•LIFE - Living in Faith Everyday

Hi Family, This is my second YWAM post and I hope you all enjoy it Throughout this 2 weeks we have had relationship week, which was last week with Matt and Cora Dawson and Holy Spirit week with Paul Richard's. These two weeks have been very amazing but challenging at the same time. Relationships week I found to start off very hard and painful, as I was hearing both Matt and Cora's stories. Which were amazing I just had a lot of memories creep in, along with some lies saying that I wasn't going to be in a good relationship like that. Which was not true at all!! At first I felt like a bit of a failure and I had a lot of emotional stuff to deal with, as a month ago I was engaged and it didn't turn out the way that I hoped. I found the middle and the end of the week very healing for me. I started to feel a lot more complete in myself. I learned some really good tips on healthy relationships. Such as not rushing things (which is one of my weaknesses) and constantly s

Hello to my beautiful friends and family. I have been at the YWAM Zion base for almost 2 weeks now.  The base is 2 hours north of Auckland just out of a little town called Paparoa. The base is down a long gravel road, within the rolling hillside and beautiful landscape is where the Zion base stands. When I first arrived I was in awe of the peace that surrounded and was in this beautiful place. We were showed around the place and I felt such a presence of peace, expiacally in their prayer room. The Zion base is home to a 24 hour prayer room, in which we can choose a time in the day or night to go in and pray. It is such a peaceful place, and it is amazing to spend that time with the Lord. As soon as I stepped into the lecture room we received a warm welcome from the staff, they performed a worship song in Maori, followed by a welcoming tradition of a Hongi. Which is a Maori Traditional greeting, where two people touch noses against each others. This metaphorcilly represents Gods bre