What a year it has been!! We started off the year joining Youth With A Mission ( YWAM ) in Kona, Hawaii where we had a 3 month intense lecture phase. The Lord encountered us both numerous times revealing a deeper revelation of His love for us and it has forever changed us. We then went to Turkey for 2 months of outreach. We got to put on many Burns (extended times of worship and prayer) and sow into the long term workers in Turkey. We got to see the Lord working there in many amazing ways!
While we were in Hawaii God really put a love in us for our town and state and what He is doing right here in Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota. He poured out vision into us for what He wants us to do. Being back it has been a bit of a reality check. :) Some things have been really good and some things have been very difficult but we are still clinging to the word God gave us. He has a special place in his heart for our town and desires that everybody would step into the fullness of who He created them to be which leads to the natural outcome of revival and cultural reformation.
In Hawaii & Turkey we had felt that we were supposed to get more training after our DTS but when we finally made it home we did not want to leave. We pushed off further training and decided we were going to be staying in Glendive for a while. In Mid July we headed down to Denver for the School of the Circuit Riders and it was there that God reminded us of this further training He had told us to go to. We repented for our selfishness and recommitted our plans to the Lord. Soon after this we found out that the further training was a 1 year commitment. We tried to sign up for 3 months but it just doesn't work that way, so once again, we said we are not going. Sometime after that we definitely felt the Lord tell us to go to Kona for further training.
Leadership Track is designed to produce the following:
Raise up priests before the Lord who have learned to prioritize His presence, live for His glory, and
be led by His Spirit through a lifestyle of corporate and individual worship and intercession centered
around the Word of God
Create mature and effective leaders who walk in great integrity and godly character that could staff a
DTS, lead outreaches and pioneer schools and communities in any setting and circumstance.
Release evangelists, preachers, teachers, and worship leaders who could effectively teach and impart
into any setting with great anointing and profound impact
Train community builders and pioneers who are effective in creating, discipling and multiplying
missional communities centered around the presence of the Lord.
So, with this being said through all the back and forth and yes and no we are confident that this is what He is calling us to. We will be leaving at the beginning of January for 1 year. Our dream and desire is to bring back the training and people to set up a community within our community in Glendive that is centered around the Word & Presence of God.
