from the desire to find more Jesus: Growing in God's favor

Still want to write a bit about the conference we had. We don't actually know any more how to call it anymore. Because basically it's the national conference of YWAM Argentina. But this year we also called all the people who used to be in our bases but went out to open new bases and projects in other places. So we received teams and leaders from other South American countries, from London, Sweden, China etc etc.

In total we were around 500 ywamers. Now the fact is that our base is not made to receive such a big number of people. So we had lots of preparation work to be able to host the people. And anyway lots of people slept on tents. I was in charge of some of the preparation work with a team. It was something new and scary but Daddy totally walked with me every single day.

Recording audio

During the conference I was serving in various areas: the maintaining of the base, helping with organizing the work duties, playing in worship and recording the preachings. So it sounded like a lot of stress to me. However I was able to enjoy every moment and get to know new people.

It felt like the whole YWAM family gathered with a desperation for God's presence. The last year was really hard for us. We lost some beloved workers and family members, others left us and other hard situations in all of our bases.

Now, what I really love about YWAM is that we are not denying or hiding these difficulties that we face. I just admire the humbleness of our leaders when they confess how they don't know how to carry on in certain situations, how they repent their shortcomings and the sins of the community and how they express their desperate need for God.

We don't preach about the prosperity when it comes to economics. The theme of the conference was "Growing in God's favor". Recognizing His favor over us has to do with humility, confessing that it's all about His work in us. Actually many of the preachings were about seeing God's favor in the storm, it the temptation and even in the valley of the shadow of death.

So once again I feel really safe to be part of this kind of movement. Where we as human do commit errors and make mistakes but where we choose to fix our eyes on Jesus and He glorifies Himself in our weakness.

Ok, that's enough for now. Let's see some more photos.