Year In Review

As we come to the end of another school year, there's plenty to catch everyone up on! This year has been amazing, difficult, rewarding and challenging; It's brought countless ministry opportunities for Brittany and I as well as incredible God moments and conversations!

It's been a while since our last newsletter so here's an update on all things Brittany and Daimian as well as Youth Alive and the Oregon Youth Alive Ministry Academy!

Brittany has been blessed with a job position with the Oregon Ministry Network doing what she loves and is skilled in. Not only is she managing event photography and social media for the Network but she's also now a part of the Synergy ministry team for social media and web presence. This team assists churches by setting up quality websites and running well-crafted social media accounts for them. The heart of Synergy melds perfectly with her passion to be a blessing to our Oregon churches and she loves it!

As for me, it's been a wild few months facilitating all of our OYAMA weekly meetings, teachings, ministry events, church visits and internships and sharing about all things Youth Alive at various churches and groups around Oregon. The Lord has allowed us opportunities to speak and have leadership trainings in churches from Grants Pass to Sherwood. We've also been serving with ministry teams for events such as Fusion, Summit and Amplify. Our students also finished their time doing Church Visits, where they had the opportunity to observe and participate in over 30 weekly Sunday, Children's and Youth services! We were also able to send our students to help run Easter services at one of our AG churches on the coast which was a HUGE blessing! 

Aside from all of the "doing" of ministry, the bread and butter of what we do in OYAMA is still our weekly meetings. We spend 6 hours every Wednesday morning meeting with our students for individual life & ministry coaching/discipleship conversations, we teach on everything from communication skills to studying other belief systems, from loving other people to how to be a healthy leader in ministry and from actual ministry practices to ways to make disciples in the world today.

While we continue to meet sporadically throughout the summer, we take a break from weekly meetings until the new school year. During the summer our students focus on these key priorities: 

1. Spiritual Disciplines
2. Summer church Internships (3 are serving at Neighborhood Church in Albany.1 is serving at Willamette Christian Center in Eugene)
3. Coaching conversations
4. Working as much as possible

As Brittany and I look to the near future we have plenty of things we're working on and things that we'd love for you to be praying with us for God to bless and use to bring the students of our state closer to Him...

• Youth Alive annually produces the Pendleton High School Graduation (June 2-5)
• OYAMA applicants Interviews (June 16)
• Oregon Central Camp (July 20-23)
• What Now Getaway (July 25-27)
• Many speaking engagements over the summer

We need your prayers more than ever! The Lord is continuing to open doors for us to have greater influence in the lives of young people all over Oregon, deepening our relationships with those we disciple, more and more ways to serve local churches and of course, He is moving in great ways in the lives and training of our OYAMA students. We are blessed to see the amount of growth, learning and reliance on the Holy Spirit that we've seen in this year's group of students. Please continue praying for them too! Pray that the Lord would keep providing their needs as they are obedient to Him and that they'd have hearts that would be soft and moldable to the Lord's will.

Will you pray and ask what you can do to financially support this ministry? If the Lord leads you to partner with us, it's easy to do so; Just go to https://giving.ag.org/home, Click on "Give Now" and fill out the needed info.