Hey All!
So I missed a couple weeks, sorry about that. But needless to say, it has been an AMAZING
couple of weeks. Two weeks ago we had
Cindy Mendrell from Ohio. Cindy is on
YWAM Metro NY staff, but is based in Cincinnati. She runs something called
Project C.O.O.L (Community Outreach Of Love). What that is is Extreme Makeover:
Home Edition on steroids. Instead of
taking one house for a week, what they do is take an entire block/neighborhood
for one day and completely transform it.
Anyway, Cindy spoke to us about the Nature and Character of God. Whether
the students realize it or not, it is very impactful on everyone who hears
it. Her teaching is never exactly the
same every time she speaks because her teaching is very much a question and
answer kind of teaching. She teaches
based on what answers she is given.
Last week we had Jim Erhman from YWAM Axiom in New Haven,
Connecticut. Jim is involved with an organization called Love 146. What they do is help raise awareness for what
a terrible thing human trafficking is. As
well as, work with other organizations to help get girls, and boys out of human
trafficking, mainly sex trafficking. They
work mainly in Asia, Philippines, and Thailand a majority of the time. They just celebrated their 10th
birthday in NYC. The birthday gala was put on by a professional golfer’s wife
who also has a heart for seeing the end of human trafficking. They had all kinds of famous come and
speak. One notable person was former
President Clinton. Every two years
President Clinton heads up a Think Tank of the top thinkers in the world and
they talk about what they think are the top 5 most important topics. While he was talking, President Clinton said
that for the next Think Tank, in two years, Human Trafficking will be one of
the topics.
Anyway, Jim spoke to us about Biblical Worldview. He spoke on Theism, Deism, Nihilism, Middle
Eastern thought, and Post Modernism. He has such an awesome teaching
style. He loves to have fun with what he’s
teaching. He can share something totally
and completely serious, but with and underlying joke making you unsure whether
it’s okay to laugh or not. He was such a
chill and cool guy. He began every lecture with a question, a “get to know you”
question, nothing serious. Even though
they weren’t serious questions, they still caused you to think. Jim’s week was a very “thinkful” week. He caused the student’s to really think about
how they see the world, and why they see it that way.
Today (Monday, October 15) Dan Sneed, a Pastor from Los
Angeles California started his lecture week on Identity. I will post an update at the end of the week
about this week.
Hope all of you are doing well!
With the wind,
Mark
