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Holy Spirit in Wales!!!
So, before we left, we were talking about the woman who was going to be the speaker for the week, Mariette Louw. We were sitting in the living room and Rob said “She brushes her teeth with demons!” While hilarious, this was also intimidating. So, we loaded up the and set off with me, at least, not knowing what to expect!
We arrived at the YWAM base in Wrexham, Wales, and were immediately welcomed by the wonderful staff and DTS students! For that week, it really felt like we were one big DTS, not two separate. The Wales students, Shelby, Leah, Chad, and Mike, had all been on the DTS since September, but they weren’t exclusive at all, which was such a blessing.
Man, I learned so much that I’m having a hard time focusing and knowing where to start! Our topic for the week was Spiritual Warfare. Because the York DTS hadn’t had the week on the Holy Spirit yet, Mariette took time out to have a special “Intro to the Holy Spirit” session with us, which was really awesome. One of my favorite things about the week was definitely her reference to the Holy Spirit within us as our “Spirit Man”!
How refreshing to know that our spirits can never be separated from God’s. How silly of me to sometimes try to separate it! 1 Corinthians 6:17 says “But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.” We have a living, active connection with God. All the time.
Rachael Harvey DTS Trainee 2011
School of Intercessory Prayer (SOIP) starting 11th April
“Prayer is where the action is.” John Wesley
The practice of intercessory prayer is a value that has been at the very heart and foundation of YWAM and many visions have been birthed during those times. The school emphasizes hearing God’s voice and praying his will. The school’s goal is to serve every YWAMer that has a desire to grow in their understanding of prayer, worship, intercession and spiritual warfare, to improve their prayer life and to become the man or woman that God has called them to be. Growing in intimacy with Jesus is foundational to whatever ministry God may call an individual to.
So that principles learnt during lectures can be integrated into a ministry context there will be 6 weeks of outreach running throughout the school. The school will mainly be held in England but two of the weeks will be in Europe for teaching and prayer in a few European cities.
For those that can’t make the whole school many of the weeks of teaching will be open to weekly guests.
More information about the school can be found by clicking on the image below.
DTS 2011 has begun
We’ve had a great start to this years 10 month DTS spending our first few days together visiting YWAM Derby to do some outreach in to the city and to spend time getting to know one another. Friday afternoon before heading back up to YWAM York we headed to the beautiful Peak District National Park for a hike one one of the windiest days of the year so far!
This week is the orientation with teaching on intimacy with God, hearing Gods voice, intercession along with introductions to the local outreaches in the city with the homeless, pubbers and clubbers, childrens and youth work.