The Philippines!
In the month September there will be many things going on in the Philippines. The young YWAM leaders meeting called Malachi gatherings, YWAM Together (biggest YWAM gathering in YWAM history), 30-year anniversary of Team Xtreme with accompanying school outreaches to reach 10’s of thousands of students with the gospel and teaching in the YWAM ImpactPH DTS.
And besides that, the Lausanne Movement gathering in Seoul, Korea.
I, Bram was going to do that flying back and forth to not be too long away from my family but since January, Sheldrey has been feeling that the Lord wanted us to go to the Philippines as a family.
I said that this would be impossible as both Nina (finalizing adoption docs.) and Jose (foster son) had no documents to travel with us internationally and there was no possibility on the horizon for that to happen in a short time. Besides that, looking at the number of registrations on the base for the 2nd semester we probably will have the biggest number of students in the base ever.
But then Jesus, started speaking to me as well and a friend of ours that is an important prophetic voice in our lives confirmed this as well. Then I went to Thailand to teach and by pure “coincidence” the leaders of the base in the Philippines were there as well to celebrate their wedding anniversary. I was already going to the Philippines in September for a bunch of meetings, and they asked if I could stay and teach in their DTS and do training with their staff in September after the meetings.
After that out of nowhere things start moving around Nina's documents and after that around Jose’s documents as well. In no time we had passports for both and even a US visa for Jose!!!
As I looked at this unfold, I must say I got nervous. The last trip with our family was before the pandemic. Could this actually happen?
Depending on if the ticket prices stay the same, we will need about $20,000 USD. As of now we have $6000 USD and would like to invite you to pray about helping us to meet the full budget.