aaronbarkermusic.com http://aaronbarkermusic.com The new studio album - Rise Up Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:17:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Call2All DTS Church Plant in Cambodian Village http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-church-plant-in-cambodian-village/ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-church-plant-in-cambodian-village/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:16:56 +0000 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/?p=308 Tomorrow morning our call2all outreach team in Cambodia is launching a church plant in a Cambodian village near Battambang. We are joining with a wonderful long-term missionary here to see this community begin. It has been a point of prayer for Mileng for a long time and with the passion of our team to see churches planted she felt it was the perfect time!

We have joined Mileng in teaching English and Bible to about 60 young people each morning and have been meeting their families all week. The families have been so excited to welcome our team into their homes and are looking forward to coming together as a community this Sunday to discover more about God’s love for their community and each of them individually.

We couldn’t be more thrilled at the chance to work together in this community to see it touched by the love of Christ! Pray with us that there will be amazing fruit that will last in this community!

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]]> http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-at-ramkhamhaeng-university/feed/ 0 Youth Center in Battambang ALIVE! http://aaronbarkermusic.com/youth-center-in-battambang-alive/ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/youth-center-in-battambang-alive/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:44:07 +0000 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/?p=302 We arrived in Battambang, Cambodia on Wednesday night and have been blessed to experience a few wonderful days here already! Our team has had a full schedule with orientation and already some great ministry times. We are so excited to spend most of our afternoons teaching English at the University of Nations here in Battambang. This is a ministry birthed a few years ago by a DTS team that basically never left. Incredible!

It started with about 50 youth and has grown over the last number of years to be a group of 500 young people who gather to learn English and are loved by amazing Christians and given opportunities to hear of the love of Christ for each one of them. Many of these young people have come to know the Lord personally and also many have joined YWAM staff as full-time workers in the mission field here in Cambodia and other parts of the world.

We are teaching close to 100 young people and loving it! Our team is coming alive as they are getting the chance to share openly with each of these students. Teaching English is such an effective form of evangelism because the young people that are coming have a desire to learn and grow each day. Stay tuned for more updates and incredible testimonies of how God is moving in this beautiful nation! Many Blessings to you all!

Aaron

]]> http://aaronbarkermusic.com/youth-center-in-battambang-alive/feed/ 0 Call2All DTS Says Goodbye to Bangkok http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-says-goodbye-to-bangkok/ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-says-goodbye-to-bangkok/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:35:43 +0000 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/?p=299 Well, our team finished the last day of ministry here in Bangkok today. What a wonderful two weeks! Just remembering all that we have experienced is amazing. We spent a day touring a Buddhist temple and some tourist attractions, we spent many days with King’s Kids doing fun discipleship programs, and also many hours working on service projects in the slum. We spent hours across the street doing evangelism at the university. We met many non-Christians, many Christians, and loved learning from both. We were able to share the Gospel with hundreds of people in this community. We preached on street corners, at bus stops, and on the campus. We visited a church, preached, worshiped, performed, and testified at another. We laughed tons, prayed tons, worshiped tons, and even danced a bit!

Through all of this and more we have fallen in love with this nation. Two weeks has hardly been enough to satisfy my longing to spend more time in this beautiful country. Today as I looked ahead to the Call2All DTS in April of 2011 I started thinking of spending a few months here for outreach. I believe God is preparing this land for a great harvest and I for one would love to be a part of it. I certainly think that having a ministry on the largest university in the world is fairly strategic!

My prayer is that we have been a blessing to the ministry here with YWAM Thailand. I know they have been an incredible blessing to us. I believe the fruit we have seen over our short time is being passed on to very capable hands and I believe the seeds we’ve sown will be watered and harvested. I believe the water we’ve poured on the soil is soon to produce a great harvest that the team here is so ready for! I would encourage as many as possible to come join this family here in Thailand to work the field in this nation. I believe you will love every minute! I definitely have!

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]]> http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-outreach-in-thailand-with-kings-kids/feed/ 0 Call2All DTS Reaching Out to Slums in Bangkok http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-reaching-out-to-slums-in-bangkok/ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-reaching-out-to-slums-in-bangkok/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:03:32 +0000 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/?p=277 Yesterday was such a wonderful day for our outreach team here in Bangkok! We spent most of the day as a team working in a community close to the YWAM Thailand base. We put on our construction hats in the morning and laid some concrete in a small section of the community while others passed out Gospel tracts and another group shared with a woman who is very open to the Gospel. This woman, Joy, a couple days ago as a Buddhist, prayed to our God to send some people to help fix her house. The next day we arrived to repair the siding of her home that sits above a sewage filled swamp. While our team worked on the house Ronda and Kellye got a chance to share with her and she was so thankful and open to learning more. So yesterday when we came back our team went back and shared some things with Joy they felt they had heard from the Lord for her. Through translation she asked them how they knew all that about her. They shared that Jesus knows everything about her and that He sent us to share with His love for her. We are still praying for her salvation, but believe the soil is ripe in her heart for her to meet the Lord.

Today is yet another day filled with service projects and evangelism at the university. Pray for us that the Lord would go before us and prepare the way of the hearts that we meet. We want to see continued harvest while we are here and are grateful for every opportunity to share His love in these communities!

Thanks to everyone who is praying with us!

]]> http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-reaching-out-to-slums-in-bangkok/feed/ 0 Largest University in the World has Student Meet Jesus http://aaronbarkermusic.com/largest-university-in-the-world-has-student-meet-jesus/ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/largest-university-in-the-world-has-student-meet-jesus/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:07:48 +0000 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/?p=273 Today in Bangkok, Thailand at the largest university in the world we saw one of the over 600,000 students come to meet Jesus! After a couple meetings with this young man he told our team today that he wanted to become a Christian. He said it as if it was a dream of something he’d like to achieve someday if at all possible. When the two with him told him he could become a Christian right then, he almost gasped with excitement!

That’s right, with the joy of a child he came into the family of God and is going to be bringing his friends with him. In a couple days he is going to meet with our team again and bring a couple friends. He told our team that he would bring them and they would love to read the bible together and he was happy to lead the time! This is the sound of an evangelist!

Pray for our team as we minister at this campus and with children in this community. We believe God wants to touch this nation powerfully and our prayer is that we can be used over the course of our short time here to start something that will continue and even grow once we leave this area. God, let it be!

]]> http://aaronbarkermusic.com/largest-university-in-the-world-has-student-meet-jesus/feed/ 0 Bangkok, Thailand http://aaronbarkermusic.com/bangkok-thailand/ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/bangkok-thailand/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:16:24 +0000 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/?p=271 What a couple days! After flying through Honolulu, Tokyo, Taipei, and arriving in Bangkok we have been experiencing a beautiful part of the world with our outreach team. We are staying with YWAM Thailand and have been blessed to be hosted by an amazing group of leaders. Yesterday we were overwhelmed by an orientation that helped us understand Thai culture and how to stay here and be effective in our ministry in this area. We also watched a DVD showing the collection of ministries that are based out of YWAM Thailand. Incredible! This place is busting at the seams with vision. Every ministry highlighted brought us to tears and made us hope we were going to be working with all of them!Unfortunately with only two weeks we don’t have time to do that…but we get to work with the incredible team that runs King’s Kids in Thailand. We are going into some broken communities close by and will be working with 40 to 60 kids ages 2 to 15. As we learned about how they serve these communities our hearts began to break and fall in love with every kid even before we have met them!

Today we continued our orientation to this area by visiting a Buddhist temple. What an amazing experience to see how deeply engrained this religion is in Thailand. Over 94% of those in Thailand are Buddhists. Our hearts truly broke for the people living under the lies that they need to earn merits with a god to gain favor with him. My Jesus is so good! He has loved me when I merited nothing and gave me complete and total forgiveness when it was the last thing on my mind.

This evening our team ventured out to the university campus across the street to meet people and trust for open doors to share Christ’s love on this campus. The reports have been so wonderful as many friends were made and doors are opening to see God move powerfully in this part of Bangkok.

Tomorrow we begin our work with the wonderful King’s Kids team and will also continue to build relationships at the university here. Join us in prayer as we trust God to breakthrough in this nation!

]]> http://aaronbarkermusic.com/bangkok-thailand/feed/ 0 Call2All DTS – April 2011 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-april-2011/ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-april-2011/#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:16:48 +0000 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/?p=269 Today I packed up my family and all our belongings once again in preparation for an outreach to one of the most impoverished nations in the world. We are going to be spending 2 months working in Battambang, Cambodia. This nation has been torn by war and violence and is beginning to recover as God imparts hope to a broken nation. This nation is filled with young people and as we touch the young generation we touch an entire nation.

Imagine as the emerging generation in this country begins to grab hold of God’s heart for this nation and walk it out in their communities. This could be the beginning of a great outpouring across a nation ripe for a great move of God. A nation that many would not expect to rise up in great leadership could be used to reach across borderlines into closed nations to make an impact for the Kingdom of God.

That is my life starting Monday…

However, I’m already looking forward to April 2011. My wife and I will be leading the Call2All DTS here in Kona, HI. We are looking for young leaders who are ready to make a difference in the lives of broken young people across the world. We are looking for young people who are ready to live for something radical and give themselves to a great vision for the Lord!

CALL2ALL – We want to reach every tribe, tongue and nation for the Lord Jesus Christ. We want to reach every sphere of society to see God transform communities through the power of the Holy Spirit. We want to see the body of Christ do everything possible to see the great commission fulfilled in our generation! JOIN US!

DTS – Discipleship Training School! This is world class training hosted by one of the most effective mission organizations in history. Take 6 months of your life and devote it to the Lord to see Him transform you for the rest of your life! You will never be the same!

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]]> http://aaronbarkermusic.com/call2all-dts-april-2011/feed/ 0 New Season…New Songs http://aaronbarkermusic.com/new-season-new-songs/ http://aaronbarkermusic.com/new-season-new-songs/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:22:57 +0000 http://aaronbarkermusic.com/?p=264 There is a new breed of worshipers that are being raised up around the world. I’ve been hearing this from many around the world. Everyone talks about a new season, new sound, new breed, new generation, new, new, new…sometimes I can be slow to jump onto the train, but I actually agree with the voices that are speaking this. Over the last 2 ½ months living here in Kona I believe I have met many of the new breed that God is raising up. My prayer is that everyone of these new worshipers is championed the way that Jesus would want them championed.

I’ve found that as I grow in years I become it is easy to be slow to receive the younger generation. However, in the last season it has been the younger generation that has led me into a deeper relationship with the Lord. I’ve been inspired by them, challenged by them, and exhorted by them to move into new things with the Lord!

This morning it was the songs of the emerging generation that led YWAM Kona into the throne room. I had the privilege of leading with Lindy Conant and Chloe Brennt. Lindy led out with an original song that expressed the heart cry of our generation for the Lord to come with all of His glory. This heart cry is not just the sound of the young, but the sound of every generation. The desire of every generation here on base is beginning to rise and yearn for the Lord in a fresh and new way.

God, don’t let me miss the burning heart for the Lord to move in our communities. Let my desire increase for Him and let the desire of every generation exponentially increase for the visitation of the Lord in our generation! Come Lord Jesus!

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