What kind of ministries did
you do this year?
The easiest way to do that is a country by country breakdown.
New
Zealand: My team and I hiked/camped (tramping as Kiwi’s call it) a popular
trail for 2 weeks meeting people (fellow campers) and ministering along the
way.
Australia:
We were privileged to work with an organization in northern Australia called
the Christian
Outreach
Center.
Their mission is to funnel money to missions through the many businesses and
hostel 
that they run. We provided free labor and formed great relationships!
with the Children’s
Garden
which is an outreach to former street boys in Manila. We discipled and formed
some long-term relationships with the staff and the boys. Along with an
outreach to 20 families living in a local dump.
Helped teach English at a Christian orphanage and school called the Sihanoukville Childrens’s Home and the School of Hope.
Manistry round two in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Helped a local pastor do
construction on a future YWAM Discipleship
School and a lot of other projects while challenging each other as men!
Worked with a church in a city a long the coast. We did so many things!
Hospital visits, speaking at schools, preaching, door to door and small groups
just to name a few!
lot of door to door evangelism and visitations. With a good amount of preaching
too!
Lived in rural Uganda up in the mountains working with an organization called Juna Amagara(which means Saving Lives). Juna Amagara has many
ministries to the local community – we helped provide some mentorship to the students
and some preaching on the weekends.
We worked with a local Pastor in Targu
Mures.
We promoted Christian concerts, ran a weekly church service, visited gypsy
communities and did street evangelism.
Helped a local Pastor and his Wife run a coffee shop that they use an outreach
to the community.
Worked with the international branch of Inter-Varsity called CCX. Using teaching English as a platform we engaged with University
students, talked about our trip and built relationships.
ate?
visited their country unless you eat a delicacy called Balut: A fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell.
I choked one down! Words can’t describe how awful it was!
of the year?
THE
hardest point of the year was definitely month three in the Philippines.
It is more aptly summed up in my
blogs India is Haunting Me or Giftings and Deferred Dreams.
understanding what God was doing and being walked back through some of my past
woundings so that I could be healed.
What were the most exiting or
craziest things you did?
Hiking
and camping
along the coast of New
Zealand.
the Philippines. And climbing down a
steep ridge to swim in a volcanic
lake.
White
Water
Rafting
down the Nile on class 5 rapids in Uganda.
in concert for 6 bucks with 25,000 in Filipino’s in Manila.
Safari
in the Serengetti National Park in Tanzania.
What was your favorite
country/countries of the year? And why?
Philippines takes the prize this year as my favorite country for many reasons.
Unbelievable ministry with the former street boys. Warm, inviting culture.
Filipino’s are some of the
nicest people you will ever meet! Great place to stay. And they are crazy about
basketball as a country!
In a tie for 2nd would either be Kenya
or Uganda.
What were the most beautiful
things you saw this year?
But most of all, the view on the coast of Piha and the double rainbow. (All the
way across the sky…….so intense………so intense………)
Cambodia. Romania. Croatia.
