Thoughts from the Director

2005! Where has it gone? It seems like only last week that we were gearing up for the arrival of new staff, new students, and new schools.

January brought 2 new staff – Tony and Cheri Peck. They helped with the CDTS, the ESL and in the office before returning to Colorado in July. Faye led our third ESL class. She had eager language learners from Korea, Japan, Poland, Brazil, and Iceland. It was a very diverse class, but as their English progressed they quickly formed strong bonds of friendship with one another and with the staff.

CDTS

The new life of spring brought new life to the base when the CDTS began. The 8 students and their 6 children came from Korea, Poland, and Guatemala as well as the USA. They learned much during their lecture phase, and also spent a week in Philadelphia for practical application of what they were learning. One of the students joined us for our annual outreach to Ukraine. These students are now serving the Lord in their home countries as well as in Ukraine and New Zealand.

TESOL

Marlene, Erna and Lynn have had a busy schedule with six TESOL schools this year. Graduates of these schools are now serving in 23 different nations

Unfortunately, the new school we were planning for this year, the School of Intercessory Prayer (SOIP) was canceled.

Welcome

In October we welcomed Hugo and Kelly Avila along with their children, Daniel and Emily. They have come to us from YWAM Chile, and will be ministering into the local community, encouraging the local body of Christ to work together in outreaches to other regions. Hugo took a fact-finding trip to Texas in October, and Mercy In Action was birthed! You can read more about that below and/or follow the navigation bar on the left side of this web page and click on Mercy In Action.

We are blessed to be a part of what God is doing in the Nations! Thank you for partnering with us in your prayer and financial support.

May God’s amazing initiative – showing Himself clearly in our Lord Jesus, whom we celebrate so wondrously at Christmastime – be the source of great joy and blessing to you and yours in the fast approaching festive season.

“We have all benefited from the rich blessings He brought to us – one gracious blessing after another.” John 1:16 NLT

Mercy in Action

YWAM Lebanon and the local churches in Lebanon are inviting you to participate in a project focussed on helping victims of Hurrican Rita in Vidor, TX. We are looking for skilled and unskilled workers who would like to be part of clean-up teams. Teams of workers will be going to Vidor November 5-12 and November 19-26, 2005, December 26-January 2,006. The next opportunity is February 17 - 26, 2006. We are also collecting non-clothing donations. Please contact us for a list of needed items. Point and click on the Mercy In Action link on the navigation bar to the left for pictures of past Hurricane Rita relief mission trips.