Thank you for your prayers. We are happy to share what God has been doing...
1. The BSN is off to a great start. Both Sarah and Josh have taught so far. Joshua taught on "the Pursuit of Truth" and Sarah taught on "Literary Context". The students are on fire for learning the Bible and have already gotten much revelation about how important it is to find the single intended meaning of the scripture and how things make much more sense when the context is studied.
2. We have our new visas! Praise the Lord that he has provided with no problems at all, our visas until November of 2010. Yes, we have felt we will stay in Perth at least until then (maybe longer?), and the granting of our visas have proven that possible. Josh is on a student vias, as he is taking on a course called, The Basic Leadership Training School (BLS) for the next two years. Sarah & Noah are dependents on his visa. Josh will write a little of what he has been learning this past month in the course.
3. We feel we have just about enough for a used trustworthy vehicle. Thank you to those of you who have given, blessings on you! Please still pray for a few more hundred dollars and also for the us to find the right vehicle. We have done a lot of searching and test driven quite a few, but not found something that we trust yet.
4. As mentioned in previous postings, Sarah has decided to join Media. Thank you for your prayers for a smooth transition. This week brought real break-through in communication with leaders and clarity about what the transition should look like. It's underway! This new role will have it's challenges, please pray specifically for unity in the department and to see vision realized.
5. Finances, we have not had any new monthly partnerships, but we can tell you that the US dollar is doing extremely well here in Australia. -Which is working in our favor. The cost of living in Perth is extremely high due to Perth being the most isolated city in the world. Thank you for your prayers for our finaces. We continue to ask for God to bring aboard more financial partnerships. Thank you again to those of you who have faithfully given. BLESS YOU!
Monday, October 20, 2008
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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.
"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!
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
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
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