WEEK SIX

Okay everyone, this email is going to be in a new format due to the fact it is about 35 degrees outside and i'm dying... So instead of a day by day breakdown of what happened in the last week it will be more of the high notes:

So this week began the teachings of Mr. Pete Warren, he is a crazy guy, his lecture topic was spiritual warfare. Not as exciting as MARK PARKER but a very interesting class and very useful teachings. He really challenged us to see our true potential. He also had very many views and some of them were a little interesting so he also challenged our faith individually to decided what we thought was truth and were not. Some things I was not too sure about and maybe as I continue to grow in faith I may have a better understanding or opinion. Eight principles from his teachings were:

1. Mans sins have consequenses

2. The devil is not omnipresent - just God is - so he can only be in one place at a time

3. Darkness attacks man when we give it permission
4. God has given us weapons of warfare to fight with

5. We can be clothed in the full armour of God to fight against the enemy

6. When we praise God it acts as a weapon

7. God limits his power to give us freedom

8. Jesus was God's rescue plan to redeem us

This week I felt just really challenged to know the full armour of God: Eph. 6:13-17

Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. ¹⁴Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, ¹⁵and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. ¹⁶In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Even though I had said it at each BG Club meeting it is really something I would like to know. So that was our teaching with Pete. He also had to leave early so we had a free day on friday and we all just used it to realax and work on our journals!

This week our outreach teams were announced!! This is something we had all been waiting for, so here are my details:

I am on the Indonesia/Jakarta team!!!! So I will be going directly to Jakarta for 5 weeks, Bali for 3-4 weeks and then the rest of the time will be spent on the east side of Australia doing high school ministries!! It is sooo exciting and just amazing. Here are some prayer points if you feel like helping us out in prayer. http://www.gmi.org/ow/country/indo/owtext.html and http://www.24-7prayer.com/ow/country.php?country_id=25 . Our team really needs the prayers because we will be the first YWAM team going to Jakarta and really we have to connections there yet. We are all praying and trying to find places to go and different ministries to work with. And so my team consits of:

Landry-leader

Me

Dayna

Shannon

Michelle-the girl i live with

Middie

Abby

Christine

Christina

Hannah

Chris

Parker

Ben

Keith

For friday night meeting we had on of the IWT directors come and talk to us, He hadn't slept for 36 hours so it was a little interesting... and then on saturday morning we had more IWT training for being a local link. So basically when people give their lives to Christ at the IWT preformances we will be at the front stage getting their information praying for them and just being someone to talk to and answer questions. So it will be our job to contact our link within 24 hours and then within the week to meet with them. So its all pretty exciting.

So that was my quick rundown of week six! hope you enjoyed it!

Have a great day!

ashleigh