Pick a Pocket Café Name!

Well they've finally picked a name for the beautiful new café in Herrnhut. Watch this video to see more about this ministry- thought and creativity goes into every aspect of it.

Pick a Pocket// London 2012

My lovely friends are taking over London! Many from the base have gone to London to be a part of programs running for the duration of the Olympics. They are doing street evangelism, working for various ministries and sharing art to as a means of meeting new people. You can read more about what they have been up to on the http://www.ywamherrnhutblog.com/ (where all these photos are from). Or have a look at www.facebook.com/groups/pickapocket  www.twitter.com/pickapocketnews

June 2012

Heres a glimpse of my new newsletter with plans and vision for the future, if you would like a pdf please contact me via the comments or send me your email address to amylaurenfraser@gmail.com

Herrnhut Prayer Tower

Some beautiful scenery from the prayer tower in Herrnhut from when Jonathon David Helser visited.

Kona Summer Surge

This is a pretty sweet opportunity to spend a summer in Hawaii! Check out the details here.

SEED

Check out this new ministry that a number of the students on our outreach to Eastern Europe earlier this year are helping pioneer. Go here and then click on ministries, scroll to SEED- Eastern Europe. Sean designed this page and we hope to be working with this team as the small group of people I work with continues to seek out what God wants to do in this part of the world.

Liz and the Lions Tour Up-date

My delightful friends that form 'Liz and the Lions' are currently just over mid-way in their tour of the states. They've been playing festivals, bars and churches all around the place. Check out their venue dates here and go and see them! Tell them I said hi and I love them! They'll also be performing in the UK for the duration of the Olympics at all sorts of venues, I'll keep you updated closer to the time. If you haven't heard them yet then you can stream their whole album here.

Silence

I've been thinking a lot about silence lately. How much we need it. How hard it is.

"When we try to express communion with God in words, our minds quickly come up short. But, in the depths of our being, through the Holy Spirit, Christ is praying far more than we imagine.

Although God never stops trying to communicate with us, this is never in order to impose. The voice of God is often heard only in a whisper, in a breath of silence. Remaining in silence in God’s presence, open to the Holy Spirit, is already prayer.

The road to contemplation is not one of achieving inner silence at all costs by following some technique that creates a kind of emptiness within. If, instead, with a childlike trust we let Christ pray silently within us, then one day we shall discover that the depths of our being are inhabited by a Presence."

For more information:

http://www.taize.fr/en_article12.html

Madagascar

                                     

I was able to stop in Madagascar on my way home to Germany from Australia and spend a few days with my two little sisters before we headed back to our respective corners of the world. We travelled up into the highlands, crowded onto local buses and ate at street stalls. Maybe again one day.

DTS

Photo courtesy Sean Rogers

I had the privilege of staffing the last Marriage of the Arts Discipleship Training School and I wrote a little thing for the upcoming school students.

DTS is:

A laying down of expectations; of rights and a taking on of dreams; of destiny. It's a 7 month date with the divine- a deepening of a relationship with an ever present God who is not afraid of commitment and almost certainly won't take you to a bad movie. It's a meeting of minds, of hearts and souls. It's His Kingdom colliding with our reality. It's prayer, 'yeah' prayer- a conversation with someone able, willing, wanting to share His thoughts and then act on them. It's worshipping; bare feet, a crowded room. It's a high stakes game of faith where you already have the winning hand. You'll change beds, countries, attitudes and your life. You'll bring luggage and leave without baggage. You will cry-tears of happiness, sorrow and empathy. It's a choice you'll have to make everyday: to wear grace, to be present, to push in, to stay hungry, to value humility. It's a decision you won't regret. It's written into your history; it's part of your plan. It's a question you have to answer, are you READY??