So we are under 10 days away from the next school starting. What a blessibg these past two weeks have been for all us staff. God has done many miracles in our lives and the lifes of the students. My role here at YWAM has changed a little I am still in-charge of hospitality and will be supervising this with a team of fantabulous people. I will also be helping to oversea and run the registrar job which includes a lot of emails and communication with incoming students. I am really excited about what God is going to do in this school. We all feel that it will be a school where somethibg big happens, big miracles, big resitution. This is the first time in YWAM history that we are holding a tuition free dts. YWAM Bethlehem is founded on the pioneering spirit and inovative spirit of this land. So a lot of what we do and dream about is made up. A maori proverb says "looking into the future walking backward.' Just do it then look back and see where you can improve or change things. Over the past two weeks we have been learning a lot about being good leaders and seeing how we can actually do this in this day and hour. Learning about change and how it affects everyone, that it is a good thing also that we need it to keep life interesting. Some of the YWAM Bethlehem values for being a leader is get oil- which means keep your relationship with God on fire and commune with him. Thop is very helpful for this. Take responsibility- we need to make sure we are looking after ourselves and others. If you see that the rubbiah needs taking out do it, dont leave it for someone else. And the last one is set the culture- one of the things that we value a lot is being a family and caring and loving on people. This last week we had Frank Naea come speak and inspire us to dream and set a culture of love. He is known for speaking on the Fathers heart. It was amazing to hear his story again and see the love of the father manifested in his life. He inspired us to dream about what we wanted to do in life with or without YWAM being involved. There were ideas of orphanages being started, cafes, schools that involve out-door things like horses and camping. My dream which Ive had since I was about 16 is to open a cafe or something of the sort (Im tossing up between a cafe or bakery) and bringing young people mostly girls but guys can come to to just disciple them and show them skills in cooking. This could be done through setting up a YWAM track/school for this, but I will need to plan and pray a lot about this. Listening to Frank's story again brought up memories and thoughts about my life and how I always thought that I had to do things for God, go to church, attend youth group youth camps, pray and read by bible appear to not sin. But I learnt its not about DOING but BEING the son or Daughter of the King. If i know my identity in Christ that I am loved and have been adopted into his family, then I will act like a daughter, being the person God has created me to be. So instead of doing things because I have to I will do it because i want to, I want to live out my identity that God has predestined me to be. "I know the plans I have for you says the Lord they are plans of a hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11). And if God created this world to be perfect to be good then dont you think he would have planned out what he wants us to do/be? Here's a quote I made up of what we learnt in class: 'Oh the lies of the orphan spirit to do this do that work for Jesus. We are called Sons and Daughters of God we are this all you need to do is BE a daughter a son of God. YOu will do what you see the father doing, like Jesus did. If one son could turn the world upside down, how much more do you think we could Do by BEING sons and daughters of the King.' The other speakers we have had this week have been Marty (a kiwi/US) man that has talked on Hippo-campus and how it stores memories either good or bad and that is what we base a lot of things on. Like going into a friendship with a guy if you havent had any successful ones previously then how can you learn to trust new people. But its about taking the plunge and creating good lasting memories even if you slip up a bit, at least you would have tried and kept going. We learnt about the 6 steps to an apology if you've hurt someone or they have hurt you. 1. Acknowledge that you did it, (even if you didn't mean too, don't justify) 2. Admit (be counter cultural) 3. Apologies (say Im sorry) 4. Ask forgiveness 5. Ask if they will hold you accountable so you don't do this again. 6. Ask if there was anything else. I wish I knew this a while ago I think a lot of my fears or lack of confrontation would have been dealt with appropriately. Im really excited about this up coming school and all that I will learn and grow in. Please will you pray that I can find a job and raise support for this season of my life. Would you also pray about how I can help the staff and students to grow in their faith, giving them a awesome experience of NZ culture while seeking the Lord for guidance and understand on where he wants me to go next. Thanks for reading For His Glory and the Declaration of His Name Renee Pearce As a YWAM missionary I raise support to cover my expenses for basic food, lodging and essentials. In addition from this I also raise funds for overseas mission trips that I'm called to. My budget for my basic needs is $200- 250 per week. My overseas trips vary depending on where I go. One of the challenges that I have as a missionary to my own country is finding out who would support me. In church ministry some are called to be missionaries and others are called to support them. So I would ask you to consider being involved in this ministry with me by supporting me. If you are wanting to support me financially there are three options weekly, monthly or an occasional donation here are a few options of doing this: My own account: 38 90080688728 00 Please indicate your name/or business so I can see where the money is coming from thanks. Also you could click on the link below and do it through YWAM (IWT)which would be a tax indubitable way of giving. http://www.idts.co.nz/payments Which can be tax deductible. (also you will need to email Bryan Andrews at the admin@thop.co.nz email and let him know your full contact details and that you will be wanting a tax receipt. Tax receipts are only given once a year at the start of April when the NZ tax year ends.) Would you also consider being a prayer partner with me, in seeing the ministry I invest in grow to fruition as we walk through our daily schedule, developing and encouraging students to grow deeper in their relationship with God, and in discovering their identity in Christ Jesus. There has been many prophesies that talk about the next generation, and how it will be one of change and going against the normal way of society. I believe that prayer and support is a way of investing into the future generation. Doing a DTS helps shape the minds and hearts of the students to know and to focus on Jesus being the centre of it all. Then mapping their life on the need for daily commitment to the relationship with Christ. Being built on a platform of prayer and intercession while being grounded in the truth of God's word. Then going into the world to express God's heart for the nations through the impact God has had on them. If you want to commit to praying for me would you like an email up date or to be contacted another way. I would love to contact you and keep you up to date on prayer needs, and if you have any prayer requests that I could pray for in my time of intercession I would love to do this as we build a relationship together in encouraging and developing lives on fire for Jesus. I praise Jesus for you that he has called you for such a time as this to love one another and share the love Jesus has for the father and the father for Jesus. That we get the opportunity to be in community helping one another out. Thanks again Renee Pearce P.S. if you want to email me my email is: naypearce23@gmail.com

As a YWAM missionary I raise support to cover my expenses for basic food, lodging and essentials. In addition from this I also raise funds for overseas mission trips that I'm called to. My budget for my basic needs is $200 per week. my overseas trips vary depending on where I go. One of the challenges that I have as a missionary to my own country is finding out who would support me. In church ministry some are called to be missionaries and others are called to support them. So I would ask you to consider being involved in this ministry with me by supporting me. If you are wanting to support me financially there are three options weekly, monthly or an occasional donation here are a few options of doing this: My own account: 38 90080688728 00 Please indicate your name/or business so I can see where the money is coming from thanks. Also you could click on the link below and do it through YWAM (IWT)which would be a tax indubitable way of giving. http://www.idts.co.nz/payments Which can be tax deductible. (also you will need to email Bryan Andrews at the admin@thop.co.nz email and let him know your full contact details and that you will be wanting a tax receipt. Tax receipts are only given once a year at the start of April when the NZ tax year ends.) Would you also consider being a prayer partner with me, in seeing the ministry I invest in grow to fruition as we walk through our daily schedule, developing and encouraging students to grow deeper in their relationship with God, and in discovering their identity in Christ Jesus. There has been many prophesies that talk about the next generation, and how it will be one of change and going against the normal way of society. I believe that prayer and support is a way of investing into the future generation. Doing a DTS helps shape the minds and hearts of the students to know and to focus on Jesus being the centre of it all. Then mapping their life on the need for daily commitment to the relationship with Christ. Being built on a platform of prayer and intercession while being grounded in the truth of God's word. Then going into the world to express God's heart for the nations through the impact God has had on them. If you want to commit to praying for me would you like an email up date or to be contacted another way. I would love to contact you and keep you up to date on prayer needs, and if you have any prayer requests that I could pray for in my time of intercession I would love to do this as we build a relationship together in encouraging and developing lives on fire for Jesus. I praise Jesus for you that he has called you for such a time as this to love one another and share the love Jesus has for the father and the father for Jesus. That we get the opportunity to be in community helping one another out. Thanks again Renee Pearce P.S. if you want to email me my email is: naypearce23@gmail.com

Two Thousand and Twelve I moved to Tauranga to do a DTS

Most of the Students (Bonny hadn't arrived yet)

Spent time in the Prayer room (THOP)Learnt about the importance of intimacy with God and his worth. Also learnt that its not about who I am but Whose I am. :)#heartknowledge

We went on Outreach to the Philippines

I came home to discover that I really just wanted to be in God's presence all the time he wasn't finished with me yet. So i went back and staffed

My sisters wedding (plus i went or was in 3 other weddings)

Outreach in NZ

This has been one life changing year bring on 2013. What will God do next keep up to date on my posts. If you would like to be involved, the best thing you can do is pray. Prayer is powerful and more importantly, uniting. If you feel further led to be part of what God is doing specifically with this trip and interceding on behalf of this team, please send me an email at lil_rae_of_sunshine@hotmail.com. If you want to know more, ask questions about what is Missions, who is Jesus, or just catch up, contact me. I’d love to hear from you! I am extremely excited to once again have an opportunity like this, and am thrilled especially to be able to help lead a group of individuals who like myself, desperately desire to explore the Heart of God for themselves and others. I am grateful for each of you and the Kingdom I have discovered along the way with you. May the horizons and mystery before you be filled with hope because of the Father who guides your steps! For His Glory and Declaration of His Name Renee Pearce

Here is a little bit about what YWAM does: Discipleship Training School with Youth With a Mission (YWAM). YWAM is one of the top 2 largest missions organization in the world with close to 25,000 full time staff who are having a profound effect in the world for the extension of God's kingdom and his purposes. We spend the first 3 months receiving training and input into our personal lives, establishing solid Godly foundations. We are then sent out, for two months, into the nations to apply all that we have learnt and are given an opportunity to reach out to the underprivileged, disadvantaged, poor, needy and those who don't know Jesus. A partner would be someone that I relate to where we pray for one another, encourage one another, and is someone who would be willing to help me financially. While God has called me here for this season, and is calling me into the nations to reach out and be part of the harvest, I acknowledge that He calls people to various things and some "STAY" and some "GO" in different seasons of their lives. However, those that stay can still be part of the "GOing" by being connected at a heart level to those who are called to "GO". I'd like to invite you to invest in world missions through partnering with me. Would you pray and consider whether or not you'd be willing to join my support network for the next Year I will be needing 600-700 a month or 200 a week. Much love and appreciation of your generosity, Renee Pearce

Its nearly Christmas time and I have done an update YAY

YWAM is a place where you can be open and honest with yourself God and others. Although it was 5 months of my life and now a bit longer I feel that God is and has been shaping me into the woman he has created me to be. Facing truths about life, love religiosity I come away for a short break between schools and reflect about all that has happened to me. I have become a lot more aware of my value in God and have seen things come true when I thought it could never happen. Like seeing the lie I told myself of never being able to be friends with guys broken and set free of the condemnation I placed on myself. So I suppose I have much more freedom in spirit and soul were I thought I was lost and couldn’t be found. My perception of myself has changed dramatically instead of feeling unworthy and always being my own enemy. I am more confident in how and why I judge myself. Setting the lies in front of me I pull them from the box one by one I rebuke them and throw them away. What I feed myself on is becoming a natural thing to consider. I have been challenged I have been stretched and my faith has increased. But it is all worth it to see and know that my king and my God is saying well done my good and faithful servant. Although I still struggle my life is and will never be the same again. With the help of YWAM God has pursued my heart my mind my soul and spirit to realised the depth and great satisfaction I find in the one who holds my heart and counts the days until we will meet face to face. Oh the longing and the depth of his love. Reality hits and my struggles are shown but think of what is already been done for you and walk in that identity walk in that kingdom. Worship the king pray to him and sing glory to the one that has gone before, that has made a way for our perfection. Embrace the God that spoke into being and breathe life. Kissing his own true flesh don’t you want it too? The talents and gifts he has placed in me shine a little brighter each day as they grow and display the beauty He has placed in me. My faith has been stretched having to rely on God my father to provide what a challenge what a feat but it was all worth it at his feet. So I encourage you to join with me to see where God wants me to be to encourage me and strengthen me. To see new depths of His love revealed through me. Which leads to a story of this man named Peter he was called by this man to follow him and so he did he was challenged and stretched he even had to take leaps of faith. One particular story of his was when he saw the Lord and said “if it is you Lord tell me to come out on the water” and Jesus says “Come.” And although he stumbled a bit and was afraid he took that first step and walked to where Jesus was. This story is similar to mine as I have stepped out in faith believing that God will provide ALL my needs. I have stepped out in faith and talked to people that I don’t know and who make me scared a him (this is big for me) One I was talking to a guy. Check. Two I talked to a stranger. Check.) God has encouraged me and helped me get over fear in this area of my life, praise the Lord. So to finish it off I want to leave you with some testimonies of outreach in NZ and the Philippines. “Tonight we went to Gore for an Andrew Kabala healing meeting i was praying at the back and could feel angels around me. The Holy Spirit was moving in power praise the lord. About 50 people came to the lord and many people got healed.” “In Queenstown, got to share about Jesus again – a sister joined our eternal family today. Got snow again! God is wonderful and he loves you.” In the Philippines they prayed at a hospital for a friend‘s brother, Frederick, who was in an accident and a man bashed his head against some concrete. The doctors were worried about a crack in his skull and internal bleeding. We prayed for him and afterwards he said the pain had fully gone!!!!! We heard yesterday the resulting x-ray showed no problems, and he was cleared to be released from hospital. Also in the Philippines, they preached amazingly and gave a testimony ~afterward 15 people gave their lives to Christ and we saw people healed of fevers, multiple areas of pain, a woman struggling to walk had all the pain leave from her clubbed foot... Jesus, you are so amazingly good to us! Thanks for reading please feel free to email me at lil_rae_of _sunshine@hotmail.com if you would like to encourage me or help me out in anyway.

To all my friends and Family, I just want to say thank you so much for your support and love that I have been feeling lately its so encouraging to know that I have a support team that I am able to depend on and know that they care for me. Recently I have been learning a lot about myself iin areas like boundaries with friends, knowing my limits on how much I can do and just living by faith in trusting God in an area that I have ruled most of my life. Growing up being quite an independant woman this has been quite a struggle to let go of the reigns in the area of finances but I am learning that as I lean on my beloved he will do what a good husband will do and provide for all I need. I have been learning about what a spiritual father is too and how to relate to my spiritual father and ask for him to bless me, keep me and help me. At the moment I am home in Kapiti for my sisters wedding happening this Saturday, I am so excited to be involved in my sisters wedding being a bridesmaid is such an honour and a privilage and I get to read a bible verse too. In the next 5 months I have other weddings to attend and so have been very busy helping plan or help people with their weddings. What a privilage to be living where I am and learning so much about God. In about a week and a half i will be leaving for two months on outreach helping lead a team of 9-10 people around NZ, awakening hearts to the call of God on their lives. Raising up a standard of day and night prayer and encouraging people that their is something to put your hope in and his name is JESUS. I know that my problems haven't gone away but I can totally say that since doing a DTS my life has changed I can physically feel in my spirit that the dead person is gone and the new has come. Even though I have been a Christian since I was young God picked this time and place for me to be awakened to love and to know my true identity in God. Here are a few things I need prayer for: * That God would keep me spiritually fruitful in this season * That Finances would come in, in abundance (I am still in need of $600 for outreach but then I also need money for after the DTS) * That I would not become over whelmed and stressed out with all that is going on, weddings, outreach, a new year... * That God would speak to me or other people about what he wants me to do next year- internship at the house of prayer, staying on with YWAM. * That God would encourage your hearts with his Word and express his love generously to you so that from the overflow you will be able to give in abundance to those in need. Thank you once again for all your support and love I really appreciate it and if you have prayer requests that I could prayer for just message me back. For His glory and the Declaration of His Name Many rich blessings to you, Renee Pearce

So as you know I went to the Philippines we stayed in two majoy cities Mindanao and Manilla (well 3 hours out from there in a place called Olongapo.) The last 2 and half weeks of being in the Phillippines and then back to Singapore went by oh so fast. We were doing a variety of things in Olongapo like a prayer walk, teaching the children, teens and disiciples at the YWAM base, park evangelism in which I got to pray for a guy who had one blind eye, i didn't see a miracle but I'm believing that God will heal him. The guy just came up to me pointing at me to pray for him. God is amazing and he is forever good to us when we are walking in his way. For our last bible study we took the girls out to a place called Chow King a Chinese fast food place we shared about how it is important to make wise choices for ourselves; we did this by sharing testimonies of how when we chose to do what God wanted us to do, it would turn out right. We then had some girls from the base share there testimonies of how they were once bar girls (prostitiutes) and how they made the choice to come out of it to commit to the base and finding a better life. I'm not sure what they said because they were speaking Tagalo but it was powerful. We had 9 of the 11 girls come back to the base with us to check it out to see what they do and how the base will provide for their family as well. (Check out there websites to see what they do. http://ywamolongapo.com/) God I thank you for that base and all its minstry it does for you serving your daughters. We left the base on the Monday morning at about 9:30am we traveled all day basically we didn't reach Davao our next destination until 6 or so at night then the accomodation we were going to stay at was not acceptable so we stayed at a Pastors house; gone out to dinner before finding the accomodation made the day very long day . The boys arrived the next day from Cebu an Island in the middle of the Philippines in which there are around 7107 in total. We went shopping that day and left for Singapore the next day in which it was another day of traveling and waiting, you have fun times traveling for about a week especially if your tired too. We arrived in Singapore and had debrief and did more shopping at an awesome street market called Bugis. (if you are ever in Singapore I would totally recommend visiting it.) Then came the 10 hour flight back home on the Friday, we arrived back into New Zealand about 10am. I didn't get any sleep on the plane and then trying to be good and fight jet lag didn't go to bed till 9:30ish that night so I had been up for more than 24 hours with out much sleep. God is faithful with our attempts at seeking him out even if our physical bodies aren't functioning properly. Throughout this time God has been teaching me about my identity in him and how I must seek approval from him alone; he was amazing while in the Philippines once when I was teaching at a seminar/mini DTS everyone told me that I had done a really good job but i still didn't feel that I had not until I asked God if I had done a good job did I feel any peace and reassurance. I spoke in a couple of places about how through intimacy with God we gain identity and we need to search out his word about what he says about us so we know the truth and it will set us free. So that when the devil tries to lie to us about who we are, we will know that it is a lie and rebuke it and replace it with the truth. This whole DTS has been a time of renewing my mind and clearly seeing the foundations that have built my values and faith in God. Before I came on DTS I had asked God to renew, refresh, refine and replace me and through this God has given me identity, intimacy and inspiration. Also he has given me peace of mind and heart, progress in my walk with him, a passion to seek his face on my knees and a place to come before him. If you haven't seen the R. I. P. letter words i have use it represents RIP which is Rest in Peace, so I was dying to myself in this season of my life but also reaping everlasting gifts. My mum's initals are R.I.P and mine are R.E.A.P it might be a conensidance or just something silly I've made up but I feel that God has taken me from being a child of my parents to an eternal child of God. The wisdom I have gained by studying God's word has given me such joy and devotion to seeking God out. I am now back at home in Paraparaumu just taking some time off of the busyness of travel to seek God out as to what he wants me to do. I know I have plans of moving back up to Tauranga and finding a job but God's hand willl guide me. Before I left to go on outreach I asked God what he wanted me to do after this concecrated season in the picture I saw me sitting at his feet teaching me about his word. If you look at Mary of Bethany this is what she was doing when her sister Martha complained to Jesus that Mary wasn't doing anything to help. And what did Jesus say "she has chosen what is better and it will not be taken away from her." (Luke 10vs.41) So I feel that I will be entering a time of devotion to sitting at Jesus' feet listening to his voice. I am hoping to do an internship at the House of Prayer in Tauranga next year in April but God is sovereign and his plans are better than my own. So keep me in your prayers as to the calling that God has on my life and what is the next step for me. To God be the Glory many blessings Renee