A couple of weeks ago my friend Lucie and I went to a school near her hometown of Guildford to help with a human trafficking awareness workshop. We started the day listening to a guy named Ben who started Hope For Justice. Then we split into different groups, and Lucie and I lead a session on photography with 15 and 16-year-olds. We got to share what we do and since none of them had taken any photography courses, we gave them some tips. It was very cool to see how much they were into it. We also looked at some images already used for awareness and critiqued them together. They had a lot of really great observations. After, we gave them time to come up with some of their own photography ideas, then sent them out on their own to take photos. They did a great job. We edited the photos together, and they will be going up in a local prayer room for trafficking awareness.
Monday, 21 February 2011
Hope For Justice
A couple of weeks ago my friend Lucie and I went to a school near her hometown of Guildford to help with a human trafficking awareness workshop. We started the day listening to a guy named Ben who started Hope For Justice. Then we split into different groups, and Lucie and I lead a session on photography with 15 and 16-year-olds. We got to share what we do and since none of them had taken any photography courses, we gave them some tips. It was very cool to see how much they were into it. We also looked at some images already used for awareness and critiqued them together. They had a lot of really great observations. After, we gave them time to come up with some of their own photography ideas, then sent them out on their own to take photos. They did a great job. We edited the photos together, and they will be going up in a local prayer room for trafficking awareness.
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
2 weeks left!
For the last two and a half months I've been staffing the School of Web Design and Communication. Helping with design consultation and other various bits and pieces. We are in our last 2 weeks! We have 6 students - from L to R Kokwain from Nigeria, Nathan from Holland/UK, Fred from Tanzania, Seun from Nigeria, Ross from Ghana and Martine from South Africa. They are a great bunch with a wonderful sense of humor, a huge heart for worship, and are working very hard and excited about learning web design. They will use these skills in their respective countries and throughout the world to broadcast the good news of Jesus Christ! After the Christmas Holiday they will be starting their 3 month internship where they will get to use the skills they've learned these past 3 months to do some hands on practical web-design, helping other Christian ministries. I'm so excited for them! Please pray for them as they finish their last project and will have an exhibition of all they've done at the end of next week.
Saturday, 6 November 2010
YWAM ENGLAND ARTS NETWORK GATHERING
Currently I'm gearing up for the 2nd YWAM England Arts Network Gathering. It's next Thursday-Saturday, Nov 11-13. We are gathering together as YWAM England Artists to encourage each other, pray and worship, do some art and seek God to see how we can collaborate more in the future...I'm SUPER excited about this! 
It has been a wonderfully busy week! I lead lots of intercession and worship, we interceded for Diwali (Divali), a.k.a. the Festival of Lights, on Monday morning. Diwali, which means row of lamps, is a Hindu, Sikh and Jain 5 day celebration of light overcoming darkness, the triumph of good over evil. So I thought it would be a good idea to pray that during this time when they are with a sincere heart pursuing light over darkness that they would know Jesus is the light of the world!
"When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said,'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'"-John 8:12
"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light."
I would encourage you to continue to pray or find out more about Diwali. It never hurts to gain a bit more knowledge or pray for people :) And praise Jesus that He is the light!
Hope you are all well :) Blessings!
Christy
It has been a wonderfully busy week! I lead lots of intercession and worship, we interceded for Diwali (Divali), a.k.a. the Festival of Lights, on Monday morning. Diwali, which means row of lamps, is a Hindu, Sikh and Jain 5 day celebration of light overcoming darkness, the triumph of good over evil. So I thought it would be a good idea to pray that during this time when they are with a sincere heart pursuing light over darkness that they would know Jesus is the light of the world!
"When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said,'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'"-John 8:12
"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light."
I would encourage you to continue to pray or find out more about Diwali. It never hurts to gain a bit more knowledge or pray for people :) And praise Jesus that He is the light!
Hope you are all well :) Blessings!
Christy
Monday, 18 October 2010
Interesting Look at the Way We Use the Web (Web 2.0)
I am staffing the School of Web Design and Communication (SWDC) and we are in our 3rd week now. The trainee's are great and I'm learning a LOT! We watched this in class today, check it out --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&feature=player_embedded
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Brighton, July 26-Aug 1
About 150 people gathered for 'Get Out' outreach, YWAM partnering with Soul Survivor (a church here in England). We split into 5 teams
Lithuania
Romania
Cambridge, England
Cornwall, England
Brighton, England
A group of about 25 of us went to Brighton to do outreach for a week.
Monday
We travelled by train to Brighton, where we stayed at a church called Gloucster Baptist, and prayer walked around the city, to get a feel and oriented to it.
Tuesday
After worship, we were able to bless a non-profit Community Café, just outside of Brighton, by giving it a makeover. It is run by Volunteers, so they don't get paid. Within the day we had repainted and stained the outside and inside of the café. They were so thankful.
Friday, 13 August 2010
Our Deepest Fear
I was looking at one of my friend's facebook pages and she had a youtube clip from Coach Carter. In it was a snippet of a poem by Marianne Williamson and wanted to share it with you.
Our Deepest Fear
Our Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.
We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people will not feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us;
It's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.
We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people will not feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us;
It's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Mind, Body, Spirit
Two weeks ago Saturday I was able to go into London along with 7 others from YWAM England to pray for people in a stall at a Mind, Body, Spirit fair. Many people came to get prayer, we asked God what His original design was for them and many people were blessed and some people were healed and others committed their lives to Jesus.
Approaching and starting conversations with people I don’t know isn’t something I would normally do but as the day went on I was able to pray for many different people and share my belief in Jesus and God used me to share my testimony with quite a few people. It was remarkable how much more open these people were compared to just going out on the street.
We had training 2 weeks previous on what words to use to speak to people, to communicate the message of Jesus without using "Christianese", so instead of calling ourselves Christians we called ourselves "Jesus followers" and were able to talk about the Holy Spirit quite freely and openly. Also we were recommended to use language like "from my experience". When I first heard the teaching, I thought, “This is crazy, these people are just wrong and how will I ever be able to communicate with them, I don't even know what words to use?” Then I was given a revelation that if I thought about them as an un-reached people group, like a tribe in the middle of nowhere, where I would need to learn the language and would make lots of mistakes at first, but as long as I loved them and cared for them and spoke the truth in love, then I would let God do the rest.
All in all, it was overwhelming at first, my only prayer for the day was that God would use me. There is one girl that I was able to exchange e-mail addresses with, I had felt like God had asked me to tell here that Jesus is Lord of my life...and she has e-mailed me in the last week and asked about how my relationship with God has come about, if you could please keep her in your prayers that would be wonderful :)
Approaching and starting conversations with people I don’t know isn’t something I would normally do but as the day went on I was able to pray for many different people and share my belief in Jesus and God used me to share my testimony with quite a few people. It was remarkable how much more open these people were compared to just going out on the street.
We had training 2 weeks previous on what words to use to speak to people, to communicate the message of Jesus without using "Christianese", so instead of calling ourselves Christians we called ourselves "Jesus followers" and were able to talk about the Holy Spirit quite freely and openly. Also we were recommended to use language like "from my experience". When I first heard the teaching, I thought, “This is crazy, these people are just wrong and how will I ever be able to communicate with them, I don't even know what words to use?” Then I was given a revelation that if I thought about them as an un-reached people group, like a tribe in the middle of nowhere, where I would need to learn the language and would make lots of mistakes at first, but as long as I loved them and cared for them and spoke the truth in love, then I would let God do the rest.
All in all, it was overwhelming at first, my only prayer for the day was that God would use me. There is one girl that I was able to exchange e-mail addresses with, I had felt like God had asked me to tell here that Jesus is Lord of my life...and she has e-mailed me in the last week and asked about how my relationship with God has come about, if you could please keep her in your prayers that would be wonderful :)
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