And so... it begins here. Our first port of the "YWAM Australia and PNG Ship Tour!"... NEWCASTLE. On the chilly Feb 23rd morning, more than 100 ywamers from newie and townsville welcomed in the MV Pacific Link ship that travelled 6 days (which wasn't the smoothest sail with 7-8 meter high waves!) from New Zealand! The moment i saw the ship on the horizon, it was all surreal. I can't imagine what my leaders have been thinking, as they have desired to begin a ship ministry for years... YEARS ... and this moment was significant. A beginning of something completely new... And here I am... front and center, seeing it all unfold. And so i sit here very priviledged to be part of the YWAM ships history... maybe someone will write a book one day & they'll write about this filipino photographer chic that lived on the ship. ha....
Other than tackling a whole lot of and the not so fun stages of pioneering something, it was great to finally be in the city of newie that i've heard about for ages. it really is a great city with amazing cafes that are... what? ... open until 11 p.m.? a foreign thing for us townsvillians.... so it was great to reconnect with good friends from the newie base and see for myself that newie guys are in fact... crazy... (the good kind though.)
and the first week of tours? ... absolutely awesome. we have seen over 1,000 people come visit the ship and respond just in the first week and... without it sounding cheesy or cliche... my eyes opened up. what we are attempting is beyond anything i can comprehend. but what i can see... port by port... face by face... is about change in the nations of papua new guinea and australia. and so i say again, i am very priviledged... and so stoked to be part of it all...
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