David's Tent DTS week 1

Hello everyone!

Stairwell worship

To do a quick summary of what's been going on in my life I just wanted to mention that I had started staffing in Youth With A Mission in Washington, D.C. since the end of May.  I've been busy helping move this group from a different ministry center.

Last year when I staffed we were working out of a place called the Gatepost.  This year, God has moved us out of that location and brought us to Embassy Church in Northwest D.C.  The pastor of this church has allowed us to move into the church and use the different facilities to run the DTS. For several days over the last 4 weeks, we have been moving furniture into storage, out of storage and into the church.

DTS students at a monument tour

The DTS officially started on June 27th with the arrival of our students.  Most of the students are from the DMV area but one came from Hawaii.  We also have an American Sign Language DTS that is running along side of us and it has been such a privilege to have the ASL DTS running in D.C.  From our research, it seems that this is the first all ASL DTS to ever run in the history of YWAM.

We currently have a prayer room that just started running 24-hours a day 7 days a week and any one is welcome to join us.  Just feel free to contact me to arrange a time.  We are also looking for slots to fill the hours through the day.

Jeremy Bardwell

The first week of lecture was on the culture of the Kingdom.  Jeremy Bardwell was our speaker from Harrisburg, PA.  He did well to connect with both the ASL and David's Tent DTS students.  The topics covered were things like stewardship and excellence, happy holiness, and different principles of Christian life.

I hope to write more soon but its been pretty busy adjusting to a new schedule and new responsibilities.  Please keep me in your prayers!

3 Weeks and Beyond

I am currently writing this from my work-study job at Frederick Community College (FCC).  In 3 weeks, I will have finished my course work for my AA degree in government/politics and graduate from FCC with honors.  I can't wait to be finished and the 3 weeks could not come sooner.

As this time at community college comes to an end new opportunities have presented themselves.  Because of a scholarship procedure, I will be postponing my undergraduate studies at a 4-year university for a whole school year.  In the meantime I will be transitioning back to YWAM temporarily.  During the summer I will be staffing a Discipleship Training School (DTS) in Washington, D.C.  This will run similarly to the schools that I had staffed previously as well as the school I participated in as a student.

This DTS will also emphasize David's Tent during the outreach.  (I'll re-explain this in another post). The emphasis will be in doing worship and prayer 24-hours a day for about 40 days during the outreach phase.  There will also be an outreach overseas as well.  By the time this finishes, it will be around mid-December.  Following the DTS, I plan on going to Kona, HI for natural farming and school of photography provided by YWAM.

Hopefully, these plans will come to fruition but ultimately it is all in God's hand.

All the way from VA beach

(This post is a continuation of the last post and should have been published months ago but school took precedence.)



Continuing with tours, on another day, we had an opportunity to do the tour in the Capitol building.  This tour was not any different from the tours that are given on a daily basis in the building.  In a previous post, I wrote about a different tour we had done as a group with the wife of a former Congressman.  That specific tour was done in a very different way than the tour done with the youth group.
The tour guide gave us many different historical details from the construction of the building, the art on the walls, monuments of historical figures, intricate details of the architecture, and the significance of different rooms in the building.

After the tour, Jason, the leader of YWAM DC, discussed the implications of the things we heard during the tour.  It was also a debriefing time for the youth group students to share what they felt the Lord was saying to them.

As well as praying in some of the senate buildings, the team spent some time at the steps of the Supreme Court building life-sieging for the ending of abortion. God is stirring passion among the younger generation.