Ryan and Debbi Smith from Phoenix, AZ, are here to help staff our Frontier DTS. They've been living out at the camp until last Sunday when operations were finally closed down for the season. Ryan and Debbie are pioneering YWAM in Phoenix. They attended our pioneering school a year ago and YWAM Idaho is their "sending" base.
They have been a tremendous blessing to us this fall. Debbi has been manning the kitchen for both fall schools, feeding about 30 people three meals a day. Ryan has been a tremendous asset to the camp improvement project. He is a licensed electrician and has been instrumental in laying the new electrical lines out at the camp, along with digging trenches, laying pipe, fixing vehicles, etc, etc. Both of them have wonderful servant hearts.
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| Here's Debbi in the camp kitchen. |
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| Ryan laying new water pipes 6 ft down. |
The second couple is Bill and Carolyn Allen from Colorado Springs. They work with YWAM NSI (Network for Strategic Initiatives). They are here to do a debrief with the staff and students of the Backpackers DTS who just returned from Mongolia and N India. Their specialty is Member Care. Working in a foreign country and living in close quarters with the same people for three months can be a stressful (though rewarding) experience. Bill and Carolyn are here to help the students and staff process what they have just gone through and resolve any interpersonal issues that may have arisen.
The Backpackers DTS and SOAP students will graduate this Friday evening. We will also be praying over the Frontier DTS students and staff who will be leaving for India the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It's a busy week here at YWAM Idaho. It's been kind of fun to have three schools here at once. We had 41 people at our base meeting Monday morning, which is probably a record for us.
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