I was in England last week with most of our DTS (2 unfortunately couldn’t come because there wasn’t enough time to apply for their British visas). We joined the English Discipleship Training Schools for a DTS week together. We had lectures together (“Evanglism” taught by Yan Nicholls), worshiped, ministered and evangelized together.
One session of intercession was devoted to Italy, YWAM and ministry in Italy, our base, and our DTS. More than 100 people prayed for our nation and our prayer requests for about an hour and later on another day took an offering. Our Milan team stood at the front, eyes closed and hands out, while about 100 poor YWAMers came up and put money straight into our hands and pockets. Unbelievably, we received $1500 (900 UK pounds) for our travel expenses and base needs!!!
Yan championed our team for pioneering a new thing, challenged the entire group to not mess around but get dead serious about their relationship with God, and demonstrated a contagious evangelistic attitude and barely believable outreach stories.
*my favorites: the machine gun in I Gulf War Iraq; and the Middle East dessert villages that spent 3 days reading the Bible straight through and coming to understand why Jesus had to die*
Throughout the week we saw Blackpool residents come to know Jesus, receive personal prophetic words of encouragement, and get healed (as well as some of us). We were at Colin’s first-ever evangelistic-team pub night performance. What a blast it was to enjoy his live music and have some great God conversations meanwhile! I wish you could’ve seen that pub full of about 20 YWAMers involved in lively conversations with the lovely colorful people of Blackpool— wacky, searching, drunk, gay, lost, hunting.
