 | outstanding october
2009-11-02, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | surprise! it's time for another update. this is a look at the month on October:
Like a whirlwind, the students blew in from Canada, the USA, Holland, England and New Zealand. We have 22 students fr... |
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| Hunger for Holiness
2009-09-29, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | It's been an interesting experience these last few weeks. I moved out from the house I was living in with a great kiwi family and I moved back onto the YWAM base. I also ended my work at the old folks... |
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| the old people I love
2009-08-21, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | I can't believe it, but I am down to my last week of work at my old folks home. After next Friday (28th)- two exciting things happen. One, I celebrate a year of being in New Zealand. Unbelievable and ... |
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| my work
2009-08-01, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Joys of working with the elderly. Anyone with a job working with kids almost always come home with funny stories they want to share. I know parents and teachers who love retelling a funny or endearin... |
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| FREEDOM and JOY
2009-06-29, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | I had no idea when I left the US last August what God had planned for me. Well, do we really ever know? He is a far greater planner than I could ever be. I have been back in Oxford for three months no... |
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| WINTER
2009-06-04, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | I never knew it was possible to love old people so much. Yes, I mean this with complete sincerity as my heart oozes with kind thoughts of my residents that I take care of. I started a job, working wit... |
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| God surprised me today
2009-05-18, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | A whole day of blessings!
Here at the YWAM base, there is a a room called the "FREE BOX" with used clothes, shoes, etc from the students. It's set up as a give and take box. When students get here... |
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 | A Really Ridiculously good Looking Team
2009-05-17, Oxford, New Zealand. By: SurAmerica | | Today May 18, 2009, eight really ridiculously good looking people our setting off to Chile, South America. Who are these really ridiculously good looking people? Joshua Cho 17 from South Korea, Kadi... |
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| April Update
2009-05-11, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | The month of April proved to be interesting time- I spent many weeks looking for permanent work and in the mean time working random temp jobs. It's been great to live near the YWAM base and not be an ... |
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| Trusting in God
2009-04-28, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Today at 3pm, my flight home from Christchurch, New Zealand to Oregon, USA will be leaving without me. Yup- that's what I said, WITHOUT ME!!! I guess this is what it's like to fully trust in God and b... |
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| Luke 13:6-9
2009-04-20, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | "And he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, 'Look, for three years now I have come seeking... |
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| end of the school, start of something new
2009-02-24, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Last update!
All the teams returned to base this last week! We spent a wonderful week together debriefing what God has been doing in their teams and in our lives. We spent a lot of time discussing ho... |
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 | life is getting exciting...........
2009-02-21, Oxford, New Zealand. By: kimgolden | | Life updates are hard to come by when you have a lot going on. Today was our first free day in three weeks and I slept in until 11am because I was so stinking tired. It's good. It's about to get reall... |
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| Christmas is coming
2008-12-19, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Merry Christmas [yes, I know this is a little early]!!
Tomorrow morning at 10am, our New Zealand backpacking team heads out for our two month outreach. We only have two definite plans- Christmas in W... |
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| ministry news
2008-12-06, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Every Friday night our school goes into Christchurch to do ministry. Last Friday was an awesome and encouraging night. One of our students brought a large piece of paper and painted the words "let's b... |
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 | Transition to December
2008-11-27, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Here are some thoughts on the month of November as I prepare to move on to our last month here on base.
My outreach team meets every week to prepare for the two month backpacker ministry. Each stud... |
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| November Update
2008-11-04, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Oh my, is it really November? And has it really been a month since I've last written? Yep... unbelievable. Well, I will try to express everything from the past month as best I can.
The students arr... |
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| Praying
2008-10-21, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | The Lordship of Jesus...the truth that Jesus is the lord of our lives and wants to heal, change and direct our lives. That's the topic this week and that's the intensity of the Spirit. I'm spending m... |
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| news of the week
2008-10-14, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | Well, the latest news involves one of our students. It was our first weekend trip and it was a day trip to a place called Castle Hill. This is the same place as my profile picture. Well, a group of st... |
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 | so much to do
2008-10-01, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | As I mentioned before, Matt gave us our outreach options a few days ago. I prayed about it and wrote out my top three choices. I'm not sure when I'll hear which team I'm leading, but I'm excited to be... |
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| one more day
2008-09-29, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | On sunday, our school leader Matt gave the staff the outreach options (the two month missions/evangelism to backpackers). We were given a day to pray about which team we should lead and now we are awa... |
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 | JOY... so much joy
2008-09-26, Oxford, New Zealand. By: isaiah68 | | I set up this travel journal with the intent of writing more...ha! Well, it's been a month and I haven't written once. Time to make a change. I arrived here in Oxford about one month ago, how the time... |
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 | Moving on...
2008-09-12, Oxford, New Zealand. By: saradekker | | Questions! Many people have lots of questions for me lately! So here is a general update for those who are wondering.
After graduation in Israel, I visited a few friends in the UK and Switzerland... |
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 | Lecture Phase - The last few days
2008-06-24, Oxford, New Zealand. By: rochellep | | Today is the last day that everyone in our school will be together until me meet in Israel. We have come to the end of lecture phase and outreach is just ahead. The past days have been crazy with pa... |
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| How long have you known this
2007-12-25, Oxford, New Zealand. By: Isaiah68 | | One of our school leaders shared an experience of a friend of hers. Suzie, a photographer, travels around the world to different cultures and people groups. She not only takes photos of the people she... |
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| A burden on my heart
2007-12-09, Oxford, New Zealand. By: Isaiah68 | | I just want to share a burden that God put on my heart. We had worship this morning and God showed me the nations of the earth. I had compassion as he showed me all the hurting, lost, and spiritually ... |
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| Church serving and the Holy Spirit...
2007-12-06, Oxford, New Zealand. By: Isaiah68 | | Last week was the first chance for our outreach team to work and serve together. Last week was Church Serving Week. Basically, what this means is that all the students are split into our outreach team... |
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| Happy Thanksgiving
2007-11-21, Oxford, New Zealand. By: Isaiah68 | | Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and family! I hope you have safe travels and eat lots of yummy food!!! We had a Thanksgiving celebration here last thursday. It was called the Love Fest! We had ... |
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| WAM Night (World Awareness and Missions)
2007-11-20, Oxford, New Zealand. By: Isaiah68 | | There is an album on my ipod called the "hunger meal" that I got two years at Glacier Pres. Camp. I was working at the summer camp and we hosted a hunger meal for the high schoolers. There was a drama... |
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| Mirror of God
2007-11-03, Oxford, New Zealand. By: Isaiah68 | | I feel like my time here at DTS has been a chance for God to place a mirror up to my face and asking me to open my eyes...to see myself, really see myself. It's not a condenming mirror, it's a loving ... |
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| A day in the life of Nicki
2007-10-29, Oxford, New Zealand. By: Isaiah68 | | What am I doing New Zealand? Since I've been here for almost a month (weird ), I thought I'd share what a daily schedule is like here in Oxford, New Zealand. From the day I arrived, October 8 until a ... |
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