Lectures: Week Two

This week for lectures we had the base director (Brent) come in and talk to the students about the Character and Nature of God. It really opened up a lot of doors to see into our hearts and minds. Talking about His Nature allowed us to ask the Holy Spirit to search us and tell us where we had been believing lies that are contrary to His Character and Nature. Many times we start to believe things, sometimes even things we are taught in a religious setting or things we are taught about the Bible, that are contrary to His Character. God desires for each of us to have a correct understanding of Him and who He really is so that we can begin to reject the lies we've been believing and replace them with His Truth.
Also this week we announced the Outreach teams. For the September 2011 DTS we will be having two Outreach teams, one going to Mexico City and one going to Haiti! The DTS staff who are also helping plant the Mexico City base (which includes me) will be staffing the Mexico City Outreach and Tasha (one of our DTS staff people) will be going on the Haiti Outreach. The Mexico City Base Plant team will be commissioned from here in Mazatlan and will be sent out in December before Outreach. After that we will go on Outreach with the team during which we will be doing most of the normal things people do on Outreach along with some of the things we need to do to get ready to plant the base such as finding a location. After the Outreach the Haiti team will come meet us in Mexico City for the last two weeks for graduation and debrief. Then after that the base plant team will be staying there and officially starting the YWAM CMC OP-LOC (Youth With a Mission Centro Mexico City Operating Location). I am so excited to finally get started on this!

-On a side note there was a woman here to speak to the WISE school named Katherine who I had the opportunity to speak with a few times who is really amazing. As I was talking with her it came up that I was a worshipper and a worship leader. When she heard that she said that I should go to Cuba sometime. After she said that I couldn't seem to get Cuba out of my head for a couple days and still haven't really been able to. I wonder if God has Cuba in His Plans for me sometime in the future. I guess only time will tell...