My Heart is Full!

 I'm so thankful for all the support and prayers I have received during my time here at YWAM LA.  I have been so blessed and have received enough financial support for both the lecture phase and outreach! 

There are a few members of my team who are still in need of financial support.  If you had planned on partnering with me, and would like to support a member of my team, I know it would be a blessing to them.   Our goal is to have everyone's outreach funds in by this Friday, November 21.  

Keila Pereira and Ruby Armour (online giving or check with a note attached) are my two team members who are working on reaching full support this week.  Please pray with me they will reach it. 

It is hard to believe we leave in 18 days!!!!!!!!  We are flying to Thailand on December 4th and I'll be traveling to Cambodia around January 20th.   We will fly home on February 27 and I will be returning to my home on March 8th.  

My outreach team is hopes to make a Facebook page so we can continue to give our friends and family updates.  We will only have wifi once a week so someone on my team will update it when we can.  I'll get more information as we decided how we will do it! 

This weekend I had the opportunity to be "homeless" for a night.  There is a homeless shelter on Skid Row called Midnight Mission and they put on an event called Night Without Shelter.  Most of my school went and we were outside next to a train track.  We brought sleeping bags and wore our warmest clothes; but it was freezing!  I can't even imagine what it's like to sleep outside without the comfort we had.  They fed us both dinner and breakfast because Midnight Mission feeds people three meals a day all year round.  We all tried to sleep on the concrete on top of cardboard boxes and it was hard to sleep. I didn't sleep at all.  Most of us are still recovering from the cold and are trying to get over being sick.  Each of us got an "identity of someone who is homeless" to show the different people who have become homeless. 

I was a 31 yr. old female that had schizophrenia and a mental illness because of chronic substance abuse. Many of the "people" had a mental illness or had come out of the foster care system with nowhere to go.  Some were war veterans with college degrees and were unable to get a job. It was sad to see that many of the people were children and many of these people need help.  It was an eye-opening experience and I can't imagine the challenges many people without a home face daily.  We only got a glimpse to what their living conditions are.  We had warm clothes, food, water and port-a-potty’s.  We never had to think about if or when we were going to get food.  We had each other and most people are out all alone. I'm so glad that I had this chance and I would do it again to continue to raise awareness.  

If you live in the So Cal area and missed this news story or aren't local, you can click the link below to see the news story and some of my team interviewed.  Midnight Mission was featured on Saturday night on both Fox 11 Los Angeles and ABC 7 Los Angeles.  The link for Fox11 is below.

http://www.ktvu.com/story/27398531/young-people-live-homeless-for-a-night-to-raise-awareness--

Our school is also working on a huge project!!  It has kept me busy this past month.

It's called the Justice 180 project and we are using it to bring awareness to people about human trafficking.  We are setting up event tents and each section will be set up to look like four trafficking situations.  We will show people a LA strip club, a child brothel in Cambodia, a girl working on the streets of LA, and a bar in Thailand.  They are set up very realistic and are hard to see because they look so real.  We will have people walk through each traffick situation and share with them statistics and information about trafficking both locally and globally. While that is happening, we will transform each scene and do a "180".  We will make each scene into a radical change and have the same actors to show a positive outcome. I have been working on the strip club and it will be turned into a bakery.  The girl working on the streets will be working in coffee shop after the change.  Thai bar will be turned into a beauty salon and jewelry store and the child brothel will be turned in to a princess themed room in a restoration home. We have been working on this project for three weeks now and it has been so amazing to see it come from an idea into a completed project!!!!

If anyone is interested in coming, it’s on Thursday, November 20 at
Chapel of the Hills
11120 Oro Vista Ave, Sunland-Tujunga, CA 91040
 It's at 7:00 pm. I'm unsure of how long it will go on for but I'd imagine it would be done before 9:30pm.

As we go into next week and Thanksgiving, I want you to know I am deeply thankful for your love and support this year.  Thank you for praying, please continue to pray!

 

~Jordyne