms in the Hospitality Guest House  (which has been my constant managing position over the past 3yrs, which =11 quarters, wow!).  School and Guest House similarities of heartfelt preparing, tending to, and cleaning up after, all for the sake of God' kingdom come.  Countless lives I've seen pass through these missionary training schools, and these guest house rooms (-where our training school speakers, frontline missionaries, and family and friends are hosted), blessed. Couldn't start to recount all the faces and stories of the kingdom of heaven advancing through this place.  Not just a well oiled machine, we're a loving family! The body of Christ in action.  

a glimpse at some revamping done in area's of my oversight...

{Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. ~Galations 6:9}

Hospitality Guest House living room' new flat ceiling, and white paint!

Hospitality Guest House' furniture sanded down and stained dark walnut!
Plus kitchen/dinning area painted stone-gray!

New window in the YWAM Honolulu Prayer Room!

Another window enlarged in the YWAM Honolulu Prayer Room!

YWAM Honolulu Prayer Room' new chair-stools, curtains, and decor!

~Please take a moment and pray!

~PERSONAL PRAYER REQUESTS~

• Prioritizing time, allotting for simply being still and enjoying God's presence, and for needed rest.

• Continued establishment of relationships, and for desired mentorship figures, at New Hope Town church.

• Supernatural breakthrough in Oahu Chinatown during outreach to the homeless, every Friday 6pm-8pm. For boldness in loving, effectiveness in evangelizing, and protection for my team.

• Financial stewardship, and an increase of financial supporters. *wish list; short-term overseas mission trip(s), to upgrade musical instruments- keyboard (using YWAM Honolulu's Technics P50 with a half-broken sustain pedal), and guitar (using an acoustic plugin Alvarez obtained pre-used over a decade ago).

green means go

Well, my favorite color is green, fact.  April showers bring a green springtime.  Somewhere where seasons wear more emotions on their face it'll be making an appearance soon.  Green is the color of life, and sustenance ... the kind before it's printed on and passed around, regardless, still of importance in the spinning world.  Trees, like the large one I'd gotten tattooed on my back 1/2 a decade past... yes, still green, a caucasian benefit.  I've been blessed to live in"paradise" for the past 10yrs, and I don't mind the lack of noticeable season changes.  I live on the island of Oahu in a valley that's green 365 days of the year.  Yesterday I was standing on the Napali Coast of Kauai, yes, it was green.  Green means go.  Here's whats going on...   

It's official, the Koreans have taken over :) YWAM Honolulu has begun our April 2014 quarter with over 20 Korean students in our Korean Ministry Discipleship Training School (KDTS), and ~10 in our English speaking Discipleship Training School (DTS).  We are looking forward to a quarter of meshing cultural lines, becoming one as the body of Christ is to be.  I am personally excited for a quarter of leading worship on a multi-lingual team where we will be balancing English and Korean music lyrics and styles.  This quarter all of our corporate meetings will be presented in both English and Korean.  I will be continuing my full-time role as the Hospitality Guest House department-head.  Interested in a visit??? email me at hospitality@ywamhonolulu.com or check us out online www.ywamhonlulu.com for corporate meeting times and information request links!

My YWAM Responsibilities...

*This quarter I will also be teaching a breakout group lecture for the YWAM Honolulu English DTS on the topic of Worship, 1 hour a week for the next 5 consecutive weeks.  This is something I have done in a previous quarter and had been a highlight of mine.  I am looking forward to deeper revelations and new growth in myself and others through the opportunity of teaching on a main passion of mine. 

*Effective the beginning of this quarter I have been appointed as oversight of the YWAM Honolulu Prayer Room.  To be actively involved, available, and initiate the goings on of the YWAM Honolulu Prayer Room.  A small livingroom on the backside of one of our quanset huts, a special place on base set aside for prayer and worship, established in 2008.  Over years at times falling through the cracks, it's purpose and use at times neglected, or shifted, under unclear oversight.  I've felt stirred to steward this.  My heart is for honoring God.  I want to see YWAM Honolulu Prayer Room as a place set-apart for God's sake, a place dedicated for seeking and soaking in His presence, not out of necessity for communion, but out of honor and love.  That Holy Spirit would dwell and fill this place and our lives with the heart of the Father and the victorious authority of Jesus.  That we would be a tribe of people that live in the blessing of the overflowing God's presence.  Establishing and up-keeping prayer rooms around the world is on the list of my lifelong callings... why not now and here!  I am passionate an dedicated to steward this.

Please join in pray for the moving and working of the Spirit of the living God at YWAM Honolulu in the Manoa Valley!

headlines...

Chinatown- forever holding a special place in my heart.  I will continue in co-leading weekly community outreaches for the new DTS students in street evangelism, and partnering with PS150, working primarily with the homeless community.  Continuing to dream of any future opportunity to see an established community of believers living amongst.

New Hope Town- my instant family unit.  Joined more then just a worship team a couple months back; doing life, a growing, caring, crew of friends.  Drawn and considering missions opportunity within.  Interested in partnering more of YWAM with this, my home church New Hope Town.    

Medical- my trade.  Somehow along the line I became a nurse 1/2 a decade ago, and God set me up with a great gig, and it has carried on for years.  Flexibility, amazing authority figures, a main hospital on the island of Oahu.  Now my balance act of time, priorities, and necessities seems easy flowing.  Close to 3yrs in, a life of fulltime mission alongside a very-part-time medical career consisting of 5 to 10 hrs a week. 

recent travels...

Kauai- blessed with a stones-throw trip to the farthest west that the USA has to offer.  Inspired by a YWAMer wedding.  A beautiful, whirlwind adventure over the last four days.  I'm wondering why is took me 10yrs of living in the Hawaiian islands to make it over there, the "garden island" proves it's name true.  Feeling refreshed, God's creation is amazing.   

Thank you for your prayers and support!

     

Today I was born, and here's what's become...

Time establishing there has always been something bigger then self.  Often times feeling over-my-head, yet fully alive.  Amongst all the unknowns I become undone, almost everyday... and in that acknowledgment of the divine, life makes since:)  Hello year 29!


I've recently described this current season to a group of friends as a "night-sky".  Mysterious, exciting, scary, and absolutely beautiful.  I'm in absolute awe of God.  Movement is happening, God is the constant.  Finding fear in God alone.  Freedom in gleaning, growing, going... forward.


Currently, in the center of our 2014 winter quarter lecture phase at YWAM Honolulu.  Current training courses running; English Discipleship Training School (DTS), School of Biblical Studies, -full of unique individuals who are valued active parts of this tribe.  Community-living, living out the simple gospel, -a radical norm for us.  Our YWAM Honolulu Korean Ministry is also running a Korean Business DTS in town.  Over my past 2 years and 9 months as an operational base staff managing the YWAM Honolulu Hospitality Guest House I have had the privilege in hosting incredible individuals and families from around the world at our very unique home in the Manoa Valley.  Our DNA; Jesus Christ, family, and a heart for the nations.  History shows us to be a place of restoration, and a place where people discover calls and destinies.  We are a YWAM base known for pioneering, in fact "Pioneering Ministries" was the original name of this base location over 30 years ago when camp was first set!  (www.ywamhonolulu.org)


There is another hat that I wear at YWAM Honolulu, and this one is my primary passion, -Worship Leading through music.  Over the years there has been an expansion of skill, including supernatural impartation defying logic.  With in this last quarter we have seen a expansion of resources and outlets as well.  Blessed by a local church, Christ Fellowship Hawaii, with an incredible full system of new sound equipment.  We've also been stepping more outside the YWAM bubble, last Monday YWAM Honolulu Worship team traveled with our own small gig-set of sound-equipment and ushered in heaven at a local restaurant in the city.  We are also looking forward to the upcoming opportunities including; leading at Resurrection and Life Ministries 24hr prayer watch in Waipahu  2/28/14, and at the HIM Conference in Honolulu 3/20/14-3/22/14. 

over-my-head... night-sky... pioneering...

A Chinatown February Sunset

Chinatown update;

...mission statement, vision statement, bullet point objectives, business action plan, nonprofits, boards, profits, politics, resources, teams, locations... the list goes on and on and so does the learning process... forward motion? Yes, learning a new subculture of pioneering!

mission statement~

A community of Christians living in the Chinatown district of Honolulu, Hawaii.  A home-atmosphere marked with the presence of worship and prayer.  A location to connect the local church's attention to Chinatown, and to host short-term outreach teams.  Relationship focused, working on the streets and alongside current ministries in Chinatown.  Targeting multiple sub-cultures within, including but not limited to; advocacy for the homeless, and influence of the arts.  Partner ministry of YWAM Honolulu -"Lighthouse".

*Isaiah 61:1-4 

*John 17:11

    

Flashback to 2012 -my messy scribbles that confirm the journey. 

Please pray for YWAM Honolulu, Worship, Chinatown, and Lighthouse! 

New things

Oh the things that will be in 2014... 

So, this is the New Year... and I DO feel VERY different.  Not accredited to a new resolution or a self-willed blank slate, but from divine release.  I got a deep passion, stirring ever deeper, and I am seeing the blessings, living in the reaping.  Dreaming, sowing, investing and wrestling with the calling, and seeing the release, it's happening (*see below! <3).  The harvest is indeed ready.  Understanding and agreeing to the work of reaping.  A cup of suffering and along with blessing.  It's all amazingly worth it.  My heart is at home in the Kingdom of God.   

YWAM Honolulu has been my home for the past 2 and a 1/2 years.  Running the Hospitality Guest House, leading worship, involved with local churches, partnering with community outreaches, and a part-time M.A. at a local hospital.  Jesus is my Savior and the cause of this life of adventure. 

...so, there was my three sentence resume.  

Here is my heart in bullet points.... <3


<3 Family
I continue to see my perspective change from victim, widow, failure, and orphan, to; victorious, beloved, successful, and adopted.  My family runs deeper then blood, it runs in Spirit.  I am honored to do life with these people; the close community at YWAM Honolulu, the realness of humanity at PS150, the relatable friendships through Triple S, and the changing face yet solid grounding of the local church -looking forward to setting roots at NewHope Town.

Praying to learn and live love.



<3  Ushering in God's Presence
Music Worship leaders styles can often can be defined or detected by observing their natural direction of leading, their way or form of expression.  It can be seen by the individual, or others, by seeing the places and times that fits the best for each leader's God-given uniqueness. Some worship leaders lean towards large church settings, some in small living-room home-groups, children's clubs, youth groups, healing rooms, in structured conferences, or around a campfire, ect.  Though I enjoy and have partaken in quite a variety, my heart has increasingly gravitated to leading worship in the places of oppression, with those in need of deliverance.  My heart is for ushering in God's presence into the poorest and the darkest.  

Praying for Holy Spirt led effectiveness.



<3  Chinatown Oahu
I got this longstanding love relationship with Chinatown Oahu.  I see such beauty in the ashes.  Somewhere over the years the people of the streets now all have faces, names, and stories.  Here I  have met those with the deepest longing and needs; for belonging to a family, and finding rest in God's presence.  Chinatown is no doubt a spiritual disneyland.  A poor and dark place here in the Hawaiian islands.  Homeless population out the roof.  Boarded up buildings, and urine stench on the streets. Beggars and strippers, drugs and brothels, game rooms and temples, bars and clubs, the list goes on.  Bustling multi-cultural open-marketplaces during the day that you walk around and feel like your in a foreign Asian country.  At night, it's the kind of place people roll up their windows and lock their doors as they drive through what would appear to be a post-apocalyptic handful of city blocks.  This place of bustling, and hustling, is far overdue for the love of God to move in and change history.  Casting vision.  Yes, I'm all in.
    
Praying for the reality of revival.




"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to those who are bound. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God. To comfort those who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion.  To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit

of heaviness. That they may be called trees of righteousness.  The planting of the Lord that He may be glorified.  And they shall rebuild the old ruins, they shall raise up former desolations, and they shall repair the ruined cities, the desolation of many generations." ~Isaiah 61:1-4

Politics, Airplanes, and a Campground.

Adventure and spontaneity are two word not unfamiliar to my journey.  This past month or so I've found myself inside the Hawaii state capitol, on a plane to Kona, and standing in front of 80+ women at One Love Ministries Women's retreat at a campground on the North Shore of Oahu.  Locations and people vary but a theme flows; Worship and Intercession. 

Politics.
Combining the second thing that people often try to avoid in casual conversation, alongside religion, -politics.  As Christians we are called to stand for truth, in a manner of love.  Willing to be messengers of light, in obedience, boldness, and respect.  The church on Hawaii rallied together at the state capitol to support traditional marriage as the definition hung in the balance.  Hearing of this, one of our invested local YWAM staff members and myself felt compelled to join.  We loaded up a couple 15 passenger vans of YWAMers (students and staff) to join in intercessory prayer for an afternoon at the state capitol.  A significant experience for us all.  For many of our YWAM students it was an eye opening experience to be at the front lines where religion and politics meet and the sobering effect of the reality of spiritual battle over laws and morals.
 

Airplanes.
Something about being in a plane makes me alive, and dream in color.  Open door, confirmation, trip to the University of the Nations on the big island, a 30min plan ride from Oahu.  Connected with those running with a common vision for worship.  A 3 night getaway, refreshing, and stirring.  Seeking God's face, and seeing things set in motion.  Bonus  treasured time visiting a close friend.  Radical corporate worship times.  Fiery speakers, leaders, dreamers, and lovers of Jesus. Divine networking, and connecting dots to a bigger picture.  Waiting on the ripple effects of this visit.

(Kona prayer room)

 


Campground.
Through a couple divine sequence of events, I ended up with the opportunity to lead worship for One Love Ministries Women's retreat this past weekend at a camp on the beautiful North Shore of Oahu.  The retreat theme was "Faith like a Child".  I was blessed by a friend who came to joined last minute.  Between her; violin, guitar, and voice, and my; guitar, keyboard, and voice, we had a blast switching it up at every session.  Holy Spirit showed up, filled up, breakthroughs, revelations, tears, and laughter.  Familiarity, and many new faces.  One Love Ministries is my original foundation of church on island.  About a decade ago at my arrival I was adopted in, invested, seen through ~7 years of a lot of seasons of life.  For the past several years natural distance occurred due to full-time staffing with YWAM, involvement in other ministries on island, and travels that brought me in other directions.  This past weekend was a full-circle, refreshing reminder of the blessing, thank you One Love Ministries for all you've done, and do!  Highlights;  being in God's creation, early morning Bible readings on an empty beach, and worship around a campfire.  Overall refreshment.

(Camp Homelani)

(personal study of Acts)

 

     

(YWAM Honolulu living room prayer room)

We are rounding the corner to the holiday seasons.  This year I will be staying on the rock (Oahu).  Here at YWAM Honolulu, in 3 weeks, 2 out of our 3 schools, our current D.T.S. and S.O.M.E. students will be departing for their several month outreaches around Asia Pacific, it's possibly about to get much more quite around here.  All though students, school staff, and some homebound-for-the-holidays base staff will be going out, I have a full schedule of guest coming in, the YWAM Honolulu Hospitality guest house is booked through the end of this year.  Continuing current responsibilities; managing the YWAM Honolulu Guest House, leading worship, and involvement with island community outreaches such as with the homeless in Chinatown.
   




Transitional season.  Recently released communication, my current home church will be ending it's season of ministry.  Christ Fellowship, a plant from Christ Fellowship and Antioch church in Waco Texas, has been active on the island of Oahu for the past 7 years.  I have been involved for the past ~year, running the sound board, playing keys, and vocals. The last service will be December 8th, 2013.  Dispersion, where I go is an unknown.

My journey. Ever growing, pioneering ever stirring. To simplify, write music, and to be ready. Willing.