Sunday 22 June 2025

Nollamara Church Of Christ Sermons.Raw transcript of meeting:

Date Of Sermon: 22 June 2025

Speaker: Youth With A Mission

 Today it's my great privilege to invite a few guests from ywam Youth with a Mission. I'm gonna welcome Teza, Alyssa and Ben. Now, I've known Teza for about 12 or 13 years, I think, on and off. I'm gonna allow the guys to say a little bit about who they are and what they do by way of a q and a. So I'm not blindly putting them on the spot.

I have kind of prepped them. So I just wanna firstly ask the guys, um, where are you from and how long have you been with ywam?

Great. Hi everybody. Uh, my name is Tiera and I am from Indonesia. Um, but I've been living here in Perth with, uh, YWAM for the last 13 years. Yeah.

Hi everybody. My name is Alyssa.

It's nice to be here. Um, I was born and raised in Australia, but you can probably tell my accent doesn't sound like it. My dad is from the States and my mom is Dutch and they actually met in Ywe and I grew up at Ywe Perth. Uh, and I joined staff about three years ago. Wow. Yeah.

Hello? Uh, my name is Ben.

Hello, and thank you for having us here today. I am from New Zealand and I came to Perth to join Youth with a Mission in 2021, so like three, four years ago.

Okay, so here's, here's the question and like guys, I can tell you missionaries have lots of stories. The one thing we learned on the field is there's plenty of things we can share.

I'm gonna ask just briefly though, the favorite place you've served in Mission and why.

Right. Awesome. Yeah, I can share a bit of a story as well. Um, so I just, I recently just got back from Central Asia, so it's, I went to Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, I flew in last week. Um, and just come back straight to here as well.

Um, but I would say my favorite place at the moment is Central Asia. I think things are exciting there. Um, as, I dunno if you know much about the region. Um, but basically the region is Muslim. Um, but they have the history of post-Soviet as well and the region. Um, so everything is very. It just very bizarre, like in a sense of like the culture and even the country.

Um, one of them was Pakistan just opened in 2017, so it is not long at all, um, since it's been open to anybody to come in. Um, and I think it's just such an exciting. Place for me personally, I'll share some more story about the region as well and what God is doing there. Um, but I think it's just an exciting place, uh, to be, um, where it's not many people have heard about the gospel, um, but also there's just so much openness in the place, in the region itself.

So yeah, that's me.

Um, I think I could say almost any place I've been is my favorite place. They're all so lovely, but one of them is the Philippines. I love going there and doing missions there. I think the people are just really lovely and welcoming and it makes doing evangelism and making friends really easy, um, which is like such a big part of the job.

Um, yeah, so I love going to the Philippines, probably my favorite.

Um, yeah, I agree. Like any place you go, I feel like God gives you his heart for, and then, and then it's so, such a beautiful thing to see more of God's heart. Um, I was thinking about it. My favorite place is probably Australia. Um, I, I

did not put him up to that.

Um, I think sometimes I can think that like western countries are less open to missions and to here in the gospel, but. Uh, I did a outreach on the East coast in the Gold Coast and yeah, there, there was just such a openness. We did a school and we did seven days in the school across two weeks, and about a hundred children decided they wanted to follow Jesus.

And just seeing that openness to the gospel and to God was just so mind blowing. So, wow. Yeah, that's one of my favorites.

I might actually start with Ben. We'll work this way back across this co. 'cause I know a long time with this question. All the countries you've been to with YWAM or on Mission.

Right.

So I've helped out with a few schools where we do short term missions. So all the countries I've been to is Welfare Australia, and then I went to. France, Paris, Germany, and the Netherlands and Nepal and Indonesia. I think that's it. Yeah, that's impress. So I've been to Indonesia a few times and I really love it there.

Um, I won't include the ones I went to as a kid and was not really very involved, but places I've done outreaches have been Australia. Holland, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, New Zealand, Nepal, Singapore, Germany, France, and Tonga.

All. Now sit back and relax as Terza brings her list.

So I mean, the context of it is that I've been around for 13 years, right? So it's quite a lot. Um, and a lot of them are short-term, um, you know, kind of trips as well. Um, so I've been to around 25 countries, so it's a bit of a list. Um, and I can list it out as well.

Um, but yeah, like my first one. To Malaysia, Singapore, it was without, um, it was when I was in high school, um, before YM. Um, and then I went to China, Hong Kong, Iceland, uh, the Kimberly up north, um, and Philippines. Um, the uk, Nepal, India, Mongolia, Japan, USA, uh, Uganda, South Sudan, Indonesia, my own country. Um, Egypt, Samoa, Vietnam, Cambodia.

Myanmar, Thailand. Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Yeah.

Wow. That's impressive.

Glory to God.

Okay, so I'm gonna ask this one of Ben, what has surprised you most about the mission field?

Yeah. Um, growing up. Like reading all the missionary stories and mom would read us kids, um, yeah, books about different missionaries and it seemed so crazy.

And obviously a whole life of missions summed up into one book, just like all the most craziest stories. Um, so I thought to be a missionary to do missions would be something like. I don't know. It would just feel crazy or I don't know. But I just, what surprised me is how normal it feels like day to day.

Just wake up, show up, maybe something happens, maybe you see God move, or maybe it's just another day of working, organizing, um. Go out onto the streets of Perth and, and don't find anyone to talk to or, you know, but then after doing it for a longer time, looking back, I see all the times God has moved and God has changed people and the connections and friends I've made that have, yeah, accepted Jesus and learned to follow him and, and it's so, I guess, incredible looking back.

But what surprised me is how normal it feels day to day.

Yeah, I think someone once said the issue with cross-cultural mission is you're simply following Jesus and living out your faith in a, in a different context. So it can be glamorous, but it can also be. Normal as well. Thank you, Ben. Now te I'm gonna ask you this one.

What has been your biggest challenge so far?

Um, yeah, I think like there's so many different challenge in missions. Um, it's like anything in life really, right? With vocation, um, and what you do in life. Um, but I would say like. I think one of the biggest challenge for me personally is relationships and just friendship in that area of things.

Um, I, I think in the context of ym ym Perth, but also like in missions in general relationship with other people, it's just so important and it, it really takes a toll on you, I think, in a lot of sense of it. Um, I think. Personally in my context, just like caring leadership in different capacity. Um, but also like meeting people in the nations and actually relating with people in the nations as well and being in that good relationship.

Um, I think I find that to be challenging in a lot of sense of it 'cause. People are complex. Um, we're complex and we're, we're working with people. That's, that's what we are working with. Um, it's not just, I think our run project as well, big project, but that's, that's all manageable. Um, but when it comes to people, um, that's where it can.

You know, like really, uh, be a challenge, but also like, I think just being away from family and loved one as well. Um, but also like the context of our mission. Like we have transition over like every three months, right? So then like, how can I. Live in this place where I feel like I'm supported, um, and have lasting friendship, um, when there's transition constantly.

Um, and I think as a person, I, and as a person that's called to waam in this context of Waam Perth, I need to embrace that and I need to navigate that. Um, so I think that's just been one of the biggest challenge, I think in missions for me.

That is true. Yeah. One last question for Alyssa. How do you stay encouraged when things get tough?

I think, uh, it can be a lot of ways to stay encouraged. Um, and it's not unusual for things to get tough. It's pretty normal. Um, I think one thing that really helps me is remembering what God has done in the past. Um, like, you know, when I'm trusting for finances, a trusting for breakthrough, and it can feel so like all like.

I'm like so silly that I'm like, trusting this money's gonna come from thin air. But I'm like, oh, actually that's happened so many times before. Like God has brought the provision, God has brought the breakthrough so many times before. So remembering the faithfulness of God, um, in my past helps me to be encouraged about the future.

Also, just relying on like my community and friends and people that have been just like long term, like supporting me emotionally, you know, and being good friends has really helped as well. When things get tough, just being able to speak encouragement in life. Yeah, and of course just leaning on God and taking time with him.

He's a great encourager.

There's a great lesson there for us all. We can all look back and see the ways in which God has worked in our past and trust him as we move forward into what can be at times an unknown future. I'm gonna hand over now to Za. She's gonna share some stories about what God is doing in and through herself and why wham in mission.

So I'm gonna hand over. Thank you guys.

They are youth with a mission. Okay, so if you don't mind,

I'm, I'm 33. I just turned 33 last week. I'm

22.

And I'm 23.

Can I say this is the next generation the We're in good hands. Yeah. God's mission is in good hands. Thank you guys. Do you want choose that one?

Oh, this one?

That one.

This one.

Thank you.

Great.

Awesome. Right? Yeah.

Thank you. This one.

Well, hello everybody. Um, good. See to see you. Good to be here. Thank you for having us. I'm just gonna click. Through photos after photos, so, um, so then you can see a bit of our lives as well. Um, but yeah, I think just such a privilege to be here this morning with you all.

Um, I think it's just such an honor, uh, to be here as well, uh, just knowing that there's so many of you have done missions as well, and I think just wanna honor you as well with whoever. And however you serve even in the church, um, you know, that's a part of missions and the day-to-day of loving people. Um, and I just wanna just see, say thank you, thank you for your hard work.

Uh, thank you for your prayer for, I think just thinking about us as the next generation. Um, it really comes from you guys as well. Um, being able to. For missions. Um, and I think like us being able to stand in that shoulders as well. Um, just been incredible. So just wanna honor, honor, honor you all in here.

Um, but I think just to give a bit of a context as well, um, just being here, uh, in new to the mission, um, it's quite a different, I would say it's quite a unique. A place, um, emissions, uh, I'm just sorting through all the photos. I think there's so many photos of missions. Can be like a lot of hard work, but also there's a lot of fun in missions.

Um, and in this context is the. Are here in Perth, it's in Australia. Um, and we do a lot of different things. Um, and as, uh, you know, as someone that've been in YM for a long time, missions can look so differently. Like this picture is us building a school in Nepal. Um, and you can see we we're actually carrying the little gravel with that little plate over there.

It took us probably like. A month or two to build the school. Um, and I came back there a few years ago and the school's still standing. Praise the Lord. Um, I have hundreds of kids, um, and. And I would hike up the mountain for like an hour and I'll still find the kids that goes to that school. 'cause that's the only school that that is available.

Um, but I think that's just a context of missions, right? We, we partner with locals, we do things that can actually bring, um, life and bring just an improvement in, in life in general, but also like sharing the gospel. So this is a while I'm based in Nepal, they run schools. They, they just. Constantly just educate kids, um, in the day to day.

Um. But yeah, well that's the list that I was like, not gonna read out, but I was just gonna share it there. Um, but I think just an intro about ywam, um, we've been around for a while. Um, I think you guys have a little bit of a story in the, in the little booklet as well. Um, so Lauren Cunningham did have a vision of wave of young people.

And, um, in back then, um, missions looks differently as well. Um, so missions. Doesn't look like you can just go straight away into missions. You do need to have a degree or need to have to, to have experience. But Lauren felt that God is calling young people to missions. Um, that was a radical vision and radical, radical calling really.

And here we are, um, years later. Um, there's a bunch of young people, uh, doing missions. Um, I just finished a six month school. Um, I just, I was leading at six month school. Just graduated them on Friday. Um, and Ben gonna talk a little bit about it as well. It's called Discipleship Training School. And, um, the vision of it is just really train, um, and equip young people.

Our phrase as WWE can be simplified by to know God and to make him known. Um, that's the two things that we really focus on. And, um, and I think in, in missions here in Perth, it looks differently as well being in the field. Um, I think for us, for me personally, I need to know my role. I need to know my calling.

I love the frontiers. If I can go out there, I will go out there. I want to be out there. Um, but God keep calling back. Calling me back here in Perth. And I'm like, why? Like, it just, it's different. It looks different. Um, but I felt that said to multiply the workers and like, that's my role and that's the, the calling, um, that God has upon my life.

Um, I love Central Asia, as I said. Um, I. You know, I, I tear up whenever I leave Central Asia and I was like, I just wanna stay here. Um, but I think God, God has great plans in missions and it doesn't look like one way. Um, I. For us in Ywe. But yeah, I think just in general with youth, with the mission in Perth, we run a lot of trainings.

We run a lot of, um, six months, three months schools. Um, we, we also have, when we are on staff, we have a commitment as well. So like a year. Up to however many years. Um, so I've been there for a while. I came back just for a two year commitment and I wanna go to China. Um, but God said, Nope, stay in Perth for another six years and then stay in Perth for a long, long time now.

Um, so I think that's just how God works, um, in our lives, um, trusting that God is speaking. Um, but also Alyssa, um, I was talking with her on, on the car, like she, her parents. ERs, you know, still in Ywe, still on staff with Ywe. Um, and she'd been in Ywe basically before she was born. So, you know, so there's a lot of, um, different things that we've, um, kind of worked with in Ywe, short term, long term.

Also, Ben been around for a bit. I was gonna have another girl here. Um, she just finished hers. Six month discipleship training school. Um, and she's going to go back, um, and study psychology. Um, and I think that's just the wonderful thing about YWAM is that we provide opportunity for people, um, to be part of mission in a big or small way.

Um, and we can see a lasting impact. Right. Um, I think about that picture with the school for like. You know, so many times like those schools, um, it's because of the short term teams that comes, um, and the lasting impact is there. Um, so it's just such a privilege to be here and sharing with you. I was like trying to sort through the pictures to be not just me, but it is all me right now.

And I think this is Alyssa. Yeah, this one is the living condition in Nepal. Um, some living condition Nepal, but yeah. Up and he's gonna share about this ship school with us, and I'll keep clicking.

Thanks. All right. Uh, so discipleship training school, or DTS as we usually call it, is sort of the heart or foundational school of ywam.

Everyone who comes into YWAM starts by doing the six month school. It, the school structure is you come and you. Three months in Perth learning about God, the Bible. We dig deep into the foundational aspects of our, like repentance, forgive, hearing God's voice and the character and the nature of who God is.

Um, each week we have a different topic for 12 weeks and a different speaker, and. Yeah, when a bit as my story as well. I grew up in church and grew up as a Christian and then I, but I realized I needed to do something more to seek God because all my lifestyle choices were reflecting, uh, who God wanted me to be.

So when I came to do my. I, yeah, really my eyes were opened to real faith with living out my faith and I was taught and encouraged how to actually apply my faith in God into practical life choices and yeah, rarely pursue him wholeheartedly. And then after the three months lecture phase, we do three months of outreach and usually to.

Two or three different locations or countries and just connect with churches, do evangelism on the streets. A lot of prayer and a lot of worship. And yeah, like Terza was saying, we have a short term impact or short term we are there, but it can create a long term impact. Um, and often we don't see the long term impact, but sometimes we do like returning to Nepal, a lot of our teams have gone to Nepal.

Just seeing the progression of the church in Nepal and like the school, how many kids that school has influenced and how that's influenced their faith as they grow up. Um, that short term that can have a long term impact and has a long term impact on the people who go as well. I feel like it's really a, a win-win.

Um, and then you can choose to stay on with staff and keep doing. Schools or other ministries or to, um, yeah, to go home and to take that missional heart back into your community and your church. Um, so that is the DTS Most Ywa bases will run A-D-T-S-A few times a year. Um, and we have a little pamphlet for the DTS.

We can give them out afterwards. Yeah, join the Wave. Um, I would encourage you, uh, if you wanna do a DTS, you are welcome. Or if you know someone who might want to do a DTS, then uh, take a pamphlet and pass it on to them, um, and tell them about it. Encourage them to do it 'cause it really is such a life changing experience and it's not that long.

Um, and speak. I am gonna invite Alyssa up to share a story from Outreach. I dunno if I mentioned before, but Alyssa is my wife and we're just recently married.

Thank.

What a nice round of applause. Um, yeah. So I just wanna share a little story from an outreach I went on in Nepal. This was, uh, about a year and a half ago. Um, I was helping lead a team, uh, to Nepal to, to spread the gospel. Um. Yeah, so we're in the south of Nepal and we were going into a village and we had some contacts there who've already been doing work in the area for a long time.

So the people were used to people coming in and sharing about Jesus. So we walk into this village and like the first thing some people say to us, it's like, yeah, come to our house, we're ready to hear what you have to say. Which is like the missionary dream. Like, thank you. Um. In some context for Nepal, currently it is like pretty illegal to try to convert a Hindu is what they say, like how, what the law is written as.

So any sort of missionaries, any missional thing they really don't like. The government is not a fan of having that there. So we have to be careful how we do it, but because our contact already knew these people, they knew it was all right to be sharing so openly. Um, so we went into this home and a bunch of people gathered and myself and one of the students of the DTSI was with shared a go the gospel and the testimony with the people.

Um, and they were like, you know, interested in listening. And then our context says, oh, we have an opportunity for prayer now. And he takes us kind of around this home, which is kind of just like a little. Concrete block thing. And around the corner into this room, there is a man who is incredibly thin and weak.

He's lying on like a thread bear mat in this little dark room. Um, and Nepal is a Hindu nation, like I said. And so in Hinduism, there are many gods and lots of little idols. Everywhere. So when you get Nepal, you'll notice like little idols and statues, little incense things and temples. And so he is just sitting in this little dark room lying down and in the corner there's like these little idols and some incense.

Um, and the contact is telling us, this man is really sick. He was working in India and had to come home 'cause he's so unwell. He's supposed to be ICU, but he can't afford it. Um, and there's something wrong with his lungs. And so now he's just here and he is like, not even got a bed, he's lying on a thin mat.

Um, and so like they're asking, can we pray for him? I'm like, okay, we'll pray. Um, and so we're praying for him and trusting that God will bring healing to his lungs. Um, and I really feel the Holy Spirit is talking to me and saying he needs to get rid of his idols. Um. And I don't know, just me, I'm very visual.

If I think of someone being in a little dark room with idols, I just feel like the air they're breathing in cannot be good. Do you know what I mean? Like just the spiritual atmosphere in that room cannot be good. Um, but in, in Nepal, to tell someone to get rid of their idols is like really breaking the law, basically.

So I'm like, okay, like, let's see. So I talked to my contact because he's the one that. Anyway. And he'll know. I'm like, I really feel like this man needs to get rid of his idols. Should we tell him? And the contexts like, oh yes, we should tell him. So I'm like, this man was so brave to do that. So he tells the man, um, yeah, like, we feel like you need to get rid of your idols and we'll keep praying for you.

Um, and the man goes like, okay, I'll do it later. Which normally I feel like if. Evangelism. If someone's like, I'll stop doing this bad habit later, or I'll accept Jesus later. Normally I read that as OS K, it's not gonna happen. You know? That's okay. That's their decision. And so we leave and we move on, and then a week goes by and I've kind of forgotten about it and I've gone to a different village in Nepal and I get a call from that contact.

And he calls me and he goes, Alyssa, like, how are you? Do you remember that man we saw in the village, um, that we prayed for? And ye of little faith, the thit thought that came to my mind was that he died. Um, he didn't die guys. Um, and he tells me we've come back again this week and the man is so much better.

He is up and walking. He has a lot more strength. Like he's not fully like a hundred percent like suddenly nourished, but he is so much better and we're gonna take him to a church. Um. And that really encouraged me because God does heal and God also just works even when we don't see it. You know, I didn't get to see the man get up in that moment and be like, I feel so much better and start walking around, but I have the knowledge that he did get better.

Do you know what I mean? And I think so often we pray for people and we don't always get to see the long-term effects, but God does and he continues to work. Um, and so that was such an encouragement to me. And I also just wanna encourage you guys that God hears your prayers and he works in them, even if you don't see it.

Uh, yeah. I'm gonna invite tears up. Another testimony.

Yeah. I think it's incredible what God is doing. Right. Um, and I think like for us in Twitter mission as well, um, we believe in young people. We believe that we can hear God's voice, we can. Act in our obedience to God and just kinda let God take the rest. Um, and I think that's the scariest part, really, uh, oftentimes is doing what God asked us to do.

Um, and I think that will be my encouragement for us as well today, um, to kind of just really step out in obedience, step out in faith and let gut do it. Um, he did get rid of his eyeball. Wow. He did get rid of his idol, so praise the Lord for that. That's awesome. Um, but yeah, I think like personally, like also just another thing about youth Mission is not just all youth.

We are youth here. Well, I'm not really youth anymore, but, um, I came when I was a youth. Um, but we also have had people that comes, you know, they probably retired. They just wanna do, they still wanna do missions, they come, they train with us. We've had, like, I've had so conversation with families that, you know, they still feel God's calling them to missions.

They sold. Where they come from and it comes and they serve. Um, so it's not just youth with the mission, our training, any ages really. Um, well after high school. Um, but, you know, I think, just wanna give that clarification. Well. So international. Um, so youth of the Mission have run in so many different countries, in so many different contexts.

Um, so for me as an Indonesian, it's such a privilege to be able to, to work in missions. Um, 'cause that wasn't really something that I know can be an option at all, um, when I grew up. Um, but I think youth mission kind of opened up that way. Um, just so many different, you know, Wilders, that's what we call ourself in Africa, in Middle East, in Asia.

Um, but yeah, I think just a testimony, uh, just a bit of a story. I like what I said, I love Central Asia. I'm just gonna keep saying it and see if, you know, some people catch that as well. Um, I think just the things that God is doing there is exciting. Um, so I recently just returned from a trip to, from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and in Tajikistan we actually work a lot with Afghani refugees.

Um, so as you know, the situation in Afghanistan is not great at all. Um, so a lot of people need to, um, I think a lot of women really just wanna be out of the country going somewhere else. Um, and the ministry in Tajikistan is a lot. Involving a lot of Afghani refugees and it looks different. Um, so I have a good friend, they run a soccer club for girls in Afghanistan.

They run a soccer club for guys in Ahan, uh, from Afghanistan. And it's, it's quite interesting 'cause during soccer, you just have a lot of emotions that you probably don't know you have that comes out. So it's a lot of like. Drama, a lot of like, just like, just different things happening, but you being a part of it and you're just playing soccer, you're just being their friends is actually a great way to kind of like, Hey, do you wanna talk about this more?

And then they end up talking about it more and they end up too. And then you end up can share about your life and the gospel to them. Um, and I think that's a great thing about missions. It doesn't just look like one way, right. Um, but I wanna share a story about this girl that I met, particularly like I went to as well last year.

And I'm a photographer. Um, so I ran a photo storytelling seminar in the Afghani, um, refugee centers. I. And it was just a great time. Um, I think the, the goal is not to make them photographers, the goal is for them to tell their stories. Um, and I think that's been really good. Um, 'cause a lot of them have a very bottle up, um, like just push down stories because they think that.

Their story gonna be worse than me, so I'm not gonna share my story. Um, but what I found is that like we all have a story and we need to tell them to find healing. Um, so it's been a great two years of running it there. Um, and at that time I have a translator. Um, and since Afghanis, um, and since translator for me and I ca and then we were talking about this book that Still Love, um, and it's a nonfiction book.

Um, and. A, a fiction book. And, um, and I know that I'm coming back this year, so I, I, I walk around Perth trying to find this book 'cause she cannot find it in Tajikistan. Got it. And then I texted her when I arrived to Tajikistan, I was like, Hey, I'm here and have a book for you. Um, can we meet up? So we met up, we had, um, some kind of like just, we walked.

Tajikistan, uh, in Duchamp Bay, uh, the capital city. And, um, at some point, um, we were sitting down in this like, kind of like waterfront kind of looking. Um, she brought her friend, I brought my friend, um, and she basically was sharing how her friend, um, stop working because the company doesn't allow her to pray.

Um, so like the context of. Central Asia in general, you cannot be radical in any way. So even if you're Muslim, there's no call to prayer in Central Asia. So it's pretty different atmosphere. You cannot have beards, you, you cannot have hijab. Um. And all of that things. Um, so like basically with this context is that like she cannot pray five times a day and she don't want to work because of that.

And while she's sharing the story, I just have in my head and I feel like it was the Holy Spirit. Can I say like, just say to her that you admire her desire. And I was like, well, this conversation gonna go a bit differently 'cause they will probably share about Muslim and how they pray and everything. But I felt like I just say like, just do it.

Um, so I just said that and it ended up the way that it is. Like, um, so they share about. Prayer Muslim, this is how you do it, and all this things stuff. But the conversation goes on for like two hours, um, two and a half hours of them sharing. And then at one point, I think I said something about like, but like for us as Christians, we believe in the grace of God, we cannot keep earning God's love.

Um, and that just. Blew open the gospel and um, and I think it was just such an exciting time. This girl, um, when I met her last year, she, she was so much in trauma, like just a lot of different things going on. I haven't seen her mom for eight years. Um, 'cause her mom need to work at. Send money to her family and everything.

Um, and also relative died. Um, but I think like throughout the years she, she went to trauma healing group and all these things, and you can see that she, she's changed over the year, over the course of one year. Um, and actually it really opened up the gospel for her, um, that her like, I think. You know, like when, when we receive the gospel, it needs to be holistic, right?

We can, we can share gospel to someone, but they're, they might not be ready yet. But I think with, uh, the things that she worked through this past year, um, being able to talk through about her trauma and everything and I was just able to share the gospel with her. Um, it was just such an encouragement of seeing like.

Hey, God is moving in people's lives. Um, even after a year not seeing them. Um, but the funny thing is that that night she was actually supposed to do a Zoom call with, um, the university as she's part of, she was a bit naughty. She put the zoom call like to the science is like, this is way more important. I wanna know about Jesus and I wanna, I wanna ask, like she asked so many questions, um, that it was just.

Mind blowing for me. And she started to read the Bible as well. She's not at that point yet. Um, but I think she's searching and I think there's a truth, um, that she's searching for. And at the end of our time, we just close in prayer and I just say like, can I just pray for us to know the truth? Um, so we just pray for the whole group.

But yeah, I think just thinking about Central Asia is exciting. We've, we've, we went to Kyson as well, met some guys that just have dreams, dreams about doors and light and entering the wrong door. And we just able to say like, well, we believe that Jesus, the truth and light. And just share the gospel. And I think that's what Scott is doing in this region.

Just so many dreams, so many, um, yeah, different miracles that kind of like four years been closed. Um, but I think, um, you know that there's windows in different nations. I don't like thinking about Nepal. It was open for a few years and now it's a bit closing again, China as well. It was open for a few years and now it's because of technology and things.

It's a bit complicated. Um, but. I think there's different doors and windows in the nations and um, and yeah, I think just ex exciting to kind of see what God is doing in the nations. And Ben also have another story to share with us as well. I.

All right, this is the last story, so hang in there a lot about missions. It's so exciting. Um, I just wanted to share a tiny bit about doing, about sharing the gospel on the streets here in Perth. Um, being based in Perth, we fairly often just go out just. Walk from our base and yeah, just see who might be open to hearing about Jesus.

Um, and often, you know, our culture, we're not like super, let's just talk to anyone we meet on the streets, or especially the younger generation is often got their headphones on and really close to even saying hello. Um, and so that can make it challenging and often it's hard to talk to anyone. Um. But I'll show you about one time that it did go really well.

'cause sometimes it, it does, uh, 'cause there's still people who need Jesus. Um, just on the streets in Perth that have no Christian connections. So me and one other girl from Ywe were looking around and we saw a Uber Eats delivery person waiting. They were just waiting for the next order, sitting under umbrella.

Um, and so we just went up. I had a little piece of paper with a drawing of the gospel, but no words, and I was like, do you wanna play a game and guess the story? And he is like, no. And I was like, uh, okay, well what's your name? Anyway? And then, yeah, we just start the slightly awkward conversation, but eventually he realized I'm actually interested in him.

And he does play the game, and he guesses the gospel story and I fill in the gaps for him. And then he did want to receive Jesus. And so he prayed a prayer that Jesus would come into his heart and I prayed for him. And then he just said he felt like this warmth in his chest, which is the Holy Spirit. And, and yeah, I don't know, like.

I didn't, I stayed a little bit connected with him and I dunno exactly how he's going now, but I, I do know the Holy Spirit came into him in that moment. And, um, yeah, that was just such a awesome experience to be able to go out and, and see someone receive Jesus like that. Um. Me and one other guy went out yesterday.

It wasn't quite as exciting. Um, we talked to one person for like a few minutes. It didn't go anywhere. And then we walked around and came back. But you know, the persistence, you do see fruit. Uh, yeah. I'll let Teza wrap us up.

Yeah, I think, um, just to wrap us up, um, just prayer needs really. Um, I think, I mean, really in my heart, it's really for missions to kind of continue and the gospel to continue. Um, I just, again, uh, the verse, the har harvest is p for the workers' view. Um, so I think just that words of multiply multiplication, again, I think.

You know, we need more Ben that goes up to Uber, Uber Eats driver, you know, and, and do that. And we need more Alyssa to go to Nepal and we need more, more people basically in the field. Um, 'cause I do find it really encouraging whenever we go out, um, you go out to the city of Perth, you see a lot of brokenness and you see a lot of like not interested.

People. Um, but actually when you talk with people, people do wanna listen to good news. Um, and I think that's what we wanna bring, right? We wanna bring the good news. Um, so I think the prayer needs is really about more, more workers in the field. Um, more I think young people as well that will say yes to Jesus.

Um. Yeah, and I think like, I guess with, with other prayer, it's, I think just for the nations to keep opening up, um, to keep having a way for the nations to come to know Jesus as well. Um, I think, um, I was on the way back from. Well, ki was Pakistan, um, at the airport. And as you know, there's this, the recent war, um, happening and everything.

And I just saw like the flight is like delayed, delayed, delayed. And in my heart I was like, Lord, please let us get back to Perth. Um, but I think just so many things going on in the world. All the time. And I think it's just so much brokenness, but I think my prayer is that, um, yeah, there's just nations, but we are in a strategic location here in Perth, so many nations here.

Um, and as I look around the room as well, um, and I think that's exciting. Um, I think that a prayer in it just probably like just. Like in general health, finances, all the logistic things, friendship really, um, relationships, um, having community. Um, but yeah, safety. I think that's, that's all it. Yeah. Should we,

would you, um, would you bow your heads?

I'm gonna pray for Ben Alyssa, and.

Father, we thank you for these young lives that have been touched by your spirit that have come to receive the good news, the truth of Jesus Christ. He saved sinners. Father, I thank you for their willingness to get involved. Not to live a routine easy life, but to step out and follow your call. We thank you for that.

Father, we pray that they would have key relationships as they serve in mission. Father, as Tur has shared, it can be difficult developing long-term relationships. When you are flying in and flying out and people are coming and going, we ask and pray that you would give them key relationships that are deep and sustaining to them.

We ask and pray that as they go onto the field, that they would plant seeds. Even if they're seeds that they don't see the fruit or the harvest, they could step out in faith knowing that you are the God that waters, you are the God that brings fruit. We pray for divine appointments as they travel, whether it be Terza and Alyssa, uh, in the nations, whether it be Ben in the streets, we pray for divine appointments.

We thank you for their courage to share their faith, even where it seems the ears are not attentive or the doors are closed. Father, most of all, we pray that they would live truly the call of ywam to know you. And to make you known. May that be a burning passion in their lives. No other distraction, but to know you and through that knowledge make you known.

Father, we thank you for them. This next generation in Jesus' precious name. Amen. Bless you guys. Thank

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