Homecoming

Dear friends,
From Norway to Thailand to Switzerland to Germany to India and Sri Lanka to England – it’s been a long road but now I am finally coming home.
A lot has happened during the past 2 years. After returning from London at the end of August 2008 I took a temporary 1.5 year break from full-time-ministry, mainly to work – first as a hotel-receptionist in Switzerland and then later as a program manager aboard a River Cruise ship. But I also got to spend some time at home with friends & family.
To ease the transition back into full-time-ministry I decided to take part in one of Youth with a Mission’s (YWAM) training programs in Orlando, FL this spring.
I like to call it my ‘school of dreams’. It is designed especially for people like me who “have dreams that they know are from God but don’t know what to do next.”
It was 12 weeks full of inspiring teaching, blessed worship times, good one-on-ones and great fellowship and yes the school did fulfill it’s ‘purpose’.
So without much further ado:

YWAM Orlando – my new ‚home’
The base was founded in 1995 and has been blessed with a tremendous growth especially in recent years. We went from 14 staff in 1999 to 80 staff in 2009 with currently about 200 students a year. This means that we are in desperate need of a new campus as the church building we’ve been allowed to use so far has become far too small and through many miracles, big and small, God has led us to 198 acres of land within the greater Orlando area, just 35 minutes from the international airport. And because this property is a former Christian campground, it already has more than twenty buildings on the premises that could one day become the facilities we need to train and house hundreds of young people, equipping them to take on the world. We believe that God has given us specific parts of the world to focus on:
The 10/40 window - including Muslim nations and China.
Russia and the former Soviet Union
Cities
Latin America

In Him,
Hanna

My fellow ‘dreamers’, Glenn Sheppard and I

part 2 follows tomorrow