A Father's Word's....

Last weekend Homes of Hope built a house for a single father who lost his wife to cancer and now has three children to care for on his won. Here is what he said: “I was struggling with nightmares of looking my children or even my own life and I didn't have much hope left. It was in that dark moment when God showed himself to me in my life and I came to know him.

 I’m so ready to see my children with a better place to live. I’ve done all I can do but when I heard you were coming, I knew that they Lord had heard my cries. 

Thank you so much, as a father of my family I am very grateful for your lives and what you’ve decided to do for us. God Bless you” 

We are blessed to be a part of this ministry here in Tijuana, Mexico!! 

This is something so beautiful that Words cannot even explain! 

Each weekend we are receiving teams who come and build a home for a family that is without!! This weekend 3 more families are receiving a home, how many of us reading this have a home and we don't even think of being without a home, with our children and partner, what would we do? where would we even begin? Where do they get food for that meal time? will they be safe tonight? Can they protect their children? 

There are so many families world wide that face these questions every day. What can we do? We can pray, we can see if there is anything that is happening local to where we live that helps provide food, love, a friendly face, a listening ear, somethings these things we consider small can mean the world to others. 

You can't build a house for these precious families without shedding a tear of Thankfulness to God that we get to be a part of bring His hope here in the World! 

Home  of Hope Ministry is amazing, if you want to know more please click on the link below: 

http://www.ywamsandiegobaja.org/homesofhope

David was excited about his new house!! 

Feeling like a tree....

Ever feel like you are a tree? Ever feel like you have to change, be shaped and grown, like a tree that needs to have its branches pruned and cut so that it gets rid of the stuff that is not good, that is dead in order for the new branches to grow and bloom and make something even greater!!

Well thats what I am doing right now and will be doing for the rest of life, but right now I am asking God daily how can I grow as a leader, how can I be more like him, because if there is one leader I will like to be like it will be Jesus, not the Queen (although I really like her a lot), or Obama or whoever else we look at as leaders.

My Bible School studying Nehemiah 

I have been studying for the last number of weeks the book of Nehemiah in the Bible  and it is about a Man that loves God and has lived through the times of Exile but has clung to God, the truth of who God is and has allowed God to shape him. He went through a time of pruning and change of character, to the point that God used him for something very significant and something very great for the nation of Judah and the people if Israel.

Nehemiah was a cup bearer for the Persian King and He heard that his fathers city was in a bad way, it had been burnt and the walls which in these times were the cities defence were in ruins still and the rebuilding of this city and the temple (where Gods presence was to dwell) was not complete and needed to be, so that the People could have somewhere safe to live and rebuild their city and nationals identity at the same time being renewed in heart and spirit by knowing and living in relationship with their God.

In this book, we can see about 19
different qualities of Nehemiah's leadership that are highly admirable and someone that you would want to follow and be lead by, below I will leave a list you can look at yourself.

But he is a man of integrity, of love and patience, he is a man that is selfless, willing to give up his position in the Persian Kingdom to serve his people, he is a leader that is humble and honest. He is one that brings organisation, unity, truth and peace, he protects his people and he creates a place of safety for them.
My bible school here in Mexico have been studying the truth of this book and asking how they can be changed, grown and pruned to be more like Christ, to love, serve and walk like him daily!!

1. Prayed day and night 1v6

2. Identified with his people 1v6

3. Remembered God’s promises ad trusted them 1v8

4. Patience 2v1

5. Took Risks 2v5

6. With God, Gods favour  2v8

7. Kept appropriate secrets 2v11

8. Sacrificed sleep 2v12

9. Analysed facts 2v13

10. People followed him 2v18

11. Wasn’t intimidated ch4,6

12.Works hard 4v23 

13.thought things through 5v7 

14.Generous 5v14.17

15. Wasn’t distracted 6v3

16:No Fear 6v11 

17. Successful 6v15-16

18.Didn’t compromise  13v8,25

19.HUMBLE/humildad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Compassion in Action......

What place do you receive over 91 students in a day, representing about 20nations all in one place to study the Bible, God; to be transformed in order to being transformation to their communities? 

It's not a normal occurrence for the schools or colleges I was ever in!!

Well in YWAM its normal ha aha aha 

Across the two bases, Tijuana and Ensenada we have started 4 schools; 2 Discipleship Training Schools with 70 students, Bible school with 17 students and Titus teaching school with 4 students.  So september started off with a buzz in the atmosphere and excitement from students to be in a new place ready to learn, be changed and grow in who they are in God, and learn to live like him. 

Well here in Tijuana I am staffing the compassion in Action DTS and we have 41 students and 3 children, we have one family from Columbia with their 3 children, who literally left and sold up their lives and came to the school wanting to go into missions with their whole family. We have 2 married couples; one from the states and one from Mexico, who again left their home, and sold up their belongings to come and seek the Lord and pursue him!! 

Compassion in Action DTS Tijuana!! 

The rest of the school is singles who are radically, eager daily to run after the Lord seek him and His will for their lives. We have a fun mixture of Latinos, Europeans, and Canada and America!! 

Over this next 3 months they will be learning and being a part of the local ministries here in Tijuana and they will be learning to love the people that get ignored on the streets, or the kids and young people that don't have hope!! 

We will be building homes, teaching after school activities, speaking truth, providing food and most of all bring them a hope and a love!! 

Please be praying for these amazing students that have taken a massive step of Obedience so they can be transformed and they can go out into the nations and serve and love!!