Schoolies and beyond

G'day mates,
well, from Hannah's previous post you know that I went to Schoolies last week. Imagine spring break for the entire east coast in one city, 20,000 teens each week. It was chaos. Our YWAM team joined up with a organization of hotel chaplens geared to serving the teens. We became known as the Red Frog People, because we handed out red frogs(a candy similar to sweedish fish) to everyone. Our team was on the day-time shift, so we were called to teens hotels to make them pancakes, help clean thier rooms, talk, or just hang out. I led a team of five others in Ywam and we made some great relationships with the kids. Most often the teens were either hung over from the night before or still drinking. The just graduated teens would drink as much as they could and party as hard as they could for the first three days. This is when God really began to work in conversation with kids searching for something that is lasting. Our team really stepped up and followed God's call to share him and how He's cahnged our lives. God really challenged me not to care what other people think of me when I bring God into the conversation. He wanted me to be bold and say whatever He had for me to say. Praise God, at the end of the week three guys we were talking to during the week accepeted Christ into their lives. It was awesome. Can you guys pray for Mark, Chris and Alex that they would continue to seek Christ. So many seeds were planted that week and so many lives were changed. God is Awesome. Also, this week we're going over the Holy spirit and Spiritual gifts and God is calling me to find His vision and purpose for my life. So can you pray for a open heart to hear what God has for me. Thanks, I miss you guys
Austino

This is Hannah with updating news on Austin...

Next week he is going to "Schoolies" (outreaches), which are in Surfer's Paradise, Gold Coast about twelve hour road trip up north. His small group leader Jesse and him are going to be be driving one of the vans. His roomates are according to him are, "awesome, they're some really cool guys, but since there are only six guys, two rooms, we have sleep-overs, good times".
He also sounds like he is really being challenged by the speaker this week so that is awesome! Please continue praying that he will be open to hearing what God wants him to learn during this time.
~Also he is taking up spear fishing, longboarding, and bass guitar!

Prayer Requests

Hey Everyone!
We are just about to start the third week of lectres. So far we've gone through the father heart of God(with Dave Stevenson) and the fear of the Lord(with Joy Dawson via VHS, Matt Dawson's grandmother). This past week has been great, awesome lectres, the Lord called me to not spend any money on myself without his permission, and on Thursday at Charlestown I talked with a local guy named Shannon for about 45min and shared my life and my purpose for being here with him. It was good times. Can you be praying for my upcoming outreach to the Gold Coast, called schoolies. I will be evangelizing to just graduated or drop out teens all night long for a week and a half. Also, will you be praying about my outreach, I have the choice to go to either Mazitlan, Mexico or to Thailand, and I need to clearly hear the voice of God. Thank you all so much.
AustinAust