Valdemarpils, LatviaFriday, June 19, 2009
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Trip Across Eastern Europe DAY #5
Drove to the YWAM base in Valdemarpils from Juris and Kristene’s house in Jurmala this morning. It was about a two hour drive. Jurmala is on the west coast of Latvia and we drove northeast to get to the YWAM base, though it is not on the Baltic coast. When we arrived we were greeted by the friendly YWAM staff. They had lunch waiting for us which consisted of rice and rabbit (tasted really good actually…and all of us liked it).
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They were having a graduation ceremony at 7:00 pm for a couple of schools here at the base. We thought dinner was at 6:00 pm, and stayed in the dining room until about 6:45 pm, waiting as students and their families arrived, realizing we must have misunderstood what time dinner was. We really didn’t know anyone, and couldn’t communicate as we don’t speak Latvian (except a few words we’ve picked up). As we observed the tent where the ceremony was taking place couldn’t fit everyone who was there, so that there was standing room only, we didn’t want to take up the space with our family of five, and headed back to our room to make peanut butter sandwiches.
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After dinner, we felt really led to spend time worshipping, praying and listening to God together as a family, as our family devotions have been thrown off a bit on this trip. Wow! We spent a couple of hours just praying and worshipping. We spent time praying for the students who were graduating and for all of Latvia. God gave a few of us some Scripture passages. Then, as our family began to just wait on God and bask in His presence, some of us began to hear the voice of the Lord clearly, and began to see angels in the room with us. There were other visions seen as well. It was another one of those awesome times of worship together as a family. There are many things happening here in Latvia of tremendous importance, which we are blessed to be a part of, and we feel that this time was more confirmation of that. This Tuesday through Wednesday (all night long Tuesday night) we will all be a part of a prophetic worship event out in the woods that is a very grassroots event. A guy named Valdis, who is sort of the father of Latvian Christian music, has had the vision for this event. It will be taking place on summer solstice, which is a completely pagan holiday here, where partying and all kinds of wickedness happens in this country (and in other countries I think). There is only about an hour of darkness this far north on that night, and we believe that there is a shift taking place in the heavenlies. Many other churches in Latvia are having prayer meetings on that night as well. I will be leading worship in English along with other Latvian worship leaders that night. We would love for you to pray with us around this event.
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After dinner, we felt really led to spend time worshipping, praying and listening to God together as a family, as our family devotions have been thrown off a bit on this trip. Wow! We spent a couple of hours just praying and worshipping. We spent time praying for the students who were graduating and for all of Latvia. God gave a few of us some Scripture passages. Then, as our family began to just wait on God and bask in His presence, some of us began to hear the voice of the Lord clearly, and began to see angels in the room with us. There were other visions seen as well. It was another one of those awesome times of worship together as a family. There are many things happening here in Latvia of tremendous importance, which we are blessed to be a part of, and we feel that this time was more confirmation of that. This Tuesday through Wednesday (all night long Tuesday night) we will all be a part of a prophetic worship event out in the woods that is a very grassroots event. A guy named Valdis, who is sort of the father of Latvian Christian music, has had the vision for this event. It will be taking place on summer solstice, which is a completely pagan holiday here, where partying and all kinds of wickedness happens in this country (and in other countries I think). There is only about an hour of darkness this far north on that night, and we believe that there is a shift taking place in the heavenlies. Many other churches in Latvia are having prayer meetings on that night as well. I will be leading worship in English along with other Latvian worship leaders that night. We would love for you to pray with us around this event.
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Christian Young
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