friends and you know, get out into the real world, do a job, all the normal kinda stuff.

But something that I realised was that I was doing it all in my own strength. Getting my

own marks and you know, just living my own life I guess.

I was a Christian at the time but I wasn't really living for God. It was all head knowledge,

not heart knowledge. Around this time my sister was doing her DTS in Perth and I went over

to visit her and I was just amazed at the sense of community that they had over there

at YWAM.

You could sit down with anyone and have a conversation about life, about God, about

the future, about whatever and it was just really great that these people loved me for

who I was without even knowing me and I just thought that was really amazing.

I remember sitting down with one guy and we were talking about surfing he said "You should

do a DTS, theres one in Newcastle that combines surfing and skating"

And I was so excited because they're my two favourite things in life and they're combined

for a DTS which is just so exciting.

So here I am now doing my Surf and Skate DTS.

When I finish my DTS, I'm going back to university, I'm really excited to graduate, with God this

time. And I'm really excited to go into the work place and do things for His glory and

show His love to people.

I'm confident that God is going to finish the things that He started in me in this DTS

and that even through outreach and in the future and in my jobs, university, where ever

I go, God is with me and He'll never leave me because He just loves me.