Saturday, February 18, 2012

Internship Blazing New Trails / Multicultural School of Worship in Spring




We are now seven weeks into the School of Worship Internship and it’s been such a blast! 9 students stayed on from the SOW last quarter as well as 4 families including ours from the SOW staff. Jubilee is now 15 months old and darts all over campus. The never ending compliments on her beauty never get old…though once she’s a teen I might not react the same way. Though I’m always getting remarks on my beauty and it hasn’t seemed to hinder my humility. :p
We’ve been able to send interns into several local churches around the Big Island weekly to lead Hawaiian’s and visiting tourists from all over the globe into presence-heavy, anointed worship.  It has personally been so rewarding to see my good friend and SOW Intern Daniel grow in confidence and in his giftings at my own local church out here, every week we go further into the presence of the Lord and it’s cool to listen to the new instrumental arrangements and licks he’s adding in as he grows in his abilities and experience.
On campus we are feeding into morning worship times with different schools, songwriting, leading worship and intercession sets in the 24/7 Prayer Room and will soon begin a couple recording projects. I’m personally drumming 6-10 hours a week in corporate worship sets in the Prayer Room. It has been amazing. I’m so blessed to play with some really top-notch musicians from the Kona campus body, Kansas City IHOP(International House of Prayer) and all over. I’m growing in my abilities as a drummer and my heart is expanding as an intercessory drummer. I’m learning to listen to the Holy Spirit and play prophetically, play Heaven’s rhythms. It’s not unusual to lead out in a prayer time for 20 minutes using only the floor tom and bass drum, and awesome things are happening in the Spirit realm and chains are being broken! I’ve never known so much freedom in worship, never seen so much fear-of-man trampled on and we’re seeing revival in people’s hearts for worship in Kona, and that includes my own!

Our family has committed to the School of Worship for the rest of the year. Next quarter we will be staffing the Multicultural School of Worship! It’s a bilingual school, meaning it will be in English with translation in Korean. Kona has a huge Korean community and has many long standing bridges into South Korea. Our school leader Jiwan is an amazing woman. I have server her as a drummer once a week a year ago in a bilingual Worship set in the Prayer Room and it was a really great time. I look forward to submitting to Korean leaders once again next quarter…they are some of the most committed and fired up leaders in missions today. (My wife is pretty cool, too)  
The dates for the MSOW run from April to August which includes outreach. We’re currently planning on leaving after the lecture quarter in July to visit family and friend in Maine and hopefully raise some more financial support.
Our goals as a school are…
  • -          For the Multicultural School of Worship to be a worshipping and praying community of sons and daughters from the various nations of the world.


  • -          For students to learn, experience and be established in the basic truths of the character and nature of God.


  • -          To raise Up Worship Leaders who will be sent into the nations as missionaries to serve and draw out the indigenous sounds of their mission field.


  • -          Impart the values and passion to redeem cultures and history through the power of worship, prayer, and intercession.



  • -          To train and equip students to rise in excellence in their musical gift and abilities, to teach teamwork and unity in worship teams, and motivate creative expressions of worship.


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