About Us
We are very fortunate to have Jonathan living in Kona and working on the campus with us.
2024
We started the year back in Kona.
Soon after returning, YWAM internationally announced its first conference since COVID-19 in Manila in September.
This resonated with us, as we wanted to get back to the Philippines and had attended the first International Conference in 1988 in Manila.
We sort to set up times with locations in the Philippines that we had previously been helping, but were unable to tie down anything concret.
Conference
The conference was good to catch up with people, and feel the heart beat for Youth With a Mission, specially as Darlene Cunningham was there.
She and Lauren founded Youth with a Mission back in 1960.
Lauren went to be with the Lord last year.
We truely have a new generation stepping up in to leadership and finding Gods vision for the future.
Q4
After the conference, we spent time with several YWAM bases, training staff to develop their base websites.
We are also working with staff on their digital footprint.
We are helping them integrate what they are already doing and generate a website for the purpose of reaching the groups they already minister to in the flesh.
After the Philippines, we will spend time in Malaysia, Singapore, and New Zealand.
2025
We are planning on returning to Kona in 2025. We have many things we could be involved with, but we want to make sure we tackle what God wants us to do.
During our time in the Philippines, we often talked with staff about the idea that NO is an acceptable answer if you are being asked to do a thing, or if you are asking someone to help you with a thing. The idea we were seeking to communicate was that Jesus asks us to live our lives with Yes, Yes and No, No. Too often, we answer Maybe. Or we get volun-told.
If we get pushed or even manipulated to do something or take on another load, this is a sure road to resentment. Leadership needs to know this, even if they themselves are overloaded.
Another idea we work to is that God has given us enough hours every day to do everything He has for us to do.
So, we talked about how to ask for help but always give the other person permission to say no. I then stated that if we do this, then when the person says yes, it will be a very good yes.
We have currently been in Kona Hawaii for the last 8 year.
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YWAM Kona
We are currently living in Kona Hawaii, working in the coimmunity and working on the Youth With A Mission Campus.
Natural Farm
This is where we do some of our work, and this is where I am currently writing this page.
We are engaged in Natural Farming, Aquaponics, Permaculture, and Animal Husbandry.
Christine
Tony
Sedd-el-Bahr, Hinikura, Martinborough, New Zealand.
This is the farm I grew up on.
Around 2-3,000 sheep, and some 200 beef cows.
My grandfather started the farm in about 1920 after returning from WWI.
It is named Sedd-el-Bahr, “in sight of the sea,” after the area in Turkey where my grandfather recovered from wounds received in the campaign of Gallipoli.
Christine's DTS
Tony's DTS
Balut Manila, March 1986
The building we lived in is long gone.
On Tony’s first night in Manila, he met this young American and help her with the dishes for the staff and students living in the two houses of Balut, about 35 people in total.
Surigao City, Philippines, June 1986-August 1989
After the lecture phases of Tony’s health care school, the school went down to Surigao to establish a new YWAM Base.
Talavera Island, Tagana-an, Philippines
Talavera was our island home and staging place for working in the surrounding islands.
YWAM Wellington
This was YouthWith a Missions training location in Welllington from 1985 to 1990.
We arrived in 1989 and were the last three people out the door.
Katherine, our eldest, was born in Wellington.
Bakersfield California
Juliet and Jonathan were born in Bakersfield
Māngere, Auckland, New Zealand
Jennifer was born here. We were once again working with YWAM, and then with a Technology Company that I worked with as an employee and than a contractor for the next 10 years.
1997 till 2016
We moved to the Wairarapa in October 1997. Living on the Family Farm, doing Home schooling, Home business and even from time to time Home church.
2016 - 2022
Living next to the YWAM Campus
2023-
Sedd-el-Bahr
Here and there
This is our fifth time working with Youth With a Mission.
In the 80’s we worked in the Philippines, where we met and married.
In the 90’s it was in Auckland New Zealand.
And now for the last 7 years it has been Kona Hawaii.
Like many of us in YWAM we also run a business to help supplement what we do.
Mine is website hosting.
I currently host about 150 website, some are YWAM, but most are commercial. These commerical sites help me to offer hosting to you at at ‘what ever you can pay’ price.
We offer personal websites to YWAM staff, have a look here.
https://tca.ywam.life/partnering/get-a-website/
We also offer development and training which you can see here.
https://tca.ywam.life/website-development/
Still a bit of development going on on this page.
Website Development
I have taken the hard work out of having a WordPress website.
You get to focus on content and communications.
Website Hosting
We run our own website hosting server inside Google.
Using Web Host Manager and cPanel we are a full service provider of hosting.
Google for NGOs
We help YWAM countries take advantage of Google for Non-Profits.
Once in TechSoup, you get access to all sorts of technology at much cheaper rates.
In the case of Google for NGO, it is free.
Newsletters
Inside our websites, we use the MailPoet plugin to help you effectively connect to the people who are partnering with you in YWAM.
Give
Give is the donation management software we use in our WordPress websites.
Give can connect to PayPal and Stripe.
Financial Information
We are in no way financial advisors.
What we have done is learn from our experiences.
My Business
We have been in the Information technology industry for over 20 years. Forty years if you go back to my days of training.
Maybe there is something we can help you with professionally
“Come back for more!”