Azariah On Mission: – Mission Year Stage 3
Paris Olympics: Summer ’24

I am currently at the Paris Olympics with YWAM Paris

After my fall/winter YWAM DTS in Switzerland/Madagascar I then completed a Bible Course. In July I will be joining YWAM Paris to bring the Gospel to the nations at the 2024 Olympics.

        – Finance Goal: I am praying for $1,200 to wrap up my mission year.

Note: I have switched hosting sites from Source to GiveSendGo

Note: There is no government tax deduction for the final leg of my Mission Year. The GiveSendGo is a Crowd Funding

Madagascar Village

Fall ’23/Winter ’24: Switzerland and Madagascar

   I spent three months in Switzerland, receiving training and lectures every day about topics, such as the character and nature of God, hearing God’s voice, and family/relationships. Then I went with the team of thirteen other people, including two leaders, to Madagascar. We spent two months there doing everything from visiting orphanages and prisons, to visiting schools and speaking in churches, to riding helicopters to villages that cannot be reached by car and sharing our testimonies on the radio. It has been a very impactful experience in my life, both in gaining life experience, and in my relationship with God. 

Spring ’24: Bible Course in Lausanne, Switzerland

I’m so thankful for the three months. There have been a lot of ups and downs, including worrying about my future, and facing the reality of what I want to work on. But through it all, I have really learned so much about God. And as part of our final project, we created a timeline that tracked the entire Bible, and gave a 45 minute presentation on God’s redemptive plan through it all. I have ended my Bible poverty, and my increase in understanding of the Bible and God’s character, has truly been worth my while. Even though there were some difficult moments, I took them before God, which is something I haven’t experienced before. Now that I am back, I am very excited to go to Paris this upcoming week on the 20th.

Summer ’24: Paris Olympics

As some of you may know, my older sister, Skye is support staffing in Paris for the same outreach I will be going on. I am very excited to connect with her in a missions context which is something I have not done before. Each day we will have a morning session of a community talk or worship, an afternoon session of evangelism, and an evening session of ministry or open air worship.

I am very excited to see what types of conversations I have with people who will be in the city from all over the world. I am looking forward to how I will see God use me in places and in conversations when I don’t expect it. I’m excited to Grow my understanding of how God is with me, and practice in countering strangers, and seeing them the way God does through my interactions with them.

The Olympics are an incredible international mission opportunity. There will be not just athletes but many young fans from around the world. Some of these come from countries that do not allow Christian missionaries inside them. Also, many of these young people are the leaders of tomorrow. The Olympic atmosphere has many young people wanting to learn and know about other cultures. There is no other place in the world which is more set up to be able to share God’s love and forgiveness.

Thank You For Your Prayers

   I want to thank you so much for praying for me and for supporting me. After I came back from Madagascar, my brother and my dad flew in for my graduation in Switzerland. We then traveled to Amsterdam together where I showed symptoms of typhoid fever. It was really rough for a while, and I was very dehydrated and got a fever of up to 104. But once we got to the hospital, the doctors gave us some antibiotics and I started to feel much better. I’m so thankful for everyone who prayed for me while I was sick, and prayed for me while I was in Switzerland and Madagascar. I’ve started to learn more about the power of intercession prayer and praying for someone else- and I’m really grateful to everyone who did that for me. Also, thank you to everyone who financially supported me. It really has been such an honor seeing people want to invest in my desire to do this program of learning more about God, and doing short-term missions. Thank you all.

Prayer Requests

1. For follow throughAlthough we talked about how to return well from a setting, where you’re studying God’s word every day, so intensively, and living in Christian community, it has been hard being back so far. Coming out of this three month Bible school, I’ve seen myself and start to back slide in some of the different habits I built up during the school. I would love prayer for God to continue to transform me. Despite learning so much about God and growing so much over the School, there is much I want to put in the practice now that I’ve learned it. I don’t want all that I’ve learned to just remain inside my head, but I want to act on it, and change the way that I live to reflect living like Jesus. I want to fight and live in the transformation that’s happening inside of me. Just that I would continue to fall more in love with Jesus, and to choose to change the way I live because of that.
2. For safety as I travelI would love prayer for safety as I travel, and for everything to go down smoothly. For flights to arrive on time, and to keep me and everyone else safe who is traveling to the Olympics. This includes safety once I am in Paris
3. For the entire outreach at the Paris Olympics.Lastly, I would really appreciate prayers for the outreach itself. For God to show up in miraculous life-changing ways, and for me to really learn through this experience about walking with God, and putting God and others above myself. For calmness of nerves and against fear, and to remember my identity, as I walk in the ways that God has created me. Help me to meet people that God has put in my way, and to really learn to rely on God over myself. To choose to respond and obey God.
4. For FinancesI am still looking to raise about $1200 more, as I still have invested much of my own finances toward buying plane tickets for the Olympics. I am looking forward to attending college this fall, and I would greatly appreciate prayers for God to take care of me financially.Additionally, I realized only recently I have not been receiving emails when people respond to these update letters. I love hearing from you, so please feel free to reach out to me at azwohler3183 [at] gmail [dot] com.Thank you so much.

   Sincerely,

   Azariah Wohler

   “I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.” Phil. 1:20-21

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