Coffee = Productivity!

After two scrumptious cups of coffee after six p.m. I've gotten somethings accomplished. It’s now 1:20 a.m. and my homework is completed! I still have my creative journal to update, but after a book report, writing a song, and editing two of my writing masterpieces…I am calling it quits! Since I am wired on caffeine I can’t exactly rest, so for now, I will check off my to-do list a little more. I’ve been meaning to bring you an update for quite sometime now.

Life these days hasn’t slowed down at all for me. I’m not meaning to glorify business by any means, but even when learning about Jesus, I still have to take time to pencil in some time for me. So here is my me time, time spent to record God’s goodness and to tell you about what He’s been doing in my day to day.

The common theme in lectures has been prophecy. Although our teachers have had very different topics, each week the Holy spirit continues to direct us down the road of the importance of prophecy, simply hearing from the Lord and speaking it out! Telling of the age to come, and of Jesus' deserving His reward for suffering. 

To be honest I’m new to all of this, but I love it! I’m a deep conversation girl. I love hearing what is on the hearts of dear friends, and even more so, I love hearing what is in the depths of my Father’s heart.

On DTS I was awakened to the reality that I am God’s daughter and I hear his voice! Wow! Ever since then, I’ve built upon my prayer life to practice hearing from Him so that I truly know His voice.

Time after time, the most popular way (and is not limited to) that He speaks, is through a whisper, or that still small voice. He loves when we take time out of a hectic day to steady our hearts, focus our eyes on His, and to listen.

Although He isn’t annoyed by our questions, actually He loves them, He still enjoys when we just listen. I have been shown this week how there is something special about seeking what He wants to say without my thoughts immediately going to my God- do list of wants. For example, the profit Samuel. His response to hearing God’s voice was, ‘Speak, for your servant is listening’.

Our school of seven students and three staff have been thirsty for the deep things of His heart. We’ve learned simple obedience of allowing Him to provide our daily bread. One thing that we have heard clearly pertains to our outreach.

Originally, our school leaders felt that Malaysia would be our location for outreach. The more we gathered for outreach prep, the more a few of us started to sense that something wasn’t settling about this trip.

We decided to Fast together. From experience, this is always a good idea! It gets the attention of the Lord and shows seriousness and maturity in wanting to be lead by Him alone. In doing so, He sure enough spoke to us. He spoke to me personally about each of us being planted in New Zealand before. He went on to say that He brought each of us back here. The reason for Him doing this wasn’t for us to be uprooted and planted elsewhere, but for our small trees to grow into large and mature trees. He pointed out that we have been soaking in His presence near His living water during lecture phase and that He has been maturing us to bear fruit in New Zealand!!

What a word! The rest of my team came into agreement and we’ve been talking with the Lord about what His vision is for our outreach here in New Zealand.

Another common theme during lectures has been dreaming. If we are to do greater things than Jesus did, we simply have to stop limiting God to what we’ve seen and always known and start dreaming with Him to do the impossible.

I’ll let you in out what our team has been dreaming since day one! We’ve been tossing around the idea of doing a two-month long faith journey Matthew 16 style. Meaning that we depend on God for just about everything. Where we literally don’t plan out our entire schedule and we ask Him what city, and what task for each day. We lay down our comforts and securities and trust Him for physical daily bread and spiritual daily bread!

Well, this NZ outreach has offered just that! A blank canvas to go after our dreams! We are very practically living this out financially thus far! We have only $5,500 out of the $22,000 estimated budget for our outreach. Although that number is about the cost of a really nice car, it doesn’t scare us. Each of us have seen God provide close to $10,000 dollars for us in this year alone, so we know He is not limited.

Even more so, we are believing for exceeding abundance and look forward to giving to other outreach teams that are short of finances as they have began their outreach already. With that said, I invite and welcome any type of partnership that God moves you to. We welcome creative gifts in the form of cash money, flyer miles, gas cards, grocery gift cards, and any other way you feel to contribute...and most of all, prayer; and lots of it.

As we step into this we are most excited about fulfilling the dream and vision of one of my fellow students, Hannah. She is a kiwi (New Zealander) who is burning with the vision of busking (playing music on the streets) and bringing the glory of God through worship. She wants to see her country revived and hearts awakened to His perfect love. She wants to see the opposite spirit of teen suicide and depression demolished in this nation. She wants to see hearts overwhelmed by the love of a Father who purposes them with the Hope of a Savior!

Her vision has been adopted by each of us as we long for this dream to come true. Could it be that God does powerful things as we have been gifted and equipped with musical ability, hungry hearts, and life-changing testimony of Jesus? Could it be that we will see hundreds or thousands of names written in the lambs book of life because we are willing to say yes and to go as He leads? I believe that as much as we will dream and dare to ask God to meet us, He will do so! His heart longs for His children more than we long for them to know Him. Jesus longs for the reward of His sacrifice, and it’s our mandate to tell the poor in Spirit about Him. He is behind us fully and our confidence is in Him alone!

We are excited as we step out on this amazing ride of hearing His voice and doing as He speaks. If that means singing in the streets for eight hours a day, then yes! If that means telling the simple gospel to university students in between classes, then Yes! If that means serving churches with worship, then yes! If that means gardening for a lady to enjoy God’s beauty through nature, then yes!

We are willing and He is able!

May God’s blessing be upon you!

Than you for walking this journey with me in partnership! 

Three days with no food

Our YWAM base was led by God to do a base-wide 3 day fast. I’ve never fasted more than one meal at a time before, so I knew this was a challenge that I would be walking into. The thing is, I love to eat! I love the flavors of foods, and I love the company that I scarf those foods down in!

I have to say, on this side of things, I have an entire new love for Jesus!

I began the fast by asking God to satisfy my food cravings. I said I wanted to completely focus on what He had for me and would he do it…and because we have a good Father that gives good gifts to His children, I never had hunger pains!

On the physical side, I had a new revelation of how food is for nutritional purposes and how we are meant to savor and enjoy it. Also, reminded me to really appreciate the relationships that I have while sitting down to eat three times during the day!

On the spiritual side of things, I finally hunger for the word. I cannot get enough of it! I know the verse that says if you seek me you will find me, but I always pictured myself having to strive in order to find Him. Truth is, with just one glance, with one whisper of His name, He is running after me.

 I re-read prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32, and I chose to look at just the goodness of the Father. Here’s what I found: He immediately did what they asked, with an open hand as they asked for their inheritance, even before it was suppose to be given. He even gave above and beyond what they asked. (God does the same for us!)

Next, He felt compassion for His son. In that day, men of his stature surely didn’t run! When he saw his son, he wasn’t ashamed. He ran to him and embraced with a kiss! (God is not ashamed of us, He has compassion on us, He knows our frames!) After the son had a spill of how undeserving He was of his fathers love, the Father didn’t even address that, He chose not to dwell on it. (Forgiveness is immediate and He does not condemn.) When He was wanting to adorn His son, He had a sense of urgency as He spoke with His servant. (God has urgency for our intimacy.) He dressed him with a robe, that signifies righteousness, cleanliness, and a new identity. He also gave him a ring, that shows his covenant and promises. Lastly, a pair of shoes that shoes him that identity will follow him where ever he goes. Then the Father asks for the best meat to be brought in! The best cow now cost even thousands of dollars! He threw a party without even one thought of the cost. (God isn’t limited on how much to give us. He wants us to have the best!) When I say this, I am not thinking materialism, although it’s not a sin to have nice things. God knows our hearts and how we steward things that we are given!

During this celebration the Father rejoices over the son. (God exalts us higher than we even think of ourselves.) He doesn’t stop there. Not only does the Father go to meet the lost son, but He actively leaves the party to go and beg the other son to come and join. (God is always pursuing us, even if we are coming to him, or if we are choosing to sit out.) Although this son was angry and felt entitled, the Father simply reminds him that all that the Father has is already the sons. (God doesn’t withhold inheritance, sometimes we just don’t realize what we have.)

Both sons thought they had to strive for it, the truth is, it was already freely given!

So the truth that I learned over all is that Jesus just wants us to know how much the Father enjoys us. I want to and I encourage you to run to Him fearlessly and not from Him due to rebellion and weakness!

At the conclusion of the fast, I have gotten a deeper revelation of how much the Father loves me, how He sustains me, and have a true hunger to know him on a more intimate level.

This week has been absolutely crazy following the Fast. We have had Circuit Riders in from Hawaii teaching us all about evangelism and demolishing doubt, passibity, and unbelief!! More to follow on that later! 

Seraphim's Cry

I am back at it! I was accepted back into a secondary school of worship titled 'Seraphim's Cry' at YWAM Bethlehem in New Zealand. After an amazing month home of visiting family, friends, and Church; God made it incredibly clear for me to continue on with what He has started.

Again, I saw His provision provided for as I received nearly $3,000 for my pla

ne ride back within only two weeks!

I am also excited to announce that all $4,000 of my lecture fees have been covered completely by a generous act of obedience to the Lord!

For reference, I will be going on another two-month mission to Penang, Malaysia! We are joining the YWAM base there. The base already has local ministries that we will serve. One of those include, serving the homeless at a soup kitchen. Others include ministering to rescued human traffickers, and kids/youth ministries. We also will partner with the house of prayer in Penang, called PenHOP. Since we are a worship school, we will most likely lead some of the worship sets there. My team is excited to join what God is already doing in Malaysia. It is a Muslim nation and will be quite different from anything I have been around, but I am excited to see God’s strength through me like never before. The bonus is, light shines the brightest in the darkest places, so my team and I are very expectant so see life changes through influence!

* Those who are led to partner with me and financially invest into my next mission, please know I welcome it! I have a total cost of  $4,000 to be able to follow this call!

Back to what I am doing in this moment: What is a seraphim anyways?

The seraphim is a creature that God created with eyes all over it’s body to behold the beauty of God in the throne room of heaven. The proper response that they have in seeing this beauty; is constantly proclaiming, “Holy, Holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

We have adopted this as our focus. We want to be enthralled by the beauty of God from a place of intimacy, then to give a proper response to Him in worship! We are longing for a new song to arise in our generation and for a freedom to be released in acceptable worship to God. 

We know we all fall short of His glory in giving Him the due honor that He deserves. That doesn’t motivate me to just give it up though! That makes me want to give it all I have with all He has given me for Him to receive glory! After all, He’s the reason why I am here!

I have now been back for almost an entire two months. To be real, the first week I struggled with being back here in Tauranga, New Zealand. Although it was clear as day that God wanted me to be here, Satan was coming after me!

I had a struggle through each airport getting here.

I missed my first flight leaving out of Atlanta. Praise the Lord that I had enough extra money to purchase another plane ticket! I arrived in LA and found out that both my carry-on bag and personal bag were overweight. I laid my bags wide open, in front of everyone that was in line attempting to check-in, to transfer some items. After my rolling bag was filled to the max, the guy informed me that I would have to pay $100 to check my bag in. After a second of prayer (knowing I couldn’t afford this) and a look of understanding, the guy informed me I could actually check it in at the gate and he wouldn’t charge me! Praise the Lord!

Round two happened again at check-in, where I would need to re-check that same bag in for my next plane in New Zealand. This time the gentleman informed me that it would cost $188. After asking him if I could get around this in any way He allowed me to transfer some weight around. So again, I laid all three of my bags wide open in front of the check out line. By this time I was working up a sweat, pulling out my heavy items like cowgirl boots and winter coats and layering up in attempt to save money I didn’t have! Finally, I achieved the accepted weight and was able to board! Praise the Lord!  (Personally, the weight is all going on the plane, in the same exact place, what difference does it make which bag it is in? But it pays to follow the rules!)

Back to business, I have been on information overload as secondary school is surely more intense that DTS! The teachings have far exceeded what I thought I would be learning about. So far, our topics have been about intimacy and knowing God, Identity as sons and as brides of Christ, Freedom, and our true reality. We have studied biblical and historical basis and what it means to fear the Lord with awe and reverence. Meaning, not accepting the things that He hates, and to be fascinated with the things He loves!

We’ve been taught how to dissect the bible well. Our teachers have showed us the importance of looking up Greek words and understanding the root of what was being said along with historical background and context.

I’ll tell you this, I’ve never been a history girl…at all! Honestly, I’ve never even really had a hunger to study the word.

I had quite an adventure last week in the area of word study, as our base we went deeper into where God was leading us! Stay tuned to get an update tomorrow of how God moved through me as we sacrificed to know Him more!

Thank you all for following me and keeping me supported by your prayers! I’ve definitely felt the strength of the Lord as I pray He has been glorified in our busy schedule!

Praise report: I prayed that God would lead people to financially support my outreach cost, and as I type I have gotten an email with $200 already! Thank you for those who are sowing into this partnership as well!

 Much love and Many blessings,

Kyndal 

It's more Fun in the Philippines!

How do I summarize two months in foreign nations where nothing is familiar, in just one post? That's been my struggle and why I am just now getting to this.

Week one began as we arrived in Singapore. The YWAM base there hosted us and held teachings to introduce us to Asia. Most of my team had a lot to learn because only two of our members had ever been to Asia! Our time in Singapore lasted for a week as we had team bonding times, lectures, evangelism practice, and getting over culture shock! We discussed things like how to respect Asian culture, how to remain safe, and some history on the Philippines. The YWAM base was located near the red-light district.  This was apart of why I had culture shock. It was the first time I had seen women being sold right in front of my eyes. This district screamed bondage. Bondage to man, bondage to jobs, and bondage to our enemy. I couldn’t find a piece of home anywhere and was completely out of my comfort zone. I needed Jesus like never before…

On the plane ride over to the Philippines I mostly prayed. I prayed I wouldn’t have as hard of a time in the Philippines for the rest of the two months.  

Praise God that my experience was quite the opposite of Singapore!

Although nothing is familiar, they are amazing at loving people and making us feel welcome through hospitality. Possibly because we are white! (Filipinos buy whitening lotion, while we buy tanning lotion! Crazy, right?!) 

We were welcomed on jeepnees, which is their main mode of transportation. They adopted them from the American military and decked them out wired with lights and great stereos! We could get a one way ride somewhere for 8 pesos (about 10 cents US) The streets were filled with karaoke, vendors selling all sorts of things, and you would see a countless number of dogs and roosters. (Rooster fighting is a national sport!) 

When we get down to it, the Philippines was absolutely where I needed to go for my first outreach! In some places like Turkey, you could possibly be shot for talking about Jesus. In the Philippines, it was actually a requirement that we preach, every Sunday, if not more!

One thing that I dealt with during my lecture phase of Discipleship Training School was some insecurities that I had with my fear of speaking. When it came down to it, the night before my first teaching in the church, I was scared. Reason being, I hadn’t actually put action to what I “dealt” with.

God graciously gave me a clear topic to teach on. And, He informed me that it wouldn’t be an obligation to preach, but an opportunity to share His truth with these people! So, with that in mind, I stepped out in faith! The teaching went better than I could have ever imagined. The message was like a flaming arrow straight to their hearts. Each one stood up after I was done and shared a personal testimony of how they had been struggling but that my message brought encouragement and revelation of God’s love towards them. My translator whispered what they were sharing as I watched tears stream down their faces. Then my tears started flowing from realizing that God actually used ME!

I had another opportunity to speak that week at a home bible study. Late one night, we found ourselves at a village, hiking up a mountain with our flashlights. When we arrived to the home, it was actually a 5’ by 5’ hut. So, we ended up gathering outside. It was a very dark night with only one light bulb. My friend Irene and I could barely see who we were teaching to! From what I could see, Mothers were weaving baskets, children were running around, and no one seemed to really be paying attention! My head was running wild as I thought that it was going to be a failure because of the circumstances and conditions. Sadly, to my lack of faith, I was surprised that the Holy Spirit actually showed up and was moving in their hearts. Just about all that was gathered in that village came around us for our invitation. Two women were healed, one of a UTI and the other was healed of pain in the ribs causing her legs to go numb! Again, God blew my mind. He is who He says He is. He is healer! He’s not only a spiritual healer, but a Physical healer too!

My faith was increased and set for the rest of our outreach!

Some other ministry looked like: House to house evangelism, kids feeding ministry, and running a youth camp!

I can’t even begin to count how many people our team came in contact with that encountered the Lord. We now have new brothers and sisters that chose to truly follow Jesus, and that were encouraged to continue on in their faith. From God’s work through us, the Filipinos had physical needs met, they experienced the love of God for the very first time, and they broke out of the oppression of foreign rule. For the first time in a few generations, they believed that they had a voice in their nation.

God so graciously used me, although I was of little faith, and allowed me be apart of Him changing lives. We are one step closer into Him releasing Jesus to finish the injustices here for the last time!

Although this was the toughest thing I have done thus far in my life, He is worth it.

He is worth leaving my family, He is worth the cultural barrier, He is worth the being worn out on a daily basis. He is worth being in uncomfortable places and situations of seeing complete poverty, begging, and even being stolen from.

I will never regret these things; loving the Lord with all of my heart, soul, mind, and strength!

As He calls, I must go! 

A Journey of Faith

Since I wasn't able to update on our Faith Journey I'd like to do that now! Towards the end of April, 70 of us loaded up in our cars and vans and headed out to 8 different cities around the Bay of Plenty area in New Zealand!
We were sent out with the clothes on our backs, our water bottle, and a sleeping bag and pillow! Things not allowed to start out were food, money, or accomidations! We embark on this two day journey 'Matthew 10 style' to see how the Lord works through us and provides for our needs!
Nine fellow radicals and I loaded up in two cars early in the morning and headed about 40 minutes up the road to Kati Kati. This town is known for its artistic murals painted throughout the town along with its kiwi fruit factory. This town is less than half the size of Perry, GA so we were able to work the main strip quite a bit!
Day one we arrived, prayed together, split into 3 groups and walked and talked. We did a lot of street evangelizing, encouraging through prayer and my favorite...serving! After offering our service to several businesses, my team ended up settling down at a rotary club and was able to serve the youthful elders tea! This was our first 'meal' of the day, let me tell you, that was the best slice of fruitcake I have ever had!!  After serving there, we continued to drive through the country and a particular home caught our eye mostly because of the ripe and juicy manderines that looked oh so good to our tummys! We decided to stop and ask if we could try some! The couple gladly let us take as many as our two plastic bags could hold and listened to our story and what we were doing. The wife ended up having to leave, but the holy spirit led the husband to continue to talk with us and he shared his broken heart of his previous' wifes death and how he was hurt by this and couldn't fully believe in a good God. We were able to speak truth over this man, pray for him and encourage him to seek the God of Love! At this time we recieved a call from our other team members saying we had a place to sleep and food to eat! Praise the Lord! A local church received us with arms wide open! They had a newly built sanctuary and kitchen, we felt like roalty staying here! We enjoyed a delicous dinner provided by two guys who worked in a bakery for $20! The rest of the evening was spent with some Maori (native) children who loved to sing and dance! The church had some recent easter things still layed out so we had an easter story lesson for them! After getting the kids home safetly and sharing stories of how God spread his love through us and met our needs, we played a round of hide and seek and then got some shut eye all throughout the church to prepare for the next day!
Day two: Us girls awoke the guys to some coffee and a nice breakfast. We split up into two groups this morning! Some guys wanted to stay in town to work the strip and some of us planed to work at a Ukelele event at the local grade school. The team that stayed in town ended up helping at the church with a kids music group to start then they gave prophetic words to the church. They were so blessed by us coming in and being the 'talk of the town' by spreading the good news. The church welcomed us back anytime! (PS. we had an outreach team for the months of May and June stay in the Bay of Plenty area. This same church welcomed our outreach team back to work a youth event that they had!! How neat!!)
My team ended up only staying at the Uke event for and hour and we didnt have any other arrangements.... so here comes my favorite part of the trip!!
The pancake House! This place had been in my mind for weeks. A local Kiwi told me this is a must go to before I leave New Zealand, just so happens that I love pancakes and have been craving them for over two months! Our driver Karen suggested that we ride 15 minutes outside of town to check this place out! When we arrive we meet a Mother and Son duo and co-owners of this restaurant! Karen propeses the guy a deal right away! She offers that we work manual labor, whatever it may be for two hours for a pancake each! Right away, He says, "why not"! He puts us to work right away clearing out an eye sore of theres for quite some time. He had tons of overgrowth that needed to be cleared out. We get to work right away loading up limbs after limbs upon a trailor and tractor along with dumping wheel barrow after wheel barrow! After countless trailor hauls,  a few dirty blistered hands, and two hours later our work is finished! We get the approval from the boss to come on up for a well desereved breakfast! Boy oh boy, were we in for a treat! They let us pick out whatever drinks we wanted, and Started out bringing us three pancakes! More than plenty for the five of us! These things were unlike anything I have ever laid my eyes on! Each of these pancakes were loaded with savory goodness like ham, onions, spinach! We put some aside for the boys back in town and chowed down on the rest. When we were almost finished, the owner comes over to our table and ask what two dessert pancakes do we want!!! Woah man, I immediately wanted chocolate and strawberries and the other we went for was a blueberries and cream! These things were a taste of heaven! After we ate to our hearts content we prayed blessings over these owners and their business and told them we would spread the word about their amazing food, business and hospitality. They were incredibly blessed and said that we had come to the right place at the right time because he just didn't have the time to take care of what needed to be done! >> This story goes deeper personally to me because I'd been talking about going here for weeks with my roomies. The one time I get the chance to even get close I was thinking 'Great, I don't even have money to eat there'. I told God that I knew He would provide if he wanted to. So personally He answered a physical craving and desire of my heart and I ate there for completely free! We were sereved over $200 worth of food that morning. What a sweet and personal God! Reminds me of Matthew 6:33. <<
After that amazing morning, we received a phone call of a disabled single woman who needed some yard work done and we were the crew that was just right for the job! We met back up with our other half and got to work! We did the whole nine yards along with choping some fire wood! After we got started I spoke with her about what we were doing in the town and at our YWAM base and she was just overwhelmingly blessed in return she gave us $40. After a hot afternoon in the sun we were all desiring a nice soak in the hot pools! We didn't have any money, but our fearless Karen decided to give them a call to see if all ten of us could have a free entry! After the owner called around town, He gave us a ring back and said that he had heard of the service we had done within the city and that we could have a free swim for as long as we would like! Our only stipulation was to not bring up God to other customers. Well, we followed the rules, but because of our culture of the kingdom that we take everywhere we go, we were approached about what we were up to! So we shared, they were all christians also that we were able to encourage! One lady gave her contact info, and joined us back at our base the following week at our community night! That night she was set on fire and encouraged us to keep following the Lords calling on our lives and dont settle for the one million souls we had been asking God for, because what if her children werent included in that. She encouraged us to dream bigger and to never stop! God's connections are just incredible! We drove to a beautiful lookout place along the beach and watched an amazing sunset. We felt God's favor on us as we had swept through the town with His love and walked by faith trusting his guidance and provision!
We drove back to Tauranga where we stopped and got 8 pizzas at $5 each with two soft drinks. We drove to a park and chowed down before returning to base after 10pm to complete our mission!
Just think this is only two days, one city, and 10 willing children of God. Multiply that by the 7 other cities that our school impacted. We are left all kinds of stories of salvations, healings, provisions, and just beholding the goodness, perfection, and truth of our Almighty God.
I am amazed at the vastness of our Creator of the Universe and intruigued by His fatherly ability to pay atention to each little detail and desire in our lives. To Him be all the Glory!

Enjoy some pictures of our journey!

PAST : PRESENT : FUTURE

It’s been a few days since I’ve last given an update!

I have had several inquire about donations. So, to start, I would like to answer by posting the donation website!

idts.co.nz/payments

Simply fill out all of the information asked and our head accountant will send a tax deduction to all who donate. If it doesn’t come right away, just know she has hundreds of other people that she is getting these for and will get it to you!

Thank you tremendously to those who have donated through one-time gifts or through monthly support! Be on the look out for a blessing in return, that’s what God enjoys doing for those who invest in what He is doing all over the world!

Now, on to some updates!

PAST:

As you know, we have had intense studies on several topics. All of which, I am excited to come back home to share with you all! A few have been The Character and Father heart of God, Cultivating intimacy with God, a life of Worship and many others. Through these lectures, we have been set free from bondage and set on fire for freedom.
I want to share one story of a friend that I met on the plane from LAX to Auckland, NZ. His name is Chris and He is from Texas! His story goes like this…he was raised in a Christian home but didn’t believe the truths for himself. He sought out love and acceptance through the thrills of the world. He became heavily involved in drugs and the party scene. During these struggles in his life, a friend of his and a staff member here at YWAM Bethlehem told him about this particular dts. Shortly after Chris left a rehab center, He decided to come here. My first impression of Chris was, Oh boy! I thought I was coming to a training place for Christians who have already dealt with all of their ‘junk’ and are ready to be sent out into the nations. Sadly, but surely, those were my first thoughts.  Within the first week, He was surely saved. He was set free from the bondage of sin that He was in. He got out of a sinful relationship with His girlfriend. He said yes to the Lord for the first time in His life and hasn’t turned back. I love His diligence in seeking what the Lord wants to do in His life. He has been so fast at growing and has made incredible progress as a new believer. On our third week, He became this wild evangelist that organized late night trips into town to share the love of Jesus. During these trips, we have been able to pray for people and see physical healings on the spot. God is moving in Tauranga! I believe He doesn’t want us just to impact this city, which leads me to the…

PRESENT:

Starting tomorrow, we are loading up in vans and heading out to eight different cities within the ‘Bay of Plenty’ here in the North Island of New Zealand. This mini outreach has been inspired by the Circuit Riders and Impact World Tour who have impacted this nation in the past. Over 20,000 souls were saved back in 2006. These people were between the ages of 13 and18, which makes them between the ages of 20 and 25 today. It just so happens to be around the ages that most of us are at here on this dts! We are excited to go back out to these cities to share the Love of Jesus by serving at local businesses, evangelizing, and listening to what God wants us to do by the hour. The fun thing about this trip is that it’s a total faith journey inspired by Matthew 10! We are only allowed to have one back pack each with a few toiletries and a water bottle! We can also take out pillow! Things we are not allowed to bring are money and food! We will literally have to depend on God to provide for us to eat, for us a place to sleep, and for ways to serve and love throughout our trip! We leave at 8am on Thursday morning and will return at 11pm on Friday evening! I cannot wait to share our journey with y’all! This mini outreach leads me into telling y’all about the….

FUTURE:

Apart of our two-day faith journey, the plan is to lay a foundation in these cities. We are paving the way for future YWAM teams to come in and build upon us. We are also laying a foundation for when Circuit Rider teams will come through in the fall of this year! The agenda for the Circuit Riders is to rally up those 20,000 saved and equip them to be sent out with the good news! This ride across the nation has been birthed out of our dts on the third week and is something that we as students have been invited to join in on! I personally do not know if God wants me involved, but if so, they are holding training for this in Fiji two weeks after I graduate, then from there will be back in New Zealand to get started! How exciting?!

More future news is the soon approaching outreach that my class has been preparing for over these last eight weeks! We, along with your help, are preparing to impact the nations of Thailand, Tahiti, Singapore, Philippines, Cambodia, Fiji, Turkey, Israel, and all of New Zealand! We all have specific goals in our different nations! We will mostly learn what we are doing when we arrive for our first few days of training. As of now, I know we will have many opportunities to preach and teach in many different churches! Prostitution is huge in the Philippines and we plan to show the women how worthy they are and that their identity comes from Christ.

We plan to have many updates for all of the ministry that we do on our Philippine blog as well, be sure to follow us at teamphilippinesywam.blogspot.co.nz J

Thank you for your partnership. Thank you for your faithfulness to walk with me!

Until this weekend, Kia Ora! (hello or goodbye in Native Language!)

Good News!

I am marveled by the fact that I have been in New Zealand for exactly over one month now! I’m not in freezing cold America; but in sunny, warm, and overwhelmingly beautiful New Zealand. It’s incredible how God cares about my heart’s desires and the more I seek Him the more I find fulfillment in Him. Through that, I also notice the small gifts that He loves to give to us! One desire of my heart was to have a secluded place from all of my comforts with nothing on my to-do list, except to grow in him! Now, my full time job is to wake up every morning to fall more in love with Him. I have the privilege of doing this with nearly 100 other people that have the same desires! I’ve become so secure in the fact that I am God’s daughter, what an honor! I’ve been awakened to the fact that the Holy Spirit, and all of His power, is in me…somehow?! Why have I been so fearful to share the greatest news of all? I’ve realized that I was more worried about my own reputation and fear of rejection from others than the souls of my Father’s children. Ouch! And the fact that what I have and live out really isn’t good news if I only go to church once or twice a week and still struggle constantly with ‘problems’. Who would want that life? I would wake up, have a bad hair day, and let it determine how I felt about myself or even let it determine how my entire day was going to be. Who am I? Enough is enough!! I have the living God within me! That is why I now get up in the morning to proclaim that it is His day and I welcome Him to use me. I wasn’t living in the fullness of His salvation. He died to free me from all of my junk. I was living as if my Dad is a wimp! As if he couldn’t use me to proclaim His good news! He created me….there is no doubt that He is using me! (Just a tiny bit of Revelation that I’ve had)

Also, for those who don’t know yet, my outreach location has been determined! A team consisting of 17 of us are traveling to Singapore and the Philippines! We will be following up on the Impact World Tour that is also involved with YWAM. They do huge events that lead hundreds to Christ in a day and we will go to help disciple and to be open books in those countries! More details are to come, but what I do know is the cost! The grand total is $3500! That’s an amazing price considering that we will be in two countries with many flights, all of our lodging, transportation, gas, and food will be covered for the entire two months with just this amount of money! God is so good! My first deposit of $1500 is due in 4 days! The remainder of $2000 is due in April. For those led to invest financially in this specific part of my trip, I thank you for being obedient! God promises to bless those who steward His money well especially those investing in His Kingdom work! Without you guys, I don’t see my being here very possible! Words are so cheap when it comes to trying to express my gratitude for each of you!

Again , Thank you for those who have already supported to get me here and to keep me fed! It’s been an incredible first month!

Thank you for supporting me also by the many amounts of prayers to my Father on my behalf! It’s been a life changing experience that I am eager to share with each of you when I return!

Until then,

He is worthy of it all!

Much love!!!

Love is in the air...brotherly love that is!

I know this is super late.....better late than never I guess!

This year is my first year spending Valentine’s day away from home. I thought is was going to be entirely depressing and crappy with me being away from the people I love, but boy oh boy was I wrong. This time, I was glad to be wrong!

Our day started with a lovely breakfast with my small group of girls. It consist of three amazing staff girls and 6 of us students. We drank Hot chocolate and of course chocolate was on the main menu for our gathering. We sat at a pic-nic table under a nice shade tree and shared stories through a game.

We picked a handful of M&M’s and each color had a specific question, so we went around and answered the questions. They were of course good girl talk such as what is your idea of your perfect date. For any wonderers of my answer, I am such a laid back girl, and enjoy walks down the beach, or PJ and movie nights with a nice bowl of ice cream with hard shell poured on top. But, for a really nice date it would be neat to have a new outfit waiting on my bed with a note for me to get dressed and to be ready for a night out. We would eat mind blowing delicious food, we would go somewhere with some type of music involved for the night and ending with some place quiet to hang out and chat, probably somewhere outside looking at the stars. We also talked about our favorite chocolates, mine are milk chocolate Lindt and Resees!  We also chatted about what we are missing from home and some struggles we are facing while here. It’s kind of obvious, but I miss my family and close friends a ton! I didn’t realize how I took for granted going to the grocery store with my mom or all of us being musical in my brothers room. I miss long chats where time goes by so fast with Katie. I miss getting routine Menchie’s with Stephanie. I also miss lunch dates or chats on Amber’s bed. The list goes on and on but I’m so thankful for memories! Some of the struggles I have had so far is seeing other people’s gifts take off when I seem that God has been silent to me. I know in due time He will work amazingly in me. There is one particular guy that has caught my eye, but no need for too many details! I’m thankful that dating is not allowed and that as the weeks have gone on I see him as more of a brother and see Jesus as most important. To go back to our pic-nic, We also listed all of the amazing things that God sees us as! We loved recognizing that embracing our feminine hearts is so honoring to God and how he created us to be! After our small group, I then had some free time. Some girls took off to town without me so I ending up hanging out with three cool guys named Earvin, Greg, and Daniel.  These guys are the three that are most like brothers to me! They were telling me how they were hungry, so I showed them some love by making them each a bowl of noodles and shared my last three glass bottled cokes with them. They were so sweet calling me an angel and made me a bouquet of flowers with the vase being a glass coke bottle! Shortly after that we had a session then at the end of our session all of us girls were asked to stand up at the front and each guy walked up and gave each of us girls a flower and gave us a hug. They then proceeded in reading some verses and encouraging us and honoring us as their sisters. It doesn’t stop there, at dinner all of the girls got to go first, which is such a big deal because we often run out of food towards the end of the line. Then after dinner we were served dessert by the guys. I was also surprised by my small group leader with a sweet note and with two huge bars of my favorite chocolate! The first being Lindt milk chocolate and the second being Whitakers milk chocolate made here in New Zealand!

My heart was overflowing and overwhelmed with my new family here!

God totally knows the desires of my heart, even while I’m in New Zealand! :)

Financial Investment

Many folks have asked me about tax write offs! I apologize for taking so long, but I finally have information for you!! 

For financial support: 

If you feel led to support financially you are able to donate towards my mission portion for a tax write off on the website at http://www.idts.co.nz/payments. Click the drop down box to select donate to student. For the tax write off donation put my first and last name (Kyndal Tyson) and specify for Outreach. The staff will get information back to you asap! 

If you would rather to support my financial cost back home as I am out of a job or if you would like to help continue my cost of living while here and do not need the tax write off you can donate to my home address at:

123 Hawks Tail Dr 

Kathleen, GA 31047 

Checks need to be made out to my name! 

I am so glad to say that God has blown me away that He truly finishes what He starts and He provides for His children! 

Thank you for investing in my life and in God's kingdom! 

I have arrived!

Hey everyone!!!

I am excited to be posting my first blog from New Zealand! I am blown away that I can even say that I am in New Zealand and have been for exactly one week now! It’s nothing short of a miracle that God has provided everything for me to be here. There is no doubt in my mind that I am supposed to be here. Everyone is so welcoming and makes me feel right at home. It’s so fun that everyone loves my southern accent and I love all of theirs. I am one of sixty students at this dts! This is a huge deal to this particular base, in the past the student range was between six and twenty-five students! Leaders have been praying for this particular school for two years now. We are anticipating mind-blowing works of the Lord! God told this particular base to do a tuition free dts, which cost them close to two hundred thousand dollars for them to do this. I am so glad they obeyed the Lord for my sake or I may not have even considered coming! This decision of tuition free has come with great sacrifice and trust. Especially since all staff and students raise support. It’s a huge deal to not have that tuition money to run the school. It’s neat to see them trusting in the Lord for provision because I am having to do the exact same thing. He provided just enough to get me here and I trust that He will provide to keep me here!

This calling on my life has been confirmed several times and I have only been here for three days! We had some incredible surrender to Christ happen during our first session with at least half of the students. As I was praying for the students down at the front, a new friend that I had not gotten to know really well yet, asked if she could pray for me. I told her please do that I had a wall that I’m not sure what it is but that I don’t feel that I am fully engaged. She quickly said that she had a word for me from the Lord. So we prayed and she began to tell me what God was telling her. She said that God wanted me to accept His abundant love for me. To come to agreement that He is my father and that He will completely provide for my every need, especially through finances. I immediately began to sob knowing that was the wall I had built up as I worried about the rest of my finances for the past three days. She continued to say that God needed more time with me on a one on one and intimate level. That He just wants to lavish His love on me just for who I am and what I am doing. An immediate peace filled my heart. I’ve never had such a direct and meaningful word before. It’s neat how Savannah had no idea about my financial struggle. Over the past two weeks, I’ve had a load of sacrifice, but nothing compared to what God sacrificed for me to have eternity with Him. He is worth it and it’s an honor to serve Him in this way.

Thank you for the specific prayers for safe travels, all flights went incredibly well! Thank you for encouraging words and notes! Thank you for commitment prayers while I am here! I wish I could have packed you all in my suitcase, but It’s such an honor to be able to include you guys through my blog!

On a side note, they keep us extremely busy here!  I will try and update at least once a week depending on how my studies go, it may be more than that. Wi-fi has a mind of its own here, so sometimes I have it and sometimes I don’t. If it takes me a few days to respond, It doesn’t mean I don’t love you or care! I will get back to you, promise!! Thank you for following this journey with me! In this position, It means the most to me to be able to bring you along on this journey! Stay tuned for the work of Jesus through my life and the Lives of others!