1, 4, 26, 108, 47, 7, 5, 3:30am

What do all of those numbers have in common? This week's lectures!!!

It's the coolest thing ever. So awesome. There's this technology where you can link up with people in other countries through the internet and see each other. It's really new, at least in YWAM, and we're calling it Genesis. There are several bases around the world that now have it. The main purpose is to link bases so that speakers can get into difficult or closed countries through the internet. It's not that easy (though it's getting easier) for people to get into Ukraine, so we can have different speakers speak through the Genesis technology. A few weeks ago, we hooked up with a base in Lausanne, Switzerland, and had a guy speak to us at one of our base meetings from there. We could see and hear him and he could see and hear us.

So, this week is our first time using Genesis for DTS lectures and guess who our first speaker is! Loren Cunningham, YWAM's founder! He's speaking to us from Lausanne, Switzerland. But not just us!! Here's what those numbers mean.

1 - speaker, Loren Cunningham
4 - locations hooked up at the same time - Switzerland, Taiwan, Venezuela, and Ukraine
26 - nations represented in the classrooms
108 - the amount of people listening to Loren speak (at the same time!!)
47 - the amount of Koreans of those 108 people, the majority by far!!! (Second is the 15 Americans.
7 - the number of DTS's plugged in because Amsterdam DTS is on outreach and hooked up with Venezuela, another DTS is with the one in Switzerland, and the Belarussian DTS is with us!!
5 - languages being translated to or from - English, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian
3:30 am - what time it was in Venezuela when lectures started!!

The coolest part of this morning's lectures was right before he started speaking, when we all prayed together for the teaching. Just that feeling of being connected with people all over the world at the same time as we prayed to God. He's just so big!! That He's working in all of these people everywhere. It's amazing.