Month 1!!

Hey everyone!! I’ve been in Kona for just over a month!!

We have just finished Commission Camp 2024!! Essentially, it’s a summer camp focused on the nations, to be trained and equipped to say yes to The Great Commission!! We had 520 13-18 year-olds and 100 staff and it was SO MUCH FUN!! Worship, teachings, activation, small groups, ministry time, and so many games and fun things!! I had the honour of being a co-counsellor to 7 17-year-olds, my prayer was for them to have fun, encounter God, receive freedom and step into the call of God on their lives, and they so did! I was able to disciple, support and come alongside them in prayer through friendship, they truly were the sweetest and I learnt so much in this time!

It was the most powerful, fruitful week, being able to witness the power of God to this scale, to young people, in such a small time frame!! Are you ready for a quick-fire testimony dump?!!

On the first night, only ‘supposed’ to be a night of worship, we saw healings break out! A couple of the leaders of the camp had words of the Lord for very specific circumstances and healings that would happen that night! A couple that stood out:

One boy had torn his ACL from a soccer injury, was in pain, struggled to walk, and definitely couldn’t kneel, run etc, the doctor had told him there wasn’t much that could be done for instant healing, but it would take time. Before camp, God told him he would be healed during camp, and he came in full faith, and he received FULL HEALING! I quite literally saw him struggle to walk one minute, to then walk perfectly on stage AND kneel and worship!!

PRAISE GOD!!

Right after, a girl next to me had injured her ankle from a soccer injury 1.5 years ago, she was a gymnast and hadn’t been able to fully perform tricks, or do a backflip, especially without pain. After praying twice she ran onto stage, backflipped off it and said there was no pain!!

GOD IS SO GOOD!!

The next night, by the end of the gospel message, HUNDREDS of young people gave their lives to Jesus!! Laying down strongholds, addictions, and their previous lives, to be MADE NEW in the blood of Jesus. I wept the whole night, gripped by the ever-powerful gospel message and the salvation of these young people, that hell lost another one, they are FREE!! So many testimonies of feeling the Holy Spirit and the love of the Father, freedom, deliverance, God speaking, revelation, and of course, salvation came out of this night!! God is moving in GenZ!!!

ON THE SAME NIGHT we saw 30 healings!! The preacher asked everyone with any illness or injury to put their hands up, he prayed once and then declared that over the next worship time, as we are praising and worshipping God, healing would take place!! And it did!! Youth were running up to share healing from asthma, injured ankles/ shoulders/ knees, torn ligaments, birth defects, pinched nerves, and addiction!!

One girl had testified that she’d been struggling with self-harm and suicidal thoughts and had cutting scars up her arms, and the scars completely disappeared, and the thoughts had gone!! They had disappeared!!

GOD IS SO GOOD!!

On ‘Freedom Night’ AGAIN, there were so many testimonies of freedom! There was an invitation for youth to throw onto the alter addictions, strongholds, anything that makes them sin etc, youth were running to their rooms to throw up drugs, razors, vapes, and were confessing, repenting, and receiving freedom!!

The next morning, a fellow youth preached a FIRE message empowering students to start Jesus clubs in their high schools! She had started one in her high school which had seen tremendous growth, fruit, and power of Jesus! Over 80 students committed to starting Jesus clubs in their schools back home! The Jesus Clubs is a movement of on-campus, student-led clubs that make Jesus known! Encouraging students to preach the gospel, pray & fast for their classmates to get saved! ‘One Voice’ trains and empowers students and churches worldwide to start and run Jesus Clubs. Over 1,900 students have been trained and committed to reaching their schools, in 77 countries. It’s a crazy amazing movement and it was so awesome to see youth step out in the call of God on their lives and take action and responsibility to see their high schools receive salvation and freedom!

The next couple of days were again filled with intercession for the nations, 30 more healings, encounters, and so much freedom, especially in the girl/ guy spit where the girls were able to have a BraveLove session! BraveLove is a growing movement and network of solution-driven women seeking to awaken women to their evangelistic voice and missional calling, shape history and create global solutions. In this session, girls were declaring freedom – from fear of man, self-hatred, anxiety, fear, feelings of insignificance, suicidal thoughts! And also declaring assignments God has given them to take action- Jesus clubs, missional callings, friends and family to preach the gospel to, and so much more!!

Gone are the days of speaking of female world shakers in the past; we will walk in that anointing that shook and is shaking the world, I have so much faith in GenZ!!

Thursday night we had ‘Holy Spirit night’ in which the Holy Spirit BROKE OUT!! It was such a tender night of the Holy Spirit revealing, speaking to, and comforting youth, whether it was their first or 100th experience. People were baptised with fire, speaking in tongues and prophesying!! And even when the band had to shut down at 9 due to noise regulations, so many people stayed, singing, and being encountered for an extended period of time. After I had prayed for my students and youth, a leader started to pray for me, thinking she was just trying to move past me, she continued, and the Holy Spirit CAME! Such accurate prayers and prophecies started a powerful, long encounter with God speaking to me... I finished the night on the floor with my back to the stage weeping and encouraged. It’s so funny how the Lord works, in a moment I wasn’t asking, expecting, or ‘needing’ an encounter, he showed up. I most definitely will not forget that night!

The last night was very similar in the fact that it was Commission night (focussing on Central Asia/ the unreached)! I was so excited for youth to be marked for nations and injustices, and to pray, encourage and commission them, since having such a heart for Central Asia and the unreached!! 224 students committed to go to the nations and surrender everything to follow where God leads and partner with the heart of the Father to fulfil the Great Commission!! I was also met radically with the heart of the Father for the hardest and darkest. One of the leaders talked about a story of how you can’t see the light of a torch in a bright room, but when in darkness, it shines bright. It brought me right back to my first morning in Tajikistan. I was praying and worshipping in the attic that overlooked the city, and the Lord whispered to me that I was the only one in that city, and maybe one of few in that whole country, who was worshipping him. My heart broke for every person in every building that didn’t know Jesus, and that the Lord wasn’t getting the praise or relationship he deserved. I realised then that someone could be that one light in the darkness. Someone could be the one lighting the incense. And that one light can be me. Will I stay on the sidelines waiting for others to reach the unreached, to be the ‘one’, or will I step up with a heart of compassion and take responsibility for the injustice of this world? The injustice is that people do not know Jesus.  That one light can be me, and it can be you.

I spent that whole night weeping over Afghanistan, Central Asia, and every unreached nation. When they ended in a massive celebration, I crawled my way, still so overtaken by this out and planted myself by a wall, watching the future generation of missionaries and followers of Jesus signing up for action!!

Testimony after testimony.

Encounter after encounter.

Healing after healing.

Salvation after salvation.

Freedom after freedom.

I don’t take a single testimony lightly or for granted. God is so good and faithful!! I love what I get to do and be a part of!

Commission Camp was a taster into the leadership, responsibility, and craziness of DTS- (students will be arriving October 3rd and then it will be 6 months of this!)

More and more I am learning the importance of walking by the spirit, seeking the kingdom first and following the perfect role model of Jesus!

In the weeks before and since camp, we have been immersed in class, intercession, small group, serving the campus and building community!

I am so sure that this is where the Lord led me, and it’s a beautiful truth that His plan is so much better! I would be so blessed if you would prayerfully partner with me and what the Lord is doing in the nations in prayer and financially. There is so much power in prayer, genuinely prayer moves mountains and I've seen the power of prayer become reality, so I value having people who are willing to pray and intercede for me, my students, and my team, and for the unreached and missions in general! Prayer warriors are so important!!!

Prayer points:

- Over the students of the camp who are all home now, that God would continue to meet them and strengthen them.

-For provision in finances of full-time missions! I am currently 25% to my goal of monthly support!

-That God would continue to teach, equip, and grow me to be able to lead!

-For favour, peace, and joy in this season to face the unexpected!

-To continue to cultivate good friendships and community.

- Peace and the spirit of God to be in every decision over outreach locations and co-leaders! (The decisions on my and the school leaders’ part are happening this month!)

- I'm also fundraising for a trip to the Philippines in September for the YWAM global gathering! I need to raise $2000 to cover housing, event ticket, food, transportation, and flights!!

-For Central Asia!!—that God will reveal himself to his people, in dreams, visions and encounters, so that they may know the truth and love of Jesus.

-Pray for more missionaries to rise to go to the unreached!! That people will “go”. Matthew 28:19-20 is a call to all people from Jesus to “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

As a self-funded missionary, I am responsible for all my expenses. While at home I worked (over) full time and saved every penny to go. But I can't do this alone. So I am working on raising support for the 2 years that I will be gone, looking for people to partner with me to fulfil The Great Commission and make Jesus’ name known to the unreached! My goal is $2000 or £1600 a month to cover expenses since we cannot work a paying job here. 

Financially if you want to support me, this is what you are giving to:

Leadership track fees $420

On-campus rent: $400 a month

Outreach fees $6000 

Travel insurance $500

Ministry expenses

Flights

Basic necessities – food, laundry, e-sim etc.

I would be so grateful if you could support me in any way possible, even £20 a month is so appreciated, your support will make a tangible difference to the Great Commission!! I will leave my details below! If you would like to know more about helping support me, please reach out, I’d love to talk with you!! 

Email:

Oliviawarren04@icoud.com

Bank details:

O G Warren

20-69-34

30563625

PayPal: @oliviagracewarren

Thank you for being a part of this story and helping sow into my calling, and the Lord’s plan to further the Kingdom.

I love you all!!

Olivia