About YETI

Ok so i realise that i have not really described YETI very well so i shall tell you a bit more about it and why i would like to do it.

YETI stands for Youth and Evangelism Team Internship, the internship is a 2 year program with Youth With A Mission. All the internships involve some time together as an internship with training, development and teaching, some time serving the base, cleaning, cooking etc and some time focused on the youth and evangelism. So as for the Youth and evangelism part, the team focuses on reaching out to young people in this area. Some of the projects are street evangelism, going to glasgow train station to meet people, running the Scripture Union classes at schools (Ardrossan and Largs academy) and there is also the oppertunity to start things and try new ideas. Hopefully the young people we are in contact with will suggest things they would like to see happen and we may be able to accomodate some of what they see the need for.

My heart for this is to meet young people and help them to live out their full potential. I want to encourage them to seek more to life than drugs and alcohol. My main focus would be working with SU classes in schools and building relationships with the christian young people. My aim is to really encourage them and help them to be confident in who they are and in their relationship with God so that they will be able to show people that Christ lives in them. The hardest thing for teenage christians at school is not compromising their beliefs for their friends and not compromising friends for their beliefs. I want christians at school to be encouraged in their faith and in their friendships with non-christians. Through teenage years the people who influence you most are your friends, trust me i am a teenager!! So why is it that we are not supporting the christian teens that are trying to work out how to be a witness to their friends without seeming like a looser??!!??!! Well i always struggled with that at school and now i want to help those who are in the same situation, i want to see them Grow in relationship with God and in Confidence to Lead. I want to be a friend to them that they can come to when they struggle and when things are going great... basically i want to be available.

So yeah YETI is definatly a good oppertunity for all my excitement and passion to be put into because i can get lots of support and training as i learn how to do things effectively but also i dont have to spend ages learning about it before i do it. It is ideal, i get trained on the job so to speak. The drawback of course is the money situation, in order to do this i need people who believe in me and my vision for this place to support me monthly. It is a lot to ask i realise but it is something i believe would be worthwhile. The difficulty, i have found is that a lot of people believe that missionaries go to Africa, which i agree some do but i also think God wants people to serve him in Scotland and i want to be obedient to that call but i can't without people to support me financially and in prayer. Pleas think and pray about whether God would have you support me, if you would like to support or hear more about my dream please email me at ally_k_@hotmail.com

Where to go? What to do?

At this stage in my life i have reached a point of decision, where to go next! I would ask that you pray for me as i consider my options and prayerfully choose which step to take. At the moment i have a few options, some of which i am leaning more towards than others but i am considering all regardless. My options are:-

*University - i have a place at Paisley University Ayr Campus on the Primary Education course.
*YETI - Applying to join the team in Seamill for a 2 year internship course.
*Working - Getting a pert time job and working with YETI as an outsider!!!

I know which option i would choose if i didnt have to take into consideration money and support of friends and family, however i am obviously not wanting to upset anyone so it is a little more complicated. Please pray for me as i talk with my parents about this, and pray for understanding on both parts. Thankyou, I believe your prayers are powerfull and i greatly appreciate them.

Catch up

Ok, so instead of filling the whole blog with what i have been doing the last 6 months I have put a link to a catch-up letter. This letter will tell you a bit about each of the places i went to on DTS and has some pictures along the way.

http://members.aol.com/adamkelso1987/ally/index.html

Heart for Scotland

Well while i was on DTS God really increased my heart for Scotland. I knew God had asked me to do DTS in Scotland because i knew there was more i wanted to learn about here and about the people here and he was well and truely ready to show me more. Of course my way of being shown more and Gods way is so very different and that took me by surprise a little. God showed me a lot of the brokeness in Scotland through different things in me which though small have had a huge grip on my life. Also another way in which i have learnt more about Scotland was through the perceptions of my fellow students.

While in Morocco i was chatting to a guy named Mohammed (one of the many) who had befriended the guys on our team and been introduced to the girls therefore we were allowed to talk!! One thing that this guy said which was his moto in life was " i know who i am and i know with whom i am speaking". This moto stuck with me for a long time as did many other things he told us (me and Brenna), he was confident in life because he knew himself well and he knew where he was in life. This got me asking questions about how well we know ourselves and how confident we are in who God has made us to be.

Back in Scotland God is continuing to break my heart for the people of Scotland who don't know who they are or where they fit, constantly looking for somewhere to belong. Young people who deeply desire to be accepted for who they are yet have no idea how to be themselves because they are so scared of being rejected. People who isolate themselves because it is far easier than being isolted. My heart cries out to these people, Scottish people, because I know and understand a wee bit of what it is like.

Bear with me im learning!!

Ok so my friend Brenna set up this blog for me because she is wonderfull so now im going to learn how to use it.....i hope!
Hopefully i will be able to keep people updated on things that have happened over the last 6 months as i process it all and what my next steps are too. Also as well as writing i think i can put up some pictures, that may take me a while to figure out mind, so you should be able to see places i've been and people i've met!

My Friend Ally

So here goes, I'm obviously not Ally Kerr, but I love her dearly and want the world to know and love her as well!! So I'm posting the first blog! Ally truly is a wild muse... so pay attention and see a bit of her world. PS- She's a cute Scot who makes awesome shortbread! That's Ally on the left in the green... we took this in Morocco!