Of Airlie Beach....

Hey y'all!! So I'm sorry that I haven't updated this blog thingy in a while. YWAM life is such a whirlwind and all. Maybe it is just the concept of time that messes with my head. See, time in Australia, (Or maybe just in YWAM), passes reeeeeaaaalllly slowly. But then, when you look back two months later, it seems like it passed really quickly. So In my mind, I just got back from Airlie beach. I'm still recovering from bus-lag (The automotive version of that feeling of disorientation that one receives when one travels through time zones). I'm still trying to figure out what it's like not to be covered in sweat 24-7!!
So yeah, I'm still in that daze...
So Airlie Beach. Wow. Yeah. It was THAT awesome. SO a TON of things happened and I really want to tell you each and every little detail of my trip but, much to my fingers and your eyes delight, I will not do that. Suffer.
So we arrived after that VERY eventful roadtrip at the Airlie YWAM base and we went to a large tent entitled, "The Chai Tent." WHy was it called that? Simple. It was a tent. We made/served/drank chai tea there. Told ya it was simple.....
So every night, we would go to this tent. There were tons of little tables in there and a stage. Our very own musicians and dancers would perform there every night and the rest of us would go amongst the tent and chat with people that  came to drink our awesome tea.
The kind of people that mainly showed up were college kids who came to Airlie for the  New Years parties. There were a TON of backpackers as well. I literally met people from every continent. Except Antarctica. Understandable, no?
So we would talk to these people and that really gave us a big opportunity to share our faith and our lives with them. I got to have some really good conversations with people and the Holy Spirit really worked through me.
One night, there were these two guys that came to the tent. One guy had just got a tattoo that day and it was infected and really painful for him. They were b oth atheists, but us YWAMers just started talking to them. At one point in the conversation, a YWAMer offered to pray for the guy's arm. He relented and so she did. They left soon after that, but the next night the one guy came back to the tent and was like , "Dudes! WHAT did you guys do to my friend's arm? It is COMPLETELY better!!"
The girl who prayed for the tattoo guy told him that she just prayed to her God and asked him to heal the guy's arm. The one guy was completely blown away, and he was like, "Whoa!" and then he wanted to hear more. SO this girl told him about God and everything and then asked him if he wanted to serve this God and he was like, "Yeah!" SO she led him to christ.
THAT was probably the most awesome event that occurred that week although I am NOT saying that one thing that God does is greater than another. But THAT really blew my mind.
About five people were led to the Lord that week, but we planted HUNDREDS of seeds in people's hearts. We got to have super deep conversations with people and really share God's love to people through ours words and our chai.
I am SO thankful that God allowed me to be a part of this awesome ministry and that he was able to use me during this time.
See y'all next time!!
~~Bree