Whats Going on in the Life of the Ward's
This Blog is the update's on what's happening in our life
In November I moved from Kona to Pasadena, CA to plant a YWAM community at the US Center for World Missions. Seven of us embarked on this journey really not knowing what it would look like or but confident that the Lord was sending us. It has been real pioneering as we rented two unfurnished houses from the US Center. We have had to pray and trust the Lord for literally everything. Over the last couple months we watched God provide beds, couches, tables, food, appliances, and even fresh flowers. We had a few words of the Lord and we wrote them out and even painted them on our wall's to remind us everyday what the Lord has spoken. Our house became our prayer room, offices, community center, ministry hub and everything else. Day after day we where challenged to lay down everything, every entitlement we had to simply say “yes” to Jesus and walk in faith for what He was asking us to do. There where tears and wrestling, but as we sat around our dinner table and eating the food that God provided there was so much laughter and joy and we came together in this place of brokenness and dependence on Jesus we became a family of faith. The Lord has been faithful and good to us. Over the last few months some things have become clearer and other things are yet to be revealed. The first thing the Lord told us to do was build relationship with the US Center for World Missions. Our first way of doing this is we have weekly lunches with the elders and this has been a highlight as we sit around eating and fellowshipping with these missionary legends. We started going to the richest/deepest bible study with the community on Wed mornings. We love it! Relationship and trust is being built and a convergence is happening. These things take time and we are excited for what will come of it all. The other area that has been huge is in December along with a group from the CALL that is with Lou Engle started worshiping and praying in the historical Mott Auditorium 4 days a week. We where this small little group in this huge building praying and believing for a House of Prayer to be raised up from that place unto the revival in America and harvesters being sent into the hardest and darkest nations of the earth. God was moving and March 1&2 we saw a fulfillment as the place was filled with young people for the Wilder Conference. We saw hundreds of people flood the altars giving their lives to Jesus to GO to the nations not matter the cost! Our community is also coming along side another extension of our Circuit Rider family in Orange County as they are going after revival on the University’s in Southern California. We are starting to partner with Expression58 a church my good friends Shawn & Cheri Bolz, and Jennifer & Jonatan Toledo are pastors. Its becoming more of our community’s church. We also partner with other churches and ministries as the Lord opens the doors of relationship. On top of all of that we have seen some amazing things happen and doors open. From seeing someone get out of a wheelchair, people getting saved, God moving in church’s, amazing divine appointments, Jesus doing what He does through our “yes”. It has not been easy, but it has been good! It has been transforming, and life changing! WHATS COMING NOWTomorrow starts the Ekballo 40 Day Fast with day and night worship/prayer in Mott Auditorium. We believe this is going to be a historical shifting time! Lou Engle moved back to Pasadena yesterday and we will be partnering and running with him. I am very excited about this, as the Lord has spoken to me personally about this relationship with Lou and Therese. We are running along side what the Circuit Rider’s are doing right now on University campus’s called the STRIKE TOUR. Continuing to build relationship and partner with the US Center for World Missions. At the end of the month we are hosting an outreach team from the Fire & Fragrance DTS in Kona. We are a looking toward this summer with the LA Circuit Rider School in July along with some other exciting things. I believe our community will be growing quite a bit in number as we move into summer. ON A PERSONAL LEVELAs most of you know when I left Kona I had just had major surgery with a lot of complications. I dealt with those complications this entire time. On March 3rd I flew back to Kona and taught in the largest Fire & Fragrance DTS for a week and then flew over to Honolulu and had another major 10 our surgery. It went so much better and there has been no compilation’s this time, Praise the LORD! Tomorrow I head back to Pasadena. Being here in Kona is great, but I realized in being here that Pasadena is now my home and I have missed my community there so much! In Dec I got to go home for Christmas and see family and meet my new niece. It’s always good to go back to Alaska. These last few months have been some of the hardest, but through it all the Lord has been so faithful to me! Yesterday I turned 33 and I am believing this year marks a new chapter in my journey. I do come back to Kona in May to teach and have another surgery but this time its should be pretty minor compared to the last two. Only 4 hours or so this time ha ha. Prayer and Provision I am always in need of continued monthly support. With moving to California my monthly living expenses has increased quite a bit. Recovery from surgery. I still have about a month left of recovery from this one. Especially over my emotion and heart, it’s been pretty rough. Then health for future surgery. Provision for our community in Pasadena. Prayer for all we are doing right now! If you would like to give or become a monthly Supporter you can give tax deductible HERE Personal Itinerary
March 12-13 Harrisburg F&F Community March 14-17 Greenville, NC Fascinate School April 1-5 Las Vegas, NV Abolitionist DTS April 21-25 T okyo, Japan F&F DTS April 28- May 3 Panama City, Panama YWAM North American Leaders Conf May 13-16 Kona, HI AWAKEN DTS May 17 Honolulu, HI Surgery Circuit Rider Dates March 15-16 Wilder Irvine, CA July 7-13- Fiji July 14-19- Circuit Rider Field Worship leader training in LA July 21- August 2- CR LA August 4-10- CR Lancaster, PA August 11-17- CR Kansas City, MO
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Living in California
It was my last night in Kona and was home alone and my house was empty. I sat on my couch and shed a few tears thinking of how much my life was changed in Kona. How in so many way’s I feel it was there I stepped into my destiny. Reflecting on how much the Lord did in and through me and all the relationships and lives. My mind was also filled with thoughts of what was coming in this move to Pasadena and stepping out in Faith into the unknown of pioneering. I drifted off to sleep…. Then I was suddenly awakened at 3:05 am and for the next hour the Lord met me in a powerful way. It had been over a year, since the Lord had met like that. Such a token of His love for what I was leaving behind and what was ahead. That day on 11/11 I left Kona. My first stop was Oregon where I spoke at a Women’s conference called “Brave” a gathering of courageous pioneering women. This turned out to be a powerful time as the Lord did such significant things in the lives of the women of the North West as well in my own life. I mean, I leave Kona to pioneer and my first stop is to speak at conference called “Brave” about pioneering women?? In Oregon I got a car and drove to California with a stop for the night in Redding. On November 19th I arrived in Pasadena to meet my team. All seven of us had arrived that night as we had our first family dinner in our new house. So there is 5 of us ladies and 2 guys renting two homes from US Center for World Missions. Us girls have a 3 bedroom house with a great living room and good space, and the guys have a tiny little house down the road, but most of their time is spent at our house where all the cooking and meetings are done. As I got here I realized we are literally pioneering from the ground up needing everything from furniture to silverware. Its been a real adventure gathering things to put houses together and seeing the Lord provide in amazing ways. That first week was Thanksgiving and we had two family’s over one from the US Center and one from The Call. The convergence has begun. Over these last couple weeks we have been building relationship with US Center for World Missions leadership as well connecting with other ministries. One of the main things we will be doing here is going after Universities to see revival happen, souls saved and another Student Volunteer Missions Movement raised up. We got to go to our first event last week on UCLA called the drop where salvation, rededication, and healing took place. Our team has been going out doing some evangelism in the area and having some great things already happen from that. We have been having morning times of worship and prayer in our living room and other times spontaneous of worship breaking out. The Lord’s presence comes and meets us and we are all walking through greater places of surrender. Last week I personally was in a meeting with Lou Engle and some of the elders of US Center and sharing and talking of what could come of these relationships. My heart had been very stirred with Faith for the dream on God’s heart for this place. About a week ago I became very sick with a cold/flu. I have never had a flu effect me this long before. Tonight I sit home alone still trying to recover as the team is out doing evangelism. Though my body is still very weak, I am stirred with hope and faith for what God is doing in Southern California and in America unto the hardest and darkest nations of the earth. Its been a busy few weeks of pioneering but its going great. I head home to Alaska for a week for Christmas and then come January we will be going full force again with getting trained for Universities and as well as stepping into greater convergence with US Center for World Missions. I think I will have more exciting things to announce as we move into 2013. We still have need as a team for provision for household items, as well as just financial provision for rent/utilities and food. If you would like to donate to this pioneering plant e-mail me and I can get you the info on how you can do that. Personally I am still in need of committed monthly supporters. One of my greatest needs right now is health insurance. With being this sick and not able to go to the doctor it makes me realize again that I need to do this. So for me right now that is about $185 a month. If you would like to become a monthly supporter you can sign up HERE and just e-mail me and let me know. Have an amazing Holiday Season. I will be checking with you all soon. Some Changes
With pioneering there can be unexpected changes and continuous new developments, and so is the case with my pioneering plant to Pasadena, California. In order to tell you about those changes,l I am going to put on my story telling hat and bring you into it what happening: As you know from my last update, the plan was to move to Pasadena with a team in November to pioneer a YWAM base at the US Center for World Missions and launch the new Awakening DTS in January. For me the word of the Lord was to go to Pasadena and to partner with US Center for World Missions, to plant a base/community that was a place of "convergence". The Lord said to "take a step of faith" in going. Two years ago the Lord also spoke to me in a very powerful way about the Circuit Riders in California and He has continued to do so. I know how to run DTS's, and it's what made sense in my mind in pioneering a YWAM base, so that is the direction I went in. Everyone was excited and on board, so we worked hard in creating all the promotion and video's in getting things dialed in for the DTS launch. At the same time in doing all of this I was battling through surgery stuff and the complications that happened as well as planning for a unexpected second surgery. The plan was to get my second surgery Oct. 10Th. About a week before that surgery I was challenged by some of our leadership to pray about the idea that we where NOT to run a DTS in Jan but to actually move out there and be on the ground to wait for the Lord to speak into what kind of training we where to do. We run really great DTS's all over the place but maybe this time the Lord wanted to do something new and different with this place of convergence. Thoughts that it would be more of a location for Circuit Rider training and really focusing on harvester's for the wave that's coming. When I first heard all of this I thought the idea was great, but it was not what I was thinking and the ball was already rolling for the DTS. I was open to the Lord speaking to me but I was feeling that I was to still move in the direction of the current school. When my apostolic, God fearing leaders present something like this to me, it makes me stop to listen and pray. I submitted to the Lord and asked Him to make clear to me if I was to change the direction I was going. Well a few days before my surgery my doctor on Oahu called the nurse here in Kona and asked that I get a special test done to check for a certain kind of infection. When I went to get the test the nurse said it was just a precaution and not to worry. A couple days later was the Sunday before my surgery, early in the morning I get a call from my surgeon. He tells me the tests results came back and I had a serious infection and he could not do the surgery on me and it would be months before that could happen. My unsaved surgeon tell's me that how he realized that I had this infection was he had a dream where he was operating on me and he was spreading the infection all over by body. It startled him awake and he was disturbed by it and ordered the test. Sure enough I had it, he said that had he not had the dream he would not have known to do it and we would not have known until it was to late. He then said a much higher power was at work in all of this. Well you could imagine how shook up I was and the Lord had my attention. I told Andy Byrd who I was processing with and he had also had a dream where I was not getting my surgery when I wanted but I was getting it a few months later and it was the perfect timing. Now the Lord really had me. So that day the Lord began to speak to me about making a change and not running the DTS in Jan. Over the next few days it was decided that I would take my small team and move to Pasadena on the US Center for World Missions and start living out rhythms of evangelism on University Campus's as well as house of prayer and building relationship. Although this was not what I thinking or even wanting at first we all knew it was the Lord. My team shrunk a little after that but we have our small little army ready to get on the ground and pioneer and listen to what He has for us to do. In one week from today I move from Kona and start my journey in Oregon where I speak at a women's conference and hopefully buy a car to drive to Pasadena. I should arrive there Nov 19Th. The rest of November and December will be spent getting established and building relationships, and lots of prayer. Come January we will be training for University Campus and taking a class with the US Center for World Missions. We should know by then more on what kind of training we will be doing and when that will be. I am really excited to get on the ground and really hear the Lord for what He is saying to us. In the first week of February I will be in Kona teaching in the Fire & Fragrance DTS and if I am healed enough I hope to get my surgery after that. Please keep me in your prayers as I am still really battling through physical/emotional stuff from the surgery as well as some new issues that have come up. I am so close to being on the other side of the physical overcoming journey and now I am coming into a new land to pioneer and step further into my destiny... Need Your Help I am really in Need of Monthly Support: With all the changes going on in pioneering as well as in the lives of my current supporters I am really in need of committed monthly support. One of the biggest needs is health insurance and my monthly living expenses as increased with moving to California. Would you please pray about partnering with me as I take this step of faith. I need about $1000 more a month to really make it work right now. If you would like to be apart of this you can sign up for a tax deductible donation: CLICK HERE If you do, please e-mail me letting me know. More on what's happening soon to come..... As many of you know I recently had major surgery on Sept 7Th. It all ended up being more intense then I ever anticipated. What was meant to be a 8 hour surgery turned into over 10. They had to stop the surgery before it was completed due to the risks. I had a very bad reaction to the anesthesia and being under that long. The pain and recovery was much more then I have ever experienced or planned for. Let’s put it this way, the doctor said in his 31 years he has never had such an extreme case on every level. It was pretty scary but through people praying all over the world, and the help of two amazing friends who where with me I pulled through. I was told soon after by the doctor that I would need another surgery in a few weeks to complete the last one. After a week in Honolulu I was able to come home to Kona, but soon after developed an infection in my incisions. Then last Sat night I was taken to the ER due to another infection in my stomach area. I was admitted and after several cat scans I was told I would need emergency surgery to remove the many infected areas of my stomach. Once again prayer shifted things and I ended up not having surgery but a minor incisions was made to drain the infection. One of the scariest nights of my life. I do not have insurance so I am praying for a miracle for the ER bill. Then to my great surprise my friends raised the funds for my next surgery. Thank you to all who where apart of giving to that. I was so overwhelmed by LOVE!!! I have never been more undone by people doing something this big for me!! Now I am waiting to see how I heal to find out when I will be able to get the next surgery. We are praying they can do it all in just one more, but due to the complications and what needs to be done, it might be two. So please pray for me!! I have been dealing with some PTSD due to all the trauma as well as having to prepare myself to go through this all again. The other issue is everything is on a time line for Pasadena so trying to plant and pioneer a base and DTS while going through all of this and move maybe the craziest thing I ever attempted. I know the prayers and love of others and the grace of God is getting me through. My story of OVERCOMING is still being written. I know one day it will all be worth it. Jesus glories in my weakness everyday. This November I will bringing leadership to a pioneering team that is being sent fromUniversity of the Nations in Kona, Hawaii to Pasadena, CA to pioneer a YWAM base and a new DTS at the US Center for World Mission’s. From my early childhood of growing up in the wilderness of Alaska, pioneering has always been in my DNA, and I have not stopped since. I feel like everything in my life has been preparing and leading me into this next season. I have such a Fear of the Lord, joy, faith, and excitement for what God is doing. I head out this November to prepare for a new DTS called “The Awakening” that will launch Jan 10, 2013. I have been in Kna almost 5 years bringing leadership to Fire & Fragrance and now I am partnering with my good friend Andrew York who has been bringing leadership to the Awaken DTS in Kona. We are converging together to plant a base in Pasadena as we believe the Lord is releasing an Awakening in America and in the nations of the earth. In partnering with US Center for World Missions we will have a focus on seeing the unreached people groups of the earth reached with the Gospel of Jesus to see the Great Commission fulfills. We will also be focusing outreach's on the Universities Campuses to see a souls saved and another Student Volunteer Mission's Movement raised up and sent out into that nations. YWAM Pasadena will be a base of CONVERGENCE as many streams in the body of Christ will come together again in this historic place. Partner With Me Right now my greatest need is monthly support's. There is a real increase in costs in living in California. I need to raise about $1000 more in monthly support. This goes towards rent, insurance, car, etc… With pioneering and moving there are a lot of initial expenses. It is to expensive to ship my things from Hawaii so I am basically starting over. I have been trying to raise support all along this journey, but NOW I really need to. I would ask that you pray about partnering with me as I lead out in this pioneering initiative. In making this move to Pasadena, I am going indefinitely. It's not unto a time frame, but unto an outcome. Never thought this Alaskan would become a California girl, but here I Go…. Click Here For Tax Deductible Giving If you would like to partner with me and become a monthly supporter please e-mail me at amysollars@mac.com and let me know, so I can plan as I move forward. The Summer of Great Awakenings has come to an end but the Awakening continues! What a wild ride this has been. As I write this I am sitting in Kansas City airport waiting to board a flight to Oregon, the last stop on my 16 week journey. I left Kona May 10th to Japan, Oregon, Ireland, Germany, Florida, Los Angeles, London, Denver, Kansas City, and Oregon again before heading back to Kona on Sunday. Today I find myself more exhausted then I can ever remember being, my body is protesting me in many way’s but my heart overflow’s with thankfulness for all the Lord has done. It was not that long ago that there would have been no way my body could have handled this, I am so thankful for the faithfulness of the Lord. In my last report I had just gotten to Denver. The night we launched the Circuit Rider school there was the same night as the Aurora Theater shooting’s ten miles away from the chuch. Our response was “Jesus”! The urgency of the hour became more real and we hit the streets preaching the simple gospel and saw over 200 souls saved and hundreds healed in the two week school. One of the most amazing things I witnessed was a man that was blind that got healed and walked down the stairs to see his pastor face to face for the first time. During the prayer vigil at the site of the shooting anther man who was deaf in one year and 97% percent blind was healed. The amazing thing about that healing is that Denver is 97% un-churched, it was a sign to us that God was doing it! The stories form this time where astounding. Once again we knew that America was ripe for the gospel. The last and final School of the Circuit Rider's of the summer culminated in Kansas City at the International House of Prayer. A true convergence took place as Hundreds gathered to be trained from YWAM, IHOP and others places. One of the highlights for me was working with Lou Engel all summer and hearing him by last school get up and preach strait evangelism and seeing the harvest reaped into the unreached people groups. In Kansas City we saw close to 300 souls saved and hundreds of miracles. One of the core messages that emerged this summer was called “Ekballo” It’s the Greek word for “send” in Matthew 9:38 “Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” That word “Send” is the same word used by Jesus when he is referring to casting demons out of people. To violently thrust forth. The Lord is violently thrusting forth laborers into the harvest field. Through the 5 Circuit Rider Schools that ran this summer we saw OVER 1200 TRAINED. 900 SOULS SAVED and 400 HEALED. The momentum has begun and continued reports come in daily. I am astounded by the goodness of the Lord and Him allowing me to be apart of all of this. His Kingdom is advancing and souls are being saved! Moving I have some really big news of transition in my life! I am MOVING to Pasadena, Califronia in November to plant a YWAM base and community with a DTS launch there January. We be at the US Center for World Mission. This all pretty new so I will be sending out another newsletter in about a week or so with all the fun details. Next Upate COMING SOON.... Note: The picture is from the final night in KC where everyone started throwing their shoes on stage as as sign of "going" Urgent Prayer for Health I am getting major surgery on Sept 7th in Honolulu as one of the final steps in my weight loss journey to remove the excess skin around my stomach. This summer I have really fought a lot in the physical and am very run down and weak right now. Even tonight I need a miracle in my body to be able to well enough to get the surgery to keep everything on the right time table (could loose a lot of money and time if I have to postpone) This is a minimum of a six week recovery. Really need massive prayer's to go up for me right now. There is a lot of warfare of this final chapter of overcoming! Jesus will win! With 10 weeks of travel behind me and 6 still ahead, I write to you all exhausted but full of the life of Jesus. On May 11th I left Kona headed out for my longest ministry travel trip to date headed to 4 nations, 5 States, and 10 events. I am a little over half way done with what is called the Summer of Great Awakenings and I can report that it has proven to be that already! Through this letter, I hope to encourage and stir your hearts and faith for what God is doing in these days. My first stop was Tokyo Japan where I spoke in a YWAM school. It was an amazing time with the base as well as visiting one of our outreach teams. Japan has been one of the hardest places to evangelize and see souls saved. Our team saw breakthough in salvations as 7 souls where saved! Headed back to the US I went Oregon where I spoke in a DTS in Salem and spoke and ministered at Jesus Pursuit Church in Albany. The Lord really changed some lives during that time. One of the highlights for me was I had two of my best friends with me Andrew York and Chase Cofer and we went to Oregon State Capital building and outside is the most well known Circuit Rider Statue. We prayed for God’s release of the Circuit Riders in America that day and again and the Lord met us in a verypowerful and life transforming way. I love the adventures of the Lord! Going international again I headed to Ireland where I did a pastoral visit for our Fire & Fragrance Community plant. While there I helped redirect the team in a new direction to see greater revival in Ireland. It was a pretty intense time for me but so worth it and God realigned the team and I was able to build relationship with YWAM Ireland. From there I headed to Hernhut, Germany to speak in the Fire & Fragrance DTS. It was amazing to finally go to Hernhut and join in the history of the prayer movement that this place is famous for. Amazing time with the school even though I was hit with sickness, the Lord gloried in my weakness. Back to America for the first out of five Circuit Riders in Orlando, FL. I came in a few days late to be met with some of the wildest testimonies of salvation and revival I have heard from our schools. As most of you know last year we ran one Circuit Rider School for five weeks in Kona and this year we are running 5 two weeks schools, across America and one in London. What we saw in one week of last years schools we where seeing in one day now. The acceleration of training and breakthrough had increased in a expediential way. Over a hundred saved in Florida with drug dealers and madam’s getting saved and so many lives transformed. The fruit there just continues a a powerful convergence between Orlando House of Prayer and YWAM Orlando came together. I left a few days early from there to go to LA for staff training for the next school. From the first day they where going out on the streets. With two others I was really able to bring leadership to this school, and once again the harvest of souls came in with people coming in off the streets to the training times and getting saved and healed. The riders could not wait for the outreach times but went out every break. On the first day of afternoon outreach a team of 14 riders went to the mall and saw 43 salvations! During the second week we moved locations to US Center for World Mission and dug into the history there with powerful day of convergence with Lou Engel (The Call) and John Dawson (YWAM). It was here that personally I moved into a greater place of preaching and authority, where I overcame areas of insecurity in being able lead something so big and intense. The day after Circuit Riders LA ended I headed to London to bring leadership to the third and only international Circuit Rider school. There was such a expectancy to see the Lord break into a place that has a revival history as well as in present day one of the hardest places to see souls saved. I will confess there was a bit of unbelief wondering if we would see the same fruit in London as we had been sing in America. In was in the first days that we had one of the most crazy moments of breakthrough when the room of about 200 riders let out a victory shout that did not end and lasted over 13 minutes of the most intense sound of breakthrough I have ever heard. The British cultural norms crumbled under the intensity of the sound and faith broke in and something shifted. In the days to follow we saw over 130 salvations and 53 healings. Muslims and atheists getting saved and blind eyes seeing and bodies radically healed. On the last night of commissioning the room sang over and over again “Jesus your are worthy of every nation and every soul”. As I stood on stage listening to that sound I was overwhelmed by how simple obedience always changes history and that revival really is now. No nations is to hard for Jesus! The simple gospel is alive. The next morning with my heart so full and my body so weak I headed back to America arriving in Denver to speak in a YWAM school and prepare for the forth Circuit Rider School. This last week the Lord did some crazy stuff in the school I taught in then launched the CR school Thur night. With about 200 riders here in Denver yesterday day one we woke up to the tragic report that ten miles from the church was the shooting in Aurora, CO. This hits very close to home for the YWAM base here, but with hearts full of hope and faith we responded in worship and prayer. We surrounded the church family here as families from their church where involved in the shooting. Yesterday afternoon we launched into the salvation encounter training in one of the most explosive responses to preaching salvation I have seen yet. The Lord spoke to us as everyone was rushing to Aurora we where to hit the streets of Denver to bring hope and salvation. So last night we went out and saw 24 salivations and 14 healings. In the midst of tragedy, God wants to display His glory. We are deeply saddened by what has happened here but we walking through the door of opportunity for the harvest. The Lamb of God will receive the reward of His suffering. I am in Denver for a little less then two more weeks and then to final and culminating Circuit Rider School in Kansas City. We are calling for everyone who can to come for this historical time of harvest! I can honestly say that in my life I have never been in the place I am and seeing the reality of revival though I know its just the first fruits of what’s coming in America. It’s the harvest of the harvesters. I have so much to say about all of this but for now I will just leave you with this update. I head back to Kona Aug 26^th and I will send another report then. May you all be blessed, encouraged and stirred with faith to go out and preach the gospel for we are in a hour in history where revival is NOW!!!! Well I have started my journey of 16 weeks strait of travel. The first stop was Japan. This was my second time to Tokyo to speak at the YWAM base. My dear friends Greg and Rachel Lilly are leading the DTS there now and it was so great to go and partner with them. I have known Rachel since she was in High School and I spoke in Greg’s DTS and played a little part in getting them together. They have both always had a call to Japan so to be able to go and see them living their was amazing. I stayed in their little apartment right outside Tokyo. They have a little 2 year old girl Arianna that made me crack up and Rachel is nine months pregnant with their second daughter. It was awesome just to connect with them in Japan. If you have ever been to Tokyo you know how huge and spread out everything is. One of the big challenges for the YWAM base is finding housing and space. They don’t have a base yet. The Lilly’s house is about a hour and half away from the church where the lectures are held. That included a 25 min walk to the train station and the first train ride if you caught the right one was about 25 min in the craziest packed trains you have ever seen, then another 10-15 min train ride and a 5 min walk. That was just getting there and then you get to do it again to get back. By the time I got there to speak I felt like I had already had a crazy adventure. I did not mind it though. It made me respect all the staff and students that do it every day. You know the trains are so packed in the morning that a train attendant goes by and pushes people in from the their backside so the doors will close. I would wait for a slower train so I did not get as smashed. One more crazy thing about the trains is no one talks and everyone is either on their phone or sleeping. I am including a picture of a man sleeping on me. I am starting to be more and more intrigued by their culture. I felt like I learned a lot more about it this time. This time speaking in the DTS on “Holy Spirit” looked a lot different to me then it normally does. It’s hard to really describe why, but it felt a lot of time’s like I was just sitting in a living room with family. Then when it came time for prayer and ministry it was calm, deep but life changing for them. I love that no matter how many times I speak on Holy Spirit He does new things. I also got to speak at their community evening meeting. It was the first time I had Japanese translator, and something I learned that there language is a lot longer then English. It was an amazing night though with a great response to bravery! While I was there I got to do a pastoral visit for one of our Fire and Fragrance outreach teams that my girl Kateland Hilty is co-leading. They are doing an amazing job. They have seen 5 salvations so far which is huge for Japan. So far they have seen more fruit on their outreach then any team I know of. It was so great to see it! My time in Japan was amazing and my heart continues to grow more for the base and staff. They are starting to feel like family and when you speak in a place that feels like family there is a greater authority released. Two funny stories: Arianna Lilly is only two so she is still learning to speak and she does not know Japanese yet. She is in her stroller and a Japanese child starts to yell out to her in Japanese. Ari yells back in her best sounding Asian jibberish thinking she is communicating with him. Ha ha ha raising your kids in a different culture is great! The other one is in Japan everyone bows to each other and even when your talking and thanking people you slightly bowing. Well I don’t know any Japanese so when I am in the store or somewhere trying to communicate I am bowing and making sounds that are similar to theirs ha ha well when I got back to the USA I was in the airport and forgot I was in the US and started doing it at Starbucks. Made me laugh at myself! Well I am now in Salem, OR speaking at a YWAM base here and have meetings in Albany this weekend and then I am off to Ireland Monday. More reports to come. Kona 2012 started off with being back in Kona after being gone almost four months. It was so good to get back and connect with the YWAM community here. From the first of January to the second week of March where spent teaching in DTS's and school's, leading ministry nights, being apart of two prayer room teams, leading a women's overcoming class, and just mentoring and running with leaders. It was the first time that I was not directly leading the Fire & Fragrance school and although I missed leading it I loved the season I was in. As I transition into more and more leadership it makes room for other's to rise into their places of leadership and that is a beautiful thing. Personally for me one of the greatest highlights was sharing my story of overcoming in every school I taught in and seeing the breakthrough in my life and the lives of those impacted by it. To teach and walk with amazing women in the "overcoming" class was such a testimony of life and seeing the Lord get greater glory though my story. As I have entered into this year I can say that I am living more in more freedom, joy and life then I have ever known and its been amazing even in the midst of the challenges. As of today death has no hold on me as I have lost 195 pounds in total and have hit a huge milestone in my weightloss journey. Thanking Jesus everyday as I fight to hold the ground I have taken. On the Road Second week of March I hit the road again starting in Washington D.C where I taught for a week in the Fire & Fragrance DTS as well as connecting with our DC house of Prayer and speaking at the Life Center in Harrisburg, PA. Then I headed down to Greenville, SC where I had so much fun teaching in a whirlwind weekend at a YWAM school there called "Fascinate". I think I taught like 15 hours in two days, it was wild and amazing! Then over to Sophia, NC to my friends Jonathan & Melissa Helser's place to teach in their internship and to their community. This is one of my favorite places to go, so much peace and creativity. From there I went to Texas and Oklahoma where I visited my aunt and then went to my friend Levi"s wedding in Oklahoma. Back to Kona for a little bit and then off to Ohio. Ohio This trip to Ohio really marked me as the Lord did so many amazing things. I brought a Circuit Rider team with me and we saw the Lord moving in a incredible way's it was like slow burning fire. I held someone’s legs in my hands that had scoliosis and I as I prayed their leg grew out as their spine straightened! We saw salvation, freedom and healing! We taught Revival culture and where amazed by the fruit. A personal highlight of the trip was I got minister and prophecy to a house full of people that where medical professionals and see the Lord profoundly touch their lives. The Lord blessed me in such an amazing way thought this community in Ohio. I look forward to returning. I am about to enter into the busiest travel and ministry schedule of my life with about 19 weeks strait of travel and speaking. Praying for the Lord’s grace. Check it out……… Circuit Riders As many of you know I had an encounter July of 2010 that lead to a school of the Circuit Riders being birthed in July 2011 with a Gideon's Army of 300 coming to Kona to be trained in the Simple Gospel to see America and the Nations come into Revival. This summer we are launching the "Summer of Great Awakenings' with 5 Circuit Riders happening back to back in Orlando, Los Angeles, London, Denver and Kansas City. I am helping bring leadership to all of them. Check it out at www.thecircuitrider.com I would like to personally invite you to any of these two weeks schools this summer. I promise you will never be the same again! I do need your help in raising the finances to get to all of these places. My most urgent need is $1400 in the next few days to get my ticket to London and then I need more after that for everything else. Would you please pray about supporting me or giving to this need. Give with a tax deduction @ "University of the Nations" or on "Pay Pal" Itinerary April 26-29 Vancouver, WA Urban Cry School April 30- May 11 Kona, HI Photogenix and Fire & Fragrance DTS May 12-19 Tokyo, Japan YWAM DTS May 20-25 Salem, OR YWAM DTS May 26-27 Albany, OR Jesus Pursuit Church May 29-June 3 Northern Ireland Fire & Fragrance Community Plant June 3-8 Hernhut, Germany Fire & Fragrance DTS June 9-16 Orlando, FL School of the Circuit Rider June 17-30 Los Angeles, CA School of the Circuit Rider July 1-15 London England School of the Circuit Rider July 16-20 Denver, CO WISE YWAM School July 20-Aug 5 Denver, CO School of the Circuit Rider Aug 5-18 Kansas City, MO School of the Circuit Rider Aug 27-31 Kona, HI Awaken DTS In September of 2011 I set out on a four month faith journey with the Lord that included recording my album "I Will Go" traveling the U.K. for three weeks and going home to Alaska. I set out on this journey to align myself in the heart of the Lord in a greater way. My prayer was that He would do a work deep inside of me preparing me for the coming years of ministry ahead. I knew I would understand more of what was happening when the journey was over. During this time I was asking the Lord the question if He might have something new for me and I was to continue to make Kona my home. I was very open to whatever He might speak or lead me into. There where many days that I started to think I might be moving on, but I never heard clearly. When I was home in Alaska the Lord spoke to me and said He was not answering that question right then and I would know when I returned back to Kona. As I came back to Kona to start of 2012 my heart was filled with peace. All of a sudden all my wondering and wrestling over what might be ahead just came into clarity and I knew that my time in Kona was not done and it was to continue to be the place I base out of. A peace and joy flooded my soul as I knew that this was my community and that He still had so much for me here. In coming back I realized how deep of a work the Lord had done in me and changed and refreshed I really felt. As I entered into 2012 I felt like I was in the healthiest place I have ever been in my life in every way and I was not to go back to the way I was doing things before. The Lord was transitioning me into a new place in ministry and doors where being opened. I can honestly say that this last month has been amazing as I am learning to walk more and more in what the Lord has placed on my life. There is fresh confidence and vision inside of me. I have been spent my time teaching in the Fire and Fragrance School, running a women's interactive class on overcoming, writing, mentoring, singing on two different sets in the Prayer Room, corporate worship, one on one ministry and just being who I am. Its been so amazing, I feel such freedom as I move more and more into an oversight roll and just learning to be a spiritual momma and release what is in me. He has been teaching me more about how He has designed me and given my authority in. I have realized that one of the main areas I have authority in, is in the area of "overcoming" and I just wrote a chapter for an upcoming book that I am excited about, as well as teaching on this subject. It has become on of the core messages of my life. I am also been walking in more understanding of how to train, pastor, and equip in the areas of the prophetic and am excited to go deeper into that here in YWAM and other doors the Lord is opening. So I am happy to report that I am in a amazing season and so filled with excitement for this year and all that God has in store. I will be in Kona doing what I have been till the second week of March where I hit the road again to minster all over the place. I will be traveling around the world and back forth from Kona through August. June-August I will be running with the Circuit Rider School's we are Running all over the U.S. and U.K. I am excited for what is ahead! I have some real need to be able to do all of this, and would love your prayers and financial support as I step into it all. I Need Your Help & Support There are some amazing doors opening for me in the area of ministry but I am in great need of finances in order to do them. As you know I live complete on missionary support and presently I am really needing to increase my monthly support in order to keep going. I also have some immediate need for an upcoming trip. I am needing to purchase airfare for a trip to Ireland to do a pastoral visit for our long term team out there and to Hernhut, Germany to speak in our Fire and Fragrance DTS. My airfare for this is not covered at all or any of the travel expenses associated with it. This immediate need is $1600. I will also be needing to raise increased support for the travel this spring to the Circuit Rider Schools. Will you please pray about giving monthly or towards my immediate need. It is because of generous people who believe in what I am doing that makes it possible to "go". You can give on Pay Pal or tax deductible at University of the Nations. |
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