First week in Australia and first week on the world race and so much has happened already. It feels like it was just yesterday that we all arrived. This month is a little different then the months to follow because our whole squad is together. We flew in to Gold Coast airport last Thursday and we drove down to the most eastern part of Australia; Byron Bay. Byron Bay is known for people to travel through; there are millions of people that backpack to this area every year which is an amazing opportunity to share Jesus. People in this area leave everything they know because they our searching for something, and they don’t realize that they are searching for God.
While we are in Byron Bay we have partnered with an organization called YWAM or Youth With A Mission, and Eastgate Church who has opened their doors to allow 40 strangers to stay in their church for a month. Our week started out by going to a lighthouse that looks over the city and we prayed for the city and that God would open people’s hearts. Then we jumped in… For the next couple days our ministry looked similar each day; we did life with people. We went to the beach and the park and we had conversations with people and shared Jesus with them. Some people set up a volleyball net, some people played soccer on the beach, some did face painting, some did henna tattoos, some played guitars and sang, and so much more, but every person we met we spoke life into them. Some were receptive some weren’t, but we have faith that the seeds we planted will bear fruit down the road. Then on Thursday evening we partnered with YWAM for their “Pan Chai”, which is where the got to the park and cook pancakes and chai tea for free. We also set up speakers and myself and three others played worship music while it was going on. It was awesome to see some of the people that we had talked to during the week that we had invited to come, and we got to love on them and share Christ with them more. So that was week one. Verse to think about: 1st Corinth 13:1-3 “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have faith that can move mountains but do not love I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames but do not have love I gain nothing.”
