Day 7– July 6, 2005: A day of mowing grass

Today was a little cooler (either that or I am getting used to the heat/humidity). We started off praying for each nation that has a YWAM team in it. There are a lot of them. Ruth & I were in the group praying for Italy. Then we had a phenomenal speaker, John Dawson. He is the current president of YWAM. He first came across as a little slow and boring to listen to. But wow, does he know people and God and life. He was very interesting to listen to and has a few books out there. He also told us a little more about how YWAM actually works. There are over 20,000 missionaries that are affiliated with YWAM. There is no budget to help them or keep them on track. Every missionary is funded purely by his or her home churches and friends and by those that believe in the cause they are fighting for. Even the president of YWAM has no budget and gets no paycheck. They simply believe that God will provide (and obviously he does). I just found that amazing.

After class and lunch it was time to mow. Conveniently the time to mow is from 3:00 to 5:00. In the heat. The best part is that they have all push mowers. When I realized this I almost jumped in the car and drove to Wal-Mart to buy a rider. There is a LOT of grass here. I am going to go to Wal-Mart and buy a little music player for mow time. I am sure that my arms and legs are going to be in great shape after mowing 2 hours a day for the summer. Now I don’t have to try to make time to exercise either. I am trying to stay on the bright side here. Maybe God wants to send me to Mow-zambique. (wow that was a bad line, I’m leaving it there just for all you folks that like corny jokes)

After dinner we had coffee with a bunch of our new friends from down under. I can tell we are going to have some great friendships from this whole thing. God is good.