Hi, My name is Thomas, a follower of Jesus. Currently, I am a full-time missionary that is partnered with YWAM (Youth With A Mission) based in Kona, Hawaii and am staffing their School of Worship.

This is a ministry that deeply values prayer, worship, community, and discipleship, longing to see nations changed, and Christ glorified. It has been said that, "Missions exists because worship doesn't." Within this statement is the idea that worship is an end result of encountering Christ and allowing Him to change your life.

One way in which we are seeking to spread a love for Christ and a heart of worship among the nations is through helping their local communities develop their own songs unto the Lord. Many people around the world have only an oral language, and within those, there are many that have no songs of worship. There are communities where a newly professing Christian would have no worship songs to sing, simply because they do not exist. This is something that we hope to change. By training and empowering their local communities, helping them to write biblically based songs that are relevant in their own cultures, created with their own native styles and methods, we hope to open a door that could help bring more people to Christ. To further this, we can actually equip people to record these songs, mix them, and give them back to the local people, and to the world.

While us going to the nations is one way that we can help spread a heart of worship and adoration, another way through which we hope to do this is by training students that come from the nations. While not everyone will be able to travel and minister to other communities around the world, through training and preparing people to communicate what biblical worship is, work in teams, develop songs, lead worship, and regularly engage in prayer and intercession, we can impact communities where others may not be present. With every student comes a homegrown community that they can influence, bringing a greater heart for worship that could further people's faith.

Our goal is to aid in the establishment of worship unto the Lord in every nation, tribe, and tongue. We believe that this can be done, we know that this will be done, and we are blessed to be a part of it.

I ask that you would pray about joining us on this journey to see nations changed and Christ glorified. Thank you for your faithfulness to the Lord, and your partnership with HIS mission. Whether through me, or through someone else, let's bring glory to Christ together!

- Thomas

"Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name; worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness." - Psalm 29:2