DTS Gathering in Scotland

Hello everyone!

As you may remember, I headed up to Glasgow, Scotland last Monday for a DTS Gathering. Schools from all over the UK and a secondary YWAM school from Norway met in Scotland in a (surprisingly warm) church. The week consisted of lots of outreach and teachings. Because this time I was staff, two of the outreach slots was taken up with Basic Leadership School (BLS). Two of the speakers from the week took aside most of the staff while the students were on outreach and talked on various aspects of outreach. In the first one, the speaker divided us into groups and gave us various scenarios or conflicts that we, as a group, would try to come to a conclusion about as a pretend ‘leadership team’ of the school. The second speaker talked about different fears that can hold us back and how to lead the students through the prayers of forgiving others and rebuking fears.

I got to be a part of two outreaches for the gathering but my favourite was called, ‘Glasgow is:’. Before we went out on to the streets, we prayed for different words for Glasgow and asked God how he sees Glasgow. At first I got the phrase ‘Glasgow is not forgotten’ but then I also got ‘Glasgow is courageous’. As it turns out, Jen got the same one (first one) as me so I wrote down the second one on my piece of cardboard. We went into downtown Glasgow and held up our signs. I had quite a few people come up to me to ask what it was all about (there were about 20 of us all spread up and down the main stree) and planted myself in front of a real (not really) TARDIS! There were so many testimonies from that week of the students stepping out and engaging in really good conversations with people and even leading a few to Christ.

Now, I’ll be at the oval for another week before leaving for Liverpool, UK to work with a ship called the Next Wave. We will be working for the ship and helping with their maintenance and then going out and doing evangelism.