Hi Everyone!
I'm really starting to enjoy blogging! I've been writing, I'm starting to not only see the importance to document my day, but it is helping me process (I'm a external processer by nature) as I write. This week went by really fast. It was a shorter week in the sense that we only had lectures for the first three days rather than having them every weekday morning.
It's crazy how you can meet people through YWAM and feel like you've known them your whole life. We are in such close knit of a community where we eat, sleep, learn and worship all on the same campus, so you get to know each other really quickly. I love it! I love that people from all different backgrounds and cultures come together to learn more about God and how he wants to use us as individuals coming together to be the body of Christ.
Our topic this week was Boundaries. I wasn't sure how this topic would be discussed through our speaker but I feel like I can look back on this week and understand more about what unhealthy and health boundaries look like, how to maintain them in the change of seasons and that they are ok in first place. It helped me to place a foundation on which to build my own boundaries on. One thing that Craig, our speaker, said that affected the way I think was about which of the Trinity has the ability and power to judge. I've always thought it was God the Father who has this authority, but it actually Jesus who does. Jesus was fully man so he not only has the authority to judge us but he has the understanding of what we are tempted, tried, and suffer with as human nature. This really put this into perspective for me, as it changes the picture on how I see God on his throne and how he's not just sitting up in heaven judging without understanding of what we go through. Ts not that I didn't think he didn't understand but it shows more of how he cares for to have Jesus be the one who sits as a judge.
One Thursday a month, we usually have a base wide prayer and fasting day (P&F), where we all agree to sacrifice eating and drinking (anything but water) for the whole day until dinner. We usually prayer about one larger topic that in more in depth than our normal intercession times. Today (Thursday) was our usual P&F day for this month. We watched the Passion of the Christ in honor of Easter and then we prayed for unreached people groups throughout the world because they don't know about the sacrifice Jesus made for us and them. I found out that there's more YWAM base throughout the world than unreached people groups, in fact theres double the YWAM bases! YWAM LA's goal is to "adopt" one of these people groups in the next season and not only be praying for them, but eventually send outreach teams to these people. Our leadership team at the base is being challenged to be praying about who these people will be and will announce it in the near future. We were then surprised by our director with a Easter feast! Our base closes for the weekend but they wanted us to be able to celebrate as a community.
On Friday, we did a scavenger hunt as a school. We call it Urban Plunge at YWAM LA and we do it in the heart of Downtown LA. It was a great time of bonding as team, and I was surprised at how much I knew the city, yet there are new surprises around every corner! It was challenging as we were encouraged to do "missions" as a team to go out and pray for people and do worship in public as well as complete silly challenges like walk down Hollywood Blvd. with our shoelaces tied together.
I'm happy to be part of this school and I can't wait to see how the next 2 1/2 months bring us even closer as a SOMD Family!
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