This week has been interesting. It's been encouraging, discouraging, joyful but also sad. I saw the goodness of God in many ways this week but He opened my eyes to the things of the world and how much they break His heart.
We arrived Monday night after a very long drive from Rhode Island. 14 hours. Praise the Lord!
Tuesday we were hooked up with a community house in one of the ghetto areas here. They run this house as a place of refuge I guess you could call it. For kids to just come and hangout. If they need a place to stay they open up the house for them. They are so influencing the community around them. The neighborhood has been changing and it feels lighter in the area. It was so encouraging hearing the stories of the kids and how much God has done for them through this community house. We were able to just come and be a blessing to them. We organized a few areas in the house, cleaned up some areas. Made it look all nice and neat. It was awesome to be a blessing to another blessing.
Wednesday we did the youth service at Providence New Life church. Our connection church. It went awesome. We did The Challenge(oh dear Lord) it went ok... I think hah! Really challenged 'em for missions and God set some people ablaze for it! Hallelujah. I was chosen to preach by the Big man upstairs (God). 150+ kids. I loved it. My sermon presses identity and worship out of your identity. God really touched some kids that night. Really poured love onto them, showed em destiny, purpose. I just wanna thank God so much. Looking at where I came from, hating church, hating missions. And now He has me in the field preachin the word and I love doin it. God's plan and purpose for us in life are so awesome. He's so cool.
Thursday was my day off and I was able to hang with my girl Bea. :) That was fun, it was good to see her again. Miss her dearly.
Friday was the beginning of the SST Mini we were running at the church. We kicked it off by being apart of the Justice Rally that took place at the church. INCREDIBLE night with the Lord. My heart and passion is for abortion and sex trafficking. So to be able to stand with about oh I don't know 1000+ believers and intercede for it was so amazing. They started it by showing a movie called "22 Weeks". If you get a chance and you want to know the reality of abortion, watch it. It's very intense. But God gave me a new revelation of how much His heart breaks everyday over this stuff. And He broke my heart again for it. I know this is what I am supposed to be doing. Doing what I can to fight against it. At the end they had a commissioning time. At least half the people came up. I felt the release of God to move into what He wants me to do.
Saturday we continued our SST Mini. Very tiring and long day but it was good. Alot of kids there, maybe 70? And they were touched. It's crazy to see what God can do in less than 24 hours. Seeing seeds planted and fruit come forth is so rewarding. I know where I am is where God wants me to be.
Sunday is just a very relaxing day and I'm praising God for it. Rest is needed. We leave for West Virginia tomorrow. Excited to see what happens there.
Please keep praying for me. I'll be posting soon what I'll be moving into next concerning what God wants me doing. Blessings on you all!
-Aaron
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
A Song... maybe?
Verse 1
You saved me and gave me life
You took my heart and made it bright
You took my pain and made it yours
You gave me everything and more
Chorus
Jesus I love you
Jesus I love you
Jesus I love you, love you, love you
Verse 2
Words can not express
How beautiful Your holiness
Words can not express
Your love healed my brokenness
Chorus
Beautiful Jesus
Beautiful Jesus
Beautiful Jesus, beautiful, beautiful
Verse 3
I see you there upon the cross
My life I count it lost
You say come follow me
And where you are I will be
You saved me and gave me life
You took my heart and made it bright
You took my pain and made it yours
You gave me everything and more
Chorus
Jesus I love you
Jesus I love you
Jesus I love you, love you, love you
Verse 2
Words can not express
How beautiful Your holiness
Words can not express
Your love healed my brokenness
Chorus
Beautiful Jesus
Beautiful Jesus
Beautiful Jesus, beautiful, beautiful
Verse 3
I see you there upon the cross
My life I count it lost
You say come follow me
And where you are I will be
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Rhode Island - January 18th - 24th
My time here in Rhode Island is coming to an end. We have a service tomorrow that we are doing at a local Rescue Mission. But after that we are Virginia bound.
It's been an interesting week for me. Our contacts here are incredible people of God. Very gracious and very, very hospitable. Great family :) My host home was awesome. Beautiful home with an outstanding view. Great people. Love the Lord. Made me feel very at home which helped this week for sure.
Rhode Island is a gorgeous state. I never really thought anything of it, but, it's beautiful. Notorious for crazy, ridiculous, huge mansions. Oh one day... Lord? Maybe? Anyways. We were in Newport on Wednesday doing prayer walks around town. After we were done we were taken to Ocean Ave. I have never seen a view of the Atlantic like this. It was cloudy all day but as soon as we started driving rays of sun shown through. It was such a beautiful scene. You look out on the ocean and it goes forever. The rays reflecting off the waves. The smell brought by the breeze that day. It was a total Me and God moment. I was standing there, just looking out on the ocean. All I kept thinking about was how can people think there is no God when they see this? The rays of sun portrayed His glory. Sometimes I ask God "Show me Your glory", look outside. Look at His imagination becoming creation. He is all around us. So many times I think God is unreachable. That I, for some reason, can't grasp Him. I just want to see Him sometimes yah know?! But He's all around me, all day, everyday. This place we call earth, He breathed into existence. It's so easy to see His glory. Open your eyes! Anyways, God is amazing. His imagination is beyond anything I could ever think of. And the God who made all of it, His thoughts of us outnumber the grains of sand on the beach. Amazing.
As a team this week, prayer was a huge part. Interceding for this area. The history of this place, again, is Jesus! This place was established as a place where people came and felt the freedom to worship God as they wished. A refuge from Puritan legalism and guidelines for worship. Honestly, you would never know nowadays. There is such fear here now. Fear of freedom. Freedom to worship God, to experience true freedom in Christ. I felt it this week. As a worship team, preparing our worship sets. I thought "what if they wont accept this song, or the way it sounds or flows?". It's almost like God was letting me know what it's like here for many people in the Body of Christ. God kept pressing it on my heart to pray for freedom here. But my picture of freedom isn't the only way it is supposed to look like. There can be freedom in structure. A good revelation I needed to receive. It needs to be freedom in their hearts. That will bring change and start revival in this place. Pray for revival here! Pray that the Spirit of Freedom would reign instead of fear.
This weekend we ran an SST Mini. Go to www.sst.org if you would like to know what it is. :)It went well. God really moved on some kids hearts, touched some of them. A few of them really started to step out so hallelujah for that.
This week has been a week of "Why God?" for me. Alot of different stuff has happened. With myself, friends, and just being here. But He keeps pressing His sovereignty. His Authority over my life and the earth. And that's all I need to know for now. I need to be at peace with it. I'll keep praying, I'll keep interceding, seeking God's face.
Oh, praise report. Scott Brown, a conservative, has taken the Kennedy seat in the senate! Praise the Lord! Let's believe for this guy. That he will keep to what he believes and knows is right. That he will be consistent and show integrity. It's time for a change not only in the Spiritual here, but also the physical.
Not much to write about this week surprisingly. Maybe I'm just forgetting some things? Oh well, if I remember them I will post 'em up :)
Like I said, tomorrow we have a service to do and that's all for Rhode Island. Leaving early Monday morning for Virginia Beach, VA. Very excited about this next week.
Thank you guys so much for keeping up with this blog and for your prayers. I ask you continue to pray for my team and I. We need it! In a good way that is. Haha.
Alright, that's all from Aaron tonight.
Blessings :)
- Aaron
P.s, Valerie Ruth Molina is still amazing! :)
It's been an interesting week for me. Our contacts here are incredible people of God. Very gracious and very, very hospitable. Great family :) My host home was awesome. Beautiful home with an outstanding view. Great people. Love the Lord. Made me feel very at home which helped this week for sure.
Rhode Island is a gorgeous state. I never really thought anything of it, but, it's beautiful. Notorious for crazy, ridiculous, huge mansions. Oh one day... Lord? Maybe? Anyways. We were in Newport on Wednesday doing prayer walks around town. After we were done we were taken to Ocean Ave. I have never seen a view of the Atlantic like this. It was cloudy all day but as soon as we started driving rays of sun shown through. It was such a beautiful scene. You look out on the ocean and it goes forever. The rays reflecting off the waves. The smell brought by the breeze that day. It was a total Me and God moment. I was standing there, just looking out on the ocean. All I kept thinking about was how can people think there is no God when they see this? The rays of sun portrayed His glory. Sometimes I ask God "Show me Your glory", look outside. Look at His imagination becoming creation. He is all around us. So many times I think God is unreachable. That I, for some reason, can't grasp Him. I just want to see Him sometimes yah know?! But He's all around me, all day, everyday. This place we call earth, He breathed into existence. It's so easy to see His glory. Open your eyes! Anyways, God is amazing. His imagination is beyond anything I could ever think of. And the God who made all of it, His thoughts of us outnumber the grains of sand on the beach. Amazing.
As a team this week, prayer was a huge part. Interceding for this area. The history of this place, again, is Jesus! This place was established as a place where people came and felt the freedom to worship God as they wished. A refuge from Puritan legalism and guidelines for worship. Honestly, you would never know nowadays. There is such fear here now. Fear of freedom. Freedom to worship God, to experience true freedom in Christ. I felt it this week. As a worship team, preparing our worship sets. I thought "what if they wont accept this song, or the way it sounds or flows?". It's almost like God was letting me know what it's like here for many people in the Body of Christ. God kept pressing it on my heart to pray for freedom here. But my picture of freedom isn't the only way it is supposed to look like. There can be freedom in structure. A good revelation I needed to receive. It needs to be freedom in their hearts. That will bring change and start revival in this place. Pray for revival here! Pray that the Spirit of Freedom would reign instead of fear.
This weekend we ran an SST Mini. Go to www.sst.org if you would like to know what it is. :)It went well. God really moved on some kids hearts, touched some of them. A few of them really started to step out so hallelujah for that.
This week has been a week of "Why God?" for me. Alot of different stuff has happened. With myself, friends, and just being here. But He keeps pressing His sovereignty. His Authority over my life and the earth. And that's all I need to know for now. I need to be at peace with it. I'll keep praying, I'll keep interceding, seeking God's face.
Oh, praise report. Scott Brown, a conservative, has taken the Kennedy seat in the senate! Praise the Lord! Let's believe for this guy. That he will keep to what he believes and knows is right. That he will be consistent and show integrity. It's time for a change not only in the Spiritual here, but also the physical.
Not much to write about this week surprisingly. Maybe I'm just forgetting some things? Oh well, if I remember them I will post 'em up :)
Like I said, tomorrow we have a service to do and that's all for Rhode Island. Leaving early Monday morning for Virginia Beach, VA. Very excited about this next week.
Thank you guys so much for keeping up with this blog and for your prayers. I ask you continue to pray for my team and I. We need it! In a good way that is. Haha.
Alright, that's all from Aaron tonight.
Blessings :)
- Aaron
P.s, Valerie Ruth Molina is still amazing! :)
Friday, January 15, 2010
Lancaster, PA - January 13th - 17th
Hello everyone :)
Well my time here in Pennsylvania is over for now, but we will be coming back our last week of outreach.
It was SO good to be back at my home church working with them and other churches in the area. Seeing my Pastors again and other long time friends. This place is definitely a second home for me. I love it so much.
We arrived Wednesday night and immediately did my churches youth group service. It was so awesome. I have never seen such a fired up, Jesus lovin, passionate group of kids in a Youth Group. Youth are coming alive Hallelujah! Kids are recognizing and stepping into the destiny and purpose God has for them. All we did was Worship the Lord for a couple hours and dwelled in His presence. So, so good. The Spirit was crazy thick too holy cow. Very encouraging to see that kind of stuff.
Thursday we worked with a church called Mt. Joy and their youth/community outreach center I guess you could call it that. Anyways, we were just hanging out with the kids from the community. Playin ball and shootin pool. We were able to do our program and my buddy Randy gave his testimony and word for them. As a team we really felt like God wanted to press these kids destiny and callings. Randy finished His word and you could feel God's presence it was so thick. We invited the kids up for prayer but nobody was coming. In my head I was thinking "You gotta be kidding me." How can anyone be in a room and recognize and feel God's presence and not do anything about it?! Keith, my outreach leader, came up and challenged them again. Finally one guy stood up and came for prayer. As soon as he did, the entire group of kids came. 40+ kids. Breakthrough, don't yah love it? :) We prayed for all of them, individually and in groups. In all I think about 9 kids gave their hearts to the Lord. God is amazing. Something is happening. Something is about to start, I'm not sure what it is or what it looks like. But people are seeing Jesus, and they know they can NOT live without Him. I don't ever remember hearing about stuff like this. It's happening alot more often now.
Friday. Mmm, oh Friday :). God gave me a gift. You see the reason I started playing bass was for jazz. Jazz is my passion and I love it. For so long I have wanted to go to a jazz club. Just sittin there listening to the music, I could do it for hours. In Boston, Randy and I were talkin and wishin that we could go to a jazz club one day. Friday, God gave it to us. :) Not technically a jazz club though. We were working with a church/ministry called Arbor Place. It came out of The Lords House of Prayer, my church. The pastor is really trying to bring change into the community where they are located. So he had a vision of a cafe type thing where bands, specifically jazz, will come and play for the community. We were invited to come out and chill with the families and kids from that community. Then the jazz began... :) Oh. My. Goodness. For an hour straight there was a smile from ear to ear. Listening to these INCREDIBLE musicians just play together. It was their first time playing together, crazy right? Playin Ray Charles and some Coltrane. But also jamming just as a band. The whole time God kept telling me "This is for you Aaron, this is a gift for you." Started crying a little because I got a new revelation of His love for me. The simplest thing that I really hadn't even prayed for, God gave it to me. My whole heart has been to serve Him on this outreach. For Him to give something back, just because He loves me and knows that this brings joy to MY heart, is amazing. Guys, God loves us. So much. He is so good to us. So good to me. I just want to bring joy to HIS heart because He deserves it. And He gives me a gift that brings ME joy. I can't wrap my mind around the amazing-ness of God, of my Father. After the jazz band was done we were able to do our program, kind of a weird transition but God showed up none-the-less. We were able to minister to the few people that were there and share God's heart for them. What a night :)
Saturday we joined the Hispanic/Latino congregation at my church. They led worship which was awesome. I forgot how crazy Hispanics are in worship! Talk about a party with the Lord! We did our program. My buddy Paul gave his message which was freaking annointed, and we prayed for people. :) It was cool, a little boy named Jeff came up with his parents. He has asthma and dry cough all the time and the doctors don't really know what's going on with him. They give him meds but nothing really helps. So I prayed for him. As a SOW team we have been believing for signs and wonders, miracles. Ever since we have been asking for it more and more people have been coming for prayer for healing. I start praying for Jeff and my hands and head heat up. Almost like a furnace it was so hot. But it was crazy, he was looking at me but he was seeing something else. Jeff was touching my hands but he wasn't touching MY hands. You know what I mean? He saw and felt something else. Right then I couldn't really tell if he was healed or not but I told his parents to tell their pastor if they see improvement and healing. I believe God is healing Jeff. But Jeff has a gift to see into the things UNseen.
Sunday, this morning, we were at the Mt. Joy main church. We were able to lead worship for the congregation. Jay Frey is the pastor. Such a good friend and an excellent preacher. The worship time was so good. It was funny, sound check sounded absolutely horrible, but when we started it sounded heavenly haha. God was hanging out with us and the church was really blessed. Jay had a vision of me on a beach and I was leaning up against this pole just looking out on the ocean. I wanted to go into the ocean but I was at peace where I was. He said there's 15 different things I wanna do but where I'm at, i'm at peace. Resting on that pole is where I wanna be right now. That really spoke to my heart. God is directing my steps.
Tonight we're going to the Quarryville church to do their Youth service, but the whole church is invited. I'm excited to see what happens. They say they love worship. Which brings a smile to my face because I do too. God is going to show up, there's gunna be deliverance, healings, prophetic words crazy stuff hallelujah!
We leave tomorrow for Rhode Island. Excited for that.
Ok, done typing for now. Just wrote a whole book. Goodness. I'll probably be writing again mid-week or next weekend.
Thank you all for your prayers. Please keep praying for me and my team :)
- Aaron
oh, RUTH VALERIE MOLINA is amazing. :)
Well my time here in Pennsylvania is over for now, but we will be coming back our last week of outreach.
It was SO good to be back at my home church working with them and other churches in the area. Seeing my Pastors again and other long time friends. This place is definitely a second home for me. I love it so much.
We arrived Wednesday night and immediately did my churches youth group service. It was so awesome. I have never seen such a fired up, Jesus lovin, passionate group of kids in a Youth Group. Youth are coming alive Hallelujah! Kids are recognizing and stepping into the destiny and purpose God has for them. All we did was Worship the Lord for a couple hours and dwelled in His presence. So, so good. The Spirit was crazy thick too holy cow. Very encouraging to see that kind of stuff.
Thursday we worked with a church called Mt. Joy and their youth/community outreach center I guess you could call it that. Anyways, we were just hanging out with the kids from the community. Playin ball and shootin pool. We were able to do our program and my buddy Randy gave his testimony and word for them. As a team we really felt like God wanted to press these kids destiny and callings. Randy finished His word and you could feel God's presence it was so thick. We invited the kids up for prayer but nobody was coming. In my head I was thinking "You gotta be kidding me." How can anyone be in a room and recognize and feel God's presence and not do anything about it?! Keith, my outreach leader, came up and challenged them again. Finally one guy stood up and came for prayer. As soon as he did, the entire group of kids came. 40+ kids. Breakthrough, don't yah love it? :) We prayed for all of them, individually and in groups. In all I think about 9 kids gave their hearts to the Lord. God is amazing. Something is happening. Something is about to start, I'm not sure what it is or what it looks like. But people are seeing Jesus, and they know they can NOT live without Him. I don't ever remember hearing about stuff like this. It's happening alot more often now.
Friday. Mmm, oh Friday :). God gave me a gift. You see the reason I started playing bass was for jazz. Jazz is my passion and I love it. For so long I have wanted to go to a jazz club. Just sittin there listening to the music, I could do it for hours. In Boston, Randy and I were talkin and wishin that we could go to a jazz club one day. Friday, God gave it to us. :) Not technically a jazz club though. We were working with a church/ministry called Arbor Place. It came out of The Lords House of Prayer, my church. The pastor is really trying to bring change into the community where they are located. So he had a vision of a cafe type thing where bands, specifically jazz, will come and play for the community. We were invited to come out and chill with the families and kids from that community. Then the jazz began... :) Oh. My. Goodness. For an hour straight there was a smile from ear to ear. Listening to these INCREDIBLE musicians just play together. It was their first time playing together, crazy right? Playin Ray Charles and some Coltrane. But also jamming just as a band. The whole time God kept telling me "This is for you Aaron, this is a gift for you." Started crying a little because I got a new revelation of His love for me. The simplest thing that I really hadn't even prayed for, God gave it to me. My whole heart has been to serve Him on this outreach. For Him to give something back, just because He loves me and knows that this brings joy to MY heart, is amazing. Guys, God loves us. So much. He is so good to us. So good to me. I just want to bring joy to HIS heart because He deserves it. And He gives me a gift that brings ME joy. I can't wrap my mind around the amazing-ness of God, of my Father. After the jazz band was done we were able to do our program, kind of a weird transition but God showed up none-the-less. We were able to minister to the few people that were there and share God's heart for them. What a night :)
Saturday we joined the Hispanic/Latino congregation at my church. They led worship which was awesome. I forgot how crazy Hispanics are in worship! Talk about a party with the Lord! We did our program. My buddy Paul gave his message which was freaking annointed, and we prayed for people. :) It was cool, a little boy named Jeff came up with his parents. He has asthma and dry cough all the time and the doctors don't really know what's going on with him. They give him meds but nothing really helps. So I prayed for him. As a SOW team we have been believing for signs and wonders, miracles. Ever since we have been asking for it more and more people have been coming for prayer for healing. I start praying for Jeff and my hands and head heat up. Almost like a furnace it was so hot. But it was crazy, he was looking at me but he was seeing something else. Jeff was touching my hands but he wasn't touching MY hands. You know what I mean? He saw and felt something else. Right then I couldn't really tell if he was healed or not but I told his parents to tell their pastor if they see improvement and healing. I believe God is healing Jeff. But Jeff has a gift to see into the things UNseen.
Sunday, this morning, we were at the Mt. Joy main church. We were able to lead worship for the congregation. Jay Frey is the pastor. Such a good friend and an excellent preacher. The worship time was so good. It was funny, sound check sounded absolutely horrible, but when we started it sounded heavenly haha. God was hanging out with us and the church was really blessed. Jay had a vision of me on a beach and I was leaning up against this pole just looking out on the ocean. I wanted to go into the ocean but I was at peace where I was. He said there's 15 different things I wanna do but where I'm at, i'm at peace. Resting on that pole is where I wanna be right now. That really spoke to my heart. God is directing my steps.
Tonight we're going to the Quarryville church to do their Youth service, but the whole church is invited. I'm excited to see what happens. They say they love worship. Which brings a smile to my face because I do too. God is going to show up, there's gunna be deliverance, healings, prophetic words crazy stuff hallelujah!
We leave tomorrow for Rhode Island. Excited for that.
Ok, done typing for now. Just wrote a whole book. Goodness. I'll probably be writing again mid-week or next weekend.
Thank you all for your prayers. Please keep praying for me and my team :)
- Aaron
oh, RUTH VALERIE MOLINA is amazing. :)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Boston - January 9th - 12th
So, our time here in Boston has come to an end. It was a such a great time of ministry, growing, receiving and learning.
Guys, our country was founded as a place to glorify God and reach out to the world. I know in my heart that it is still what God wants for our country. Boston started it all. This city was a beacon to the world. It's time for it to be a beacon again. It's time that it is known as a place of light instead of darkness. There's so much potential here. It can be a great tool for the Kingdom again. Pray for this area. Boston especially. Pray for YWAM Boston and the work God has started here. Doors have been opened in crazy ways for them. God is on the move and there is still hope for this area. No longer will it be called a dark place but a place where the name of God reigns. Mmm, preachin!
Ok moving on. We're leaving for Pennsylvania tomorrow. Excited about that. We're working with my home church in Lancaster there. Been quite a while since I have been there. As far as I know we have a service every night we're there. Going to be busy but good. I love that area. I love the people. Can't wait to see what God is going to do.
Pray for us. Not to sure what God wants to do while we're there. I have a feeling it's going to be a time of refreshing for the Body there. God is pretty good at doing that. :)
I'll be posting more this weekend probably. Blessings on all who read this!
- Aaron
Guys, our country was founded as a place to glorify God and reach out to the world. I know in my heart that it is still what God wants for our country. Boston started it all. This city was a beacon to the world. It's time for it to be a beacon again. It's time that it is known as a place of light instead of darkness. There's so much potential here. It can be a great tool for the Kingdom again. Pray for this area. Boston especially. Pray for YWAM Boston and the work God has started here. Doors have been opened in crazy ways for them. God is on the move and there is still hope for this area. No longer will it be called a dark place but a place where the name of God reigns. Mmm, preachin!
Ok moving on. We're leaving for Pennsylvania tomorrow. Excited about that. We're working with my home church in Lancaster there. Been quite a while since I have been there. As far as I know we have a service every night we're there. Going to be busy but good. I love that area. I love the people. Can't wait to see what God is going to do.
Pray for us. Not to sure what God wants to do while we're there. I have a feeling it's going to be a time of refreshing for the Body there. God is pretty good at doing that. :)
I'll be posting more this weekend probably. Blessings on all who read this!
- Aaron
Friday, January 8, 2010
Boston - January 5th - 8th
So, we made it to Boston hallelujah. It's been amazing so far. We are in Dorchester right now. Apparently it's one of the many ghettos of Boston? I think it's ballin. Really old district at a really old church. Love outreach.
We're workin with YWAM Boston, they're a pretty new base. They focus on creative arts and performance. Good stuff. Their main focus is friendship evangelism. Goin out on the streets and just tellin people about Jesus. From the statistics that Doug, the director here, has told us it's been really effective. 3000 people have come to Christ in 3 years just out on the streets. Praise the Lord.
In the mornings we have a classroom time, I guess you could call it that. We have been learning about the history of Boston and it's been so eye opening to me. The history here is so rich and full of God. It's crazy! The stories of evangelists comin here and their main focus was to reach the Native American Indians. Stuff we don't here in school at all. Guy names John Eliot. Guys, if this man hadn't obeyed God and went out in faith like He did, we as Americans would NOT be here today. It's ridiculous. Too much to type, so google him. :)
The reason Boston was founded was for raising up ministers, evangelists, missionaries and pastors to send to the world. Many stories of missionaries impacting different parts of the world have come from here. They were trained here and sent out from here. Nuts right? I NEVER knew this! This area was so saturated with God. Everything was built on His principles and the word. We know Boston as one of the most liberal places in America now.
There has been such an urgency in my spirit for this place. First day we arrived I was havin a quiet time and I opened to Psalm 6. It's David crying out to God for help. For restoration of His spirit. David was worn out pretty much. His cry was Restoration. Our times in class the point of teaching has been restoration for this area. That Boston would return to its purpose and call. Whenever I think about why the Pilgrims even came here. They came for freedom, but they also came to reach out to the Indians. My heart jumps. I so believe God is going to move through this area again. I believe revival will start, very soon. I believe the hearts are prepared. People are searching, they may not admit it but they are. Being out in the city talkin to people, they are so independent but it's just a front. I can like feel this area crying out for restoration. And it's coming.
God is already opening doors in huge ways. Boston city has around 250,000 students. Harvard was started as a Seminary type school. To raise up evangelists and missionaries. They now call themselves an "educational" school. Bull. Their heritage is Christ. Their heritage is reaching the NATIONS! They will return to their original purpose I believe it with all my heart.
China sends thousands and thousands of students to this area to be further trained in their skills. 1 in 6 of the students they send commit suicide. China sees the situation and they have decided to do something about it. The GOVERNMENT of China, the Government, has asked YWAM Boston to do a seminar in april on self worth and value. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Dude, God is so amazing! These 20 staff here out of their obedience have seen God move in HUGE ways now. Favor of the Lord is so on this base.
Ok, i'm done typin now. We go out to the Commons park in the city. The place where "Sinners in the hand of an Angry God" was preached. Awesome. We'll be doin our drama and worshippin the King out there.
I'll try and post in a few more days. WiFi is kinda scarce. That's ok. Alright, be prayin for us :)
-Aaron
We're workin with YWAM Boston, they're a pretty new base. They focus on creative arts and performance. Good stuff. Their main focus is friendship evangelism. Goin out on the streets and just tellin people about Jesus. From the statistics that Doug, the director here, has told us it's been really effective. 3000 people have come to Christ in 3 years just out on the streets. Praise the Lord.
In the mornings we have a classroom time, I guess you could call it that. We have been learning about the history of Boston and it's been so eye opening to me. The history here is so rich and full of God. It's crazy! The stories of evangelists comin here and their main focus was to reach the Native American Indians. Stuff we don't here in school at all. Guy names John Eliot. Guys, if this man hadn't obeyed God and went out in faith like He did, we as Americans would NOT be here today. It's ridiculous. Too much to type, so google him. :)
The reason Boston was founded was for raising up ministers, evangelists, missionaries and pastors to send to the world. Many stories of missionaries impacting different parts of the world have come from here. They were trained here and sent out from here. Nuts right? I NEVER knew this! This area was so saturated with God. Everything was built on His principles and the word. We know Boston as one of the most liberal places in America now.
There has been such an urgency in my spirit for this place. First day we arrived I was havin a quiet time and I opened to Psalm 6. It's David crying out to God for help. For restoration of His spirit. David was worn out pretty much. His cry was Restoration. Our times in class the point of teaching has been restoration for this area. That Boston would return to its purpose and call. Whenever I think about why the Pilgrims even came here. They came for freedom, but they also came to reach out to the Indians. My heart jumps. I so believe God is going to move through this area again. I believe revival will start, very soon. I believe the hearts are prepared. People are searching, they may not admit it but they are. Being out in the city talkin to people, they are so independent but it's just a front. I can like feel this area crying out for restoration. And it's coming.
God is already opening doors in huge ways. Boston city has around 250,000 students. Harvard was started as a Seminary type school. To raise up evangelists and missionaries. They now call themselves an "educational" school. Bull. Their heritage is Christ. Their heritage is reaching the NATIONS! They will return to their original purpose I believe it with all my heart.
China sends thousands and thousands of students to this area to be further trained in their skills. 1 in 6 of the students they send commit suicide. China sees the situation and they have decided to do something about it. The GOVERNMENT of China, the Government, has asked YWAM Boston to do a seminar in april on self worth and value. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Dude, God is so amazing! These 20 staff here out of their obedience have seen God move in HUGE ways now. Favor of the Lord is so on this base.
Ok, i'm done typin now. We go out to the Commons park in the city. The place where "Sinners in the hand of an Angry God" was preached. Awesome. We'll be doin our drama and worshippin the King out there.
I'll try and post in a few more days. WiFi is kinda scarce. That's ok. Alright, be prayin for us :)
-Aaron
Monday, January 4, 2010
North Carolina - January 1st - 4th
Well this blog comes a little late I guess, but that's ok.
Our time here in NC has come to an end. We leave tomorrow for Boston. Pretty excited about that.
Anyways. From what the Keith and Josh told me, NC was a last minute thing. I guess a few things fell through in another area? I don't know. For the beginning of an outreach I am very excited about it. It was such a good kick-start to this six week shabang.
First of all our host homes were absolutely a God-send. They were SO hospitable and so full of Jesus. Our contacts were such good people. Great hearts, great friends. They were former YWAMers. So they were able to relate to some of the difficulties of outreach and help us out on a HUGE scale.
Saturday we were hooked up with a small church called ReNew. They are currently meeting in the Steele Creek Church building where we did most of our stuff this weekend. Sweet church, 4000+ members. They enjoy the Holy Spirit so HALLELUJAH! Love those Holy Spirit goodies.
Anyways, the church service went well. My SOW team and I lead worship which was really cool hah. We were doing sound check and we had a whole set list. Yeah, God changed that up. We just stayed on this chord progression and worshipped. Freakin fun. After worship we did clincher and I preached. Hoorah. It was the sermon I wrote for SOW lecture phase. I think it went well. From what I saw during the message the crowd didn't look like they were enjoying it too much but after a lot of people came up and thanked me and blessed me. It was cool. God's been showing me "Keep my head UP". Keep my eyes on Him. This isn't about a response you get or anything like that, it's for His glory. Love the revelations I've been getting so early on outreach. God is so good.
Sunday we had the opportunity to lead worship for one of the Youth services of Steele Creek church. Such an awesome time. Spirit was there and we felt so much passion coming from the crowd. For me it was kind of shocking. My whole life I went to youth groups where it was so dead and dry. God is really starting to awaken the Youth of our country, and it's so exciting.
I have an excitement in my heart about this trip. I truly believe the church will have their eyes opened again in the East Coast, where are country and our church was founded.
My SOW team has kept feeling: "Empty ourselves completely and get filled with Him." There has been many different things that have lead back to it. Different words we have received and leading to different scriptures. Words about through our worship and also our coming and going the glory of the Lord reflected off us will bring change. I'm so excited to see what God does.
It was cool we went to the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte today. That was pretty awesome. He is such an incredible man of God. If God uses one man to change the world because Billy was obedient to Him, what can a group of 15 kids do for the Kingdom out of our obedience? I don't know that's been on my mind today. Jeeze i'm so excited!
So, it's been a fantastic start to an outreach. God has encouraged us in alot of ways already. Pray for me and my team that the passion we have now will stay fresh through the whole outreach. Pray for us this week as we'll be heading into Boston. Total different area spiritually speaking, not really sure what to expect but I do expect God to do some crazy things!
-Aaron
Our time here in NC has come to an end. We leave tomorrow for Boston. Pretty excited about that.
Anyways. From what the Keith and Josh told me, NC was a last minute thing. I guess a few things fell through in another area? I don't know. For the beginning of an outreach I am very excited about it. It was such a good kick-start to this six week shabang.
First of all our host homes were absolutely a God-send. They were SO hospitable and so full of Jesus. Our contacts were such good people. Great hearts, great friends. They were former YWAMers. So they were able to relate to some of the difficulties of outreach and help us out on a HUGE scale.
Saturday we were hooked up with a small church called ReNew. They are currently meeting in the Steele Creek Church building where we did most of our stuff this weekend. Sweet church, 4000+ members. They enjoy the Holy Spirit so HALLELUJAH! Love those Holy Spirit goodies.
Anyways, the church service went well. My SOW team and I lead worship which was really cool hah. We were doing sound check and we had a whole set list. Yeah, God changed that up. We just stayed on this chord progression and worshipped. Freakin fun. After worship we did clincher and I preached. Hoorah. It was the sermon I wrote for SOW lecture phase. I think it went well. From what I saw during the message the crowd didn't look like they were enjoying it too much but after a lot of people came up and thanked me and blessed me. It was cool. God's been showing me "Keep my head UP". Keep my eyes on Him. This isn't about a response you get or anything like that, it's for His glory. Love the revelations I've been getting so early on outreach. God is so good.
Sunday we had the opportunity to lead worship for one of the Youth services of Steele Creek church. Such an awesome time. Spirit was there and we felt so much passion coming from the crowd. For me it was kind of shocking. My whole life I went to youth groups where it was so dead and dry. God is really starting to awaken the Youth of our country, and it's so exciting.
I have an excitement in my heart about this trip. I truly believe the church will have their eyes opened again in the East Coast, where are country and our church was founded.
My SOW team has kept feeling: "Empty ourselves completely and get filled with Him." There has been many different things that have lead back to it. Different words we have received and leading to different scriptures. Words about through our worship and also our coming and going the glory of the Lord reflected off us will bring change. I'm so excited to see what God does.
It was cool we went to the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte today. That was pretty awesome. He is such an incredible man of God. If God uses one man to change the world because Billy was obedient to Him, what can a group of 15 kids do for the Kingdom out of our obedience? I don't know that's been on my mind today. Jeeze i'm so excited!
So, it's been a fantastic start to an outreach. God has encouraged us in alot of ways already. Pray for me and my team that the passion we have now will stay fresh through the whole outreach. Pray for us this week as we'll be heading into Boston. Total different area spiritually speaking, not really sure what to expect but I do expect God to do some crazy things!
-Aaron
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