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Togo 2017 Day 13: Saturday, 1st July
Once again we took advantage of sleep time and made good use of the extra hour. Megan and the team leaders decided with our ministry time starting tomorrow to take the team into Lome for some shopping and get off the base for a bit. Little did we know that we were not...
Togo 2017 Day 12: Friday, 30th June
Our morning started early again with breakfast at 6:30am. Breakfast is started early so that they can beat the heat of the day, which sets in pretty early. Typically, children will go to school from about 8am to noon, come home, have lunch and some rest and then...
Togo 2017 Day 9, 10 & 11: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 27th, 28th & 29th June
We had an early start today. The team was up at 3am and had the bags loaded by 3:30am. Curtis took the majority of our team members on the 5:30am Southwest flight with Jamie and Sierra. Megan, Tayne, Zion and Geoff followed on...
Togo 2017 Travel Day 8: Monday, 26th June
Today ended a phenomenal week of Bootcamp for our team. The gusto with which they applied to their packing and cleaning duties was evident of their excitement and anticipation to get one step closer to heading to Togo. After breakfast, the team tackled the task of...
Togo 2017 Bootcamp Day 7: Sunday 25th, June
The last day of Bootcamp started with two awesome Ladies that love Jesus passionately. Miss Sierra shared her personal testimony that reflected the power and redemption of Father God that pursues you no matter how far you have wandered. She portrayed the beauty of...
Togo 2017 Bootcamp Day 6: Saturday, 24th June
A much needed Day Off started with an awesome breakfast of eggs, bacon and sausages with juice, coffee and tea. The kids slept in as much as they allowed themselves. Our guests, Shelby, Alic, Kaden and Ethan fell right into routine even though there wasn't much of one...
Togo 2017 – Bootcamp Day 5: Friday, 23rd June
We had David Tabor our respected President and Founder of Solid Rock Foundation Ministries speak today. This man is well respected and honored. There is not a finer example of Servant-Leadership portrayed in this day other than David Tabor. He is also a phenomenal,...
Togo 2017 – Bootcamp Day 4: Thursday, 22nd June
We had the awesome privilege of having our very own team member Jamie Ila be our guest speaker today. Jamie spoke on the "Power of the Blood of Jesus Christ through the Cross". She did an excellent job portraying the cross and elaborated on several points that Jesus...
Togo 2017 – Bootcamp Day 3: Wednesday, 21st June
Day 3 started with a very intimate worship time when the Holy Spirit provided an opportunity for us to be vulnerable. As we sang the chorus "O come to the altar, the Father's arms are open wide. Forgiveness is bought with the precious blood of Jesus Christ", the...
Togo 2017 – Bootcamp Day 2: Tuesday, 20th June
We have some truly incredible staff members at Solid Rock, one of them being Curtis Allen. You won't find a more gracious and honorable man who loves being God's son first and foremost. He is an awesome husband and father and carries a "Father Heart" anointing that...
Togo 2017 – Bootcamp Day 1: Monday, 19th June
The Staff initially planned breakfast for 8:00am in the morning but due to the excitement and anticipation that has been welling up for months, most of the team were up at 6:30am (Gotta Love It... smile). After breakfast and quiet time with the Lord, the team gathered...
Togo 2017 – Bootcamp Sunday, 18th June
The much anticipated Togo Bootcamp phase has started. All 14 participants from staff to students fronted up at the SDA - School in Montrose at around 7pm. There was a lot of excitement and energy as everyone began the transition into Bootcamp phase. It was also good...
Ao1 International Outreach 2017 – Togo, West Africa
Location: Togo, West Africa Dates: 18th June - 19th July Bootcamp Phase: (18th - 26th June) Will be in Montrose, CO Outreach Phase: (27th June - 19th June) We will leave for Togo on the 27th. The team will be hosted by Youth With A Mission - Noepe, Togo and leaders...
Monday, 20th July
It was another early start today as we were up at 6am and started preparing for our trip to Keapara village. Keapara village is about 3 hours west of Port Moresby. Keapara is where Geoff’s dad Teio is from. Of the few personal priorities Geoff had for this trip, this...
Sunday, 19th July
Today started early as the girls had to pack up all their stuff and their bedding and move them into the boy’s room. The boys also had to pack and pick up their beds to make space for the girls things. This is never easy but the team passed with flying colours....
Saturday, 18th July
Before the team was up Geoff, Tayne and Samuel went out to get some fruit for breakfast and some ice for the water cooler. When they got back the team was still stirring and slowly getting up. Breakfast was at 8:30am. We found out that our performance at the mega mall...
Friday, 17th July
Today we celebrate Paige McCracken! HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAIGE!!! We had another early start today. The team has definitely adjusted and an early morning isn’t as challenging as the beginning of outreach anymore (Parent’s take note). The truck for the luggage pulled in at...
Wednesday & Thurday, 15th & 16th July
Wednesday: The team had a little bit of a sleep in this morning. We are certainly enjoying ourselves here in Lae and it will be hard to leave come Friday. Today was an easy day of sorts. We headed to Cassowary United Church at 10am to perform and teach some of our...
Tuesday, 14th July
It was an early start today as we took a 4 hour drive to a place called Baiyu, which is in the Bulolo area. Bulolo is renowned for its gold and timber products. We traveled some beautiful terrain as we took in the lush tropical rainforest scenery. The drive was a...
Monday, 13th July
Parent’s we have been well fed and well looked after here in Lae. Yesterday at the Cassowary United Church there was a full segment of announcements listing each cultural group and a detailed list of food items they are to bring for each meal to feed us for the rest...
Saturday & Sunday, 11th & 12th July
Saturday The team had a 9:00am wakeup call this morning which was a far cry from our 3:30am start yesterday. The sun was out and after a fitting breakfast we sorted our laundry and got in our green shirts to perform. We had two open air meetings scheduled for Top Town...
Thursday & Friday, 9th & 10th July
Thursday We set out early this morning for Tauruba Village. Tauruba is Tau and Nau’s village and it is about a one and a half hour drive east of Port Moresby just off the coastline. The team seemed up for a ride on the open back truck which made for an enjoyable trip,...
Tuesday & Wednesday, 7th & 8th July
Tuesday Today was our first day off since Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary in Australia. The team took full advantage sleeping in until about 9:00am. After a hearty breakfast of scrambled eggs with beef and cheese we got ready for the day. Our hosts Jenny and Ian Memafu...
Monday, 6th July Port Moresby
We have met some awesome people here at Tabernacle of Prayer church. There are three young men in particular Gilkin, Solomon and Jason. All three of these men are on staff here at the church and basically they have served us from the day we stepped off the plane. They...
Sunday 5th July Port Moresby
In the two days that we have been here we have met up with many ex-Kings Kids members. King’s Kids were the youth ministry that David, Kathleen, Megan and Geoff ran when they were with YWAM PNG many years ago. We have also seen some close family and friends. Liz...
Saturday 4th July Port Moresby,
Saturday- This morning we had fruit and bread for breakfast. There’s nothing like hitting the ground running and today we started with a performance at Tabari Place. This is mostly a shopping place and was a great starting place for our first outreach. Normally on...
Thursday July 2nd, Friday July 3rd Mt. Tamborine/ Port Moresby
Thursday – Today was a busy day for us all. We took the whole day to clean with other activities thrown in as well. The team responded well to all that was happening today. Firstly, we had an unexpected performance scheduled at a retirement home and it was suggested...
Wednesday July 1st Mt Tamborine
Our worship time this morning revolved around praying for the nations represented in our team, Mexico, Australia, PNG and the USA. This resulted in the team being split up into four groups and assigned a specific nation above to pray for. Our intercession time was...
Tuesday, June 30th Bootcamp Mt. Tamborine
Our worship and teaching times are getting better every time as God is showing up and revealing more to our kids. There has been a marked difference in seeing the team respond to God freely. It is truly a blessing to witness your children striving to get to know God...
Monday June 29th
After finishing “Quiet time” the team gathered for worship. There were a lot of drawn out looking faces as Geoff asked how their quiet times went. Some were unresponsive and for the most part the team seemed very disconnected. The Holy Spirit fell as it was revealed...
Friday June 26th, Saturday June 27th & Sunday June 28th
Please accept my humblest apologies for not keeping the blog up over the weekend. So I will summarize our last three days in this update. Friday was another good day. Since living together for almost a week we are definitely learning more and more about each other....
Thursday, June 25th
Parent’s once again thank you for releasing your young people to us for this outreach. This team is blowing us away as staff with their attitude of openness and allowing God to have His way in their lives. There is a hungering and thirsting after Jesus that is...
Wednesday, June 24th
We had another God filled worship time this morning. God challenged the young people to step up and out of their comfort zone. He revealed that this generation of young people has been and is being assaulted by the enemy more than any other generation before it. In...
Tuesday June 23rd
After breakfast David and Kathleen headed to the airport in Brisbane to pick up Pam Spencer a very good friend of theirs, who lived in PNG when the Tabors were there. God initiated a very powerful, strategic worship time. We spent over an hour battling for the nation...
Monday, June 22nd
Today was another early day as we are officially on our Bootcamp schedule. Our days here in Australia will go according to this schedule from here on out: 7:00am Breakfast 7:30am-8:30am GOD Time 8:30am-10:15am Worship/ Teaching 10:15am-10:30am Break 10:30am-12:00pm...
Sunday, June 21st
We were up bright and early in the morning with the boys deciding on a 6am morning run. David started a fire in the fireplace which kept us all huddled together. It is a little nippy here especially at night but the days are perfect. Adjusting to the weather hasn’t...
Friday June 19th/ Saturday June 20th
G’DAY FROM AUSTRALIA!!! So Friday was spent in the air with the team split on two separate flights as you know. The team on Qantas and the Ila’s and Shannon Rediger on United. We arrived bright and early in two separate locations on Saturday morning. Both flights...
Thursday June 18th
This morning seemed a little slow with most of the team letting the realization of being on outreach sink in a little more. For the early risers taking advantage of the continental breakfast was a good thing. For those not so early risers, well I’ll stop right there....
And We’re Off!
The 2015 Ao1 PNG outreach is officially underway... There certainly were mixed emotions as the team from Montrose gathered and embarked on their journey to Denver yesterday. We had the privilege of Curtis Allen praying for and commissioning the team before we left....
Adam Rocks
He is a great bloke!!!
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