Back at YWAM Orlando!

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing awesome! Well, i am back in Orlando again! To those that are out of the loop, i apologize, as well as the length of time it took to update again. However, instead of updating here, i wrote out a pretty spiffy update letter, and if you haven't received one and would like one just let me know and i will mail it to you asap.

Well, first of all, Africa was incredible. It changed my life forever. It gave me a really different view of life and gave me a focus that i likelynever would have gotten had i not done this. (Save if God chose to do it another way). My life is not my own. Just that statement has been my cry to God. I found myself just breaking down crying over the astronomical needs of this world, and begging God to use my life to save the lives of others. Physical needs of course, but emotional, psychological, and most importantly-spiritual. There are still countless people in areas that have never even heard the gospel, yet we are spoiled enough to hear it 5 times, or 500 times here in America. In Mongolia for instance, we had a team there that did not have enough hours in the day to tell the gospel to people there. People there are just so hungry for it. If God wasn't leading me to go to college after this secondary school with YWAM, i would go be a missionary overseas...which brings me to my next point

Right now God has led me to do a secondary school with YWAM called the School of Ministry and Evangelism (SOME). It actually started this Monday and it is already awesome. The schools training consists of a lot of in depth study into the bible, but also focuses on evangelism a good amount. We get taught on a variety of things including the history of missions, styles of evangelism, apologetics of the bible. I am really excited to see what God does in this school. The school runs until mid-August, and I just found out that our outreach will stay in the United States, and focus on going to mostly locations and cities on the East coast doing things such as: evangelizing, working in a variety of ministries, and building up and encouraging churches and believers to list a few.

After the School of Ministry and Evangelism comes to a close this August, I will be flying back to Texas and registering for classes at UTA, then starting the following week. I must note however: that my purpose in going to college is not to better myself or my future, but rather to be able to more effectively help other people. I will be pursuing a degree in Civil Engineering and at least a minor in Business Administration (though possibly a double major). With this (or these) degree(s), i will hopefully be able to launch a Organization that focuses on bringing aid (food, water-such as wells or water filtration/piping systems, etc) to impoverished and needy people. But further than that, this organization would (through micro-loans and education) empower people to rise up out of their poverty and become self-sustaining. I will be working on that concept possibility during my SOME. At the very least I will be using my degree to enable my entry into countries inaccessible to a "missionary".

So thats the plan right now-but I'm always open to wherever God leads. I want to do his plans, not mine.

Thank you so much for any and all who supported me through your prayers and/or finances in my Discipleship Training School. You helped change many lives eternally-including mine. And thank you for all those who have partnered with me and gotten me to this secondary school-You are making an eternal difference. On Africa-There is just so much to tell. Again feel free to ask for an update letter-it covers some of the awesome things that God did through our team there. You can just shoot me an email at christs.follower89@gmail.com or give me a call on my cell. If you don't have my number, leave me a comment and I will call you or get you my number.

Thanks and I love you all!
-Nate