wow so I realized how bad I am at doing a blog!! I am terribly sorry!! And unfortunately I don't have much time to write this one!
So I am in Mexico city in a region called Xochimilco! It's amazing here. We are doing so much minstry stuff that it is very tiring but so worth it!
Yesterday we put on an evangelism event and we saw over 20 salvations and a healing!! God is so good! We are also working with I think 5 or 6 different churches! We are doing bible studies, cell groups, putting on 2 discipleship seminars at 2 different churches and we are also doing a soccer ministry which is awesome however its a gong show because I don't play soccer (I am more there for comic relief!). We have seen so much fruit form our ministry. We have also done some public worship, and prayer walking.
Definitely the ministry I love the most is the bible study we lead at a church called iglesia christiana Xochimilco! It's amazing we have gotten really close to a family there!
Personally it has been a challenging time here. My grandfather died a couple weeks ago and so its been hard being without my family and I am really looking forward to being with them soon! In like less than 3 weeks! Also the spiritual warfare here is intense! Mexico city has so many strongholds here and so spiritually it's been hard being here. But I love it and I know this is where I am suppose to be. God is growing me so much here it gets overwhelming at times but I know God is just strengthening me!
Sorry this is so short but this is a tiny glimpse of what I have been doing! Again I am sorry for not posting many blogs during my time away. It just means we have a lot to talk about when I see you next!! I love you all!!
Dios le bendiga! (god bless)

Bailey

I have lost track of what week it is...

Hello Everyone!
Wow time flies! I can't believe that in almost a month we will be starting our outreach phase. I am not sure if I have explained how our outreach is going to go but I will now. So in the beginning of January we will be starting outreach here in Perth because at the end of January Perth is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their base and we will also be celebrating YWAM internationals anniversary of 50 years and the founders of the base Loren and Darlene Cunningham will be here so that will be so exciting. I am not sure exactly what we will be doing here until them possibly working in churches or something. And then February 1st we will be leaving to go to Mexico city. It should be sweet! I am so stoked for that. We found out our outreach teams. There is about 15 of us and it is a going to be a great group of people in it and I look forward to serving with them.
This past week in lecture we learned about missions. The YWAM leader of all Nigeria bases Paul Dangtoumda spoke and he had amazing yet seemingly unreal stories! It was a really good week he talked a lot about the fear of the Lord and how it is hard to do missions if we don't have the fear of the Lord. One thing that stuck out to me was when he told us that missions is not about the distance you travel but the difference thats made. You can do missions anywhere even in your own country it doesn't have to be some remote place in the world working with the most unreached people. It can be the inner cities in north america or urban areas in europe. It was a good week. I have been challenged a lot in these last few weeks by God and spiritual warfare has been huge. I have been struggling huge but I have faith that this rough time is going to strengthen me way more than I can imagine. If we didn't learn from these tough times than they would be pointless to go through.
This weekend was a lot of fun. We went camping! It's nothing like Canadian camping though. We camped right beside the ocean in this sand duney area. It was fun. We went 4 wheel driving and laid on the beach and had an amazing meal cooked for us by a friend we made here Drikus' parents. It was so amazing I feel so incredibly blessed!
I hope everyone is doing well and I miss you all. I have been getting a little home sick lately for my parents and my sister! It's been hard going through this stuff without them being there to hug me and comfort me. I guess skype will do for now!!

Love you all!

Week 5 - NLM

Wow what a week!

So this week was the national leaders meeting which was amazing (even though I didn't like the schedule change). God showed up huge. I have been feeling a huge peace about my relationship with God. I think that it's so easy sometimes to compare where you are in your walk with God with other peoples and I realized to be content with where I am at but also want more and want to grow more with God... the way and pace He wants! God also (again) brought up issues in my life where I struggle with (trust, faith, etc) and I am starting to deal with them and I can tell you that I already feel somewhat free. Also with direction in my life I feel more of a calling as to where God wants me to be. I have an idea of what I will be doing after DTS but I have not gotten confirmation from God yet so I will wait to share that info! But it is exciting!

The module that I liked best this week was the one called "The Discipling Process- Pauls letters". It was amazing. Maureen Menard spoke and really just explained a lot about the holy spirit and everything. I learned so much!!

Other than that this week has been a challenging week. A lot of ups and a lot of downs! It's been rough but God has seen me through it. It's all a learning process and patience is an area where God is growing me! slowly but surely! :)

Yesterday was an amazing day because it was the first day since last weekened where we had free time. We went to a place called freemantle which is basically a artsy "downtown" area on the water. We went to the market.. and just hung out! We also went swimming in the ocean with our clothes on! It wasn't really that cold which was surprising... what was cold was the 40 minute train ride after when we were soaking wet!

This coming week we are learning about Relationships which I am super excited for! Pray that I will be open and willing to hear all that God has for me this week!!

Intercession and Worship week.

Well this week has been a crazy week! Just with God speaking and everything. I am starting to feel some sort of direction with what I am going to be doing next year but wont say what it is until He confirms it! (sorry to keep you wondering).

So this week in lectures it was intercession and worship and our speaker was a guy who has been with ywam for around 30 years I think. I personally didn't like this week because I had a hard time following the speaker but the application times of intercession was amazing! We interceeded for Turkey and God showed up! He gave a couple of us pictures, and a bible verse and it was sweet! We also got to interceed for Mexico (which is where we are going on our outreach) and it really made me more excited to go! I am really getting a passion for intercession which is cool because before I would have to say that I was a nervous prayer and the problem was I was trying not to say the wrong thing but now I see that it's between God and me and thats all that matter... even when you are praying in a group of people.

Frig last night we went to kangaroo island and I got to see a kangaroo! It wasn't close up because it was hopping away so I chased it! I also sang at open mic night wednesday at our base it was pretty nerve racking. I haven't sang in front of people in a couple years I think... but it was good to get over my insecurities in that area! Thursday was amazing!! we were fasting for 40 days because of our precint and God wanting it to grow. So we had a big 24 of worship celebration ending with a potluck and worship with everyone! Our time slot was midnight till 1 and it was awesome. God showed me a lot about things in my life I need to lay down.

This week is the NLM which is a leaders conference with the leaders from different bases coming here. It's going to be a sweet week of seminars! I don't know which ones I will be doing but we shall see!

I hope everyone is doing fantastic!!!

The picture is of my small group!!

Leah, Nikki, Sasha, Nathalie, Cheryl, Courtenay, Courtney, Talia and Kristen our leader!!

week 3

This past week has been the most intense week so far! We had lectures on reptance and forgiveness. God worked wonders in mylife! It's one thing knowing and thinking that God is all forgiving but actually being able to feel it is a total differentand amazing feeling! Wow God is good!Life here in Perth has been great! Tonight was hilarious... we took the our rolly computer desk chair down the street in front of the base where there was a hill and went down it! It was a blast! Tonight was just a night of sillyness! :)Last thursday was so sweet during base intercession time. We split up into groups of 2; the whole base and we were each given chapters in the bible to read and so in 45 minutes we read the whole bible as a base around our precinct! It was sweet! I read 9 chapters in Isaiah which I have to say I love that book! This coming week is on Intercession and Worship which I am very excited about. I think a man named Ed Sherman will be speaking. I love times of intercession at the base. The presence of God is friggen sweet.
So during the week of The character and nature of God we had to split up into groups and creatively describe Gods character.We decided to write a poem. It was written by myself, april, courtney, and allison.So here is the poem:\

When I look to the river with the morning sky reflecting on the water and two dolphins surfacing I am reminded of the splendor of your imagination.I sit here unsure of how I am going to fix myself, my problems, my insecurity, and my uncertainties but I think of yourhealing power and incomprehensive mercy.Your mind so beyond what I can comprehend. Your thoughts are more numerous then the stars, God, your knowledge is unparalled. All creation sings of your glory. Our life stories are written in the palm of your hand. Your presence is everywhere.Have mercy on me my God According to your unfailing love and according to your great compassion, for your love enduresforever.God, your truth brings transformation. I am fearfully and wonderfull made by a God who makes no mistakes. I am valuable because I am yours.

Read by myself, April, Allison, courtney, lauren and Nikki!

Please pray that all distractions this week are gone and that I am able to hear all that God has for me!!! love you all!

So yesterday was the first day I actually felt like I was in Australia! Most likely because we went to the beach and it was so incredibly hot! I can only imagine how hot it will be in like a month or so!
This week our lectures have been on the nature and character of God. It has been so amazing our base director Shirley Brownhill has been the speaker. One thing I loved about hearing her speak was that she totally brought it down to our level in ways that we can relate and it was awesome. It was such a challenging week though. Realizing areas in my life that needs healing and the fact that I need to be more intentional with my relationship with God in order to get to know his character. I know that God has started gearing me up for huge changes in my life. I was at first really nervous about it and not sure if I was ready for the changes and the healing but when I was praying with my one on one (who I love... her name is Kristen!) I heard God just simply tell me that I am ready! Which made me super excited to just deal with stuff in my life that have gone undealt with!
We did evangelism night on Thursday night and it was very nerve racking. I have never done evangelism like that before so I was super nervous. I talked to this one guy in a video store and we chatted a bit and I asked him if he went to church or believed in God and he said "I am gay thats my boyfriend over there" and I just told him that he can still be gay and love Jesus. However he had already put an end to our conversation so that sucked. But it ended off a good night. On our way back to the base we stopped and talked to this guy and we just had a good time talking to him and we got to pray with him which was awesome.
I absolutely love it here! We are so busy that sometimes I get really overwhelmed but overall it's good. I am loving it in the rego office but sometimes it gets so hot in there!
This coming week will be a challenge we are doing repentence and forgiveness! I know it is going to be an emotional week! Please pray for me this week because I know that it's going to be super draining!!!
Miss you all!!

This week in lectures we learned about Hearing Gods voice. The speaker was Peter Brownhill who is the founder of our base.He was such a good speaker. I felt so challenged by his teachings. One thing that really stuck with me was that God will distort truth in your life that will make it very hard for you to hear Gods voice. I have been very challenged this week and look forward to getting deeper in relationship with God. Next week is the Character of God and the speaker is Shirley Brownhill who also founded the base. We went sledding this week!! Without snow of course! haha We used broken down cardboard boxes and sledded down a hill. It didn't work so well. So we decided instead to stand in a jagged line and spin around for 20 seconds and see who could run to the tree. It didn't work so well. I definitely didn't make it to the tree. However I was challenged by someone tospin around 20 times fast holding onto a piece of cardboard and then when I was done drop it on the the ground and thentry and jump over it. It was hilarious. I thought that I made it but everyone said I wasn't close. I just ended up falling over kind of mid air. I was very dizzy. I honestly feel like I have been here in Perth for weeks when I have really only been here for one week. I feel so at homehere. The people are amazing. Today we went sandboarding which was so much fun. It was the first time I have ever been sandboarding and it's nice to report that I stayed on the board the whole way down... with Courtney on my back! I have been pretty sick this week which has sucked. It started with a sore throat and now it has morphed into a stuffy nose and cough. The doctor said I just have a virus and should rest as much as I can. Which if you know me is pretty hard for me to do. I started my work duty this week has been so much fun. I work in the rego office (which to you canadian folk means registrar office). I just do filing and stuff. It's fun.