A Pursuit of Jesus, Glory and Intimacy

Ninth video blog- Beginning a Journey of Faith

2012-02-04T07:14:00.000-08:00

Eighth Video Blog: From Home

2012-01-01T10:07:00.001-08:00

Update from Cork, Ireland!

2011-11-12T03:50:00.000-08:00

Video #6

2011-10-23T09:40:00.001-07:00

First Ireland Update

2011-10-02T08:39:00.000-07:00

Last Kona Update

2011-09-18T23:54:00.001-07:00

Big News Video Blog

2011-09-05T19:34:00.001-07:00

50 hour burn video

2011-08-22T23:45:00.001-07:00

Check out a few highlights from last weeks 50 hour burn.

Video Update

2011-08-15T09:39:00.000-07:00

I have decided this week to do a video blog and will probably be doing these for a while, it makes for a more personal experience for all of you who are so used to reading my blogs. Enjoy!

The Glory of Breakthrough

2011-07-25T18:18:00.000-07:00

It is already the third week of the Awaken DTS and it is honestly hard to believe things have moved this fast. I am constantly amazed each year at the growth rate of the students, it seems as though they are going deeper faster each year of DTS. During my DTS I wasn't seeing the type of growth I am already seeing this year until the seventh or eighth week of my DTS. Already the Lord has been breaking through and tearing down strongholds in the hearts of the students. We have truly been seeing Jesus becoming the Lord of their lives at a rapid rate that is commonly not experienced in a DTS so quickly. I am a little perplexed at how or why there is such acceleration upon this school but the best opinion I could give is - it is because the staff is such a hungry for God group and we are all pressing into the glory of the Lord. Leading up to the school we had leaders around the base constantly coming to us as a whole and telling us they had never seen a group of staff that were pressing so hard into seeing heaven invade earth; so if I had to attribute the acceleration of this DTS to one thing it would be the staff crave and pursue intimacy with their creator above anything else.

Our first week of speakers was staff, which was an absolute blast. I got to take a slot of 30 minutes or so and I shared on 1st Corinthians 13, speaking on God's love for us and what it looks like toward us. As Awaken (the name of our DTS) we have done a lot of pioneering on this base in the area of breaking DTS out of the box that many have put it in. One of those things was having the staff take the whole first week of teaching and use that time to bring their testimony and share it with the whole school and also to bring a short prophetic declaration about this generation. The week was amazing, it was glorious and the Holy Spirit showed up every day! The messages the staff shared on an individual day all lined up with each other, just exhibiting to me the orchestrating power of God in every circumstance of our lives. As I took time to ask students what they thought of the first week of class all I got back were raving reviews about how they felt more comfortable with the staff of their DTS. Most students that come to DTS think the staff are high and mighty with a 'holier than thou" mentality; but with our approach to the first week it broke all preconceived notions about the staff and showed the students that we are on the same level as them. This take on the first week opened almost every heart to build deep relationships with all of the staff very quickly.

The second week of this DTS we had a man by the name of Ivan Roman with us; he spoke on hearing the voice of God. Truthfully, I was expecting another average teaching on this topic and I didn't think I was going to get a lot out of it. I could almost spend the week half listening and half paying attention to the class environment. But as the week kicked off Ivan had all of our attention through his story telling methods, he began the week with telling the school several stories of his salvation and how he entered the ministry. The great thing about stories is they put everybody listening on the same level. The first day of teaching he really felt to hit on the orphan spirit, which is what has affected all of us before we realize that we've been adopted as sons and daughters of God, and then to impart, imparting is a process of laying on of hands and praying that what you have would be given to the person that you are praying for, and pray for the spirit of adoption to fill the students hearts. The reason for this is - that if you don't understand your position in the kingdom and your position as a child of the King you will tend to listen for the wrong voice when you are seeking to hear God. The rest of the week was spent teaching on hearing God's voice, prophetic ministry, baptism of the Holy Spirit, and dream interpretation. It was honestly the best teaching on hearing God's voice that I have ever had.

This week we are blessed to have the founder of our mission, Loren Cunningham. He is speaking on the foundations of missions and the first day was filled with gold nuggets of wisdom and truth. There is a high expectancy upon this week and we are so honored to have him with us.

I am still in need of approximately $5,000 toward my outreach expenses. I am leading a team this fall to Northern Ireland (more about that coming soon!). If you feel lead to give towards furthering His kingdom as this team goes forth, you can follow the link on the right hand side of my blog. As always, thank you for reading and God bless you.

What is DTS?

2011-06-18T12:40:00.000-07:00

Greetings from Kona, Hawaii! It’s been awhile since I have posted a blog, so I am going to give all of those who read this blog a simple run down of what a DTS (Discipleship Training School) is, what we do and what our goal for DTS students is. A DTS is the flagship school of Youth With a Mission (YWAM). If anyone would like to be part of YWAM long term they are required to take a DTS before they can work with the mission. This may sound a little weird to some, but it is done this way so everyone who works with YWAM will be on the same page as far as beliefs and values go. DTS is a school that lasts six months. It consists of three months of lecture on topics such as the character and nature of God, hearing God's voice, and spiritual warfare, etc...; the next three months are spent on a field assignment (outreach). This is the application portion of the school where students put into practice all they have learned and seek out the lost so they can disciple them. As a staff, my role in the school is directly for the students, I take part in discipling a group of men for the lecture phase, having one on ones with them, where I take time with them and process what is going on in their lives at the current point in time. I am also blessed with the opportunity to lead an outreach team for the field assignment phase of the school.

What do we do in DTS? I have given a short summary above but I would like to dive deeper into this topic. Most people who come to DTS are either young in the Lord or sometimes they do not know the Lord yet. What we try to do through a DTS is lead people into a correct perspective of God and what his will and purpose is for their life. We do this through the teachings during the lecture phase and through the application of the teaching during the outreach portion. The school lectures are a time where speakers are brought in to teach specifically on a topic they are educated on and point students toward the correct view of Jesus, The Holy Spirit and God the Father. We see a lot of change in people during these teaching times, especially during the teaching on the Father Heart of God. During the lecture phase we have worship a few mornings a week and prayer (intercession) on the other mornings. After class students have work duties for a couple of hours and/or they have small groups or one on ones with staff. The small groups and one on ones are built into the schedule as a processing time for the students so they can talk about the lectures and anything that has arisen in their hearts concerning the topic. This is the basic layout of a DTS lecture phase, along with different odds and ends added in over the course of the three months.

I'll group the goal of DTS and what a field assignment is into this last paragraph. The field assignment of a DTS is a three month trip to a different location from the lecture phase. During this time students are going out from the base so they can put into practice what they have learned during the DTS. Sharing with others the love of Jesus and bringing others into the same revelations of God as they received during the lecture portion of DTS. It is really a time for the students to step out into their callings and to advance the Kingdom of God through showing the love of Jesus Christ; which leads me into the goal of DTS. Our goal is to graduate students who can model the same thing they have been witnessing during the DTS. We want to create a reproducible model of discipleship so that when students go home or when they go onto something else in missions they have a model to base what they do from. Our goal is not to fix people so they are all better, but to get people more intimate with their Father God, Jesus and The Holy Spirit, so they can continue to be sanctified even when they have left the DTS environment.

This is simply a short summary of what I am going to be doing for the next six months. If you would like to partner with me either in prayer or financially it would be an enormous blessing. You can contact me at Cbergus@gmail.com if you have any questions, would like to partner with me, or if you would like to know more about DTS. God Bless.

So it begins

2011-06-04T12:54:00.000-07:00

Staff training... the road to the DTS. We have officially pulled onto the fast track highway to the Awaken DTS this summer. Starting on June first our staff group of 29 have had Jeremy West from the YWAM training base in Montana with us and will have him for another week and a half. He is sharing with us about staffing a DTS and what kind of mindset a staff needs to have as they step in to this amazing role that influences lives for years to come. He has also shared a lot about the basic principles of being a Christian and how they pertain to our role as staff.

The one thing that has impacted me the most that Jeremy has shared so far, has been how as staff, we have to remain in a stance of a disciple always. We have to continue to be teachable and never think we are above learning or in a place of knowing it all. The students we disciple this summer will always have something to share with us and just because we have been doing this thing (YWAM) longer should not mean we can't learn from those who have just entered into the radical Christian lifestyle. We've gone into what a disciple really is; they are a person who lives and shares the teaching of the one who is discipling them. As followers of Jesus, therefore, we've got to go out and share what we have learned. We must live our lives worthy of our calling and never think we can know it all, simply because He is infinite and we can constantly be learning more.

The second topic the Lord has highlighted to me out of all of the teaching we have received so far is that I am to be a person who conducts his life equal to the gravity of my calling. I can't expect to simply live my life as Christ would only at certain points, but I must always be looking at how I am living and how I can improve my actions. Out of all of this, the Lord has been highlighting to me that I must change the attitude of my mind, simply because all of my actions come from a belief system in my mind, whether correct or incorrect. I am to do my best to conduct myself as Christ would and the easiest way to find out how to do this is to read my bible and live a life in accordance with the word of God. Like Paul says in Romans, we will be transformed by the renewing of our minds, so to you all, conduct your life in accordance with the weightiness of your calling.

There is so much more on my heart and if I were to write it all it would be extremely long. If you would like me to expound on anything I have written it would be my joy and pleasure. You can email me at Cbergus@gmail.com. I enjoy hearing from you, by email or snail mail, it’s always good to hear from friends. Thank you for reading!

What I've been doing

2011-05-22T15:10:00.000-07:00

Since I have been writing so much lately about what has been on my heart and not so much about what it is I have been doing I am sure there are those of you out there a little curious of my whereabouts. Well you're in luck, this blog is going to give a brief overview of what I have been doing and what is going to be happening next month.

Since FCM ended in March I have been on the construction staff here on the YWAM campus in Kona. Currently I am working on a two story dorm building on campus that is located right across from my room. This is such a blessing because it literally takes about 5 seconds to walk from my bed to work in the morning, a great commute! Over the past two months I have been learning a lot and am really blown away by the amount of growth I've experienced. I worked with an electrician for a few weeks and learned how to run conduit through a building, as well as running fire wire from each smoke detector to the fire box at the end of our building. During this time I have also had the chance to grow in leadership; I am the work duty coordinator for the current DTS students who work with me, which means I'm their boss. Having this opportunity has helped me to better learn to delegate and given me a chance to lead by myself in a different circumstance than I'm used to. It is nothing like leading an outreach team where you have your team with you constantly and it is easy to lead them because you have relationship. I am also learning a lot about discipleship through having these work duty students, the most profound thing that has been revealed to me is -I have to model and not teach. I can tell them to pull weeds every work duty, but until I am willing to get down there and pull the weeds with them they are not going to hold the same amount of respect or follow my instruction the same way. This translates a lot into discipleship; we must model ourselves to others if we expect them to listen when we ask them or tell them to do something.

Onto the next month! Starting on June 2nd the Awaken staff is going to be having staff training for the DTS this summer. I am really looking forward to having all of the staff back and pursuing the Lord together. During this time we are going to be spending a lot of time together bonding, praying, calling students, etc . . . It is going to be a divine time for sure and there is so much expectancy in my heart for what lies ahead. If you have any questions or would like to know more about what I have been doing or will be doing in the next few months, please email me at Cbergus@gmail.com I would love to hear from you.

Prepared

2011-04-02T19:10:00.003-07:00

"Preach the word; be ready in and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 2 Timothy 4:2. As of late the Lord has been speaking to me about the value of being prepared so we can live from Gods perspective and not from a circumstantial perspective.

From a young age we are taught many subjects in school, from history to math, and I hadn’t really thought about why these were so important until now. Many, if not all students ask themselves at some point, "when will I ever use this?," I'm here to tell you all you learned in your days of schooling was to prepare you for your life ahead, so that you would be prepared in and out of season for the tasks set before you. While we are learning, whether it be a trade or what we see as simple book knowledge, we don't often grasp the value of the information at hand. But think about if a mechanic had no idea what he was doing when he opened the hood of your car. Now anybody with enough time and deductive reasoning can figure out how to solve a problem, but wouldn't you much rather have a skilled person working on your car so it takes the least amount of time? Tradesman go to school and sit as apprentices under skilled men of whatever specific field and sometimes they learn things that just seam pointless, but it prepares them so that in and out of season they will be ready for whatever may come their way. Take the military for example, every soldier is trained in hand to hand combat but rarely will they ever have a chance or even need to use the skills that they've learned in this arena, but when that rare situation occurs those soldiers are very glad they were prepared for such an encounter.

All of this being prepared can be viewed the same in the Kingdom of God. Some of us read the bible very reactively; when an event happens in our life or we are burning about a specific subject we want to read about that and only that. But as Paul tells Timothy, we must be prepared in and out of season. We ought to be reading the word all of the time so when a specific situation arises we don't have to scrounge around searching out where there is something in the word to encourage us in our time of need. A perfect example: in the western world we teach about persecution and that it will come and to know Jesus is with those who are persecuted. In our western society it is not very common for people to be persecuted for their faith, but when this does come those that have been taught about how God views it will not react to the circumstances because they know how God views this and that will lead them into the correct action.

Being prepared is why it is so important to study. You don't want a doctor who skipped one of their classes simply because they didn't see how it was useful to be diagnosing you. It is the same with the Bible, it is not smart to skip over parts or books you think are irrelevant. The word of God is relevant to all of us and it is relevant to every event in our life, so to be prepared is of great value. My challenge to you is to better know the word of God so when troubles and trials arise you are already equipped with God's perspective on your situation.

Rest

2011-04-02T19:10:00.001-07:00

As the second part of this three part series I've felt the Lord give me the topic of rest. God has been teaching me and bringing me back to the basics of what rest really is. In the western mindset we view rest as something you do that is relaxing and takes your mind off your 'job,' it lets you focus on yourself and not have to worry about the other stresses in your life. This view point puts a lot of emphasis on the beloved weekend, viewing days off as the prize or goal of your work week. But it always seems we start to do some type of work instead of the rest we had so longed for. I think man was never intended to fully do nothing. Take vacation for example, how many times do you hear the phrase "I need a vacation"? Only to return from the longed for vacation and need another vacation. We take time off to fulfill our western perspective of rest and then we don't rest. We work in the yard on a day off or on vacation we go hiking, etc... I think we need to redesign our view of rest.

On the seventh day of creation God rested, but we know God never stops doing anything, because He holds all things together, Colossians 1:17. Therefore God never fully rests, but He still calls it rest in Genesis. It's time we start to re-define what rest truly is. I believe rest is a state of being and not time to focus on yourself or relax.

How do we get to this state of being is probably the question you are asking right now. There are very few things Jesus gave formulas for in the Bible but one of them was on how to not worry. Matthew 6:33 tells us that if we seek first the kingdom and His righteousness then all of the previously mentioned things in the scripture passage will be added unto us. I take this to mean that if I seek a relationship with the Holy Spirit and I seek to do God’s will and not my own, then I will be at rest in God because I will not have to worry about anything. Many of us hear the phrase, "Be still and know that I am God." But how many of us actually take time to be still before God in our spirit and know that He is God? Knowing He is God is not stating that Jesus is the almighty living God, it means you acknowledge Him as the sovereign ruler of your life, that He has it all under control and that He knows what to do in every circumstance. When you know these things you KNOW that He is God and you have nothing to worry about.

Why is this important? Because if we are not seeking His kingdom and acknowledging Him as God, we will worry about our provision and start to seek out how we can solve our own problems and not what God’s will is for our life. Worrying is also a sin, in Matthew 6:25 Jesus says "do not be worried about your life..." When Jesus tells you not to do something that is a command. When you do the opposite of a command it is disobedience, which is sin. Self-centeredness is also a sin, Jesus never intended for us to be focused on ourselves; we know He is going to provide for us and therefore all of our concern should be for others, being self-centered is literally centering on yourself and our true center should be God and not ourselves. Even self-confidence is a sin, so many people will say they have high self confidence but if we are taking confidence in ourselves instead of God it is a sin because, again, we are looking inward and not toward God.

We need to live in a place of rest and not look at it as a place that is waiting for us at the end of each week. I challenge you to look at your life and see how you can change your perspective on rest so you are living for the kingdom and not for yourself. If you are still and know that He is God you will be able to have complete confidence in God and know that He is going to fully satisfy those needs and completely provide for you. If you would like to chat about this subject or simply have any questions please email me at Cbergus@gmail.com.

Unity

2011-04-02T19:09:00.000-07:00

I have had a few things burning in my heart lately that I feel need to be expressed in some medium. It will be a three part series of what the Lord has been speaking to me about in recent weeks and months and has been transforming me. My prayer is that in you reading this it will spark something inside of you that will start the same transformation in your heart and will lead you to a deeper relationship with your Savoir.

As you can probably guess from the title of this post the first part will be on unity and the power it has for us as believers and the necessity it is as a whole community of Christians wherever you are. Unity is of the utmost importance. if you are running a three legged race and one of the people you are partnered with suddenly starts to walk out of rhythm and tries to start doing their own thing it will throw the whole group out of sync. Just like it takes practice to get in sync with those you are tied to, it takes practice and perseverance to be unified with one another. Jesus knew unity would be one of the most important aspects of the whole body if it expects to function, so important, that in John 17 after he prays for the disciples, his first prayer for 'all believers' is "... that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you." That is VERY intense unity if you ask me. Jesus was one with the Father, knowing his every move and only doing what he saw the Father doing, Jesus wants the WHOLE body to be like that!

Now picture the whole body of Christ in a three legged race, running for the prize in each their own way. They are stumbling over each other and yelling at each other, telling one another their way is right and to follow them. In this way we actually end up with a lot of people who are offended at each other and it results in complete disunity. How do we unify ourselves with one another if everybody is following their own will? Paul tells us in the book of Ephesians chapter 4:3, to keep the unity of the body we must be at peace with one another. I don't know about you, but honestly this hasn't happened very well throughout church history. There are constant church splits, arguing over doctrine or theology which almost always ends in one group of people splitting from the other. Which is where we get denominations from, the root of denomination is divided nation, that is NOT unity. From the looks of it, we have not done a good job of listening to the teaching of Paul from Ephesians 4:3 or done a good job uniting ourselves as Jesus prayed.

Unity is important as you can see from above. We can't be the body Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians 12:12-26 if we are in disunity. Paul gave us a picture in that passage that one part of a physical body can't function as a different part of a body, i.e. a foot can’t be a hand and a hand can't be a foot. But imagine if we all knew who we were as part of the body of Christ and acted like what we were called to. Instead, each person wants to do their own will and not combine with the other parts to complete one task; example: a foot knows it is a foot but wants to do the job of a hand. A person may know who they are called to be but not want to move in the calling they've been given. The body must know who it is AND function in untiy. Solomon gives us a great picture of what unity looks like as human beings with the visual of a chord in Ecclesiastes 4:10-12. The law of multiplication is amazing, one of the many reasons God continues to amaze me on a daily basis. If you have one chord it can hold its own weight, but if you have two chords they can hold four times the weight, three can hold nine times the weight. Imagine the work we would get done as a full functioning unified body, going for the same goal and doing it in unison.

I hope this has inspired you to seek unity among those you are around. I wish I could include all of the verses that are written about being unified with one another. It truly shows the importance of treating each other with the same kindness and love that you show to God. If you have any more questions or would like to simply talk about how you can become more unified with those around you feel free to email me atCbergus@gmail.com. My heart is to see the body walk in true unity with one another, caring and loving each other just like Jesus and the Father did on earth and continue to do in heaven.

Transition

2011-03-29T17:07:00.000-07:00

he counseling school that I was taking has officially finished and I am excited and saddened at the same time. On one hand I am glad to be done with school and free to do more around campus, but at the same time I am going to miss school. Until I started this class I hadn't realized how much I actually had missed school in general and the work that comes with it. While I was in high school I really didn't enjoy it, mostly because of all of the homework that we had. I had envisioned college would be different simply because I would get to choose the classes I would be taking and thus be able to choose what I enjoy. My assumptions turned out to be true. I enjoyed the work we did for the counseling school a lot more than I would any other type of school work, because I wanted to do it. The lectures were something I looked forward to on a daily basis and not something I was dreading each and everyday like I remember doing in my high school days.

Although these past three months have been such a growing time for me I am stoked to start the next season of my life here in Hawaii. For the next two months or so I am planning to work with the campus development department here on base. I have been working with them for the past three months as my work duty (2 hours a day worth of work for student, essentially a job), during that time we did an assortment of construction jobs from framing walls to pouring slabs of cement. During the next two months of work I will be doing whatever is necessary to see the completion of the buildings that are currently under construction on the mission base here. As soon as all of electrical and plumbing is finished we will be dry-walling the whole new two story dormitory, which will probably take around one full month of work.

During this time the members of the Awaken DTS staff will be continuing to meet and prepare for the DTS this summer. We meet a few times a week to bond and build relationship with each other. We are a very dedicated group of people and we expect a lot out of this summer. Among the group there is a deep hunger to see the Kingdom of Heaven invade earth and at the same time relaxing in knowing it’s the Lord who will bring it as we wait on Him. We are all learning about resting in the Lord, gaining new understanding of what it truly means to "be still and know that I am God" and that all we do HAS to be based out of a love for God and a love for others. Without the foundation of those two things all of our efforts will fail. The Lord is doing amazing things among us and we are ready for even more! Pray for us as we long for a deeper understanding of the love and restful relationship with our creator.

Cathedral vs. Temple Thinking

2011-03-13T11:12:00.000-07:00

When Ashley presented the topic of cathedral vs. temple thinking last week I realized I had debated over it a little in the past, but when she gave it to the class I was pretty set in temple thinking. The difference between the two types of thinking is still based out of Greek and Hebraic mindsets, cathedral- Greek and temple- Hebraic. Simply explained, the cathedral thinking is we must get out of this world so we can dwell with God and when we die we are going to heaven. Essentially it is an escapism mindset that doesn't care about the earth because we are leaving it anyway. The temple thinking is we are here on earth and this is where God wants to dwell with us and when we die we aren't going anywhere. At the end of the age when Jesus comes back he will create a new earth and we will dwell there with him. Let me go into more detail.

Cathedral thinking was developed by the Greeks and the church adopted it through Greek philosophers who got saved and then started to influence the Christian church. This mindset believes the earth is only a place we are passing through and the treasure lies at the end of your life when you die and go to a giant mansion in Heaven. They display with the physical cathedrals in our cities here on earth, huge roofs, beautiful interior. They were meant to give you an out of this world experience when you entered them. Many churches today are still under this influence, they don't see the earth as a place we should take care of simply because we are going to leave it and God will destroy it.

On the opposite is the temple mindset which is what the Hebraic mindset is oriented towards, it is a biblically based mindset. When God created man He desired to dwell with man here on earth, man was never intended to die. If man was never intended to die, then the earth was never intended to pass away. But after man sinned, death entered the earth and thus the process of destruction started. As you go on through scripture you will see many times how God wants to dwell with man on earth, he lead the Israelites through the desert as a cloud by day and fire by night, He dwelt in the temple that was built for Him in Jerusalem. Of course He is never restrained to any specific roll man places on Him; He just wants to be here with us. Under the new covenant we are the temple of the Holy Spirit and He dwells in every believer, showing again that God wants to be here with us and not waiting for us to die so we can be with Him. At the end of the age Jesus is coming back and He will create a new earth on which the New Jerusalem will be built and we will live there for eternity.

I don't know about you, but I think the Hebraic mindset sounds like a lot more fun and it is way easier to believe because of the fact it is biblically based. Just as last time, if you would like to hear more about this topic you can email me at Cbergus@gmail.com.

Greek Vs. Hebraic Mindsets

2011-03-05T15:23:00.000-08:00

This past week's teaching was brought by Ashley Little, the older sister of one of my best friends, Chris Little. She started off this week speaking on how our mindset in the American church has been heavily influenced by the Greek philosophers of old.

The most prominent way this is evident is by looking at the way we think opposed to the way of Hebraic thinking (anything related to the culture and/or language of the Hebrews). The Greek thinking pattern is a linear one, A+B=C and so on, but if A+B doesn't =C then it can't equal D, E, etc. Most of the Christian church is in this pattern of thinking; for example, Romans 8 says that we have been predestined by God, but we are told to pray in other passages. All of the apostles and Jesus model prayer as a spiritual discipline and something that moves the heart of God, the Greek thinking looks at this and says that one is wrong because they contradict each other and proceeds to get rid of the one they think is wrong, because it doesn't line up with the linear thinking pattern. Now the Hebraic way of thinking is what is called 'box' thinking, each book of the Bible is divided up as a box and each of the boxes is the inspired word of God and since "it is impossible for God to lie" (Hebrews 6:18) then each of these boxes, no matter how much they contradict the other are 100% truth.

For most of us this is hard to grasp, because as Americans, whether in or out of the church, we have all been taught with a linear thinking pattern and “the teacher is always right”. This is something else that contradicts what was originally designed for the church. The way the Jews would teach in the temple is they would read scripture out loud and then everybody would discuss it, there wasn't one person who knew it all and would be the single person teaching. That design came from Constantine, when he started to Romanize Christianity. Constantine outlawed the Jewish style of teaching and made it like the Roman senate, where one person would get up and teach all of the lay people. This has continued on today and was not the original design for the body of Christ. Our best representation of church is the house church, lead out by a single person and the 'congregation' is open for discussion on the topic that is shared.

This week has been a very challenging week for me and it has tested my thinking on many levels than I had anticipated. I had no idea how much the Greek philosophers had influenced our church and the way we look at scripture these days. I would love to chat more about this if any of you are interested, please email me at Christerbergus@gmail.com. I will be posting another blog very soon including more principles Ashley taught.

Meyers Briggs

2011-02-05T12:20:00.000-08:00

As you can probably guess from the title of this blog we've been studying Meyers Briggs this week. I'd never heard of the Meyers Briggs test, but as I mentioned the topic to others around me they would list letters saying, "I'm an ESFP," or something like that. It wasn't too long before they explained this was a personality test. As the week started I was very skeptical of the topic, mostly because I felt like personality tests put people in boxes that define who they are and then tell them how they should act. Usually they will tell you your strengths and weaknesses, which are very helpful, but I don't think those things should define your identity or how you treat others.

As the week got started it seemed my conclusion was correct, we were slapping a label on every person in our class, with labels such as "ESTJ" (Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging). When they would start to explain each letter and what the combinations meant and how certain combinations would act in daily life I thought I had this thing figured out. I started to assume there was a ranking system and each type was better than another, like rock paper scissors. I realized there wasn't a “best” one but they each compliment the other. Just as I thought I had this whole test thing figured out, the speaker said something that will stay with me forever, "Meyers Briggs doesn't put you in a box, but takes you out of one." What?!?! That completely went against everything I ever thought about personality tests.

Let me explain what he meant in this statement. Many people put themselves in boxes because they think others should act the same way as them, make decisions the same way, or look at things the same way. What the Meyers Briggs test is designed to do is to take people out of that box and to show you there are different personality types that look at things differently and makes decisions different, etc. Now many people think when they give the traits of your personality type you must act that way and fit into that paradigm. But our speaker also explained many people operate all over the board in the different personality types and you can fix very few people to one set of letters. We also found out almost all of the letters are split evenly in the USA, meaning half of the people are extrovert and half introvert. This week of class totally changed my view of personality tests and how they help and teach people. I'm very excited to help people come to the same revelation I did about these tests. Most of all, I'm looking forward to using this tool in all the different types of ministry I work in throughout my life. It truly helps me to know how to relate and treat those around me like they should be treated, like Jesus would treat them. If you would like to learn more or chat about this week’s topic you can email me at Christerbergus@gmail.com.

What does freedom feel like?

2011-01-28T15:26:00.000-08:00

Over the summer the Lord set me free from so much, For the first time in my life I actually feel like I know who I am and what I was created for, so coming into the FCM (Foundations in Counseling Ministry) I wasn’t sure what the Lord wanted to work on in my life. I knew He called me to do the school and I also knew He wouldn’t tell me to do it without a purpose, because of Romans 8:28 ‘that he has predestined everything to work out for our good.’ I thought I’d dealt with everything over the summer, repenting of my past and truly receiving the forgiveness and freedom from God. We all should know that He wants us to be set free, like Paul says we used to be slaves to sin but we died with Christ and now we are dead to sin. And for freedoms sake we have been set free. It’s obvious that God doesn’t want us to be bound up and be a slave to anything but righteousness. All of this lead me to wondering what else the Lord wanted to set me free from, little did I know I would find out very soon.

The first two weeks of FCM we learned about Plumb line ministry, Amos 7:7. The whole idea is that since we live and have grown up in a fallen world we’ve been raised along a false plumb line. The two false plumb lines fall under the main areas of rejection and rebellion. Everybody will always swing to rejection first and then decide to swing a rebellious plumb line, while some will stay in the rejection plumb line their whole life. The creator of this ministry is Bruce Thompson and we have had the pleasure of Bruce teaching class this week. As the creator, Bruce knows exactly how to work and direct the teaching and ministry, just like a watch maker knows how to disassemble and reassemble a watch. Bruce’s biggest dependence is on the Holy Spirit, which is where all real freedom comes from.

As the week progressed the Lord started to highlight areas of my life I thought I had repented of and given to God. But I came to realize I had only been repenting of the sin and never the root of the sin. Just like a weed, if you want to kill it you must take out the roots so it doesn’t come back. Sin is the same, you must find the root of the sin and repent of that, in essence cut off the root, and that is exactly why God has me doing this course. There were many things I thought I had broken off and was free from, but I realized I had only been cutting off the leaves of the sin and not going after the roots. After the Holy Spirit revealed these roots in my life, I fully repented and received the forgiveness Jesus gave to me and all of us 2000 years ago. Today I feel freer than I have ever felt in my life. But even more than being excited for myself, I am excited to be able to minister to others using this tool of plumb line, to bring them back to God’s original, straight plumb line.

First Steps of 2011

2011-01-10T22:25:00.000-08:00

Stewarding is a calling God places on our lives and should always be one of the greatest desires in our hearts. This is what the Lord has spoken to me many times over the past two weeks. How do we do this? What does stewarding look like? This is where we turn to the universes’ greatest guidance counselor, The Holy Spirit. He will be able to guide us in the correct direction for the calling that He has placed on our lives.

Over the past year God has spoken to me many times that I've been called into leadership in the body of believers. Now I'm at the same place that many of us have been at before. What do I do to steward that calling? As 2010 came to a close the Lord pressed upon me that I need to take steps toward preparing myself for this roll that He's called me into. What He led me to is a school known as FCM (Foundations for Counseling Ministry) which is based here in Kona. I continued to seek Him as to why He had lead me in this direction and He spoke to me that the best way I can ready myself for leadership in this season is to learn to counsel others with scriptural wisdom.

Recently God has highlighted identity to me and how vitally important it is for every Christian to get a firm grasp of who they are in Him. Without this identity we won’t be able to operate in all God has for us. We must come into an understanding of who we are in Jesus. To understand that we don't have to work for a single thing in this kingdom we have been given as sons and daughters. Our identity was given to us when we were created by Him and known by Him since He formed us. We must work from our identity and not for it. Through this course (FCM) I know God will help me to better grasp my own identity and in turn be able to help those I mentor to better grasp their identity.

I am in great expectancy of all the Lord is going to do in this season and what He has planned for us all.

Trip to China

2011-01-10T22:07:00.000-08:00

As I have had time to process my outreach in China and think about how the Lord moved, I am awestruck by what He has done and what He has taught me through many stretching situations. We were blessed with the opportunity to see 50 Chinese come to the Lord during our time in China. Through that, I came into the full revelation of what it really means when people say that a salvation is the greatest miracle and why Jesus leaves the 99 and goes out after the one. Being able to personally lead a lost soul to eternal life with our savior has to be one of the biggest highlights of not just my outreach but my entire life!
Watching a person’s face and eyes change as they come into understanding of the One who died to save them and praying with them to be filled with the Holy Spirit was a direct blessing from God.

I also had the pleasure of leading half of the team (by myself) to the country of Hong Kong to get their visas renewed so that we could return to China and finish the work that we'd started. The Lord used this time to grow me in ways that I thought wouldn't have been possible at my age. There was definitely a special grace on me to lead alone, that, if I didn't have I wouldn't have been able to lead by myself. I grew in my dependence on God the most, seeking him in and for everything I did.

Most of our ministry was to university students and it really captivated me that most of them had read at least one book of the Bible. These students were so hungry for the Lord that they were seeking him out even without people telling them to or showing them the way. When those beautiful feet of the ones who bring good news come, there is a ripe harvest waiting around every corner!

This outreach fulfilled and exceeded every expectation that I had for my time in China and for the ways the Lord would move during our time. It gets me even more excited to lead another team next year to a brand new location and see what God is doing in a different part of our globe. He is moving everywhere, He just wants us to join in.

China on the Horizon

2010-09-22T11:13:00.000-07:00

The Day has finally arrived and I will be heading off to China with a team of ten other people on Sept. 23rd at 4am. Much preparation has gone into this trip and I know God is going to move in more insane ways then I can even imagine. We are going to be gone for ten weeks, nine of which will be spent in mainland China, the other week will be in Hong Kong for our debrief. It is becoming more and more evident this team has been divinely assembled by God for this season and has been anointed to do the Lord’s will and work in China.

We are going to be doing many different kinds of ministries and I know we are going to see many Chinese come to Jesus. Sadly though, I will not be able to update my blog while I am in China, but you can be sure I will have many stories upon my return to Kona. I would like to ask all of you who read this keep me and the team in your prayers as we are definitely going to need it. China is still a closed nation and Christians are still persecuted in some areas. Please pray for safety, team unity, and the moving of the Holy Spirit; thank you so much for all of your prayers, they do mean so much! If you would like to contact me you can email me securely at cbergus@fastmail.fm

As sweet as Honey

2010-09-11T21:53:00.000-07:00

Many times we hear comparisons of God’s love that I think are absolutely ridiculous, to be completely honest. God gave his only son, Jesus, to come and die for all of our sins. Do you realize that those who haven't even be conceived yet have already been forgiven for the sins that they will commit once they are brought into this world? As Christians we seem to think that people who are 'non-believers' are so far away from us and how could they ever get to our level, they are such 'sinners'. While Jesus died for their sins and your own sins at the exact same time, people who aren't saved yet have already been forgiven and the only thing separating us from them is that we have believed with our hearts and spoken with our mouths that Jesus Christ is Lord. Even sinners are moved by the Holy Spirit, conviction is only brought through the Holy Spirit and conviction is how you are lead to Jesus.

We don't even know what the full love of God is like though we get a small picture of it from scripture. Thankfully scripture is written and God is always new, every aspect of God's love couldn't be captured in one book if you tried. The even crazier thing is we are called to love each other and love our neighbors like Christ loves the church. He became man, from God and displayed His love for us in dying on a cross to set us free from the punishment of sin. How do we start to even love each other like this? I think the best display of this is looking at the gospels and at 1 Corinthians 13. Jesus displayed His love for all on this earth in many different mediums and 1 Cor. 13 gives us the next best set of guidelines to follow on how to love others.

Jesus tells us in the gospels that the second greatest commandment is to love our neighbors as ourselves, which is done in many different ways. I want to take a look at John 13: 34-35, Jesus gives a new command to his disciples. He tells them that people will recognize the disciples by the way they love each other, not by the miracles they do or by the way they act or even the attitude they have; but by how they love each other. If we started to display our love for one another like Jesus displayed his love for the church, Christians wouldn't have such a bad reputation all over the world. We need to let our actions do the talking and not our words -1 John 3:18. I challenge you to read the books and passages I have included in this blog and meditate on them and ask God and yourself how you can better love others. I will be writing a blog next week about what I am going to be doing for the next three months and will be including ways you can partner with me in prayer for the China team as we go forth in God.

As always, I want to be able to pray for you specifically, so please contact me with any need. I look forward to hearing from you.

Leadership

2010-08-23T00:21:00.000-07:00

The students I usually talk about doing the DTS are not the only students around base. The staff of the DTS are also taking a class at the same time. We are involved in a school called BLS (Basic Leadership School), it is a school that runs alongside a DTS, except it's for the staff. It helps us to develop as leaders as we prepare for leading an outreach team and lead small groups during the Lecture phase of the DTS. A few of the requirements for the course are, keeping a journal, two book reports, and lead a week of DTS. Leading a week of DTS means that we take on the roll of the leader of the school and prepare for the week, get the speaker set up and do all of the announcements in front of the class. My week to lead is in late September, I am actually really excited for it and a little bummed that I only get to lead one week as I want to have more practice at leading the class.

For the first book report we read "Developing the Leader Within You," by John Maxwell. It was a great book and it had a ton of great tips on how to lead. Some of the best tips were that leaders are not managers and one of the most important skills a leader can have is to inspire, because if he can't inspire then he won’t have people following him. Attitude was the second largest aspect to a good leader, a good attitude will change how you act and react to your surroundings and conflicts that may arise. The second book I read was "The Leadership Paradox," by Denny Gunderson. It was a great book and I loved it. One of my favorite parts was that Denny takes stories from the gospels that display how Jesus leads his disciples and turns them into narratives, expanding on the dialogue and highlighting the leadership qualities of Jesus. He then takes the qualities that he has highlighted and expands on the concepts, making for a great model to base our leadership off of. The greatest thing about the book is it is all biblical and all of the leadership concepts are blatantly modeled by Jesus.

God is really developing me as a leader and I am looking forward to our outreach time in China and everything the Lord has to grow, mold and change me into!

China's on My Mind

2010-08-05T18:05:00.000-07:00

Outreach teams were officially announced on July 23rd and Erica Gustafson and I are will be leading a team to China! It is still early to be talking about outreach, but outreach is the practicing ground for everything the students learn during the lecture phase of a DTS. My co-leader and I have taken some time to start planning our trip. We are expecting great things! The Lord has assembled an amazing team to China, and we are taking 9 students, eight of them are Korean and one is Taiwanese. I will be continuing to update as more is decided in the area of our outreach.

As the team has formed for outreach we have been spending a lot of time praying into what our trip is supposed to look like and what is on the Lord's heart for the areas we will be in. Our whole class has taken time to intercede for each of the outreach locations, to receive prophetic words and prophetic pictures to encourage each of the teams and to give them an idea of what the Lord has in store for each of them. The Lord has started to place His heart for China on me and I am spending a lot of time seeking Him and what He has for our outreach to China.

Thank you for your prayers, emails, letters and financial support. I would love to pray for you in any way I can, so please contact me so I can lift you and your needs up to the Father. Please pray for me as I continue to seek His face and direction, along with Erica for our outreach team. If you feel lead to support me financially please see the sidebar for more information on how to do that as I do need outreach funds. Until next time…

Intimacy

2010-07-24T14:47:00.000-07:00

This past week Matt Rawlins spoke to our DTS about The Fear of the Lord. If you would like to listen to his teachings you can go to www.awakendts.com and they are available at the left side, mid page. He spoke on a lot of different things, but all of it led back to the topic of the week, Fear of the Lord. It had to be one of the best teachings on Fear of the Lord I've ever heard.

This past week has been full of brand new revelation. I've been meditating on John 15 this week and what it looks like to abide in Jesus. Out of spending time with the Lord I have been taken deep in Him, knowing Him more and more; not the kind of knowing most of us think of. When we hear the word “know” most of us think of knowledge, but when the word is used in the Old Testament it can be translated to understand and to be vulnerable. Like it says at the beginning of Genesis "Adam knew Eve and she conceived." I'm now coming into a deeper knowledge of who God is and how He is vulnerable to us, that He would let us know Him. God is constantly blowing me away with His greatness. I challenge you to spend more intimate time with God this week, you will grow in deeper understanding.

We also announced outreach locations to the students this week! Our DTS will be going to seven locations; Oman, Azerbaijan, South America, Thailand/Cambodia, India, Haiti, and China. Erica Gustafson and I will be leading the team to China! The teams were announced yesterday after class and we had our first team meeting. Let me tell you, the Lord’s hand is all over our team! It has been so divinely assembled. I have a high expectancy for the amazing things God is going to be doing in the next couple months and during outreach, which is still two months away. Please begin to pray for Erica and I, as well as our team.

I look forward to writing again next weekend. I expect the Lord is going to show up in even more amazing ways this week than we have seen yet and look forward to telling you about them! Please keep me in your prayers and I would love to hear from you!

Glory

2010-07-16T01:35:00.000-07:00

How appropriate is the title of this blog entry! Honestly people, God has been showing up in amazing ways in my life and there is so much to write about with such little space. I want to start by saying that the God of the entire Bible is the God of today and that is something all of us need to get in our understanding. God is pursuing us more than we are pursuing him, He wants to encounter us more than we want Him to encounter us. He is after us with such a passion that if it was revealed to us we would probably die. GOD LOVES US!
God is showing up in ways that I never thought were possible or even still active in the church today. He started to show His Spirit more to me in the past month and a half than He ever has in my life and it is perfect for the season I am going through. His perfect timing is always perfect for our life and we shouldn't ever be trying to rush God. Onto what I really want to address, God is showing up with scents and manifestations of His Spirit that are blowing me out of the water. Holy Spirit laughter will fall in a group of people and they will start laughing uncontrollably, it's glorious. The scents that we have been smelling are the scents of Heaven, things like smelling vanilla in a corporate meeting, or the scent of a brush fire ( there wasn't a fire anywhere near us). I asked God what the smell was and He told me that it was the smell of "the burnt offering." There is so much to write about. I will be posting another blog this weekend about the amazing things God has been doing in the DTS. There is so much passion in my heart right now. GLORY! I pray that the Lord will encounter each and every person who reads this.

Deeper Place

2010-06-14T14:26:00.000-07:00

The Lord has really been blessing me a lot lately. My mom came to visit me here in Kona from June 1st-8th. We had a great time snorkeling and seeing the island. I also got a chance to send out a whole ton of support letters with her by my side, helping me by addressing, putting on return address stickers and stamps and oh, the fun of licking each envelope! Thank you all for reading it.

Lately the Lord has been taking me into deeper places with Him. I am discovering what Jesus meant when he spoke of knowing his Father. Intimacy, which in Greek means "to know," is a huge theme of the New Testament whether the word is used directly or not. Jesus often spoke of how he only did what the Father did and he spoke of his closeness with the Father, both of those things hit really deep on intimacy. The Lord has been showing me those places, reading his word and discovering the character of God and what it means to be like him or 'part of the vine.' This next season is going to hold a lot for me in regards to knowing Jesus better and becoming like Him in all aspects of life. I can explain it like this, when you hang out with your best friend a lot you start to pick up their traits, mannerisms and characteristics, it is the same when you spend a lot of time with Jesus, you know Him and start to become like Him.

The DTS I am staffing this summer is starting to pick up speed. The staff for the DTS went on an advance (we don't retreat) this past week where we shared testimonies and then prophesied over each other to encourage each other. It was probably the most amazing time I have had during my time with YWAM. The presence of the Holy Spirit was so thick in the room we were in we didn't want to leave. We went with our own agenda and ended up doing what the Spirit wanted to do, which was ministering to one another for almost 48 hours. The result of that time was a heavily united staff, this is so evident from all of the response from people on base saying how bonded our staff is already and it isn't even 2 weeks before the school starts. The summer is going to hold many amazing things. The Spirit is going to be moving in new ways this summer that are going to break people’s boxes and paradigms. I can't wait to share with you all the things that are going to happen on this campus.

New Season and New Opportunities

2010-05-06T17:12:00.000-07:00

The end of April and beginning of May have brought with them a whole ton of opportunities for me and my future with YWAM. Andrew York, the school leader for this summer’s DTS has been talking to me a lot about the DTS this summer and what he is thinking about after the DTS school is over. He has presented a request to the staff of this school to make a two year commitment to the Summer DTS. Why is he asking this you may wonder? Well, glad you asked! Andrew wants to form a staff that would continue to work together, that have a bond, and would be committed to students and to the nations. The commitment is much more than a six month DTS and then six months off, which is the usual course. The idea behind the two year commitment to the DTS is to have a staff outreach after the school has ended. That would be the staff that have committed to two years going all together to a country that we all agree to in prayer and ministering for two months. This commitment to the DTS also comes with a request by Andrew as well. Andrew has requested the staff making the two year commitment have a goal of raising $2,000 a month in support. You may be asking yourself "why so much?" The idea behind asking the staff to raise $2,000 in support is because of disasters like Haiti. Our team prays about it and gets a "yes" to go, but we don't have the money. We would have to send out letters requesting support and wait. We want to already have the funding to go, to be able to jump on a plane that same week and be able to help right after the disaster happens.
What I am asking of those reading this is, for you to partner with me in meeting this goal. The Lord has called me to serve with YWAM for a lifetime and I know that he will provide financially. At this time I am currently believing him for $2,000 a month in support. If you feel lead to partner with me in this season and believe in what I am doing and my pursuit for God, you can donate on the right hand side of this page. If you are already supporting me financially, thank you for your faithfulness. If you have anymore questions about what I am doing then please email me personally at Christerbergus@gmail.com, I would love to answer any questions you may be having.
On another note, the base here has been thriving this quarter. It has been amazing to see so many students growing in a deeper and intimate relationship with our creator. The Call2All DTS I am helping out with has been awesome. To watch a lot of students coming to deeper revelations of the love and character of God is amazing and fulfilling. There are some that have completely turned around from when the school first started. Seeing these transformations just stokes me more for the DTS this summer and the awesome things that we are expecting. The staff for the summer DTS that are currently in Kona have been sitting down together on Fridays and praying together for the school, students, and staff. It is already such a huge blessing to see the staff so hard pressed after God and His presence. As things progress quickly this month I will be keeping everybody updated on what I am doing here in Kona. Thank you again for your prayers and support, you are all appreciated!

The Start of a New Season

2010-04-18T14:30:00.000-07:00

Today marks the 11th day of the quarter and things are getting off to a great start here in Kona. All of the new students are really showing a deep hunger to get closer to Jesus, develop a relationship with Him and not just follow a religion. This quarter I am also part time staff to a Call2All DTS lead by Johnny & Jenni Gillespie. They are doing such an amazing job you would have never guessed it is their first time leading a DTS.
Both of the jobs I took on for this quarter, Work Duty Coordinator and DTS registrar, have really started to slow down. Both jobs were a lot of work right before the quarter started because I was processing so many applications and trying to get people out to Kona before the quarter started. It turned into a very busy time. Coordinating all of the work duties on campus has been no small task either, trying to get everybody in order all over campus and figure out where all of the students are going to be working. Both of those jobs have slowed down which is great because it provides me with more time to be part of this C2A DTS that is running right now.
Being part time staff for this school provides me a great opportunity to build into students lives before staffing the DTS in the summer. I also get to see how a DTS is run behind the scenes. God calling me to Kona back in early March was no mistake. I was brought out that early to really get into the feel for all of my work duties and then be able to be a part of this school. It provided for me a greater time to understand what I was going to be doing on campus.
I am really looking forward to all of the great things the Lord is going to be doing these next three months with all of the new students, dramatically transforming student’s lives.

The Start of a New Quarter

2010-03-25T16:26:00.000-07:00

The first Quarter of the year here in Kona is coming to a close. As the second quarter starts, working in the Student Services office provides me with a great idea of what the quarter is going to look like as far as numbers go. Right now we are going to have the largest quarter here in Kona EVER! As I write this we have currently accepted 321 students. Although this is a lot of students it is also a blessing for me because I will be able to work duty slots easier and not have to worry about shortages.

As I start taking on the roll of Work Duty Coordinator, more and more I start to feel at peace with this whole situation. Because the more students we have come to Kona, the more work duty spots will be filled, making my life just a little simpler. I am even having to start to think about where I am going to put the over flow of students. Having extra hands always makes for lighter work.

As far as community goes, it has been such a blessing. I am enjoying all of my roommates, even though at times living with six guys might seem like living with six...guys. I think you can imagine what I am trying to say here. But I love the community life and living with more people is better than less. Six people in the room is better than the one other guy that was there when I got here.

Lately I have been running into a lot of people from Washington, which is shocking and amazing at the same time considering that according to Gallup Poll (http://www.gallup.com/poll/114022/State-States-Importance-Religion.aspx) Washington is ranked as the sixth least religous state in the nation. Although I don't believe in religon and I believe that the spirit of religion is what crucified Jesus, it kind of gives you an idea of what we are looking at in Washington. Let me get to what I was really saying, I have met about 15 or more people from the Puget Sound area, including about 6-8 from Tacoma/ Gig Harbor/ Fox island. It just amazes me what God is doing in our state and those he is bringing out here. So, I am not alone out here in Kona.

I am looking forward to keeping you all up to date as the quarter goes on and as things progress towards this summers’ DTS.

Jumping back into Kona life

2010-03-18T23:20:00.000-07:00

Here is a short post about what I am doing in Kona at the moment.

I arrived Wednesday March 3rd in the evening, found my room and much to my surprise there was only one other guy in the room! There are usually 6-8 guys in a room. I then found out our room would fill up once teams came back from their outreach's in about a week.

Thursday March 4th I received more information on what I am going to be doing in the Student Services office. I will be calling incoming students, answering any questions they have and praying with them before they come out to Kona. I am also going to be entering information from applications students send in and sending out e-mails to students or those that e-mail our office with questions. I also met up with a friend of mine from last summer named Ryan, he is the head of the DTS office which is next to the office I am working in. I have been talking with him for the past month about what I would be doing when I got to Kona. Along with working in the Student Services office I am also going to be taking over as Work Duty Coordinator for the whole campus. This entails me giving out work duty assignments to new students and making sure everything runs smoothly for the campus of about 500+ people. A pretty large undertaking for me! God is really giving me a lot of responsibility right now and I know He is faithful to help me fulfill my new responsibilities.

That is a little bit of an update of what is going on right now with me, this was written when I first arrived in kona and a new update will be posted soon.