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Equipping today's missionaries to reach today's world
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Celebrating 29 years together in missions
WELCOME TO OUR YWAMCONNECT WEBSITE We started this website 7 years ago, and we're still convinced this is a wonderful way to keep in touch and up-to-date. Your feedback has been helpful, so please continue. Email us or sign our guest book and let us know what you think, OK? Your input will help us make this even more useful. This is here to serve you, our supporters and friends, with the goal of allowing you to be as involved with us as possible. Your partnership is very important to us. OUR LATEST NEWS is on the page with that title (see the column on your top left or click this hyperlink) - this will tell you the latest about us. Let us know how we can also be praying for you. Enjoy reading Our Stories and Newsletters, one of our favorite quotes, seeing our faces on the Family Fotos page, and our guests on the Guest Photobook page (maybe you're one of them!). We hope you also enjoy the daily devotional and news article which is provided by YWAMconnect on this home page. The devotional comes from the YWAM Study Bible which Ed helped write and edit - one of the highlights of his life! Our heart is to communicate with you and keep you informed because our fruit is your fruit. THANK YOU!
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OUR HOUSE...
Here's our 3-story house in Wapenveld, an end rowhouse. We're thankful for many who've prayed with us to see this become reality. On the right you'll see just the top of the adapted built on unit (with a red horizontal stripe) which is Chris's bedroom & bathroom. We moved in on August 21, 2004. Our home address, telephone number, and email: Torenkamp 31, 8191 BB Wapenveld, The Netherlands Tel: 038-4478076 (from the U.S. or Canada: 011-31-38-4478076) etsherman@ywamconnect.com Directions to our house... Click here to see our photo journal of fixing it up.....
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The calling of God
Galatians 1:1
Paul knew with absolute certainty that God had called him as an apostle, sent out to open the way for the gospel to go to other nations. He obeyed even though, from his perspective, he was not qualified for the work to which God called him. We tend to think that apostolic ministry is only done by inherently great and powerful leaders. Yet Paul would say it was nothing but the grace of God that qualified him and others.
Take as a modern example the story of an elderly woman named Alice, who worked near the infamous red-light district in Amsterdam. For years, Alice felt great compassion for the “girls” who sold their bodies there. She began reaching out to them, and within a few months several of the women Alice had counseled accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Next, she started a Bible study for them. As their friends and family members began attending, the Bible study group grew so large that it became a church with a full-time pastor. But the story does not end there. Alice went on to start more churches by reaching out to prostitutes in other cities. Well into her 70s she continued on her God-given mission to rescue lost and hurting people.
No matter what your age or experience God can use you too! Ask him to anoint you and send you out as he did Alice.
More insight: Matt. 10:1; 1 Cor. 1:26-31; 12:28; 15:9-11; 1 Peter 2:9.
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Victory is the place where our breaking point becomes our turning point
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Germany: The Key to World Revival Pt. 1
by Loren Cunningham. Reprinted from MINISTRIES TODAY, May-June 1992.
How many movies or TV shows have you seen where the villain wears a swastika and has a thick German accent? From Casablanca to Raiders of the Lost Ark, we have been raised with German villains. What is it like growing up in a land with the dark shadow of the swastika on your past...one of the darkest shadows in the history of the world? How does this affect your image of yourself and your nationality? Can a country escape its past and find itself again?
Several months ago, one of the leaders of newly-reunified Germany went to Israel and met with her political leaders. He carried a message. He asked them to forgive Germany for the holocaust against the Jews. Their answer? Not in this lifetime!
Recently, my wife Darlene and I completed a ministry tour of Germany, where I spoke --- times in --- days in 15 cities. In each place, I opened my message by reading the entire genealogy of Jesus from the first chapter of Matthew. By the time I read aloud all the "begats," along with interpretation into German, the congregation was laughing.
Why All the "Begats"?
Why did God include His "telephone books" in the Bible? The genealogies show us that our roots are important to God and should be important to us. They are a part of who we are--deny them and we die a little. Jesus accepted His roots, including Rahab the prostitute, David the murderer, and Rehoboam who ruined his country. We can never have a healthy image of ourselves--either as individuals or nations--or find God's destiny for us if we don't accept our heritage, forgiving the wrongs and being grateful for the blessings.
Most of us realize that God has a unique destiny for every baby born on earth. Each individual has been gifted in a combination different from everyone else in the world. We are each a gift to the rest of humanity, with a calling which we will either lay hold of, or allow to remain unfulfilled. If we miss our destiny, we miss the reason we were born.
God also has unique callings for every country on earth. In His Word, God makes it clear that He is the one who gives birth to nations and each nation has a destiny to fulfill. If that destiny is unfulfilled, it affects all of us.
I have given this message in many countries, but never with such a sense of historic importance as when I preached all over Germany that they should accept their roots, as Jesus did.
(To be continued...)
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The Shermans: Equipping Today's Missionaries to Reach Today's World
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