Graham and I after the Passion Play. Guess which part I played!

I was wrong about getting the final approval on my IRR request. It got approved at the battalion level but still needs to get approved at the division level. So my request for a year off to do missions work is now 2/3 done. Pray that the actual final approval will come quickly. This summer has had its times of testing, but overall it's been an amazing summer. We just finished our 5th cycle of training youth groups to be missionaries and it is trully awesome to see these young people mature so quickly in their faith. For some of the young people going through here it's the first time they have felt God powerfully answering their prayer. If you have ever wanted to inspire generations of young people to take Jesus seriously and make the decision to go into full-time missions, send them on a short-term missions trip through YWAM Orlando. Several of the groups that we trained this summer have gone through other YWAM bases on short-term missions in the past, and they all say this bas...

Hey Everyone! Great news! My request for transfer to inactive Marine Corps Reserves finally went through. This will enable me to do missions work for a full year now. Praise God! Thank you to everybody who was praying for this. I'll be officially checking out of my Marine Corps unit this August when I complete my internship with YWAM Orlando Mission Adventures. Also more financial support came in this week. I'm up to $775.00 now which is awesome encouragement. Thank you anonymous donors! Btw, Purpose Driven Life is a powerful book. We use that book for our morning devotion during the weekdays and it has some awesome insights; my favorite this week: Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. That's the most logical and useful definition of humility I've heard. It's great news for me personally because I've already been striving to spend more time praying for others and helping others with their goals. It's meant r...