How can a student ask for the support they need for thier mission trip?

  
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 DTS Summer 2010 Support Teach Part 2:

I Spent an afternoon teaching the current DTS how to connect with those who might be wiling to give.

I hope the poor audio quality is not too distracting.

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Sold into Slavery

I love to hear the stories of students as they graduate from their training here at YWAM Orlando and outreach to the world. I have recently tried to get their story on video camera so i can share it with you. Here is one of my favorites.

Sold into Slavery
Joanna had never spoken to a prostitute before and the chaos of women being bought and sold overwhelmed her senses on the streets of Thailand. But Joanna had one focus: to offer a heart of friendship and hope to a prostitute named "Ying".

As a young teen, Ying was sold into slavery. Taken from her Thai home, her joy was numbed by the depraved acts and abuse she was submitted to daily. Any chance of finishing school or working an honorable job simply became long-lost dreams. Finally escaping from her owner meant she was now alone on the streets destined to become a prostitute, the only lifestyle she had ever known.

As their friendship progressed Joanna was able to offer an opportunity of hope; a chance to restore her forgotten dreams for an education and a new job through a local rescue center.

Joanna told me that she wants to continue to reach out to the people who need it most. Your sponsorship allows me to help find, mobilize and train this generation of world changers. Thank You!

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Creagon hangin out with the Anderson boys

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How Can God Provide for Your Mission Trip?

Below is an audio link to the teaching gave to our summer DTS at YWAM Orlando.

Here is a link to a text example of the letter we made for the Summer DTS at YWAM Orlando.

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Property Update Video from Director, Michael Berg

Flying to Norway today! (June 5th)

Andrei grew up on the streets of the former Soviet Union. A YWAM team first introduced him to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and then continued to pour hope into his life. I met Andrei twelve years ago in the remote forests of Sweden. I was co-leading a survival leadership course called NIKO for students across northern Europe. For three days, I watched the Lord reveal something amazing in Andrei's teen-age life---God was challenging him to become a leader, and he was embracing this calling!
Four years ago I met Andrei again. His gifting of leadership had been developed through years of experience in YWAM. I was teaching the staff of North Europe at one of YWAM's training centers in Norway. He was attending my week-long teaching, learning to find a sponsorship team and God's provision for his young family and ministry. The teen from the streets of the Soviet Union (that I had met in the Swedish forest) was now a husband, father of two daughters, and leader of a dynamic ministry changing the lives of hundreds of teens for the sake of the Cross!
It is because of leaders like Andrei that I am flying back to Norway today (Sat., June 5th). Once again, Michael Berg (my director at YWAM Orlando) and I have been invited to teach about our Father's will to provide for every minister who dares to fulfill His calling on their life. Our host, Terje, tells us that, "[Since you taught in the] Full Support Seminar in 2006, the financial support for YWAMers in Norway increased by 67%. Many have a whole new [financial] support situation and a new freedom to serve God in YWAM!"
Because people like you have been so generous, I have had the resources to confidently share about God's provision and goodness to the next generation of world changers. Together we can train and release this upcoming wave of Andreis and many others like him!

Would you make a special gift of $500, $200 or some other amount to help me train many more like Andrei?

P.S. You can now securely and conveniently donate to Creagon's missions work with YWAM Orlando via credit through Causes.com Click here to start.

Maple syrup on noodles

What happens when u let "uncle Creagon" cook!

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One of my favorite teachers at YWAM Orlando, Glenn Shepard

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Audio: Creagon Teaching "THUMB" for Youth Group's Spring Mission Trip

  
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      One of my passions is to help youth in America realize that God can use them to reach the ends of the earth. A school's baseball team came to Orlando in march for some outreach and missions training. I was asked to speak about World Missions and our Vision at YWAM Orlando. Enjoy!

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Audio: Creagon promoting Haiti relief trip @ Evangel Church 4/4/10 Easter Sunday

  
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Pastor Garry Rice asked me to help promote a YWAM trip to his church. They plan to go to Haiti this summer to bring relief to the +1million still with out a home. Your giving makes it possible for me to help inspire local churches to be all God calls us to be. Thank You!

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You make all this possible.

Each year, God uses me to coach the newest staff of Youth With a Mission (YWAM) Orlando through a process of finding their financial sponsorship team. My goal is to: 1) refine their attitude of humility---acknowledging that their profession requires the generosity of others, and 2) develop their skills of communication---learning to present their compelling and achievable vision. This process is their first step into their new career. My reward is knowing that when they succeed, they will be able to fully focus on missions work. When they are fully funded, they have the ability to respond to the Lord as He directs their lives. This freedom has allowed three new staff (see photo) to react quickly to the desperate need in Haiti. Within a week of the earthquake, they had their travel plans set, arriving to bring relief to the Haitian people. Here is one of the true stories from our team in Haiti:

Ernso was assumed dead when a rescue team found him in the rubble of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Like so many other bodies, he was taken to a makeshift morgue. Hours later, a relief worker walked by and heard a faint knocking sound at the door of the morgue. The young boy, left among the dead, was alive--barely! Today, our YWAM Orlando team is helping him, and thousands like him, recover at YWAM's property in Haiti. (See Photo) Our YWAM location in Orlando has become a staging ground for the teams and supplies that will aid the physical and spiritual needs of this devastated region.

I want to thank you for making this possible. Your financial gifts and devoted prayers allow me to find and train the next generation of world changers. This multiplication has lasting effect in many parts of our world. The story of Ernso's physical, emotional, and even spiritual recovery is being achieved through your dedication. Thank You!

Haiti, The Need is Great! and YWAM Orlando Campus Update

The recent earthquake in Haiti is affecting three million impoverished Haitians! The news reports coming out of Haiti, even after several weeks, continues to show just how desperate the situation is. YWAM Orlando received a call from our International Chairman's office asking if we, would help organize the shipping of food, water, and supplies to St. Marc where our national director for YWAM Haiti has set up feeding centers. As a result, we have sent $5000 and two of our leaders down for a week to assess the situation and bring relief through their expertise. A second team of 3 will be working in Haiti for two months. Since this need in Haiti will exist for many months, we hope that we will be able to send many short-term teams to help in the spring quarter.

Thousands of people are fleeing Haiti and crossing the border into the Dominican Republic in hopes of getting medical treatment. Our Discipleship Training School Outreach Team is currently helping minister to some of these refugees in the exact community I lead a team to last spring. The team currently there is handing out beans, rice and praying with patients at clinics and hospitals, but the needs of these Haitians are still overwhelming. Go to www.ywamorlando.org for further updates.

Property Update
The desperate need in Haiti, like many other places around the world, just confirms our need for a larger training campus, which will allow us to train literally thousands these missionaries formed into dynamic world-changing teams. For years, YWAM Orlando was in prayer for the land and resources needed to obey God's calling. Then suddenly, He provided. In a big way. He led us to 198 acres of land within the greater Orlando area, just 35 minutes from the international airport. To reach our target closing date of May 31st, we need to see donations of $1.25 million. Right now, we have $128,000 committed and are very grateful!

My entire schedule has been reshaped to focus completely on doing the possible to achieve this goal... acknowledging that God will be doing the impossible! Daily I must refocus on Him, and His desires to see such a great thing happen.

As a part of the YWAM Orlando family I have joined our season of 24/7 prayer, every hour, each day, the next staff stops what we are doing and takes our own turn of focused prayer for the campus.

Would you please join me, in your own way, by praying? Praying for continued provision as He does this "impossible" miracle so that this God-given opportunity will not slip away. So that no missions opportunities will go unfulfilled. And not a single soul will be lost.
I couldn't do this with out you!
-Creagon

2009: An amazing year in review via video update!

Happy New Year!
I praise God for the the chance to invite thousands of people to fulfill their calling into world missions in 2009!

Urbana worship with 17,000!

Amazing worship and spoken Word of God together with 17,000 young people searching for their path into world missions. I look forward to offering how Ywam can help them.

Urbana 09 -17,000 students for world missions

17,000+ students have come to St. Louis for Urbana 09.
Most will pass by me at the Ywam booth!

Almost all are asking God how they can be a part of world missions.
-Please pray I can help them achive all God is dreaming for their life.

Sweater Party 2009 at YWAM Orlando. How we have fun!

Some where inside me there must be a longing for the day when the birth of Jesus can be be celebrated with the utmost reverence and holiness, but until that day comes I will continue to expose the absurdity of Christmas as currently celebrated in America. If you dare view a first rate example of this tradition, click here and be prepared for some of the ugliest sweaters in our nation!

Benefit for African Orphans

At 3$ a brick, and 1k bricks, we changed an African child´s life Monday night! We raised $3,000!

Thank you to all of you who came out monday night! It was a really awesome concert. Thanks to Sleeping At Last, Jeremy Larson and Taylor Maxwell for playing an awesome show.

Rob Interview GCT 2009 Audio Only

Here in Harpenden England at the Global Communication Team meetings, I had a chance to interview the director of YWAM's International Communications Network (ICN) Rob Abraham. He, like myself, is very excited how communications can allow exponential growth in world wide mission. Thank you for letting me contribute to this amazing week of cooperation.

Facebook Interview with the International Chairman of YWAM, Lynn Green - Video

This week has been one of the most visionary of my life. One of concepts we were struggling with was how to link the questions of the average person involved in YWAM with the answers of senior leaders. I made a suggestion that we should do live interviews with some of these leaders on Facebook. Instead of just accepting my idea the team jumped into action and suggested we try one out the very next day. This afternoon we tried this new concept in social media. This may be the first or sadly only time some of our extended YWAM family gets direct access to our Int. Chariman. What an amazing opportunity for communication with in this massive mission called YWAM.

Here is a transcript of the Q and A session 10:30 AM EST 10/9/09
Lynn Green, the International Chairman of Youth With A Mission, was a part of a live interview on the YWAM International Facebook page. He took the time to answer quite a few questions that had been sent in previously and were asked during the interview.

Here is a sample of some of the questions, and Lynn's answers:

1. Lynn, here is the first questions, who are you?
   
   
   
   • A kid from Colorado who joined YWAM in 1969, got a wife, then four kids, then 6+ grandkids and became Chairman of YWAM along the way.
   
   
   
   


2. What would you say to the challenge busy YWAMers in this area – rest vs driven-ness?
   
   
   
   • That is something God has been saying to me. But, to some extend it is related to seasons of life. I am now in my 60s and God is saying I must "fight to enter into rest". I have been an activist for all these years and now the passage of scripture that means so much to me is Ruth lying at the feet of Boaz and then going back to Naomi and asking "what do I do now?" She said Rest! This man will not rest until he has done all he needs to. That is what Jesus will do for me if I spend time with him.
     
     But even in the midst of a very busy life, I have developed the habit of a good long time each morning spent in the scriptures and prayer and then prayer with my wife then with my kids around the breakfast table.
   
   
   
   


3. Do you think YWAM is focussing enough in the area of assisting ministries associated with New Technology, media, Gospel presentation?
   
   
   
   • Well, we never think we are doing enough. But Create International are fantastic in this area. I am sitting right now in a global communication team meeting and we have spent three days looking at our web presence, IT tools, where communication is likely to go in the future etc.....
   
   
   
   


4. When will YWAM return to its original call to evangelize?
   
   
   
   • You must be talking about YWAM somewhere in particular - there is an incredible amount of evangelism happening around the world! We have planted over 600 churches in 100 of the least-reached people groups. Reef to Outback in Australia is doing innovative outreach online and Impact World Tours have led tens of thousands to the Lord in the last few years!
   
   
   
   


5. What advice would you give to current DTS student to encourage them? Do you even remember your DTS, Lynn?
   
   
   
   • No I didn't do a DTS, so I can't remember it. But I have led a few. I didn't do a DTS because they didn't exist until around 1975. When I joined there was only a School of Evangelism.
     
     The most encouraging thing I can say is keep obeying Jesus. There is no greater adventure!
   
   
   
   


6. Lynn, perhaps a big struggle for me is understanding wisdom in Loren's philosophy of easy on, easy off. Balance of helping people step up to commitment vs just letting them go. Your thoughts?
   
   
   
   • Well, commitment has to be freely given. We really cannot put pressure on people to commit. It has to come from deep inner convictions. In addition, we want to bless the whole Body of Christ, so we are training people for other movements, denominations etc.
     
     Recently God has convicted me that I must also be happy when people seem to use the YWAM platform to develop their personal ministry. That is the attitude Paul conveyed when he said he rejoiced when people preached the gospel, no matter what the motive.
   
   
   
   


7. Where is the University of the Nations is at with accreditation...?
   
   
   
   • We are seeking to be a force for transformation in higher education. The current accreditation system is part of what keeps it static. so we are pursuing accreditation by two means: from one institution to another. Many colleges and Universities accept U of N credits. And we are developing a new global accrediting association.
   
   
   
   


8. How should YWAM prepare itself spiritually and practically for the growth towards 200.000 staff?
   
   
   
   • We must deepen our relationship with Jesus first!
     
     Then we have to transition from a more rigid organizational structure to a more thoroughly relational leadership network on a global basis. that is a big subject, so keep your eyes open for prayer days on the subject. I will do some leadership letters on that too.
   
   
   
   


9. People are asking questions about the restructuring of YWAM after the last GLT. What can you say about that...?
   
   
   
   • We are thinking less organizationally and more relationally. We are not in a rush, but know that God is giving us more insight about eldership and how it works within our body. The upcoming International YWAMer (www.internationalywamer.org) will have articles on that.
   
   
   
   


10. What's your favourite running shoes?
    
    
    
    • I highly recommend that you have your running style analyzed by some outfit that knows what they are doing. I was giving up on running due to knee pain, then had different shoes prescribed after a video of my gate and I have been fine ever since. Asics Nimbus for me!
    
    
    
    


11. What would you say to many many 'behind the scene' Ywam mothers who are depressed while the husbands are driven with works and meetings and are highly motivated to get the job done?
    
    
    
    • When my wife was feeling like that, she wrote me a letter that she left in my suitcase. Basically she said she was lonely. That tore my heart out. I went back home, went through my calendar with her and cut my schedule back. I now make all scheduling decisions in prayer with her. Have all husbands read this!!!
    
    
    
    


12. What are you most looking forward to in this last quarter of YWAM's first 50 years?
    
    
    
    • Deeper relationship with Jesus and much more evidence of the supernatural in YWAM. Deeper friendships too!