I love showing the road who's boss, by throwin myself into it

So, the past couple days have been very productive for me! I have been making newsletters, and designing some personal stuff and making phone-calls and getting in contact with old friends. I'm still all alone in my apartment, which usually isn't all that exciting. I've had to find ways to entertain myself, without being destructive. So far I have frozen two rubber gloves filled with water, creating the perfect pair of ice hands. I've written a couple songs..which is awesome! God totally was just like "write about me" so i did, in a song form. :)

Today I had plans on going and mailing out my newsletters, then at 3 going to the RMV to get my Massachusetts license, then going to the gym and back to my apartment to watch a movie. I have a little extra money in my account to get a $1 movie brought to me so lovingly by RedBox, so I'm thinkin it's a good idea. Well...i saw clouds starting to come in around 3, so I grabbed my board and quickly went to Stop-n-Shop, where the RedBox is located, to pick out a movie. I get there in no-time and pick out a movie and when I leave the rain starts comin down all soft-like. This is not good because water destroys bearings, and mine are brand-new and i don't want them to be destroyed. So i start booking it home with almost a full wall of rain following me the entire way there. As I start to turn off the road into my parking lot my wheels decide to loose traction and i biff it hard. And i wasn't just lolly-gagging into the parking lot. I was cruising. at least 12 mph or more. Then i biffed. Now my right hand, wrist, arm hip and leg are all bleeding! I have to say..i'm not bummed out about this at all. It was a sick bif, and God saved my bored from getting hit by a car somehow, and I'm now sitting writing about my escapade.

Besides that, God is doing an awesome work in people that I have been talking to about supporting me! God has raised up 5 people so far to support me, and I am praying that number doesn't stay like that! Please continue to consider to support me monthly at $10-20 a month, or more! I am looking for at least 20 people to support me at $10/month. Thank you and God bless!

Aaron Reeves

I have now been a full-time missionary for a whole year! I want to thank everyone who has supported me through prayer and finances, it's been a huge blessing and the hundreds, maybe even thousands of peoples lives that were influenced by God through me wouldn't have happened if it weren't for you. So thank you! :)

Now, with one year behind me, you're probably wondering what I'm doing next. Well, God has made it very clear to me, my parents and Doug and Debi Tunney (YWAM boston founders) that I should stay and work here with YWAM in Boston.

Staying on with YWAM means that I'm going to continue to need the financial and prayer support that I have been receiving this past year...and even more! You're probably thinking "oh no, he's asking for money again". I would like to make it as clear as I can that I am not a lazy mooch-boy who doesn't want to work. Trust me, if I could work another job, I would! But, I am already working a full-time job, it's called being a missionary! I work just like everyone else, 9-5, weekdays, and weekends even, and most the time working more than 40 hours a week. God has called me to do this, and He will provide the means to continue to! So I would just like to ask you to start thinking of ways you could maybe help out, whether that be by joining my prayer partner team, or financial team, but I'll expound on those two things in another paragraph. :)

Before I go on, I'd just like to share some biblical references about what I'm asking you to do. In Numbers 18:20 it says, “And the Lord said to Aaron, 'You priests will receive no inheritance of land or share of property among the people of Israel. I am your inheritance and your share.” God is their share. Let's continue: (verse 21) “As for the tribe of Levi, your relatives, I will pay them for their service in the Tabernacle with the tithes from the entire land of Israel.” Cool! So you see, the Levites did not inherit any land from God. In that time, if you didn't have land you might as well be dead, because with land you plowed, tilled and harvested different crops and then traded and that is how you survived. So God decided to pay the Levites with the tithes of the people of Israel. So, in my life right now, I'm a Levite. I haven't inherited land to work on. So I'm just asking those who calls themselves the Body of Christ to help me live! (There are more biblical references, but I don't want this to be a long note, so I'm not putting them up..I'll leave a list at the end of the note if you're curious.)

I do have a budget made for myself, a simple one, just to keep a long-term goal of my support. I have decided that if I can get $1000 a month I could live like a normal person. $400 of that goes to staff fees, the rest of the $600 goes into groceries, savings (for taxes), traveling, and other odds and ends that I have to pay for. I realize this isn't going to happen right away so my short-term budget is $700 a month. Think about it this way: Most people spend about $6-$10 a day on coffee. A day. And that's just coffee, what about eating out, or seeing a movie? Instead of doing one of those things, you could be attributing to the work of God in my life, and ultimately helping YWAM reach Boston for Christ.

So this is how you can help. I have done some math (crazy, I know) and if I can get 40 people to support me $10 a month, then I will meet my staff fees every month. Or if 80 people give me $5 a month, or 10 people $20 and 20 people $10, and so on (that was a lot of math for me haha). Or, if you would like to just give a one-time donation, that works too. I'm in serious need of monthly supporters though, because I currently only have 1.

Also, you supporting me does not necessarily take the place of the tithe to your church! I'm just asking you to please pray over each tithe and see if God would have you partner with me financially and give a certain amount a month.

Of course, If you do decide to support me financially I will send you newsletters, updates of my blog, and a phone-call every now and then as well, just to let you know what is happening with the work of God in Boston! Currently my financial status is quite sad..I'm 3 months behind in staff fees (which is $1200). So I need support, fast. I will always need prayer support as well! Please continue to pray! I will be updating my blog [hopefully] every week, and there will be guidance on there of how you can pray.

I just want to say that above all of this is the relationship built between members of the Body of Christ is so much more important to me than money is. Getting people "in" on what God is doing in my life is high priority for me, because He is doing a lot in me, and through me, and I want to be able to share it with you!

So please, see if God wants you to give up that trip to starbucks, or McDonalds or a movie once a month and support me with that money instead!

if you're gonna send a check, send it to: 23 Emerson St, Newton, MA 02458

Thank you so much and God bless

Aaron (Destructo) Reeves

list of some more biblical references for missionary support: Acts 4:32-35; 1 Chronicles 29:1-29; Luke 8:1-3

So, I am a horrible blogger...I really do hope to get better at it...but we'll see. The more I don't blog, the more guilty I feel cause I know people like to know what's going on in my life...so hopefully that guilt will keep me blogging regularly this fall lol

Alright! Well, it's been quite an insane spring, and summer for me. Starting on May 12th, I have been out of the country, then back in the country, then doing Joshua Generation, then finishing our Discipleship Training school and seeing my friends leave, and now I am hanging out with my family in Grove City Pennsylvania till the 15th! So, now in this blog I'm gonna try and answer some questions that you, the reader, are probably wondering! Let me give it a shot...:)

first question (that i think you might be wondering?)

"How was outreach in the U.K.?"

Outreach was wicked awesome!!! We went to Belfast, N. Ireland; Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Walsall, England. Now, it's really hard to say my favorite place we went...cause they were all awesome in some way, but if I would say my favorite place we went to where I saw the Spirit of God move the most, was probably Walsall, England. When we were traveling to Walsall, I got like super sick and was throwing up and it was bad and I had no energy, and it also just happened to be the 4 hottest days of the year while we were there. We worked with a church that was going through some really hard times, but despite their hardships, they hosted us, took care of us, got us into 2 schools (5 days each school) and treated us like we were, well, themselves. It was an experience of the body of Christ I will never forget because it was their love for God, and for us, that kept our teams energy up. About the schools. Our team split up into two teams and for 5 days went into the school and taught in the Religious Education classes. Now, what I mean by "taught" is we performed our drama that presents the Gospel, then shared the gospel, 1 on 1 with the students afterward, and prayed with many students to recieve Christ for the 1st time. Now, getting into a school and sharing the gospel is amazing in itself, but this is gonna blow your mind. Both of these schools were over 50% Muslim schools. That means we got to bring the message of Christ straight into the Muslim Culture in Walsall. Boy, did God rock the place! It was incredible!
That is just one of the hundreds of stories about our 5-6 weeks in the U.K.. One ending statistic for you: out of our 6 weeks there we saw 1229 people accept Jesus for the first time and 68 re-dedications. Now if that ain't something to stand up, freak out and praise God about, then I don't know what is!!! Praise Jesus!!!!!!!

"How (and maybe what) was (is) Joshua Generation?"

So, after we got back from our radical time over-seas we had one week to finish preparations for our summer camp called Joshua Generation. This was a 10-day boot camp, 10-day outreach missions trip for students from age 12-19. During boot-camp, there are sessions during the day teaching the students how to hear from God, do devo's, evangelize, and many other things. The afternoon consisted of different classes, like music class, drama class, gym, all preparing the students for outreach. Then, every night was a time of worship through music, dance, art, whatever and we would have a speaker, and as far as I can remember, every night during boot-camp was a critical night for our students. I have never seen teenagers give their lives so fully to Christ and actually get what "surrender" really is. For me during JG was a really interesting time as well. I got a huge dose of leadership tossed at me, as I was in charge of an entire room of young men, and also in charge of worship some nights, teaching some worship and drama classes, and I tri-led an outreach team for 10 days all over Boston. I have never had that much responsibility. Ever. It was hard, frustrating, stretching, but, so very worth it. I got to see myself being used by God in a powerful way, and also made friendships that will last my lifetime. Our students really went for it hardcore on our outreach despite being young, afraid (sometimes), hot, tired, annoyed, and burnt out. But each one of them let the love of God fill them every day so that they can go out on the streets and tell people about that same love! There were 5 outreach teams out of us 140 staff and students and during thosed 10 days, 1666 people recieved Christ for the 1st time, and 440 people rededicated their lives!! HOORAY! JESUS rocks!

"So what now?"

Well, our Discipleship Training School ended on July 29th, and our now-graduated students left for home starting the next day, and disappeared one by one after that. Some went home, never to return to us, but most, yes, most, have heard from God to stay on staff with YWAM Boston. 9 of them to be exact. This makes me so happy cause these people are going to bring so much to our Staff, we're just gonna explode!

"how long do you plan on being with Ywam?"

Well, if you didn't guess, I am staying on staff for this next year, and well, am also planning on being here for as long as God calls me to be here. So, right now, indefinitely. Learning and education is a very important thing to me, but God has called me to be in Boston right now, so I have put that on hold for now. All I know is this: I will continue to live my life as a slave to Christ, leaning on Him in every way, surviving only because He allows me to.

I would like to publicly and generally thank everyone who has supported me in prayer and finances in the past year! You have enabled the work of God through your dedication and sacrifice and are a huge part of the Body of Christ in my life because of that. Please continue to keep me in prayer! I will be writing about my finances in another blog, for that is not what this blog is about. So until next time (which I hope to be next week), God be with ya :)

Aaron Reeves