Prague and beyond

  Last weekend we got to spend time in Prague with team poland. Our time there was spent seeing the city and doing street outreach! It was so refreshing spending time with team Poland. We got to encourage each other and really build the teams up so we were ready to come back to our home bases and truly bless the cities.

Kole Whitnah playing guitar

                                                                                      





We hit the streets with worship and our free
prayer signs. At first we thought it was going to rain, but the Lord was faithful and cleared the skies for us. We spent time playing several hours of worship and offering prayer to anyone who was willing to accept it. Countless photos were taken of us, I think the sight of 18 American young adults praising the Lord so openly was something not seen so often.

Jeremy and Jin sharing the gospel with Nicholes, a homeless man.   

Kaylee praying for a sick man on the streets.

After I finished playing guitar and singing out, I was able to walk around another part of the city and was able to pray for a few homeless men on the street. The conditions they were living in were heartbreaking. My teammate and I got to spend sometime talking to them about Jesus and our relationship with him. Just by us not ignoring them and walking by them while they begged for money on the street, blessed them. It was as if no one had looked their way in so long. They longed for love and being able to pray for them and asking the Lord to touch them and fill them with love was the best part of my day.         

                                                                                  

We were able to talk to and pray for so many people. It was such a great time. A group of Christians from south east Asia ran up to us filled with joy thanking us and telling us how encouraging it was for them to see us out preaching the gospel. We got to pray for them and hear some of their story. It was amazing!  I walked off with a few members from my team and went on a prayer walk, and as we returned to where our teams were set up, around 200 people were there. We could hear different members from team Amsterdam and Poland preaching and declaring worth over the crowed that was listening. It was so amazing. Sharing about the gospel to the city of Prague was life changing. 

In Prague

After our 2 day adventure in Prague we headed back to Amsterdam full of excitement and expectation for the remainder of our outreach. We had 20 hours of travel which looked like 2 busses and 6 trains. We never had much time to sleep since we weren't completely sure what the stops looked like. Train stations aren't to American friendly since non of it is in english. haha. So we bought our tickets not realizing that we would have a layover. haha a 4 hour lay over starting at 1:30am in a train station where all of the stores were closed at night. In fact no train came through during our lay over and it was freezing. So we got some blankets and bath towels out and made a little place for the girls to lay down. Us men stayed awake and protected them... hahaha

       20 hours of traveling had passed and a 2 hour nap, then we went straight to our community outreach for the day. We served in a mans apartment who is a severe alcoholic. He hadn't been sober enough to clean in over 10 years. Here is a before and after of his bathroom. It was heartbreaking, but we got to share the Love of Jesus with Him and he was blessed. He agreed to start taking steps towards getting help! After he saw how clean everything was he looked at all of us and asked "why...why would you do this for me? I am not a good person." we told him because we wanted to bless him and that we loved him. The men that set up the project and who knew him personally got to share more about Jesus to him and more of the fathers heart for him.  It was amazing! 

    




      The next day we served on the YWAM base and we got to help clean the YWAM "Next Wave" boat! we spent time sanding and oiling all of the wood. It was a lot of fun and a lot different than most of our serving time so it was great. They let me clime the crows nest! They talked to some of us about joining them after our DTS is over. We would be sailing around Europe going to remote villages and sharing the gospel. It sounds exciting but as of now I do not plan on doing that. haha

 




Today our team split into two groups. One team went to one of the big parks in Amsterdam and my team went to the hospital. The Hospitals here are very private and they are very cautious about who is roaming the halls, so we had some troubles at first, but the Lord was still faithful. We went to the waiting room and split up and each would pick a person and start up conversations with them....haha most of them couldn't speak english, but with simple hand motions I could explain I wanted to pray for them. Some would say yes, and some would say no by standing up and walking away. haha. It seemed to really bless the ones we were able to pray for. One women said after we were done a lot of the pain she had been feeling had left. She told us she was a muslim and were able to tell her about Jesus. We are hoping to be able to go back before we leave and talk to her more. please be praying for her. It was a great time and the Lord truly blessed us all.

 I was honored to lead the base in worship this week and one of my teammates video some of it, so in my next blog I will be posting some footage.

Thank you guys for all of the prayers and support! Love you all so much! If you have any prayer requests please send me a facebook message or leave a comment on here. I would love to be prayer for you!

Also, I applied for YWAM staff, the Lord has really put on my heart to lead in some way with YWAM for a season. In the same way I was lead and mentored I want to be able to pour out and see more and more people filled with a passion to see the lost saved. Please pray that I get accepted if it is the Lord will for me!

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