Full Sail Ministries South East Asia Outreach 2023 Hello dear friends! We have been stateside for two weeks now and still cannot begin to wrap our minds or hearts around what we experienced during the last 2 month of outreach in Asia!! Every single day, a firehose of fresh new opportunities and adventures were opened to us, and we watched firsthand as person after person encountered the powerful, beautiful, life-changing Love of God!!
SE Asia Outreach Team Cambodia - Thailand
What you are about to read only scratches the surface! There are literally hundreds of stories to tell – many of them too personal and too private to share the details of. But please know this…God answered our prayers far beyond what we could have even hoped or imagined! We wholeheartedly “give thanks to the Lord for He is good! His love endures forever.” (Psalm 136:1)
Cambodia (March 2-30) We spent the first month of our trip at the YWAM (Youth with a Mission) base in Battambang, Cambodia, the largest base in SE Asia. Week 1 was focused on building relationship with the leadership team, as well as ministering to the 100+ DTS students (Discipleship Training School) who were in their last week of training. We got to teach on hearing the Voice of God, finding our identity in being His beloved sons and daughters, and then praying over each of them individually as they prepared to leave on outreach the next day. One couple who had literally sold their wedding rings in order to attend this 6-month school, shared their heartbreaking story of infertility. It was such a privilege to pray over them for healing. The young husband literally buried his head in Geoff’s chest like a child and wept, tangibly receiving the love and comfort of a father’s arms as we prayed. Week 2, we set up and then hosted a week-long Oasis Retreat, open 7am-9pm daily, geared specifically to the 120 YWAM staff members. These precious staffers - who are lovingly and sacrificially serving God with their whole lives – came hungering and thirsting to meet with Jesus. The pace of ministry and the weighty needs of the people they pour into day in and day out, have left many of them bone-weary and longing for relief. It was so moving to see them receiving deep encouragement and refreshment from God. Throughout our devo times each morning, breakout sessions in the afternoon, worship times in the evening and 17 personal Reflective Station available all day, as well as many heart-connected conversations and precious prayer times, Jesus extravagantly poured out His love on every person that came.
Breakout Sessions Oasis Retreat
Teaching at YWAM Discipleship Training School (DTS)
Our team was not exempt from receiving! In fact, one of our team members reflected, “How is it that I came to give away to the people here and He seems bent on giving TO ME?!!” There were moments of pretty intense spiritual warfare and our team felt it. The enemy would have loved to divide us. But God gave us EVERYTHING we needed to press through, and the hard moments served to bond us deeply!! We are still marveling at the grace and victory He provided!!