India, Nepal Outreach week 8 Final week update

Last week of outreach WEEK 8

December 8- Monday -
Early early morning we almost all, woke up to a once and a life time, sunrise over the Himalayas. Only a once in a lifetime sight if you don't live there, but it was so awesome it didn't seem real. Like it was more of a picture you see rather than you actually being there. Later that morning we then headed back to the church planting base and held a kids program. It was for all the kids that lived around the church and of course did David an Goliath for last hoorah and some of us played basketball with the youth there too. It was our last kids program so it just seemed right to end with one of the programs we started with! The kids were so sweet and we loved just being able to be used by God so many times to just play with kids and love on them by spending time with them. We could leave a mark by just spending time. We started off our week being able to see some just breath taking creation and getting to praise our Creator for just the chance to be here.

December 9- Tuesday-
Started off our official last day of ministry doing what else but an open air with a community of people who made bricks. The pastor called it the brick factory but it was more of people themselves making and drying bricks at their homes. We just played some worship songs and a crowd gathered. After giving the gospel message we handed out Bibles we had in Nepali. Right after that we moved locations and gave another message to tell more people about the Good News. That night we went to a Bible study at a church members house, gave a testimony and had our last bit of Nepali tea in someone's house. Everyday as we did things people would point out how it was the last time we would do that specific thing sometimes funny, and others caused you to just contemplate on what God used us to do.

December 10- Wednesday-
This morning we started by helping build a house church by digging and cutting bamboo for them. All the guys were pumped for some manual labor time and especially that it helped further the kingdom in an area that desperately needed a church. After that went home packed up and left for Apple pie, the first place we originally stayed after landing in Nepal, again as a whole group.

December 11- Thursday-
Now begins the time of debrief with the team. This morning we started off debrief with a time of worship. And then spoke about what had happened over our time in India and Nepal. We listened to a sermon over how to hear our calling from God. And had some paper work to turn in and to fill out for the following day. Starting to prepare our minds for home and how to help when we are back.

December 12- Friday-
Today's meeting in the morning after intercession was with Kelly from the Nepal base. We were able to share all our testimonies with her and tell her thanks for such a great job coordinating what we did with who. After this we had our one on one meetings with the leaders on what we did well and how overall outreach went with each one of us specifically. That night was such a memorable time laughing and crying with everyone during our graduation dinner.

December 13- Saturday-
This morning we all packed and got ready for the night flight. Then we loaded up and headed to Doha where we all had different flights home.

December 14- Sunday-
This morning we all woke up in the Doha airport after some crazy layovers, the tears started coming. We had to split up and get on different planes. Four of us though did arrive home late tonight. And 2 others landed in Switzerland tonight also.

December 15- Monday-
The rest of the group had a long layover in Miami.

December 16- Tuesday-
The official arrival day for all!!


After five months this group went from strangers to family. God called us all together and sometimes we definitely questioned why, but by the end we knew why. Every single one of us came to DTS a certain way, and you bet everyone of us left transformed and completely new. God did some awesome things and we were beyond blessed to be all together an used by Him every step of the way. So first of all as I speak on behalf of everyone I want to first say thanks to the one who gave it all. God is great and deserves to be first. I also want to say a special thanks to all the supporters who God used to send us across the world. Thank you so much for all your support and prayers. Thanks to all the parents who gave the permission, and for all the leaders who put up with us crazy people for 5 months. Anyone reading this I personally want to ask to keep the base and leaders in your prayers as they grow and begin building a new base building. Thank you again for the future prayers and support of all involved in YWAM Antigua and thank you for the now past DTS students you helped obey Gods call on their life!
Sincerely,
Graduated students of 2014

DTS Outreach to Nepal Week 7

Week 7 blog 12/1- Monday Monday started off wonderful we were told we were going to go minister and love on kids that live on the street. The interesting part was we went to this forest type of park there were monkeys and cows just freely walking around but we got to play soccer with the kids and then for those who wanted a sweet hair cut , we happily accepted the challenge! We also told the story of David an Goliath after that we were able to give them a meal. Such a sobering time with these kids who have to either work extremely hard or beg just to survive and these were kids not teenagers or adults but some were literally smaller children not even 11 years old. That is why the woman leading the kings kids ministry has such a passion and heart for these kids and only by the grace of God. It is His heart for these kids that He has given her. That night we went out Christmas caroling, but not just the normal kind we gave a gospel message after to explain why an what we were doing. Very awesome time to sing about Jesus in public and to share about him. Before all this to get in the "mood" we decorated the house we stayed at. Great way to end a Monday with some good ol caroling! 12/2- Tuesday Today started off with us loading up to head over to an elderly lady's home. We gave an encouraging word about how if God was watching over Hagar and Ishmael, and they were slaves and a not wanted child due to Isaac. That God will take care of us as we trust Him ,and as we seek Him that He won't ever fail us. This message was after of coarse some jolly festive songs. Then we prayed with and over some of them. This time was an amazing time to see the people who serve these women everyday. All were volunteers except the full time cook, so it was great to see them also encouraged by the word we shared with all those who were there. 12/3- Wednesday In the morning we started by heading to a local sports area to have personal evangelism and pass out tracts to those we couldn't communicate with. While here we met a team of semi-pro soccer (football) players that were all from the continent of Africa. Many different countries but all from Africa. So we spoke with them while they weren't scrimmaging and had many good conversations with other people as well. After this we headed home for a quick lunch then went out to a church that has a youth slum ministry. We taught the kids a song and played games after telling them the story of David and Goliath. As you can see we reuse a lot of the same dramas every time there are new kids. It was a great time with those precious kids. Then a couple of us went to a new believers house to pray with her and over her children. We have been so blessed as God uses us to help others, it in turn seems to have helped us more than us doing the helping. 12/4- Thursday This morning was a special blessing because we were able to visit a kids hospital to pray over lots of kids. It was a very hard time to see some of what these kids were going through, but at the same time this is no problem for the same God who raised Christ from the grave. We just wanted to be Christ's loving arms for these kids even though it was only a short time. Then we headed back to the kings kids house and loaded up to meet together again as a whole team. Yes, we all met back up in order to move to another location to help church new planting pastor. We arrived after a shirt drive to a location a little outside of Kathmandu. 12/5- Friday Today was what everyone thought of when we heard our outreach was to Nepal and India. We started off early in the morning climbing mountains then went into and shared gospel with villagers who do not have a church near. They have a house church for all the believers there. We were able to share the gospel house to house and give out bible that are in Nepali. After this we headed home for lunch and later had a youth group meeting. We had a time of worship with the youth and gave a encouraging message after a drama. Today was a very full day and an extremely rewarding day to get to share the good news and encourage believers. 12/6- Saturday Saturday as the day of worship is still new to us but so awesome that only Nepal and Israel worship on Saturdays instead of Sundays. We had the kids from the church group as we lead the kids service. We did two stories of Jonah and Daniel about how God will protect us when we obey Him and trust in Him. We also had two crafts for them to take home in Oder to remember the stories. We also did chewchiwa with them, if you know what that is, if you don't it's a very funny dance and song that kids love. It was so fun to lead this time the kids were wild as kids should be but it was so fun! That afternoon we went and played soccer (football) by church with the pastor and locals who were quite good at soccer (football). 12/7- Sunday Sunday was a special time as we loaded up to head to a small hotel for the night far out of town. The hotel is right in front of the Himalayas so the sunrise and sunset are beyond beautiful. Also during very clear mornings you can see Mt. Everest. It's so awesome to see how creative our God is and to think we are the blessed ones given dominion over this and also made in HIS image. Wow reflecting times like this are so good to refocus on our God and not on our circumstances or even ourselves. Just a wonderful time to praise our God! We stayed here overnight and will head back in the afternoon the following day to enjoy a time of kids ministry.

Nepal Outreach week 6

Week 6 blog Nepal 11/24- Monday- Good morning Nepal! We got ready and headed out with our translator to do some evangelism around a pond that is a popular area. Before this though we had the pleasure of meeting a pastor who is leading a church planting ministry around the Kathmandu valley areas. We then headed to the pond since it was near the church planting base with our new friend who were pastors in training. There we were all able to speak with multiple people and share the Gospel with them. As one of the students asked a elderly lady if she had known who Jesus, an she replied she didn't know who he was but by the end of the convo she wanted to ask this Jesus into her heart!! Such a great time of encouraging believers and being able to share about this love God ha given us. We then headed to large park and we did open air dramas for students in the park . A we were doing these dramas there was a woman selling oranges an peanuts and come to find out she was a Christian also. This time was so great for us as we met this peanut sales lady who passed out tracts as she sold peanuts!! While we did dramas she handed a man a tract an then he began to ask us about this Jesus who was written about in the tract the lady had handed him. Her testimony was literally borderline impossible, but as we know there is nothing to big or impossible for our God! She told us about how she was not able to read because she never went to school but after she accepted Jesus in her heart she could read the bible! Yes, I know read that again and just tell God how good He is!!! What a great day. We then ended as you would all great days, with intercession. 11/25- Tuesday Today was quite an experience. Most of the team was battling illness and so because of this only 3 people went for ministry. We went to the pastors house who is leading the school for church planters that we visited on Monday. His family was so nice they invited us in for tea and gave us tons of bibles in Nepali and English. Today was more of a perpetration day due to the fact there is a national seminar going on where multiple prime ministers were meeting here in Kathmandu. So because of this South Asia conference everything was shut down for this half of the week. 11/26-Wednesday The morning started with intercession, and then went to our translators college to pray over it. While doing this we met a guy we gave bible after sharing the gospel with him. We also ran into a guy who told us he was a new christian and so we wanted him plugged into a local church so we invited him to church we were helping at this last week. 11/27- Thursday We went to Buddhist temple and tons of monkeys everywhere to prayer walk. Then after that we went and prayed for our translators dad and for a house church that was also an orphanage. The pastors mom we had previously prayed for was there waiting for us to pray. It was such a powerful sight just to see how much their understanding of the power of prayer is was just incredible. The team is still battling illness but God is still using us and preparing us for upcoming times of ministry. 11/28- Friday We started the morning with a great time of intercession and encouragement then switched housing so now the group from kings kids ministry is coming switch with us at the street evangelism base. This day was filled with packing and getting all our stuff together and then unloading again at the kings kids house we are now staying at. We had a time of orientation so we knew what to prepare for this week. Somewhat relaxed day just moved from ministry site to the next but still a great day! 11/29- Saturday We had found out that today at church we would be leading a "Saturday school" time for the kids, but during this time we had to teach them a Christmas play so we went with a classic the play of Jesus' birth. Later we gave a testimony during the youth group and then headed home because 2/5ths of our team were sick. It was an awesome church service though, and very nice to see because mainly the youth lead worship so it's very contemporary songs and somewhat reminds us of our home churches. 11/30- Sunday Once again was our free day so the whole group headed to the tourist area named Tamil and had lunch there. Some then went back home while others continued to shop and we met back up that night and ate dinner as a team. The hospitality at Kings kids is beyond awesome our host is the sweetest lady and 2 younger boys. Thank you everyone for your prayers and support. Make sure and keep up with what's going on only 2 full weeks left to hear about what God is doing in Nepal!

INDIA AND NEPAL DTS OUTREACH UPDATE

Blog week 5 11/17- Monday Today was sadly the last ministry day of India by this time the group has grown to love parts of India and it's very different culture. In the morning we started with a debrief with mega cities and were able to share our high points and what we were blessed to be a part of what God is doing in India. After that we again split into groups and went to do a time of open air in front of college. One girl asked Jesus into her heart. It was so awesome to know that our last day was just the beginning for someone else! That night we again went to a crowd favorite at the local train station for a time of street kids ministry. We played games and had a craft so they could make a ball and then just spent time loving on them. The last day of ministry ended on a very high point with a person accepting Christ and be able to love on those children, we are beyond blessed and thankful for all God did and spoke to us and through us during this life changing month. 11/18-Tuesday- Free day... Well not so much most of the day spent cleaning the church we stayed at and packing for some of us this was a extreme task while others not so crazy of a day. The family who so graciously housed us this month had a going away meal for us and some very good home cooked Indian cuisine. We were also telling the recently made friends goodbye and giving Bible's to those people who had made an impact on us, so that God through His word would leave a lasting impact in them also. 11/19- Wednesday- Goodbye India... Hello Nepal... Well sort of after a airline ticket mess up 3 students were not able to make it onto the flight for Nepal but were stuck over night in Delhi. For all those wondering who you have probably seen on social media sites and heard from them so we shall skip all those details. 11/20- Thursday- The students unite and finally make it to Nepal. The only problem was that the craziness continued with hours of airline delays we finally landed in Nepal! The entire group was now at the base we were staying for the first week. God is always good and provided to get here and trusting for his provision while here! 11/21- Friday- News hits the team that we have to split into two different groups due to space issues at a ministry location. One team a kings kids club ministry and another group doing more of an evangelism ministry with translators. So today was the split we said our goodbyes to half our team an hello to the upcoming ministry. God has a plan and we are excited to get to be a part of what He wants to do! 11/22- Saturday- Here in Nepal they have church on Saturdays which was a fresh surprise. So the half of us that stayed for evangelism did dramas in the church and also were asked to lead a couple worship songs. The church worship that the Nepali church led was very encouraging. So far everything here has been much more western culture styled than India and their worship did not differ. They were contemporary songs just in a foreign language. After that we were then able to go with the lead pastor and pray for church's new building being built. It was a very special time since we were the first foreigners to be at the site and technically in the church even though it was early on in the construction of it. We then went to two other houses to pray over people. One a local house church that was also a orphanage an the other was our translators house and prayed over his father. Such a great day of being recharged by believers and being able to be used to help recharge other believers, God is good all the time!!! 11/23- Sunday- Because of the difference on church days today again was a free day to rest up and pray up, to be prepared for the upcoming week. Can't wait for the next week to see what God is going to do! This week had a lot of down time but also very busy at times in order to get everything squared away as to what we were going to do an where we were going to live. A great opening week to take in Nepal and it's beauty and also it's colder weather! That was a major change from India. Stay tuned and ready for all the adventures to come from this next week!