Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Matt 5: 6
(Taylor, Destiny, Danni, Claudine, and Caleb)
ASL DTS 2014
We have officially started the second ASL DTS, the ASL DTS 2014! We are blessed with 5 AMAZING students (pictured above). They are so hungry and thirsty for more of God! They are so eager to know their Father, fall deeper in love with their lover, Jesus Christ and confide in their best friend, Holy Spirit!
Below is a picture colleage of the first 4 weeks of our DTS! Enjoy!
Arrival Day
Welcome Dinner-Southwest Asian Style
After dinner, we all wrote a interesting fact about ourselves and placed it in a bowl. Then went around picking an interesting fact and having to guess who wrote it. It was crazy fun and learned a lot of interesting things about each other! Like Claudine has special joints in her arms and can twist them all the way around her head to her back!
We also celebrated Taylor's birthday, which was just a few days before arrival day with coconut ice cream and famous DC Georgetown cupcakes! She was so surprised. Our family just hung out afterwards for a long time getting to know each other and playing with balloons.
Week 1- The Nature and Character of God
Dan McClelland
Dan was our first teacher and he did amazing! He started the week with a quick overview of the Bible, the love story of God to his people to get a big picture of who God is and pulling out characteristics of who God is during it. Afterwards, Dan shared his story and then have each one of us share our stories!
Dan asked me to teach a day on Hearing God's Voice and I shared that hearing God's voice is based on our relationship with Him. Just like other people, the more we spend time with them, asking them questions, listening to him, doing things together, sharing life together the better you get to know them and what they like and dislike and who they are. It is the same with us and God. We spend time getting to know each other asking each other basic get to know you questions and then spend time with God asking him questions and listening for his answers.
Week 2-Prayer
Jason Hershey (YWAM DC Base Director)
Jason taught an amazing week on Prayer, which is communing with God or relationship with God. He shared how God loves our honest, raw prayers, our authority that has been given to man, and shared many amazing testimonies from his own life. We also got to play Hangman a few times with bible verses.
His oldest sons prayed for us one day and Blaze got a picture of all of the ASL crew with crowns and tierras on their heads. Jason explained that is a great picture as he was teaching us about the authority we have on earth and how we are called to "Live like a son. Rule like a king. And live like a daughter and rule like a queen." So Cadance and Blaze made crowns and tierras for our whole crew!
(Cadance, Me and Blaze)
We were blessed to have Michelle Chamberlain with us from Kansas City IHOP to serve with interpreting! She just got Nationally Certified and we are so proud of her! :) A group of us also got to go to a Prayer meeting and vital at the White House for Pastor Saeed who has been in prison in Iran because of his faith in Jesus Christ for 2 years.
Week 3-Inner Healing
Linda Persinger
FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM
Linda came and was here with us for around 10 days! She taught every morning class as well as had a one on one session with each of our staff and students! She shared the power of Jesus's blood, how our identity needs to be in who we are and not what we do, the power of forgiveness in our lives, and how to continue to live a life of freedom! It was a great and powerful week!
(Marleah is the one with blue pants and a black shirt looking at the camera at the party is threw us).
We also had Marleah Jacobson, from AZ, a woman we met on the BE summer tour, come and serve with interpreting this week. She was an amazing blessing and blessed us by baking cookies and getting ice cream from TJs to thank the ASL DTS community for welcoming her into the family for the week. She made gluten free chocolate chip cookies, which were delicious!
Week 4-The Father Heart of God
Jack Kody
One of Dan and I's teachers during our DTS, Jack Kody was able to come again to DC to share on the Father Heart of God. He not only teaches the topic but lives it out and gives experiences with the staff and students demonstrating the Father Heart of God like treating our team to Frozen Yogurt one night and then bowling the next day! We also had a movie night with Dad and watched "The Book Theif" which paints a beautiful picture of a father and daughter.
One day in class, he shared about how the Father always is speaking "I love you and so proud of you" to his sons and daughters from the baptism of Jesus God the Father shared even before his ministry started God was proud of his son and wanted him to know that he was loved and his! He encouraged the class to encourage and give words of affirmation to each other! He was supposed to be a 15 min activity but Jack said that we were having so much fun and looked like we were enjoying it to much that he let us encourage one other to the end of class that day, which was 40 mins! We never get tired of hearing how much we are loved!
Thank God that God the Father tells us all the time in many ways!
Worship Activity: Making a college of the love of the Father to us!
Creative Book Report: "Is that Really you God?" by Loren Cummingham
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