Sunday, December 30, 2007

Quick Update and Happy New Year

We trust you had a memorable Christmas. We did - officially, it was 111.2 degrees F (44 degrees C)! Whoa. That was intense especially with no air conditioning in our apartment. But we survived!

In all seriousness, it was a special Christmas Eve and Day. We celebrated as a family on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day our school and staff got up early to prepare breakfast for the entire base! It was a lot of fun. We then had a few hours to catch up with our family via the webcam before heading to the corporate base lunch and ginormous gift exchange (involving 300 people).

We also learned that all of the money we needed for this outreach in Feburary and March to Africa (DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya) and Indonesia has come in. We are so blessed and humbled by the generous giving and prayers by all of you (and many here in Perth). You are truly parnners and co-laborers with God and us. Thank you for going with us.

We ask you to continue to pray as the students in our class are still in need of about $800 AUD. Also, please continue to pray for the BELT Seminars to be set up in Indonesia in March. Plaease pray specifically for a reliable contact on the ground to help set these up as we are facing a big challenge in this area.
Have a most joyous New Year! Happy 2008! Crazy to think that for a day we will be living in 2008 while many of you will still be in 2007. That is just weird!

Heaps of love,
Joshua & Sarah
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

financial needs

We are currently still trusting for outreach fees for our outreaches in February. A detailed explanation of where we are going is available upon request, please simply email us as we will not post information on this site. We have seen some money come in, but we are still in need of $2600 by tomorrow to cover this cost. Tomorrow the BSN staff and students are hosting a "Christmas Cafe" to fundraise. Please pray for a stir in generousity as people enjoy cakes, gourmet desserts and music!

We are also praying and trusting the Lord for more monthly financial partnerships. If you are interested in becoming a monthly partner in ministry please let us know. A breakdown of our expenses is available upon request. We are currently living off of 40% of our total monthly budget, and 50% of our total monthly budget goes directly towards outreach fees. - So as you can see, we are in great need.

We are also looking for advocates who are already partnering with us to help facilitate communication and reach more people with the vision of what we are doing in hopes to bring more people 'on board' as partners. If you are interested in being an advocate, please email us and we'd be happy to give you more information.

Thank you so much for your partnership! We appreicate your willingness to seek the Lord in how you would partner with us and for your obedience and cheerful giving.
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So what do we do?

We are partnering with YWAM Perth, in Western Australia. We will be staffing the Bible School for the Nations (BSN) and the Biblical Education and Leadership Training ministry (BELT).
"The purpose of the BSN is to mobilize Bible trainers who are growing in their ability to effectively disciple nations. The school seeks to cultivate people of godly character who are deepening in their love for God, and who understand His character and how He brings about His purposes in history." (www.ywamperth.org.au/bsn/)

Our responsibilities with the school will consist of teaching the Bible and mentoring the students. We will also continue to learn a lot ourselves and be stretched as we continue to study the lessons we'll be teaching. Sarah will also be involved with media projects for the school and also for the BELT ministry.

The BELT (Biblical Eduation and Leadership Training) ministry is partnered with the Bible School, and we will be actively involved in this as well. This is the same outreach ministry that we participated with in Papua New Guinea.
The purpose of BELT is to see people groups transformed by the Word of God through empowering community and church leaders who have limited access to Biblical training.

Please see the 'related links' link above and to the right.

Sarah is part of the leadership team for the media department with YWAM Perth. She teaches on the BSN occasionally, and participates in BELT seminars, but her main focus, besides caring for Noah, is media. Medias vision is to serve the many ministries and schools of YWAM Perth. There is consistent need for printed, web and video tools to help further the Kingdom of God! Sarah is responsible for helping give feedback on the many projects that the staff are working on, as well as doing projects her self and teaching the staff from time to time. She really hopes to see Media grow and reach the many visions that God has spoken over the media ministry with YWAM Perth.

be a partner through devoted prayer

Remember when King Hezekiah prayed and God answered him, granting him 15 more years to his life (Is.38:4-6)? We remember the disciples, 'continually devoted to prayer' in Acts1:13-15. The Bible tells us to pray and present our requests to the Father.

The truth is, God hears our prayers and he does respond according to his infinite wisdom. Over the past year, it's been so evident how the Lord has answered the many prayers of our partner's in ministry. At times we've really had to 'press in' and wait on Him, but He is always faithful.

You can play and active role in this ministry by joining our devoted prayer team and seeing nations transformed. Please contact us and we'd be happy to add you to our mailing list!

become a financial partner

All of our monthly fiancial needs with YWAM are met by faith based support. YWAM does not pay us to work. Our work is technically volunteer. When we left our well paying corporate jobs over a year ago, the Lord took care of us through the cheerful giving of individuals and the church. We have faith that God will continue to provide all of our needs. He is faithful.

We are currently trusting for continued montly and quarterly partnerships (individuals and churches) to help us reach our montly budget (50% of our budget goes towards outreach field costs). If you would like to be involved please contact us. A list of our detailed budget is available upon request.

Thank you for your faithful, continued partnerships.
God Bless you as you work along side of us.

Making tax deductible donations:
Your tax deductible giving can be in the form of check or automatic withdrawl from your bank account.
For more information on tax deductible information
please call or email us.

Making a non-tax deductible gift donation:
1) Pay online with YWAM Perth
https://www.ywamperth.org.au/007/payonline.asp
Online please use the following information...
payment type: other
recipient: Joshua and Sarah Seykora
School or Ministry name: BELT/BSN
notes: please type specifically what the money is for in this field

2) To make a "Gift" by check directly to us
Make checks payable to
Joshua and Sarah Seykora
and mail your non-tax deductible gift with a note to:

Kathryn Fields
4538 Aztec Trail
Madison, WI 53711