54 days left.

I have been meaning to start a blog for quite a while now, but I had not gotten around to it until today. A combination of procrastination and actual busyness were the main contributing factors to my delayed start.

But anyway, the point of my starting this blog is so people will be able to keep track of my Adventures that start this September. "And what Adventures are these?" you may be wondering. Let me enlighten you:

This September I will be starting a Discipleship Training School (DTS) with Youth With A Mission (YWAM). The school I will be attending is called Heidebeek in Heerde, The Netherlands.

The motto of the DTS and also YWAM is "To know God and make Him Known." It is a 6 month program with 2 separate phases. The first 3 months are dedicated to the lecture phase, which includes topics such as: God's character qualities, Finding your identity in Jesus, Spiritual battles, The Fatherheart of God and missions. The next 3 months are used for the outreach phase, where the students will go out in the field and use the things that have been learned in the previous section to share with others in the world. Some of the places that the Heidebeek school has gone to in the past have been Poland, Brazil, India, South Africa, China and Thailand. I do not know which one of those countries I will be going to until further along in the program, but they all sound like very worthwhile places.

This whole thing has been something I have been looking forward to immensely. I orginally had started looking for a place to do my DTS about 3 years ago, but was not able to go at that time. Which, in retrospect, was a really good thing. I was no where near the level of maturity it would have taken to spend many months away from home and in a foreign land. I have grown a lot in the past few years, and I feel that God has now enabled me with the skills and tools needed to take on such challenge.

So, the main point of today's post was to just share a little bit of what I doing now and what I will be doing in the future. I will update whenever I can with news and stories of how God is helping me prepare for this life changing event, and when the time comes, tales of how it actually IS changing my life.

Again, I could not be more excited I cannot wait to have stories to share.