Hi all,
Well, we got back from Ghana Tuesday night, after another long day and a half of traveling. We were the first outreach team back, and since then the other outreach teams have been arriving one by one. It has been so awesome seeing everyone from the DTS again, after not seeing them for over two months.
Monday will start our week of debriefing, during which will be doing different stuff to reflect on what has gone on during DTS. Then, a week from Tuesday (on February the 28th) we graduate.
Over the next couple of days I will be posting more about the different things we were involved in, in Ghana; so keep your eyes open for several new posts coming your way.
I can’t thank you enough for your prayers over the course of the past 2 months. Our time in Ghana was really amazing and will never be forgotten.
Lastly, (for now) I wanted to briefly let you know about an opportunity God has given me. Recently, something that was just a possible opportunity has been confirmed as a plan for the time immediately after my graduation. One thing that has been on my heart a lot since I have been in England and in Ghana, has been my passion for music. I frequently found myself wondering what to do with this growing passion, and after several weeks of thinking, praying, and being prayed for, it was becoming more clear I needed to talk to someone who shared this passion and had done something with it. That someone, or someones, ended up being a band called Evergreen. Evergreen is band that lives and has a recording studio on the YWAM base here in Harpenden; their passion is music and sharing the love of God through music. After multiple people suggested that I talk to them, I finally pulled aside one of their guys, Andy, and asked if we could talk for a little. I presented to him an array of questions from, “How does one balance a passion for music with a passion for serving through music?” to, “What does it look like to try to sustain relationships when living a life tied around the music industry?” As I asked these and several other questions, Andy was chuckling because these were apparently the exact same questions he was wrestling with two years prior. At the end of the conversation Andy brought up an idea that would eventually become the opportunity which I mentioned earlier. He suggested that I pray about staying on with them (Evergreen) for a month or two after my DTS ended to get a feel of what they do and why they do it. They would do their best to not only show me what they do, but also to mentor me along the way.
Since this discussion I have prayed into it a lot and really feel that this is an opportunity God wants me to take. It will give me a chance to see what using the music industry as a ministry really looks like, and it will give an opportunity to hang out with and be mentored by some awesome guys. Also since the discussion I had with Andy, God has provide me with the previously not-to-be-seen funds to stay the extra time.
It is super hard, if not dang-near impossible, to overstate how excited I am about this. I think it will be great for getting continued guidance on what I think I will continue to after DTS and university. I would REALLY APPRCIATE prayer for this though. A lot of the details have been figured out already, but there is still a fair amount of little details to get organized.
Again, thank you so much for your support. I hope you will look forward to seeing what I post over the next couple of days about our time in Leicester and Ghana.
God bless,
Will Clegg
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