Belinda's News

Hello Friends!

We are well into this year and I'm looking back already at an incredible year of ministry and fruit.

Take a quick look with me at this past year of missions and ministry:

January - travelling to Indonesia for the School of Worship "DNA" gathering. I asked all the SOW leaders from the Pacific/Asia region to meet with me and Pete Sifuentes in Bali for a short, power-packed week of fellowship, worship, vision and prayer. Many SOW leaders met one another for the first time. We discovered the rest of our "Tribe" and connected in a very significant way that will bear fruit in the years to come. SOW leaders came from: India, Nepal, Korea, Philippines, Australia, and Indonesia.

February - teaching on "Spiritual Battle for the Arts" in YWAM's School of Event Management in Harpenden, UK. This week also included many meetings with the SEM leader, Julie Spence, who is also my leader in the College of Arts and Sports. We did a lot of brain-storming for an international event called "Go 4 Glory" just prior to the 2012 Olympics in the UK. More on that here: Go4Glory

March - teaching week with the Arts DTS in Dunham, Canada (near Montreal). Heather Fulk and Mike Newland from my home church, Sojourn Campus Church in Minneapolis, joined me for this week of ministry to a couple dozen young christian men and women who are training for missions and ministry. In this way I could not only teach my topic but mentor two wonderful friends in ministry - I love seeing the ministry multiply! Giving others the opportunity to teach and impact lives takes the ministry and mission to another level in many ways.

April-August - The School of Worship at YWAM Heidebeek was launched! 12 weeks of lectures followed by 5 weeks of outreach. It was an intensive and amazing time in a very international context. Many battles to get all those visas sorted out but very fruitful in individual lives as well as the ongoing ministry through each person on almost every continent!

Beyond all this I can report to you that the ministry has been very fruitful and in many cases, life-changing as I've had the opportunity to meet, teach, and mentor young christians from many countries and cultures. I've put a few photos together to give you a glimpse of this globetrotter's mission.

School of Worship at YWAM Heidebeek

We re-launched the School of Worship at my base April 10 - August 10th. God spoke very clearly to me to lead this SOW and I look back with gratefulness at all He did in and through me.

We had students from: Indonesia, Australia, Rwanda, USA/Norway, Korea, Holland and Ireland. Our staff was from USA, Holland, Indonesia, and Egypt. Wow, what a wonderful international school! I felt like I was swimming among the nations and thoroughly enjoyed that.

Our aim is to establish a SOW each Spring at YWAM Heidebeek - it's our inheritance and we are calling the nations to worship GOD.

This is an amazing season of life... so many things converging in ministry, relationships and hope for the future. As a teenager I heard Corrie TenBoom speak and I remember her saying in her unique Dutch-accent that she didn't believe in retirement. That stuck with me. I don't see anyone in the Bible talking about retirement at all, just changes in location and focus.

As I've just finished leading a School of Worship I can't help but think of the future generations that will benefit from such a quality course. Our students are better equipped to call many nations, peoples, tribes and tongues to worship the Creator. What a privilege, what destiny, what HOPE! Yes, it's a LOT of work but it's an investment in seeing God's Kingdom come on earth, as it is in heaven.

Thanks for your part in all this, as friends who care for and love me, who pray, and give financially so that I can spread the Gospel in so many nations. My fruit is your fruit!

Blessings, Belinda