This year sees YWAM celebrate it's Golden Jubilee. To mark this occasion, 40 of the YWAM bases accors the world have gathered past and present workers as well as friends and supporters to join for '50th' event - giving glory to GOD for the work so far and hearing the vision for the future.
This past weekend, the base I live at in Harpenden hosted the events for Western Europe and up to 800 people came for the 3 day event.
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| Inside the main tent |
It has been a hectic past week with the whole community joining in preparations - putting up marques and tents; giving up living space for sleepers and orchestrating meals for the masses. As hosts we each had work duties during the event and although this meant missing the majority of the conference in terms of teaching, it was fantastic to serve everyone who attended in a way that meant they could enjoy their time with us.
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| The making of 1200 sandwiches |
For us as 'Forever' this was a great opportunity to join together on our first team task; being responsible for food. The logistics of catering for such huge amounts of people was daunting but it was great to feel stretched and to come together, supporting one another and going the extra mile to ensure that one the surface, every meal time ran smoothly.
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| View of the Oval |
A lot of prayer went into this event and God really answered us. Despite a weather forecast of rain for the entire weekend, we enjoyed persistent sunshine and warmth until every tent was down and every marque packed away. AMEN!
We also experienced some difficulties with the catering when our entire order was delayed by 4 hours and we somehow produced lunch for 700 without needing to run to the shops once! This was not in our own strength and no individual can take credit. Rather God empowered us to complete this work and gave our guests the grace and patience not to realise the problems!
Please continue to pray for:
- Rest now that the 50th is over - may we all recover!
- God to continue to challenge me and change me
Praise God for:
- Friends! I am SO at home here and loving the community I have joined.
- The success of the 50th celebrations - particularly the practical points I mentioned above!
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