The organization I currently work for is called Youth with a Mission or YWAM. YWAM is a missionary organization with a plethora of things that come from it. The main thing YWAM does, is hold various discipleship training schools (DTS) all around the world. Each YWAM base that hosts a school can have different focuses. For example: music, fitness, photography, and even surfing but each base follows YWAM's missions statement, "Know God and make Him known." There are so many things someone can do after completing a DTS but one of the main things is to stay and staff at a base. this brings us to what I do. The base I currently staff with is located in Queensland, Australia. This base has a music and worship focus and uses music and worship to know God and make God known. I joined staff after completing my school in June 2017 and have been here since.
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Rural & Coastal
In YWAM Toowoomba there are two different staffing opportunities: DTS staff and Project staff. DTS staff helps run the schools that take place here on base. They mentor,plan, and prepare for all the students that will come from all over the world. Project staff consists of YWAM Toowoomba ministries. The purpose of Project Staff is to reach out to the community that is around us. We currently have four ministries running; Campfires, Freedom Project, Music Ministry and Rural and Coastal. I currently staff Rural and Coastal.
Rural and Coastal is a music and missions ministry. The heart of Rural and Coastal is to travel the rural and coastal parts of Australia encouraging different churches, evangelizing, and sharing our music. The way we do this is through weekly ministries and taking one week out of the month to travel somewhere outside of Toowoomba to serve in that community. We go to places like, Brisbane, Boggabilla, Coff's Harbor and much more. The ministries we are involved in include doing worship services, preaching for churches, cleaning churches,singing at BBQ's put on by churches, mentoring kids in surrounding schools, teaching religious instruction courses in the schools, and evangelizing to the backpackers of Australia. Because we are a music and worship base we do our best to use our gifts for God and those around us, Rural and Coastal is just one application of that.
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