Week 7

Wow another week gone, I’ve only got one more month of lecture phase to go!

Dean Sherman (a YWAM legend) taught on spiritual warfare this past week. Dean didn’t actually come to Perth but we watched videos that were filmed while he was teaching at our base 8 years ago. I was kind of skeptical towards the videos at first because I wasn’t too sure I could get much out of them, but hey God speaks through so many ways, why not through videos?

Dean’s teachings were fantastic. We learned what spiritual warfare is, that we are all called to do warfare, about our authority in Christ, the church, the nature of an attack, the armor of God (I encourage you to read Ephesians 6 again!), the enemy’s strategies and how to pray against some of those strategies,…   We learned how to fight and how to win.

Last Sunday I went to an event called ‘church together’ where over 15,000 people from about 200 churches around Perth came together to worship God as one. It was beautiful to see Christians from so many different denominations worship God in unity.

Then we went chocolate selling on Thursday to raise funds for new property for our base. Our base is growing and we need more space! We basically walked around the city and visit every business and office we could find to sell the chocolates an the girl I went chocolate selling with and I were able to sell all of our chocolates yay

I had some great times with God last week as well. On Tuesday I had to give a talk on one of God’s character attributes and I chose to speak on His grace. God has teaching me a lot about grace lately. Grace is a word we hear all the time and yet, at least for me, it is so hard to understand what grace is really about. I can’t believe that God loves unconditionally and with an everlasting love and doesn’t’ expect anything in return. Grace is something I cannot earn, which means that it doesn’t matter how much I pray, how much I read my Bible, God will love me the same. There is absolutely nothing I can do to make Him love me more, because He has loved me first. So grace is the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in our salvation and the bestowal of blessings.

“And if by grace, then it is no longer by works, if it were, grace would no longer be grace.” Rom. 11:6

We have some great future worship leaders in my DTS so we like to get together and worship. After small group on Tuesday a handful of us got together and had one of those special worship jam sessions in a back corner of the base (by the fire exit so literally a back corner haha). The presence of God was so intense though and I can truly say I loved God even more after that evening.

This week’s teaching is on missions and our speaker is Joseph Chean, the base director of YWAM Singapore. He has already been sharing awesome stories on what has been happening in Singapore and on Missions from Genesis to Revelation. I am excited to hear more these next days!

I told you in my last blog entry that I’ll be going to Cambodia and New Zealand on outreach and I thought back than that I had my outreach fees. The thing is though that the flight prices have gone up 50% due to the economic crisis, which means that our outreach fees have gone up around 40% of what was originally planned. This means that I am in desperate need of finances for my outreach at the moment and the fees are due next week on Wednesday! I would like to invite you to prayerfully consider supporting me financially. Any kind of help would be appreciated a lot!

If you feel lead to donate you can either:

 

European residents can make a bank transfer to: 

Stephanie Clewett 

Sparkasse Baden 

(Specify: for Stephanie‐ DTS) 

BLZ: 20205    

account no: 01301012728

IBAN: AT352020501301012728

BIC (swift): SPBDAT21 

 

Or you can donate via credit card:

www.ywamperth.org.au/007/payonline.asp

(if the link shouldn’t work out of some reason you can go to www.ywamperth.org.au and then scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on ‘payments’)

Payment Type: Other

Recipient: Stephanie Clewett

School or Ministry Name: October DTS 08

Details:  Donation towards Stephanie Clewett’s outreach fees

 

Thanks so much for your support guys! I really appreciate it and need it a lot right now. Please continue remembering me in your prayers, prayer is powerful and it makes such a difference when you’re supported in prayer.