Pictures from Around our YWAM Campus



Walking to Class - Everything is very accessible and an easy walk.  We only get in the car a few days a week!





One of the larger buildings on Campus, the "Go Center" includes a small hotel for short-term visitors, a handful of classrooms and a nice courtyard.  Jess & Dave's class meets here daily.





Jess praying during one of our classes - clearing her heart to better hear God's Voice



Everyday all students start the day with one hour of worship.  On Thursdays we get to worship together with the kids in the Prayer Room (one of two air conditioned rooms on campus!).  The Prayer Room has worship and prayer going on 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.  In the Bible it discusses creating a room such as this that fills up a great cup full of prayer and worship.  The angels then tip the cup and it rains down fire of the holy spirit on the land.  You can just feel the closeness to God here on campus from years and years of folks worshipping here.  They call it a "thin place" - where the barrier between the world and the heavens is especially "thin".

Jackie Ray in the pool.  Gotta take a dip to beat the heat.  The pool is very modest.  A hotel was on this land in the 60s & 70s and we still use the same original pool from that hotel.  A little old but still refreshes just the same.

O'hana Court (Family Court) is the main meeting venue of the base.  The entire base gathers here for for worship every Monday morning and Thursday evening.  Its basically an open air gymnasium that hosts basketball night on Mondays and skate night on Tuesdays (both events open to the Kona public).

Open air cafeteria.  Mostly sunshine here so it usually works.  Not so fun if it rains or if you don't like flies :)

The cafeteria line (empty at the moment).  Daily over 600 people go through the line for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  It is only a one hour window for each meal, so need to be on-time.  Humbling to stand in line for every meal.  Especially when you are hungry!  After eating each of us scrapes our own plate off into the pig buckets (pigs are raised for food on the base), places our recycleables into correct containers and then turn in tray and silverware to the kitchen for cleaning.  If you don't like today's meal, there is always PB&J.

The second A/C room on the base is the movie theater.  Every Wed. afternoon is the children's matinee.  I finished watching the Little House on the Prarie series today with the girls.  Lots of good lessons for missionary kids in this series... meager one room house living conditions, praying for God's protection and provision, traveling from place to place and experiencing new cultures!

Always some kind of innovation or big news on the base.  Here are our friends Peterson and Lucy with their beautful baby.  They visited our Kona base to raise excitment among the students to come to Haiti and join them in the new YWAM base they just started there.  They plan to build a transformational school and community in Haiti to be a light to Port au Prince.