Wait wait wait....it's been a month already??

Hi all, so I can’t believe that I’m saying this already, but I’ve been on staff here for a little bit more than a month already.

It has been such an amazing experience so far! We currently have a Discipleship Training School going with 31 students representing 14 different countries!! We are in our second week of Lectures; our current speaker is Cindy Mandrell from Project C.O.O.L in Canton Ohio. Cindy is actually an extended staff member here at YWAM Metro New York. She’s just based in Canton Ohio. About three years ago God gave her an idea for this Project C.O.O.L, which stands for Community Outreach Of Love. It has been described as, “Extreme Makeover Home Edition on steroids.” Instead of tackling a single house for a week, they tackle an entire community for one day. The last C.O.O.L day in June of this year, had over 2,000 volunteers!! How cool is that?? (Pun intended)

It has been such an intense week so far, and it’s only our third day! She has been speaking on the Character and Nature of God, and has been exactly what the students have needed to hear at this moment. And after last weeks’ lecture with Christi Wilke who spoke on Hearing God’s Voice and Intercession, this week has been an amazing follow up week.

From my experiences in YWAM, no matter the speaker order, it seems to me that the weeks just flow like they’re supposed to. The same happened on my DTS more than two years ago now, and the same is happening now, even with only two speakers having been here. God just knows what the students need to hear, and when they need to hear it, and it works exactly how He intends it to.

Alright, so I’m posting this a little later then I was hoping to, and we’re now in our last lecture day of our third speaker, Dan Sneed, who has been speaking on Identity. This topic was a huge part of my DTS, and I can tell that it has had a massive impact on a lot of the students here.

Nonetheless, it has been an amazing experience thus far, and I can’t wait to see what happens in the future! Thank you to all of you who have committed to supporting monthly, supporting with a onetime donation, and/or committing to pray for me while I am here. I appreciate it more than you can imagine!

With the wind,

Mark