Liza Clough's blog

Hi all. I recently learned about this country called Estonia. (Google it) Apparently it’s one of the least religious countries in the world, comprised mostly of atheists. This will not do. I would very much appreciate it if you would all pray for Estonia. Thank you.

Guys! I’m so excited! We started work on our drama today! (I seem to be using a lot of exclamation points.)

We are going to be doing this one.

I get to play the girl/creation.

Hi all, I thought you’d like to see the video I made for my second book report. (The book was on spiritual warfare.)

YWAM essay 2

Also I might need to add new shoes to my list of expenses.

Hi all, I’m exhausted. Allow me to explain to you the the full extent of that statement.

I woke up around 5:45 (as usual) with the knowledge that I had to be at the base at 6:00 to catch the bus to walk-a-thon. I managed to get up and ready on time and the bus ride was uneventful.

Then we got to the lake. The first thing I saw was a sign saying not to feed the birds. Then a black swan came within five feet of us looking for food. That got a smile out of me.

We started around the lake. The plan was to circle it three times, that was 12k. I managed to do the first lap without my foot giving me trouble but I was getting really tired and I was worried my foot might give out part way around. So me and two others who were also having trouble sat out the second lap. Almost as soon as we sat down we were surrounded by these little black water birds and three or four black swans looking for food. The other two were a little nervous but I was loving it. They didn’t seem aggressive, just very interested. The swans got really close, one actually brushed against my leg. (I can just see becky’s reaction to this. Remember you have birdies at home that you can pet any time.)

After a while the group got back to us and I joined up again. I managed to keep up… for more then half. Oh yeah. By the end of it I was really tired and I didn’t think I could do it again but wonder of wonders, my foot felt fine. I suspect the prayer my friend Ashley gave had something to do with it.

(For those of you who wanted to sponsor me by kilometer, I believe that’s eight.)

Anyway we came back, I had cereal, and now I need to buy more milk.

Lectures was awesome (Fear of the Lord) although I had trouble staying awake. I was just spent. I also think I have an incomplete definition of holy in my head because some things aren’t adding up so I should probably pray some and ask a few questions.

After that was lunch which I finished pretty quickly, even though I was very hungry.

This was my “on” week for ARMS (an outreach where we help families in crisis situations, it usually involves cleaning) so I was just praying for strength by that point. I managed to find a mattress leaning against the wall near the door I would have to go out to get to our meeting place so I pulled it out, grabbed my watch, and dozed for twenty minutes. Then I got to go. (Joy)

It ended up that there wasn’t really something for us to do so we ended up taking a walk pushing an incredibly light crate with convenient wheels on it. After getting the crate to its destination we went to one of the staff houses where someone had just moved out and cleaned one room and one bathroom.

When we got done an hour earlier then normal all I could say was thank you God!

Then I had maybe an hour to relax before dinner dishes started. Setting up the tables went without incident and then I got to eat! Then (since Tuesdays are dessert days) we handed out dessert and then ate our own. (yum!)

Then, because I wasn’t able to clean my machine (Again!) I helped clean tongs and serving spoons, and sweep, and put chairs back in their proper place when the inside crew finished early. We all finished at 7:10. Oh. Yeah.

Now I’m sitting in front of my computer typing a blog to you. Sleep is good.

Hi guys! I wanted to tell you about an awesome time of prayer I had the other day.

Okay so everyone has prayer chain. We all take hours so there’s literally someone praying 24/7. Compassion DTS had the Sunday afternoon slot and I signed up for 3 to 4. (This information is slightly irrelevant.)

Anyway we came together and went through the usual steps, thanking God, getting a clean heart, resisting the enemy, asking the Holy Spirit to come, laying down our own thoughts, and then asking what to pray for. The first weird thing I noticed was I didn’t get anything clearly right away. That’s weird because I at least usually get something fairly quickly. The second thing I noticed was I only got one word, and I had no idea what God was getting at. Usually when that happens I just ask for more, but that time I didn’t get anything. So we all regrouped and Sarabeth also got one word and I think Erin didn’t get anything. So we prayed again, got a few more things but it was still unclear. (I can’t remember if we did the same thing again or not but we got the same results if we did.) Then we thought it might be an issue of Satan blocking things so we took some time to do some spiritual warfare. Since I was the one who read the book on that I led so that was interesting. Then we asked God again and things started to come together. We got more of an idea of what to pray about and Sarabeth got that we were supposed to do a prophetic act. (We’re just about positive that was God because she doesn’t like prophetic acts.) By then we had used up maybe half our time so we did some praying and when we had three minutes left we started walking around the base proclaiming. (You know those verses about calling out from the wilderness and making a path for God? We read those out loud.) We barely got any weird looks too, isn’t YWAM awesome?

So I just thought you’d be interested.

Hi guys! I forgot to tell you something when I gave the two week recap. In the middle of that I went camping, but not ordinary camping. We did a simulation of what it’s like to live in a slum. We made our own houses, and soccer balls. We had a soccer tournament and I actually tried. Yes you heard right. We split up into our outreach teams and since my team was the biggest they asked us to send one of ours to the smallest team. Ida went over. Ida is the only person on my outreach team who’s good at soccer. Anyway it was fun but I was pretty tired by the end of it.

First of all I’m really sorry for the long wait guys. The past two weeks have been a little insane here.

Anyway I’ve done evangelism twice since I last posted so could you please add the names Micah, Simon, and Yohan to your list of prayers? Praying that God will reveal Himself to them would about cover it.

Two weeks ago was father heart of God and a lot of us got to work through our various parental emotional issues so that was fun. (read EMOTIONALLY EXHAUSTING)

Last week was lordship and I got to take a good hard look at my life and weather or not Jesus was lord of every aspect of it. So yeah that was fun too.

On top of that my second book report was due at the end of the week and I’d read up to about… chapter four. So every spare second was spent first reading the rest of it and then working on a four minute video because I wanted to do it that way. Yeah writing five hundred words would have been faster but a video is much more fun and I need to do at least one creative report anyway.  It’s not the most polished thing in existence but I’m proud of it.

And now we’re doing evangelism. A little scary but I’m hoping to get some practical tools so it isn’t as much.

Love you all!

… I’m going to Nepal! Isn’t that cool!?

Also the base is currently having some trouble with paying the bills. Obviously no pressure but if you would pray about giving something I’d appreciate it.

Wow this is short.

Hi all, I’m kinda tired so this is going to be random and short. Hooray!

This week has been slightly crazy, as usual. I had hands on compassion (cleaned a lady’s house) on Tuesday and worship for most of Wednesday and tonight I’m going out for evangelism. Speaking of evangelism can you all pray for this one guy? He came up to me and Sarahbeth last week (Sarahbeth was holding a free prayer sign) and “prophesied” over us. About the second sentence in he said God wanted me to stop praying and I almost burst out laughing. Then he got into the lesbian relationships we are apparently going to have. I found that hilarious too. Needless to say we both immediately started praying for him the second he was out of earshot. (We nicknamed him Ian because he wouldn’t tell us his name.) We suspect demons are involved.

Also Ferdinand seems to have disappeared. 🙁

Here’s a (bad) picture of the Perth skyline as seen from a spot near the base. Incidentally I’m freaking curious about something. Yesterday night we went to King’s Park and got to look at Perth all lit up and there was a sign on one of the buildings that said CLOUGH.

(Oh, and if you’re curious about the title of this article it’s for Becky.)