Utilize Your Gift!! 

The Discipleship Training School (DTS) is your doorway to an amazing adventure in knowing God and making Him known.  This intensive Christian discipleship course begins with a 3 month lecture/teaching phase followed by a 2 or 3 month missionary field assignment. The programme is offered at eleven different locations around the Caribbean (see...more

University of the Nations 

Did you know you can DO MISSIONS and RECEIVE UNIVERSITY CREDIT at the same time?  Youth With A Mission's programs across the Caribbean and around the world together form the University of the Nations, a truly global missions university.  Your adventure begins with the Discipleship Training School (see above).  After that, you might decide to study the Bible in Jamaica for nine months, do an outreach to St. Lucia for three, attend a School of the Arts in the Dominican Republic for three months, go to Africa for three months, then on to Australia, Europe, Hawaii - the possiblities are endless!  Tens of thousands of students are part of this global network, studying in hundreds of centers worldwide . . . including several right here in the Caribbean.  Click here for more information.

Steps of reconciliation 

 
Job 33:26

True reconciliation is a hard road. It requires taking steps of forgiveness and faith that would be impossible without God’s grace. But if we’re willing, he will guide us to stronger, restored relationships through these steps: identifying the wrong (on either side); honestly facing emotions of disappointment, anger, hurt;letting go of resentment and bitterness in prayer; focusing on the person, not on his or her behavior; choosing to reach out toward the other person.

With an attitude of repentance and humility, we can ask for and give forgiveness. We can receive each other in a renewed relationship by faith because of the reality that Jesus’ death has already paid for the wrongs committed.

Now restoration can begin. Receiving each other may at first be tentative, but the bridge has been crossed. From this experience of security, we can commit ourselves with new hope to face necessary changes.

Do you need to be reconciled with someone? Ask God to help you reach out. If you’re not currently in this situation, become familiar with these steps anyway. You are sure to need them some day.

Looking further: Job 42:10-11; Luke 15:17-20; 2 Cor. 5:18-21.

Missions Minute 

Christian radio - with a heart bigger than the Caribbean!  Missions Minute is a joint effort of Youth With A Mission and the Caribbean Gospel Network of Trans World Radio.  Follow this link for a sample broadcast in mp3 format . . . and for a free taste of Oral Fuentes' Caribbean music!

The challenge of submission 
A few nights ago, my daughter asked me, "When I become a Momma, will I know everything like you know everything?" That is the thinking of a child. Children think their parents know everything and that kids are expected to obey their parents. With that same reasoning, in the minds of some people, followers are expected to obey their leaders (who must know everything!). Now, that is not the teaching on submission that I heard from Loren Cunningham!

Sometimes the teaching on a submissive heart and attitude was translated by leaders into black and white: you're either submitted or in rebellion. There was little or no room to discuss or ask questions - even in the right attitude. And in
some followers, there was a wide-open embracing of the submission principle, just like my daughter, who thought I knew everything - and that I made no mistakes.

Were we not sometimes too childlike in obeying our leaders? And maybe when the leader shows his or her faults, we respond like teenagers who just discovered that Mom & Dad are flawed and can make mistakes.

I had a difficult experience in YWAM, and it could have hurt me. But being on outreach staff and being so often on my own with a team, I had to dig in and listen to God's voice and instructions, and He led me out of the fire. This is how it happened...

The outreach leader accused me of a major character flaw. I cried out in my heart to the Lord that this was wrong and asked Him how I should respond. The Lord said, "He doesn't know what he's talking about, but you respond rightly anyway." I did what the Lord asked of me, and for the first and only time, I prayed that the outreach would end early. God did it through no action on my part. Although it wasn't easy, I was able to walk away without being burned.

The Lord teaches us to walk through these things as followers; but it is necessary to see that leaders can make mistakes too, and to be able to trust the Lord in the midst of faulty leadership.

Ask the Lord how to respond in the midst of your 'fire.'

by Margie Limberg, YWAM Associate and former YWAM staff who lives in Germany with her husband and children. Reprinted from InTouch magazine, a ministry of YWAM Associates. Go to www.ywamassociates.com for more information.

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