My Outreach Location!!!!!

I'm am super excited to announce my outreach location!!!!!

I"M GOING TO THAILAND AND CAMBODIA!!!!!

We did a scavenger hunt to find the pieces of our outreach locations.  We had no idea what we were doing at the time but as we were piecing it together at the end, it sort of just clicked in our brains what we were doing. There are three teams from my school, two teams are going to Thailand and Cambodia (will stay separate teams, probably reaching different locations) and one team is going to Mexico and Costa Rica!

I'm super excited and can't wait to start our outreach team meetings tomorrow night. I have 7 other girls (Kendal, Chelsea, Claire, Ruby, Keila, Hannah, Jess and I) on my team and two awesome team leaders (Laura and Naomi).

  We are going to have a day of fasting on Thursday and will have our first night of outreach on Friday!!!!!

Thank you for your love and support! 

~Jordyne

Set A Fire - Jesus Culture w/ Lyrics

I really like this song and we've been doing it for base worship.  Just thought I'd share!!!!





Hi Everyone!

It has been so crazy!  Last Friday we got trained by one of the organizations we will be working with for street outreach.  I, personally won't be working with them because I'm not 21 yet, but my school leaders really value their rules and so we all went through the training as a school.  They were very informative and they shared some of their experiences.  We also spent time researching different companies that would be willing to donate items for the gift bags we give to the girls we meet out on the streets.  So far we haven't had any luck, but we'd appreciate prayer that doors will be opened!  We have a new speaker this week.  Her name is Hannah Eastwood and she is from the YWAM base in Montana.  Our topic for the week is "Hearing the Voice of God".  Hopefully at the end of this week, we will learn what our options for outreach are!  Then we get to use what we learned this week to hear where God will lead all of my school! The Fall DTS is joining us in lecture this week and it's been so fun to hang out with them as well as my own school! We are reading our first book! It's called Making Jesus Lord  and it's by Loren Cunningham, the founder of YWAM.  His stories are wonderful, how God's used him through good times and bad!



It's so much fun to get to share with everyone my experiences and I plan to write again this week!



~Jordyne

Week Two Already?!

Wow, is it week 2 already?! It’s going by so quickly.  I love that we have started to get used to our schedule now.  Each day, we have a connect time as a school and we go over a devotion that our staff has chosen for us that day.  We've read from two daily devotionals, “Jesus Calling” and “Upmost for his Highest”.  They are super encouraging and God just seems to speak through each day.  Our theme this week is “The Character and Nature of God” and our speaker, Steve Fry has been amazing so far.  He has been talking about how everything God is and does is LOVE! God is just amazing. We share these lecture times with the 2 other schools that going on right now.  There is a Calling All Skaters (for skateboarders) DTS and the Fall DTS right now.  Last night we also had a speaker, who focused more on the justice issue.  Her name is Roe and she started a ministry to help those exploited in South Korea learn English.  Her ministry is not running right now but she is now working for YWAM in Kona, Hawaii. 

 I also have a work duty on Monday and Wednesday afternoons.  There are 4 other girls, and together we make up the special projects team!  We are the ones that get anything that needs to be done on the base, like yesterday we cleaned the base’s playground.  In the future we will be the marketing team for the special events in the next coming year. 

There was a song I really wanted to post that we do during worship, but our shared wifi is overwhelmed right now!  I'll try posting it on my next entry but if you want to look it up, it's called Set a Fire. 

Well that’s all I have today! I love your support and your prayers!

~Jordyne

Just a side note,

I am searching for a large backpacking backpack for the outreach part of my journey! If you have one that you’d like to sell me or let me borrow, or know of someone who does, please let me know!!!!! There are some girls on my team as well that are looking for one so if you have extra as well please let me know!!!!

If you have one, please email me at mad4mangoes1@gmail.com or message me on Facebook!

Hi Everyone!

Thank you for your support through reading my blog! I just wanted to take the time to share the reasoning behind my blog name.

I love to crochet! Like, I REALLY like to crochet! I love to crochet so much that I even brought crocheting supplies with me! I decided to take this talent and use it to fund raise my YWAM trip.
I decided to make a Facebook page and an Instagram account to help put the word out there, and so people would have someplace to see my projects and contact me.  It took a lot of thinking to find a name that was unique and easy to remember, while still trying to simply say what I was doing.  I liked Off The Hook because it simply shared that my projects are completed on hooks.  Hahaha.
As for the 3:28, I was looking up Bible verses about what God thought about slavery and came across Galatians 3:28 and choose it as my theme verse.
It says
"There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

This experience has been amazing so far and it's only been the first week! Everyone is getting to know one another better.  The last couple days have been really relaxed.  We had a Community Night with the whole base and all the schools and staff ( there are 4 schools going on right now including Justice).  It was amazing to see all the nations worship together! We found out that 28 different nations are represented here!!!!!!! Its AMAZING!!!!!!!! Friday was really relaxed too. We got to make gift bags for the girls who are out on the street that we will get to talk to when we go out on outreach. And today we got to use LA's public buses (as a school) to go to a mall in Glendale.  Our staff feel that it is really important that we do some fun things every week.  We need to have time to to be joyful as a school and just have fun!!!!!

Tomorrow we will have the opportunity to go to different churches in the area.  I'm attending Open Bible Church.  I'm pretty excited to try a new church with new people!

I really appreciate all your support and your prayers! I hope to blog once or twice a week at the least!

Good Night! Love you all!
~Jordyne

Getting settled for our first Human Trafficking Documentry

Praying over the frist of many outreach gift bags. 

My first week at YWAM has been amazing.  It’s gone by so fast and it’s only Wednesday! I’ve gotten to meet so many new people.  There are 6 girls total in my room and 22 girls in my house.  I know so many girls but it been really great to get to live and connect with these girls! We have 7 rooms in the house, two bathrooms with two showers each, a large living room, and a nice mini kitchen to share.  It’s really hot though. With so many people and a broken swamp cooler, it’s really warm! It has been around 99 degrees and it even has gotten to 118! It’s crazy!

As for my classes, they haven’t really started yet.  They are giving us the week to get used to living on the base and get used to the crazy schedule.  We’ve had lots of “family” time were we have played games to get to know each other and team building games to help us to work together.  We had our first lecture today.  It was a video sermon by Louie Gegilio and it was titled “How Great is Our God”.  He talked about how there are so many stars that are even larger than the sun and that God made them and even if earth was the size of a golf ball they would be huge! Then he talked about how even our bodies are a crazy proof that God is so mighty and powerful, thinking up the little details, like to proteins that make up our 75 trillion cells and that every three seconds 50,000 die and are instantly replaced! How amazing is our God that he even thought to come up with such a complex system inside us that we didn’t even know of!

On a sad note, one of the girls is deciding to return to home in Canada tonight.  She is one of my roommates and I’m really sad to see her go.  Her name is Mikayla so if you think of her, just please pray for her! I’m praying that she realizes that God brought her here for a reason and that she was meant to be here.  After she goes home, she will have a week to decide if she wants to come back, so if you don’t mind praying that she makes the decision that she feels God is telling her to make.  We all have felt like we don’t want her to go home and regret not being here.   

In case you feel lead to pray for my team, here is the list of their names. It’s been really cool to get to know everyone in the house and learn where they are from.  Its been really interesting to see the differences in even the other English speaking countries like Ireland and England!

Ariel - Canada

Katherine- Canada

Luisa- Germany

Rachel- California

Kendra - California

Ruby- New Jersey

Keila- Brazil

Lily- Kentucky

Jenny- Flordia

Claire- Northern Ireland

Jess- England

Jade- Australia

Chelsea- Illinois

Hannah N. - Minnesota

Hannah M. - England

Karoline- Norway

Anna –Georgia

Kirsty- Northern Ireland

Raquel- California

Kendal- Washington

Mikayla (She is leaving back to Canada) :'(

Ida and Noah (a married couple)- Sweden

Phillirie (a single mom with her 4 yr. old son Elijah)- California

Phillip – England

Skyler – Missouri

Isn't it just awesome that we have come from all over, yet we all have the same passion to learn and teach about Jesus and take a stand against Human Trafficking!

I really appreciate your prayers and I can’t wait to share all my experiences with you all. 

If you want to send me letters or pictures, I’d be really happy! We have lots of personal wall space and I’d love to put some pictures up! 

Jordyne Castaneda

YWAM LA JDTS 2014

11141 Osborne St.

Lake View Terrace, CA 91342

~Jordyne