Huntington Beach, Orange County, CALIFORNIA

Okaaayyy... so previously on my blog I wrote about how we will be going to California before leaving on our outreach...

I've just been told the other night that... we will be leaving by our YWAM vans on 17th August really early in the morning for an 18 hours drive to Huntington Beach area in California. The event has been given as a vision to the entire leadership team here at the base. We have been praying for God to open up doors and show us how He would like things to happen there.

For the last week or so, we have been praying for God to lead us specifically to the "vessel" that He wants us to use there. We currently have a large church hall ready to be used. But the vision that the leaders received was for the night rally to be held at a place that is neutral. The event will not be held under a church's name so that it will be more welcoming to people that otherwise would not step into a church...

The draft plan is for us to have "sessions" in the morning. For the YWAM people to get "fed" spiritually and  intercede earlier during the day. After lunch, we will all split across the area and start inviting people to come to the night rally where we will have the gospel be shared and teachings as well.

Today we had a worship session in the morning. we watched a video of a prophesy made to this particular base not long ago. After that was done, Peter (the founder of YWAM Denver) felt like we should take up an offering. Now this morning, we had our normal students, staff and around 5 guests at our worshiop session. There were probably about 100 people in total that attended. Peter mentioned that we will be using 7 vans. Petrol (gas they call it here) expenses to get us to and from California was estimated at $1000 a van. So we need around $7000 to get us to and from there.

Peter then challenged us on the spot to pray and ask God about whether we should give, and the amount. It was amazing to see that from that many people, the amount totalled to over $5000!!!! Please realise that these people are not millionares. A LOT of the students are still waiting for the money to be able to go to outreach. But they were moved by God to give! The staff here rely on support for their everyday needs. They do not get paid from the base at all. So seeing that much money come out from the students, staff and guests was absolutely HUMBLING!!! :)



Prayer Request:
1. For God to show Matt (the guy from YWAM Denver who is currently there to help plan things) the place where He would like us to hold our rally.
2. For a "vessel" for the night rally (we were thinking it would be a large tent but then we'd need sound permits, etc to be organised too).
3. Financials.... This event only started coming into the picture a few months ago, so it's not like they've had the time to budget anything in. But it can be seen that this is truly what God wants us to get involved in so we are having the faith for the financials to be covered by Him :) (If you want to give, please read the previous blog that has all the details)