Bula!

We are so excited for this year’s national YWAM gathering and hope we will see you there!  The gathering is a chance to be encouraged, worship our amazing God, pray together, hear testimonies of what God is doing in Fiji and hear from our local and international YWAM community.   There has been a change of date for this year’s gathering; the new date is May 7-10 (Thursday evening until Sunday noon).

This year’s theme is Going Deeper and our scripture is from Luke 5:4-7

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch." Simon answered, "Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets." When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets were beginning to break. So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

This year’s guest speaker will be Hinrich Kraenzlin an international YWAM leader originally from Germany who has been serving with YWAM in the South Pacific for more than 30 years and currently lives in New Zealand.  Hinrich has a heart for the nation and people of Fiji and will be challenging YWAM Fiji to Go Deeper.

We will be meeting and staying at the beautiful Coral Coast Christian Camp in Pacific Harbour, Viti Levu.  We wanted to make this time as relaxing and easy as possible so the price of the conference is all inclusive.  The food will be catered and we have invited a worship team from Suva to lead us in worship.  There will be lots of time for fellowship and relaxing on the beach in addition to the session times. 

If you are planning to attend this year’s gathering please fill out the form on page two and mail it to the national office as soon as possible.  Once your registration has been received you will receive a confirmation email with more information such as arrival time, directions and suggested packing list.

Please note!

·        Full payment is required with your registration.

·        Registrations will not be accepted after April 24.

·        Refunds will not be given after April 24.

·        Room availability is on a first come first served basis.  If you want to guarantee space for your family or yourself please be prompt in sending in your registration with complete payment.

If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected] and we will do our best to help.

 
Sincerely,

Your National Gathering 2015 committee

    What I’ve Learnt to Keep Gods Masterpiece at it Best

    A masterpiece is a craftsman’s best piece of work. Being a masterpiece of God is something that I will treasure for life. I’ll be talking about the experience I’ve gone through and what I’ve learnt to keep the masterpiece at it best and how to relate to other piece of masterpiece for the past 6 months.

   For the first three (3) months I have come to learn the important of a masterpiece (Human Being) by taking a course of Foundational Counseling Ministry (FCM). It’s a counseling school which I’ve learnt from it to deal with myself first in terms of Emotion, Mind, Spirit and how to control it to work together in order to become a better masterpiece or  a better person. It does really help in a place where I learn on how to relate to other people, and in a situation for me not to react but reply in peace and a respected manner.

  After the three months of lecture, my leaders from the base where I’m currently involved in at Personal Transformation Center (PTC) appointed me and call me to be part of the Internship Program at the Youth With A Mission (YWAM) National Office in Nabua conducted by YWAM Staff and Leaders Adam & Kim Atkinson. Here I can say that it’s also a place where I can learn on how to keep a masterpiece at it best where they train Leaders. When I say train Leaders, for me it means everything about a life of a human being (masterpiece) at the place of work e.g. teaching, meeting, creating good relationship, cooking, budgeting   and etc.

  A good thing about my leader at the YWAM National Office they even allowed us to go on outreach. For me I believe this a good place to practice what I’ve learnt on how to relate to other masterpiece. As we are also going for the Medical Outreach it’s a good place to help each other and work together as piece of Masterpiece in a team to help other piece of Masterpiece of God    (other people where we do medical clinic and evangelism) in a place where u can be challenge physically, emotionally and spiritually. Here I can say by keeping the Masterpiece at it Best is A Task of a Life time. 

Bula Vinaka to My Readers.

Praise to the Almighty God!

My name is Waji Vokitiviti Tuifagalele, I’m originally from Vanuabalavu Lau, I’m Staffing at Personal Transformation Center (PTC), Lautoka.  At the moment I’m doing my Internship at the YWAM national Office Suva.

I am so blessed to be with the Staff here at the National Office especially the Leadership, I really thank God that I have learn a lot of things here at national office .e.g. Foundational Values, Broadcasting Lesson,Cooking lesson, how does YWAM Fiji runs, Budget, Teaching Preparation for the Discipleship Training School-Vunayasi, Marine Reach and also learning other cultures and language . One of the highlights in this internship when we joined the medical outreach with Marine Reach serving both spiritually and physically as in health. We had nurses and doctors  from New Zealand and the states coming to join us , we had two outreach location Keiyasi Village and Lomawai, it was a challenge outreach meaning different from DTS outreach in terms of medical experiences, I have learn also new things e.g. taking blood pressures and registration  and also have a time to talk to patients about the gospel , our group  also consist various  denominations and some were non-Christians , so I have an opportunity  also to share with them, I can say it was a very successful outreach not  in terms for saving life’s but also to teach how to live life also , our report of patients for our outreach is :  dentist – 88 (who extracted 111 teeth)   and primary health care -484

To conclude , I thank god for this opportunity to come and part of this internship  to learn more and keep me focus  on what god is calling me to do in YWAM

Galatians 5:25, Since we live by the Spirit, let keep in step with the Spirit .

vinaka