Team Philippines

Hello Everyone,

We hope that this letter finds you well in His grace and daily fighting for His love to abide fully within your inner-being.

We also hope that you all had an awesome Christmas and are having a blessed week as the year comes to a close; remembering always that His shed blood is the reason we have hope and life.

The team had an amazing Christmas. We got away from the city and spent the day swimming and getting sunburnt :) We ate heaps of food and spent quality time as a team. We are very thankful for the day that the Lord had given to us to enjoy. We are now back into full gear! We spent today (Monday December 28, 2009) helping out in an orphanage! Half of the orphanage is an elderly home for women. So, we split into several teams and helped out where needed. Ryan and I (Britton) spent the morning playing with children aged 1-8. Though we had fun with the kids it was highly exhausting. For more than 2 hours these loved starved kids never stopped jumping on us or crying for a cuddle!!! God gave me a picture of something that Dalton Lifsey had said earlier in the year; "God has the capacity to enjoy us forever". As these kids relentlessly pursued our attention/affection I quickly ran out of the capacity to enjoy these kids. Yet God demands that we worship Him in the same manner that these kids pursued us because He simply has the capacity to enjoy our persistent worship forever :)

As for the girls; Kimberly, Bria and Kayla served up stairs with the infants. One of the babies had just been left there on Christmas day! Due to the mass amount of poverty in the area a lot of these children get left here in hopes that they will at least be fed and have a place to sleep other than the streets. Destiny and Crestin served with the elderly women. They not only talked with these ladies (who upon arrival they were silent and in a state of oppression), they also helped clean their physical body wounds! They served with great compassion! When we left all the women were joyful and asking for us to come back. We are scheduled to return in the morning. Please pray for the team. This ministry is very difficult-not many people have the capacity to spend more than a day serving in orphanages and in bars with go-go dancers/Prostitutes. The weight of this ministry has been quite hard for the team. Please stand with us in prayer! We don't want to take on any unhealthy burdens. We also need continual prayer for an hourly revelation that God is a good, good Father!

I will end this entry with 2 awesome stories. So, we are a house of prayer dts! We desire to see the DNA of the house of prayer flow in and through our ministry! So with that said:

1. The base director (A man from Norway called Haavard Sand) here in Olongapo has followed Mike Bickle since the early 90's and has a burning heart and revelation for the bride of Christ and what God is doing in this age! The base here is Ywam, but strangely soaked with the bride of Christ reality and the Forerunner message! Haavard Sand started a small publishing called “Arise and Shine” where they sell books like "Seven Longings of the Human Heart" by Mike Bickel, for really cheap. Anyway, I talked with this guy for several hours at the base Christmas party! What an amazing guy! The thing that stuck out the most was this guy’s vision for the future. In August 2010 Haavard and his Filipino wife Karen will be moving to Norway to pioneer a forerunner dts! They already have a house of prayer that runs several hours a week and hope to see the house go night and day!

2. We went to the Subic House of Prayer in Olongapo today!!! They have a house of prayer here!!!! (Sorry, I forgot the guy’s name) This Filipino guy goes to America back in 2005 to raise support for his ministry. On his birthday he decides to fly over to KC and see what this International Hose of Prayer is about. Upon arrival he meets Andy Hickman! Andy and Bec take this guy under their wing and show him around for 3 days. Then, he also meets Graham Walsh. Andy and Graham left such a huge impact on this guy that he came back to the Philippines and threw away his other ministry and moved to Olongapo to start the "Shop" (Subic Hose of Prayer).

So, we came to the Philippines and landed in the middle of a prayer movement :) I thought that this was very incredible.

Karen Haavard told Kimberly "that it is no mistake that our team came here! Americans paved the way for prostitution in this city and now there are Americans here" reversing that decree in the Spirit. She also said that there are 2 camps at the end of the age; those who side with the great harlot and those who are the bride of Christ-in this season our team has helped turn some harlot's into bride's of Christ!

Finally pray and consider donating to our team! We need 3000.00 NZ! We are actually down to 50.00 NZ

Here is how you can help: http://www.iwt.co.nz/donate-online.

Happy New Year :) Love and miss you all.

Britton, Kimberly, Ryan, Bria, Crestin, Kayla and Destiny!!!!!!!