Well I am currently hanging out in the dining hall with a bunch of people from the base. The room has been converted into a den for the day for the purpose of watching the footie games on today. There is an ample supply of Bundy Ginger Beer, Solo, and Tim Tams. It's about 20 degrees Celsius today and rainy..perfect sulky weather for the sulky attitudes of all of us on DTS. This morning, at 4 AM, one of the outreach teams left, leaving us 3 comrades short. Today is the last weekend/day off for the rest of us before we head out for our various other outreach locations in different areas (Melbourne, AUS and Taumaranui, NZ..in addition to my team in Mount Hagen, PNG). Starting tomorrow we have 2 intense days of preparation before heading out of here at 3 AM for the Sydney airport. Our DTS leader, David, also left this morning for his brother's wedding back in the States. I've been feeling pretty emotional these last few days..I hadn't realized how close I've gotten to all of these people in the last three months, but they have really become family to me.
Last week was 5DE or 5 Day Escape, the school holidays camp we run for the Youth Street crew every Spring holidays. Monday morning we left the warehouse in a double decker bus and 2 vans full of crew/students and staff. After the 12 hour drive up to The Gold Coast in Queensland we made it up to Koonjewarre where we met up with the crew and staff from Townsville, QLD. Total we had 106 crew and 52 staff! While we were there we were split into teams sort of Survivor style for games all week long. Some of the highlights were outdoor laser skirmish, the superhero dance party, and a trip to DreamWorld (like Six Flags)! On Thursday night we had an amazing time of ministry where we presented the gospel and had a time of worship that went over by 2 hours..the night finally ended at 12:30 AM for the crew, and those of us on the worship team got to bed at around 2:30 AM due to having to pack down the stage afterwards. I think over the course of the whole week I got about 16 hours of sleep. The best part, though? We had 19 first time salvations, and 60 crew recommitted their lives to Christ!
(qaesrykl;;polikjnubhvgfrhbjn umkwefrghjk
Hi this is Christy's leader, and I think she is heaps cool, butt. I'm so excited to have her on outreach and to go CRAZZZZZZZZYYYYYY!)
Hahaha, that was from Ashley, my outreach leader!
ANYWAY, I'd probably better scurry along now and work on some packing, otherwise I might not ever get anything done. I think it's pretty safe to say that this has been the CRAZIEST and LOUDEST Sunday afternoon on the base EVER. Whhhatt the heck!?!!?
Okay, well I love you all and I will hopefully be posting again before leaving!
<3
Saturday, October 2, 2010
8// A Few More Days..
Well I am currently hanging out in the dining hall with a bunch of people from the base. The room has been converted into a den for the day for the purpose of watching the footie games on today. There is an ample supply of Bundy Ginger Beer, Solo, and Tim Tams. It's about 20 degrees Celsius today and rainy..perfect sulky weather for the sulky attitudes of all of us on DTS. This morning, at 4 AM, one of the outreach teams left, leaving us 3 comrades short. Today is the last weekend/day off for the rest of us before we head out for our various other outreach locations in different areas (Melbourne, AUS and Taumaranui, NZ..in addition to my team in Mount Hagen, PNG). Starting tomorrow we have 2 intense days of preparation before heading out of here at 3 AM for the Sydney airport. Our DTS leader, David, also left this morning for his brother's wedding back in the States. I've been feeling pretty emotional these last few days..I hadn't realized how close I've gotten to all of these people in the last three months, but they have really become family to me.
Last week was 5DE or 5 Day Escape, the school holidays camp we run for the Youth Street crew every Spring holidays. Monday morning we left the warehouse in a double decker bus and 2 vans full of crew/students and staff. After the 12 hour drive up to The Gold Coast in Queensland we made it up to Koonjewarre where we met up with the crew and staff from Townsville, QLD. Total we had 106 crew and 52 staff! While we were there we were split into teams sort of Survivor style for games all week long. Some of the highlights were outdoor laser skirmish, the superhero dance party, and a trip to DreamWorld (like Six Flags)! On Thursday night we had an amazing time of ministry where we presented the gospel and had a time of worship that went over by 2 hours..the night finally ended at 12:30 AM for the crew, and those of us on the worship team got to bed at around 2:30 AM due to having to pack down the stage afterwards. I think over the course of the whole week I got about 16 hours of sleep. The best part, though? We had 19 first time salvations, and 60 crew recommitted their lives to Christ!
(qaesrykl;;polikjnubhvgfrhbjn umkwefrghjk
Hi this is Christy's leader, and I think she is heaps cool, butt. I'm so excited to have her on outreach and to go CRAZZZZZZZZYYYYYY!)
Hahaha, that was from Ashley, my outreach leader!
ANYWAY, I'd probably better scurry along now and work on some packing, otherwise I might not ever get anything done. I think it's pretty safe to say that this has been the CRAZIEST and LOUDEST Sunday afternoon on the base EVER. Whhhatt the heck!?!!?
Okay, well I love you all and I will hopefully be posting again before leaving!
<3
Last week was 5DE or 5 Day Escape, the school holidays camp we run for the Youth Street crew every Spring holidays. Monday morning we left the warehouse in a double decker bus and 2 vans full of crew/students and staff. After the 12 hour drive up to The Gold Coast in Queensland we made it up to Koonjewarre where we met up with the crew and staff from Townsville, QLD. Total we had 106 crew and 52 staff! While we were there we were split into teams sort of Survivor style for games all week long. Some of the highlights were outdoor laser skirmish, the superhero dance party, and a trip to DreamWorld (like Six Flags)! On Thursday night we had an amazing time of ministry where we presented the gospel and had a time of worship that went over by 2 hours..the night finally ended at 12:30 AM for the crew, and those of us on the worship team got to bed at around 2:30 AM due to having to pack down the stage afterwards. I think over the course of the whole week I got about 16 hours of sleep. The best part, though? We had 19 first time salvations, and 60 crew recommitted their lives to Christ!
(qaesrykl;;polikjnubhvgfrhbjn umkwefrghjk
Hi this is Christy's leader, and I think she is heaps cool, butt. I'm so excited to have her on outreach and to go CRAZZZZZZZZYYYYYY!)
Hahaha, that was from Ashley, my outreach leader!
ANYWAY, I'd probably better scurry along now and work on some packing, otherwise I might not ever get anything done. I think it's pretty safe to say that this has been the CRAZIEST and LOUDEST Sunday afternoon on the base EVER. Whhhatt the heck!?!!?
Okay, well I love you all and I will hopefully be posting again before leaving!
<3
Friday, September 24, 2010
7// The end of an era..?
So today was the last day of our DTS lecture phase! I can't believe it's over! I'm sitting at the last Open Mic Night our DTS is gonna be able to be a part of before we leave for outreach! This section of my trip has gone by SO fast.
On Monday morning we leave for 5 DE up in The Gold Coast, an area about 10 hours north. We'll be in Koonjawarre for 5 days. Then we will be back on the base for about 5 days before we leave for outreach to Papua New Guinea on October 6th!
In the meantime, with that date being only 12 days away, I still am in need of about $1,100..I know that God will continue to provide, and this has been an awesome test in trusting Him. But I would just like to ask that you could all pray about any way that you might feel God is leading you to support me. I appreciate your prayers and support sooo much! Thank you for everything you have all done for me so far already.
Lots of love to you all!
I will update some more soon!
God Bless,
Christy(:
On Monday morning we leave for 5 DE up in The Gold Coast, an area about 10 hours north. We'll be in Koonjawarre for 5 days. Then we will be back on the base for about 5 days before we leave for outreach to Papua New Guinea on October 6th!
In the meantime, with that date being only 12 days away, I still am in need of about $1,100..I know that God will continue to provide, and this has been an awesome test in trusting Him. But I would just like to ask that you could all pray about any way that you might feel God is leading you to support me. I appreciate your prayers and support sooo much! Thank you for everything you have all done for me so far already.
Lots of love to you all!
I will update some more soon!
God Bless,
Christy(:
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
6// I'm Sorry!!!
Alright, alright, alright..I am the world's worst blogger.
I honestly thought I would have more time than this during the weeks and weekends, but I hardly have time to do homework and skype with friends and family, let alone keep this up. Bahh!
So I promise that I will post a more comprehensive update later, but for now I figure that this will have to do--as it's almost dinner time. (: So these past two months have been incredibly challenging. I have been tested and tried and grown by God so much in these past weeks and have been through things I never would have expected with God. It's been amazing and incredibly hard at the same time. It's crazy now to look at where I was before coming here and where I am now; I thought I knew so much, but it makes me laugh now that I realize just how little I really know about God. But I'm learning heaps more! And that's what's so fully rad.
Also I figure it might interest you to know where I'm going for my outreach..am I right? Thought so.
So we just found out that we are going to be split into three different teams. One team is going to Melbourne, Australia and Taumranui, New Zealand, while the other two teams are going to different parts of Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby and Mount Hagen). I am going on one of the teams headed to PNG!
So I was wondering if you could all partner with me in prayer? My teammates are Ashley, Taelyn, Cheyenne, Talea, Courtenay, and Johno. If you could be praying for all of us that would be rad as! Also if you could be praying for my funding to come through, that would be amazing! We need approximately $3,500 for our outreach fees. I find out sometime this week how much more I need to raise, so I will update this post then. We are looking at our departure date being the 3rd of October, so it's coming up fast!
Anyway, I gotta run for dinner..or I won't get a seat! Also I have a Words With Friends match to play with one of my friends. (;
God bless you guys!
<3
I honestly thought I would have more time than this during the weeks and weekends, but I hardly have time to do homework and skype with friends and family, let alone keep this up. Bahh!
So I promise that I will post a more comprehensive update later, but for now I figure that this will have to do--as it's almost dinner time. (: So these past two months have been incredibly challenging. I have been tested and tried and grown by God so much in these past weeks and have been through things I never would have expected with God. It's been amazing and incredibly hard at the same time. It's crazy now to look at where I was before coming here and where I am now; I thought I knew so much, but it makes me laugh now that I realize just how little I really know about God. But I'm learning heaps more! And that's what's so fully rad.
Also I figure it might interest you to know where I'm going for my outreach..am I right? Thought so.
So we just found out that we are going to be split into three different teams. One team is going to Melbourne, Australia and Taumranui, New Zealand, while the other two teams are going to different parts of Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby and Mount Hagen). I am going on one of the teams headed to PNG!
So I was wondering if you could all partner with me in prayer? My teammates are Ashley, Taelyn, Cheyenne, Talea, Courtenay, and Johno. If you could be praying for all of us that would be rad as! Also if you could be praying for my funding to come through, that would be amazing! We need approximately $3,500 for our outreach fees. I find out sometime this week how much more I need to raise, so I will update this post then. We are looking at our departure date being the 3rd of October, so it's coming up fast!
Anyway, I gotta run for dinner..or I won't get a seat! Also I have a Words With Friends match to play with one of my friends. (;
God bless you guys!
<3
Sunday, July 18, 2010
5// A tad bit delayed, but here it is!
WELL! I am doing very badly with this whole blogging thing thus far! I do, however, have an excuse, sort of! Our internet here is fully crap and cuts out all the time--super dodgy! So hopefully it will last while I try to write this post!
Let's see, I'll try to cover the basic bases.
I'm living in a restored hostel that YWAM bought many years back called Lewis House. There are 80 of us living here (DTS and STS students, and also staffers)! My room is about 10x10 and I have 3 other roommates! There are 18 of us on my DTS team, made up of 15 girls and 3 guys. They're a bit outnumbered! Our school leaders are super awesome and I am learning so much already! My day starts at about 5:30am every morning and ends every night at about midnight, so I'm a little tired most of the time! We have about 6 hours of lectures Tuesday-Friday, work duty shifts every afternoon, and lots of work around the house, too! We DTS experienced our first Youth Street program on Saturday night and it was absolutely amazing. We had heaps of youth show up and at the end of the evening we bused everyone over the the Compassion International Australia Headquarters for a really amazing event called Not For Sale. It's an anti-slavery movement and if you haven't heard of it before you should totally check it out at notforsalecampaign.org or slaverymap.org to find out about human trafficking and how you can take action!!!
That's about all I have time for right now and all I will probably be able to post this week because we are heading out for a camping trip tomorrow and will be gone at Tahlee through Friday evening!
I will try to be a lot better about posting, though and hopefully will have something new on the weekend!
Lots of love and God Bless, everyone!
Thanks again for all of your prayers!
Christy:)
Let's see, I'll try to cover the basic bases.
I'm living in a restored hostel that YWAM bought many years back called Lewis House. There are 80 of us living here (DTS and STS students, and also staffers)! My room is about 10x10 and I have 3 other roommates! There are 18 of us on my DTS team, made up of 15 girls and 3 guys. They're a bit outnumbered! Our school leaders are super awesome and I am learning so much already! My day starts at about 5:30am every morning and ends every night at about midnight, so I'm a little tired most of the time! We have about 6 hours of lectures Tuesday-Friday, work duty shifts every afternoon, and lots of work around the house, too! We DTS experienced our first Youth Street program on Saturday night and it was absolutely amazing. We had heaps of youth show up and at the end of the evening we bused everyone over the the Compassion International Australia Headquarters for a really amazing event called Not For Sale. It's an anti-slavery movement and if you haven't heard of it before you should totally check it out at notforsalecampaign.org or slaverymap.org to find out about human trafficking and how you can take action!!!
That's about all I have time for right now and all I will probably be able to post this week because we are heading out for a camping trip tomorrow and will be gone at Tahlee through Friday evening!
I will try to be a lot better about posting, though and hopefully will have something new on the weekend!
Lots of love and God Bless, everyone!
Thanks again for all of your prayers!
Christy:)
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
4// Tomorrow...
Well, it's 18.5 hours and counting until my flight departs for LAX tomorrow! I can't believe that the day is finally here! Getting to this point has been such an insanely awesome journey of faith and trust, growing me stronger in my walk of faith. God has TOTALLY provided in the area of support over the last several weeks through many of you and I am incredibly grateful! Without your support there's no way I would be shipping out (or flying, rather) tomorrow evening. Thank you all SO much for helping to support me as I seek to follow God's calling in my life!!!
I supposed I'd better head off now as it's 2:20am and I still have to pack my carry-on bags. I'm sure there'll be a nice exciting post that comes of my layover tomorrow night while I'm at LAX, so expect to hear from me soon! Until then, God Bless and please keep me in your prayers!
Lots of love,
Christy:)
I supposed I'd better head off now as it's 2:20am and I still have to pack my carry-on bags. I'm sure there'll be a nice exciting post that comes of my layover tomorrow night while I'm at LAX, so expect to hear from me soon! Until then, God Bless and please keep me in your prayers!
Lots of love,
Christy:)
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
3// Check out my Pursuit Story!
I got the privilege of filming the story of how I got involved in YWAM and how I decided to go to Australia last week! My video played this past Sunday at my church...if you are missing any details on my trip, this would be a good way to get filled in on them!!
T minus 28 days and counting.......
Christy Stevens from The Pursuit on Vimeo.
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