I've decided to start a blog about my YWAM (Youth With A Mission) experience.
Last summer I went on a summer "missions" trip with my youth group. It was through the Bridge Street House Of Prayer (BSHOP) and they called it Immersion. This trip began with 2.5 days of backpacking in God's creation. We then moved to Bridge Street and began serving the people there. We did not only serve though. We had a lesson, an hour quite time, prayer walking/sidewalk chalking/ popsicle stick praying, and an activity at night. This was arguably the best week of my entire life as I learned so much and I began to understand and apply things I believed I never could. Most of the leaders of this trip have gone through a Discipleship Training School (DTS) through YWAM and told us that what we did that week was a lot like a DTS. I began contemplating doing YWAM and sought different peoples opinions. The best opinioin I got was to pray about it (this came from many people but mostly my mother as she always looks to prayer first) and so I began to pray. I weighed my college and YWAM options but I wasn't listening too well. I began to fell that college was not what I wanted to do next year so I started looking up YWAM bases online. The YWAM site is so difficult to manuever that I got fed up pretty quick and quit for a while. After a little cooling down and some pressure from my parents I began to look again and found some nice bases, including the base I am currently accepted at, El Paso/Juarez. I became excited and researched little by little about this base. I decided to apply and got in contact with the base leader, Ty Thurman. I sent in my application complete with two non-relative recommendations and a Pastoral recommendation. I did not however send in my medical form or the money for the application fee. This caused me to wait and wait unknown of whether I would be accepted and forced to explain that although my plan next year was to attend YWAM I was unsure of so many details, like if I actually was going to go. Finally a couple weeks ago I became accepted and papers came via email explaining a lot of my questions. I am now excited and nervous, but I believe that this is where God has led me to.
