I'm back in Maui and feeling refreshed from an amazing time in Kona! While we were in Kona we had six lectures in total with about 20 hours of teaching time. Our speaker was Kris Vallotton from Bethel Church in Redding, California. Kris is the founder of 'The School of Supernatural Ministry' which now has over 1,000 students each year. Some of our lecture topics were honor, gifts of the spirit, prophecy & healing and freedom in Christ. He was a very straight forward and challenging speaker. I really appreciated his boldness and the ways he challenged us. Kris encouraged us to "follow the ways of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy" 1 Cor 14:1. He has an amazing ministry in Redding and told us some amazing testimonies of what God has done through them.
I also spent a lot of time in the prayer room seeking direction and refreshment. Kyle and I feel called to long term missions and every time we pray and ask God for further direction or more detail he reminds us to be patient and trust him. We are waiting patiently for the details about our future but for now we are content with waiting and trusting the Lord.
I'm always amazed at the perspective I get while I'm in Kona. There are 1,000 people living on the base (that doesn't include the staff living off base) and so many of these people have radical stories of their journeys with God. The founders of YWAM live in Kona and are such people of faith. There's also a man who was imprisoned in Iran and beaten daily and now is leading a DTS to "extreme places" which include Northern Iraq and Afghanistan. There are people from all over the world living at the base in Kona. I was reminded of what I'm a part of and why I've been doing what I do.
If you'd like to know more about YWAM or any of the things I've mentioned feel free to e-mail me! Thank you to all of you who helped me get over to Kona! God Bless!
