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The Gospel – Day 3

Kurt — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:06:40 +0000

The Gospel – Day 2

Kurt — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:05:52 +0000

The Gospel – Day 1

Kurt — Sat, 14 May 2011 03:33:05 +0000

This is the first of seven daily devotionals from a week of prayer we are hosting on our YWAM campus.

University Outreach Update

Kurt — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:33:17 +0000

Thank you for your prayers for our outreach to the A&M campus in Commerce, TX. The outreach was last night and was a lot of fun. We had about 50 to 60 college students in attendance, plus the YWAM team. In all the group was between 80 and 90.

Most of the students there were part of various campus ministries and so what we thought would be an evangelistic outreach turned into more of a teaching session about what it takes to fulfill the destiny God has created us for. I lead worship and then one of my co-laborers, got up to speak. He used C.S. Lewis as a model of what a Christian in an academic setting can accomplish when their lives are submitted to the Lord.

It was a great time of encouragement for the students and a serious call to live their lives in a way that displays the transforming work of God. We ended the evening by breaking up in small groups and praying for God’s purposes to be fulfilled on the campus.

Several of the campus ministries are coming together next week to have a week of prayer. The university is allowing them to set up a prayer tent in the same place we held the open air meeting last night. I believe that God is going to use the prayers of these college students to “water the seed” that was planted last night. God’s word never returns void. It always accomplishes what it is sent to do. Please be in prayer over this next week that God will reveal His Son to the students of A&M Commerce and that He will use this campus as a center for revival and another student volunteer missions movement.

24/7 Prayer Update

Kurt — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:59:12 +0000

Logan and I just recently finished facilitating our YWAM campus’ first week of 24/7 prayer for 2011. It was a great success. The staff and students of our campus covered 168 hours of prayer from Feb 11 – Feb 18. It was awesome to see so many people be involved. We had over 400 prayer slots signed up for and many more people participate who did not sign up.

We prepared daily video devotionals that were available in our prayer room and also on the 24-7 Pumphouse website. In addition to all the local people who participated, we also had people watching the devotionals on the internet from over 10 nations.

Here is a testimony from one of the YWAM staff who participated in the week of prayer:

Hey Guys,

Thanks so much for facilitating this week of prayer. I pray for about 20 people every day and often pray throughout the day so I don’t know why I struggled with signing up for an hour at the chapel. About 15 minutes before going into the chapel I began praying that God would prepare my heart to focus and direct my heart and prayer time. I had my usual prayer list and the base phone list with me as I walked in the door. As soon as I opened the door, I felt a strong presence of the Holy Spirit.

A young woman was playing the guitar and worshipping while another was over by the map praying. The young lady who had been praying by the map came over and prayed for my prayer time. It was precious. As I walked over to the map and saw all the post-it on the different nations I began crying and cried almost the entire hour I was in there. I loved how each station was set up. I was there to pray for the nations and for others, but God ministered to me throughout that time as well.

I have not had a more powerful time of prayer in over a year than I had this morning in the prayer chapel. The devotion was wonderful. Kurt, please take every opportunity the Lord gives you to teach. One of the gifts He has placed within you is the gift of teaching!

Thank you again for spearheading this week of prayer. I was challenged, encouraged, and inspired by my time at the chapel and hope everyone else that goes will be ministered to as well.

Love you guys, Kathy

We will be facilitating 3 more weeks of prayer in 2011. Keep an eye out here for information on how you can be involved and how you can support us in prayer as we prepare for these weeks.

To watch the video devotionals mentioned in the update you can visit 247pumphouse.com.

In Him,
Kurt

Year-End Giving

Kurt — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:10:32 +0000

Thank you so much for your faithful prayer and financial support in 2010. So much ministry has been made possible by your generosity. Lives have been impacted for Jesus in India, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Korea, Eastern Europe, and Africa because of your giving.

Please prayerfully consider making a year-end donation to keep the ministry going in 2011. You may give in one of the three following options:

By check: (This option is tax-deductible)

If you would like to make a donation by check you can do so by mailing one to:

YWAM Accounting
PO Box 3000
Garden Valley, TX 75771

Due to IRS restrictions, please do not put our names on the check. Include a separate piece of paper indicating the donation is for “Kurt and Logan Hurst.” This will ensure the donation is credited to our account and that you will receive a tax-deductible receipt.

By Credit Card via YWAM Tyler: (This option is tax-deductible)

You can make credit card donations through YWAM Tyler’s accounting office Monday through Friday, 9:00am-12:00pm & 1:00pm-5:00pm CST. Please call 1(903) 882-5591 and ask to speak to the accounting department.

By Credit Card via PayPal®: (This option is not tax-deductible)

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These donations come directly to us and are not tax-deductible.

Kurt Preaching in India

Logan in India

Teaching in School of Worship

Testimonies from the Prayer Room

Kurt — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:31:10 +0000

This semester we have been doing some things different when it comes to how we approach prayer in our Discipleship Training Schools and School of Worship. Typically we will break schools up into intercession groups that will meet on a weekly basis to seek the Lord together. These groups meet each week to give the Lord time to teach us how to pray. We spend time waiting on the Lord to speak to us and tell us what He wants us to pray for. It is always an awesome experience to see students learn that they can hear the voice of the Lord.
This semester, in addition to our normal model, the Lord has also given us a new strategy. Two afternoons a week we come together in the prayer chapel at YWAM Tyler and we spend an hour simply ministering to the Lord. We usually start out with a time of worshipping the Lord with singing and declaring scripture. We will also take time to corporately meditate on God’s word. We will let the Lord show us what scripture He wants us to base our prayers out of and then we ask God to come and give us revelation about His character and His heart for us and the world.
God has been so faithful to respond to the prayers of His children as they hunger and thirst after Him. Over the course of this semester, I have seen the Lord’s presence increase in intensity with each passing meeting. The Lord has lead us and taught us by His Spirit each week. One meeting in particular, I felt the Lord continue to urge us to aggressively press in to worship Him. He had me encourage the class several times to press in pass the resistance of their flesh. So often we grow weary of prayer because we lack the discipline of pressing through our fleshly desires to quit. As we continued to press in in worship and prayer the room was suddenly filled with the Joy of the Lord. The students broke into authentic high praise that lasted for a good 10 to 15 minutes. These students were shouting and dancing before the Lord. His Spirit was empowering them to worship with out shame or any fear of man. It was amazing.
Almost as suddenly as the Lord’s joy entered the room, His peace entered the room. It was as if the Holy Spirit flipped a switch and brought the whole group to a place of peaceful silence before Him. As we sat there in silence before the Lord, I heard His Spirit whisper to me that this was the place that ministry flowed from. He was telling us that ministry in His kingdom comes from the place of resting in Him. He had also taught us that sometimes it takes perseverance and discipline to get our hearts in a place of rest before Him. He had us push and push for 30 minutes of aggressive, concentrated worship and prayer before He released His joy in the room. Sometimes we have to press through the resistance of our flesh in order to really trust and rest in Him.
In this place of rest, He had me ask if there was any of the students that had come in with burdens or heaviness. Then we divided up around those students and their peers began to minister the hope and encouragement of the Lord to them. It was amazing. People were set free from the bondage of a lifetime of hurts and frustration. God brought a new sense of identity and revealed His great love to them.
We also had a word of knowledge that God wanted to heal someone’s right wrist. Two people responded to the invitation for healing and God healed both of them right there on the spot. Amen. God is so faithful. One of the students whose wrist got healed had crushed her wrist in high school and had never regained full mobility of it. While the students were praying for her wrist, it began to pop on the inside and 100% of her mobility was restored.
I praise God everyday for the privilege of helping to lead these times. He has taught me so much about prayer and the way His Spirit moves. I hope this short testimony has been as encouraging to you as it has been to me.

God bless,
Kurt

YWAM Tyler’s Videocast Episode 004

Kurt — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:46:35 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

In this episode we will hear the vision of our teen missions program. We will hear how God is using your generation to change the face of missions and the world. You will hear about missions opportunities for you to be involved in this summer.

***The deadline for the Stupid Human Trick contest is June 5th so hurry up and submit your entry. The winner gets their choice of a free t-shirt or a waived registration fee to the YWAM Tyler school of their choice. ($40 value) The steps to enter are:

1. Film your self doing your stupid human trick.
2. Upload the video to YouTube.
3. Email us a link to your video. (contest@ywamtyler.org)

A Missionary’s Thoughts on the Killing of George Tiller

Kurt — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:39:35 +0000

I normally don’t double post, but I decided to with this one. I also posted this at YWAMTyler.org. Here are my thoughts on yesterdays tragic murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas.

When I heard the news Sunday that infamous abortion doctor George Tiller was shot, I was shocked. It is so tragic when a person’s life is taken from them. As someone with a pro-life perspective, I hold all life as sacred. It is a tragedy that Dr. Tiller has been murdered. My deepest condolences and prayers are with his wife and children.

I may not have agreed with Dr. Tiller’s actions, but what was done to him was evil and should be condemned. I know there are those that will take this opportunity to push the politics of their particular stance on the issue of abortion and say either, “Tiller got what he had coming to him,” or “See what those fanatical pro-lifers have done,” but now is not the time for agenda-pushing.

Now is the time to grieve for the loss of life. Now is the time to mourn for a wife who lost her husband and for four children who lost their father. Now is a time to mourn with God for one of His children who passed into eternity without realizing the horror of his actions on earth.

I hope speedy justice is served to Scott Roeder, the man who is allegedly responsible for this tragedy. What he has done is irresponsible and evil, and in no way benefits the position he says he supports. Murder is wrong. Period. And vengeance belongs to the Lord. All manner of evil has been done in the name of righteousness when men forget these two things.

I know God’s heart is grieved over these events, and I share His sentiment. I pray that those affected by this tragedy will find peace in comfort in Jesus Christ.

New Articles at YWAM Tyler

Kurt — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:35:15 +0000

I have a few new articles at YWAMTyler.org that you might enjoy reading. Click here to go there now.

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