Partnership includes many things.
This has been the vision of Youth With a Mission for many years.
To Train Trainers.
Working in the LETS department of the Kona Campus, we have long believed that we don’t just train people; we train trainers.
He is Risen.
The central truth of the Resurrection of Jesus from the grave is the impetus of everything we do.
Thrive.
Equipping,
Strengthening,
Supporting.
Collaborate.
Bringing people and their ideas together, and helping them to achieve their goals.
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We have been working with Youth With a Mission in Kona since 2016.
Between raising a family, running a business, and working towards our Vision, we have been in and out of YWAM four times. YWAM is a tool—a tool we use and a tool we are happy to work with so others can be more effective in what they do.
Tools help us work towards our vision:
- To know God and make Him known is the vision.
- And to help people thrive in their vision.
Why Kona?
We are warm climate people.
The cold does not agree with us, so coming to Kona for Katherine’s wedding in 2012, in the middle of a New Zealand winter, made us see how much the cold of New Zealand was draining us, even with nice wood fires, hot meals, and a warm bed.
Kona is not just warm; it is also an incubator of possibilities.
As we spent four years coming to Kona, planning to live here, and finally getting here, the idea of collaborating grew in our minds. We get to bless people.
Because we can
We have reached a stage in our lives where we can do things because we can.
Returning to the Philippines last year and into the future is an effort to travel, but not in different cultures. We have sweet friendships that give us places to stay and people and ministries to work with.
Coming to Koan has been an exercise in downsizing; we have been able to focus on people more than things. Living in a yurt has done this more. However, we have a real prayer need for having a place to store our Kona living when we are not here.
Thrive
Our Vision is to see people Thrive.
Churches, ministries, and YWAM, in particular, are good at overworking people.
The harvest is plentiful, and the workers are few.
For people to thrive, there are some interesting ideas that we need to incorporate into our lives.
- God has given us enough hours every day to do everything He has called us to.
- When I ask people if they can help me with something, I will also say, “No is an acceptable answer.” If I give others the power to say “no” when they say “yes,” I get a very good yes.
- We are the Body of Christ; we are the church, not the fuel for the Church.
Too easily, we, the body, are turned into the fuel for the engine of the Church, fed in, combusted, and pushed out the exhaust.
Services and programs and buildings and positions and titles and agendas have become the Church, and rather than these things fueling us in the Great Commission, we end up being the fuel for these things in the Great Omission. - Learn how to say no in such a way that the other person gets a new revelation of if they are working their hours in God’s calling or just in programs and things and services that look like God’s calling.
A lot of what I just wrote was negative based.
What about the positive attributes of thriving?
That is what these pages are about and getting a website up and running from you.
Without the resurrection, anything we do is merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
I do not do good works to get God favour, I do good works because I already have Gods favour.