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