team azerbaijan

YWAM Kona’s first Azerbaijan outreach team!

    The eight of us will be taking off September 22nd and returning to Kona December 13th. We are so excited for these next two and half months! There has already been lots of prayer and encouraging words spoken over us about the people we will be reaching and our personal walk with God. Our team has been seeking Gods heart for the country and have started fasting one day a week. We believe God is desiring us as a team to reflect family and unity through Christ in Azerbaijan and carry hope to the muslim community. We want to not only grow together as a team but as a family in Christ with the Azeri people. I can see God is ready to do some deep work in us! 

We will be teaching English at a school in Baku. Baku is the capitol of Azerbaijan and true to its name it is the “wind-pounded city.”  

Azerbaijan (meaning land of eternal fire) became independent of the Soviet Union in 1991 and has a population of  around 83% Muslim. The country shares its boarder with Georgia Russia Turkey Armenia Iran and the Caspian sea. The city of  Baku thrives off of the oil dominated economy and tourism. 

We will be living in apartments inside the city and plan to visit orphanages and reach out to the homeless when we aren’t teaching English. The missionaries in Baku haven’t found a place to stay yet so please pray for affordable places (a room for the boys and a room for the girls) in the same building and close to the school. During our time there, my heart is to make close relationships with the community and to just reflect Christ’s love in everything I do. Because its so hard to evangelize my actions will have to speak louder than my words :) pray for those who will ask about Christ and pray for each of us to be discerning and impactful while we plant the seeds to start the “fire.” There are issues of mistrust and deceit because of a corrupt political background so pray against suspicion and negativity not only in the classes but within our team especially. 

Thank you for all of your prayers so far 

I can't wait to update you on all of the things God will be doing during the outreach

...too easily pleased

"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased"

C.S. Lewis

All of our human passion cant even scrape the surface of experiencing what God is able to give us. He is beyond our intake - our limited understanding, yet we continue with the desire to "know" who He is...  buckle up because its going to take an eternal life to find out.

recently I asked God the question "how do I truly understand your love?" Not the love you give inside of me and others But your uncreated love that abides purely in you. How do I as a 19 yr old girl, living in the 21st century, and with my lack of understanding "get" God's love. 

That is my prayer right now. 

All i can say is so far what God is beginning to reveal to me is that first it is something that can't be described in words it is an experience (like driving fast i could explain it to you but you won't truly understand 'till you experience it) 

"God I want to experience your love so that I can scratch the surface of understanding you ...for not today or tomorrow but eternity) 

answered prayer

Hey Everyone! Thank you so much for your prayers for rachel and sarah. They were answered!! It was so crazy. God is amazing... It had honestly gotten to the point where we were all starting to accept the thought of them actually leaving. Then literally Two minutes before 3 o'clock an anonymous person came up to both girls and said they would pay for their fees. SO AMAZING! they were in shock the rest of the day... so was I lol
Thank you so much God is so good

prayer request

Hey everyone just a quick prayer request for two of my friends here on DTS (rachel and sarah). In about thirty minutes they together will need to turn in around 2,842 dollars for their outreach fee, or else they will need to pack up and leave on monday. So yea if you're reading this within the next hour please please pray that God will miraculously provide FAST ...we know God has them here for a purpose and like the saying goes "if its God's will its God's bill"

thank you