So we have been in DC serving with YWAM at the Washington House of Prayer for about 5 weeks now! It has been a great amazing experience and God is growing us so much! I wanted to write a blog explaining what we do here so you know what kinds of things we do! So I am just going to go through a normal (although flexibility is the key because everyday has changes) day for us!
For the last four weeks, our team has met at 6:00 AM at the White House Ellipse, the park right behind the White House, to pray fro 6 to 7 for an event called David's tent, 40 days and nights of continual worship to Jesus enthroning him as Lord over America. The 40 days before the November 2012 election. The event will be at this park, thus we come every morning preparing for the event by praying at the place. For more information go to http://dchop.org/. I plan to write another blog about this event!
We also host teams that come to DC for mission trips from around the United States. So when a team is with us, they will join us in the morning for praying for David's tent and for Jesus to be Lord over America. When I took this picture there was a youth group from Georgia with us!
After the Ellipse, we dropped off Dan at the metro and he rode public transportation to Gallaudet University everyday were he was taking ASL 1 and ASL 2 language classes! He had classes from 9 to 2 everyday! He learned a ton and his confidence in using ASL has greatly increased! He just completed his 4 weeks of ASL classes last week Friday! So this week is the first week that Dan will be joining the team for the full day! It is a great week to start we as have a team of 60 youths from a church in VA here on a mission trip!
Then our team meets together from 730 to 10 for a devotional, worship and prayer. These times are amazing to develop unity among our team and pray for breakthrough in our own lives as a community before leading others into intimacy with Jesus. Everyday looks different. We all take turns leading the devotional about a characteristic of God and then worship/pray together. One day there is a bunch of worship other days more prayer. We allow the Holy Spirit to led us in what to do for that day.
After our set of worship and prayer, the team splits up and works on their role for David's tent, such as scheduling the worship teams or researching about the housing options. As I prayed about where God wanted me to serve, I felt a strong call to help the leaders, Jason and Kimberlee, at home with their four kids and help around the house. Kimberlee does homeschooling, cleans, cooks and does it all with four kids! She is amazing and I get to help her at home. I am writing another blog about the fun things that I do with the kids at home!
Then on Tuesday and Friday nights, we have a worship/prayer set open for the public. Dan plays on the worship team and I interpret for our Deaf friends that come. This time is a time for people in DC to worship Jesus and then pray for specific things on His heart. We have a worship leader that leads us in worship as well as a prayer leader that seeks God's heart for that night on what we should pray for. We have prayed for peace in Israel, the end of abortion, strengthening of traditional marriage in America, breakthrough in America and many other things! The picture below is of the YWAM DC team! There is a group of about 16 of us, a few are not in the picture!
Currently, Dan and I are visiting churches on Sundays to see where God would like us to get plugged into and serve while we are here in DC. On our free time, we also go out with some of the friends that we have been meeting or reconnecting with here in DC and Gallaudet University. One Sunday, we visited our friends Laura church and then spend the day with Laura and her friend Tom, who is doing a summer internship at Gallaudet University. Later that week, Dan had the opportunity to have lunch with Tom at Gallaudet.
Here is another day, where after Dan's classes and my interpreter workshop, we had the opportunity to go to the DC zoo and met up with friends. Here Dan is explaining in American Sign Language how we met in New Mexico!
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