Welcome in Iceland!(something they say here) That' right, friends and family--I am officially in Iceland and will be here for two months. Thank you for reading this blog update and a major thank you to those who supported me getting here. For some of you, this blog post will contain some information you may have already heard.
For the last three months I have been in Kona, Hawaii doing a discipleship training school (DTS) through Youth With A Mission (YWAM). As a student I learned about the Father heart of God, His character, and received training to follow harder after Jesus. My training consists of both the first three months of a lecture phase along with a two and a half month outreach to another country. My class of around 90 people, including leaders, split into nine different outreach groups. We have teams right now in Mozambique, Africa, Nepal, Kosovo/Pakistan, West Coast America, the Hawaiian Islands, Europe, Cambodia, Egypt/Jordan, and Iceland. My outreach team, as you know, has been sent to Iceland. For the next two months we will be working with different ministries to share the love of Jesus with the Icelandic people.
These past months have been an amazing journey into the heart of God. I have learned and grown so much, yet more than anything I have caught what the men and women of God in the YWAM community carry. I have found myself in desperate pursuit of a loving real God that loves every single person on the earth including me, which totally blows my mind. I always believed in God and knew about His love for me, but now I'm falling in love with Him because He is the only one who deserves anything. Jesus chose to step off His throne in heaven in Genesis when we first fell. Did you ever think about that? Jesus came to the earth as the seed of the woman to crush the head of the serpent and chose the cross so He could win us back to Himself. The greatest revelation I have had is this: Jesus loved us so much He would give up His life up so that we could LIVE! I want to live for Him and do my best to walk rightly in His sight knowing His grace is greater than my weakness, and He paid the cost for my sins. I want to live for Jesus and I believe that means going to the hardest and darkest places on earth and being the light of Christ.
My team is going to be working with a few different ministries in Iceland Catch The Fire(CTF), Cafe Rot (pronounced "rote"), a local coffee shop, and a team from Bethel Church. CTF is a ministry focusing on the homeless, prostitutes, and drug addicts. They also have a Saturday night "street-free cocoa ministry". The Cafe Rot is a cafe that tries to reach out to local teens. Many of the teens come and spend hours just hanging out in the cafe. Something draws them to it that they cannot understand; that something, I tell you, is the love of Jesus. Most of the teens come from broken homes and have dropped out of school. Many smoke and are very involved in drugs and alcohol. As of this moment we are only briefly in contact with the Bethel group and are not sure what we will be doing with them. We are believing Jesus to break into the hearts of the people of Iceland, that He is shaking the faulty foundation they have lived on for years. We believe He is greater than their brokenness and that the darkness that has covered this land for so long is being destroyed. Please continue to pray for and outpouring of His Holy Spirit over Iceland.
We have already seen many seeds get planted in the hearts of the people here and it is phenomenal. Please prayerfully support my team and I. I would also love to pray for you in any way I can. Prayer is one of the most powerful ways we as followers of Jesus can support each other. If you have a prayer request please email me at
kawikarobertson@yahoo.com
If you would like to support my ministry here you can check out my facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Zak-Going-to-Iceland-YWAM/102878059790768?sk=wall
You can send money via "paypal"(electronically) or to the YWAM Kona Base at the address:
Zakary Robertson
Fire and Fragrance #255
75-5851 Kuakini Highway
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
96740-2199 USA
Any support whether monthly or one time helps me so much. Thank you once again to those who got me to Iceland! Especially to those who have prayerfully supported me. You are the backbone to any ministry I do and God is the solid foundation upon which I stand!
Grace and peace to you my brothers and sisters in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
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