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Note from Art & Ellen Sanborn, YWAM Tampa Directors
Please read the following letter from our Southeast YWAM Director, Michael Berg.  We attended Southeast Conference in February and must say that Michael’s letter describes it beautifully.

Dear Family & Friends,

I’m excited to finally get to write about the extraordinary experience we had at our Southeast Conference!  Immediately following the conference, I became quite ill and had to cancel my trip to Richmond for the North American Leadership Conference, but now I’m finally able to go back to work although I’m still recovering from a very strong bronchial infection.

Probably the best way to describe the Southeast Conference is to start at the beginning.  Normally at one of these conferences, I invite a key note speaker, and we set up workshops on various topics.  But as Darla, the Southeast leaders, and I prayed, we sensed that God wanted to minister to our staff and students with a team of people made up of YWAM leaders from the Southeast bases and of a church we know in Tacoma, WA.  This proved to be exactly what the conference needed.  We had a team of over 30 people ministering to about 300 people at the conference and God moved in literally almost everyone at the conference.

The most encouraging part of the conference was for God to reveal to us what His individual purpose was in creating each of us.  God has good thoughts toward us (Ps. 139) and to hear His specific thoughts for us was tremendously uplifting.  Also, we discovered that some people had struggled silently for a long time with major problems.  Some were even ready to give up on their marriage, but as we prayed, God revealed the root stronghold causing the problem and gave us insight as to how the person could literally rip it out—and they did.  One couple told Darla and I that this conference saved their lives.  There are so many stories that it would be impossible to tell them all, but next time we talk on the phone or in person, ask us about this conference.  To see more photos of the conference check out our web site the address is below. 

http://www.ywam.com/blogtour/blog_Flickr.asp?CID=37&OCID=1&PID=420

In the photo to the left I am praying, blessing, and commissioning the release of a new Youth With A Mission Base in Louisville, KY.  We also prayed for the release and blessing of a new base in Tampa, FL.  It is always exciting to see new growth in our district.

Southeast YWAM Director, Michael Berg

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