It's 2013 or so I'm told. I also haven't blogged in a while. So here! Have a new post!
So our two teams left on December 31st and January 1st for Cambodia and Thailand. From what I've heard they're both doing quite well. The Cambodian team right now is teaching English, and the Thailand team is working in the red light districts of Bangkok. Our Indian student is having issues with his Thai VISA and will be heading to India briefly to deal with it, so we're praying it all works out for him. It's quiet here without the students.
Our focus over the next two months as a base is preparing for and promoting our three upcoming schools and our short-term missions program. We have a DTS (Discipleship Training School) starting mid-March with five students already accepted and another five who've showed interest. We also have our WISE (Worship, Intercession, and Spiritual Warfare) school starting in April which I'll be taking. I tried to take it last spring, but with malaria and the chaos of getting home and trying to turn around again quickly I wasn't able to. Then in July we have a two week school called Ignite Passion which is an intense two week school focused on evangelism coupled with compassion and justice issues (human trafficking, abortion, corruption, homelessness, poverty, etc.). As well as the schools we have a program called Mission Adventures where we organize missions trips for church groups who want to do missions but lack the contacts. Most of those trips will be within the U.S. our focus being Washington, D.C. this year. But there are some who wish to go oversees as well. We shall see.
My focus will mostly be improving our website www.ywamcharlotte.com which needs a bit of love. I'll also be working on building contacts at the local university, and some oversees just to lay the groundwork for my future ministry.
This past Friday and Saturday my church down here, Forest Hill, hosted a conference they called IgniteJustice. Partnering with some other local churches in the area, they had many local and global ministries come and share about compassion and justice issues. We were able to choose some of the seminars we went to, so I went to one on sex-trafficking which was a panel of four groups: one with a global focus, two with a local focus, and the fourth was a representative of the FBI. The second was on effective charity, and the issues facing charity and how to counteract that. And the last, which was my favorite was about corruption given by ALERT which is an organization that trains pastors, politicians and lawyers in East and Central Africa. It was an incredible two days, and I felt it was much too short. I had so much to learn, and I only was able to scratch the surface. Perhaps I'll grab my notes and blog in detail about it later.
God bless,
Christopher
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