Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Home to the US

Our God is amazing. He has moved and we are able to come home. Hallelujah. We thank God for providing a way. Please continue to pray for finances to help cover our trip. We trust he will continue to provide.

Our Tentative Schedule:
Depart Perth Sunday, July 27 via Tokyo, Seattle and arrive in Minneapolis
Madison, WI: Tuesday, July 29 - Tuesday, August 5th
Owatonna, MN: Wednesday, August 6th - Thursday, August 21st
San Francisco, CA: Thursday, August 21 - Tuesday, August 26th
Depart San Francisco Tuesday, August 26th and arrive in Perth, via Tokyo, on Thursday, August 28th

While we are home we will primarily be doing the following:
1. Introducing Noah to our families!
2. Meeting with as many of you as possible
3. Visiting our partnering Churches
4. Continue to share the vision of the ministry we are involved in (Including our BELT Ministry projects in the Congo and Nepal as well as the greater vision of YWAM Perth as a whole that we are involved in).
5. Continue to Fundraise to meet our budget as well as plan for upcoming outreaches
6. Josh will also be working with his father in Owatonna, as a means to fund this great trip home.

Answers to your Prayers!!! Thank you!!!!
1. Josh's teaching is going well this week in the Discipleship Training School. The students are challenged on having a Godly/Biblical wordlview as well as understanding attributes of God's Nature and Character.

2. We have been blessed by many offers to use baby items while we are home! Thank you to all of you who have offerred. We have a car seat, and pack-n-plays for Noah to sleep in each location he's going to! Wow! We also have been given a car to borrow! This is a major blessing! Praise the Lord!

3. We are having much success in scheduling meeting with Church family as well as individual partners! Yeah!

Please see "current prayer requests" and continue to lift us up as we prepare to come home. Thank you!

Bless you all - We look forward to seeing you very soon!

Serving alongside you,
Joshua, Sarah & Noah

Monday, July 21, 2008

Current Prayer Points

1. Pray for us as we travel for the first time as a family. This includes favor with the airlines, making our connections, and that Noah will be calm, healthy and able to sleep, feed, and that jet lag will not affect him! Pray that Mama and Daddy will be patient, calm and not stressed.

2. Pray for discernment and clarity as we plan our time in the states. Pray also for wisdom and peace for our families as we juggle our time between them.

3. For rest and good health before we leave.

4. For Joshua as he will be teaching all this week in the Discipleship Training School (DTS) on the Nature & Character of God. So far the students are very challenged. Pray for revelation and a solid time of application on Friday.

5. God's continued financial provision for this trip

6. Please be praying for our staff. Currently 3 out of the 5 familes we work with has all had a baby in the last two months! Pray for strength and wisdom for all of us as we transition into parenthood and ministry! We are also trusting for more students to join the BSN in October. Pray for people to respond to the call God is laying on their hearts (more info to come later).

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Please give a PUSH in Prayer!


PUSH stands for Pray Until Something Happens!!!!! We are asking all of you to please pray today for us regarding coming home to see family and raise up more partnerships. We need favor with the travel agent/airlines and we also need to see more money come in. Family has been generous in giving, but it is not enough! Josh has been offerred the opportunity to work with his Father for two weeks to pay for the ticket. As much as Josh enjoys working with his Father, we would love to see more gifted money come in so we can enjoy a 'non working'(in a sense)vacation and partnership raising time. Please PUSH in prayer for us over the next 12 or so hours. We will be sure to keep you posted. Thank you!

Thrusday Night City Evangelism





Tonight kicks off the next quarter of reaching out to the people of Perth! Josh will be leading a team of people in the downtown area of Perth during the evenings. This team will be literally following the Holy Spirit as he leads and guides us to reach out to the people. Pray for divine appointments and great conversations, and wisdom for Josh's leadership. Time and time again this time is a fruitful one and we pray that this quarter is just that, fruitful. Pray for boldness in the new YWAM Perth students... for many of them this is the first time they have gone out and talked to strangers. We love seeing this city transformed, one person at a time! Pray for Perth, the most isolated city in the world! We need more of Jesus here!

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