New Website

We will no longer be using this blogspot for our mission fwd updates. We will now be using Mission Forward (Just click on the link) and Enjoy!!! 

Looking Back and Looking Forward

Christmas, Flowers, and New Beginnings

November Video Update: Fiji, Fellowship, and Friends

September Update

                                                    

Back in New Zealand!!

From Mission Forward

June Update!!

From Mission Forward

New Zealand Visa Miracle!!!

Yeah, we talked to the Embassy on Wednesday and sent the visa to them that day also!!!! We should get it in a month !! Praise the Lord! We are now in Nebraska for the weekend visiting Jeds grandmaw one last time. Wednesday we will be flying to Alaska for Geoffs Wedding and having fun with friends for a week! Pray for our safe travels and that it does not snow to bad!!!

Pray for our NZ Visa

Hey guys, we need you to give a quick prayer for us. We have our medical certificates, chest x-ray certificates, job offer forms, and job qualification evidence—almost every form we need to include with our 2 year Working visa application. The only thing between us and going to New Zealand in June is a police form that basically proves Kayla and I aren't criminals.

The problem: we did not know it can take 13 weeks to process a simple criminal background report. What's worse is that our Medical and Chest X-ray certificates will no longer be valid if we have to wait to send our visa with the police form.

What to pray for: that New Zealand Immigration (whom we are waiting to hear back from) would tell us that we can send our Application with the forms we have and send the police form at a later date. Better yet please pray that there would be another way of proving to NZ Immigration that we are of good character.

Thanks everyone so much for your prayers!

April Update!

Back in the Rockies

After 4 delays, 1 cancelation, a night in a hotel, 2 meal vouchers and another delay, we are finally in Colorado. We've already spoken to Faith's Mission's Committee and it went well. We are now here in Loveland for the next two months where we'll be meeting with friends, connecting with the church, and spending time with family. We're just shy of reaching 1/4 of our Monthly support goal, so please pray our efforts here will be fruitful.

Its all coming together!!!

Life in the Bayou!

Today is January 23rd, it is now 5 weeks before we leave Louisiana and go to Colorado for two months, then back to Louisiana for a month and then off to New Zealand!! Crazy how time goes by so quickly and how God just shows you how he is going to completely provide for us! For a quick update on the past couple months... We moved to Louisiana on December 1st to raise support! We had a wonderful Christmas with my family and lots of fun family time! I had a good birthday with my husband (which included breakfast in bed, quality time all day, a movie and yummy Copelands at night with all the family) We worked at Logan's Roadhouse for 5 weeks (our last week was this week). Now we are in the middle of raising support.

Raising Support!

Last week we spoke at our first church. It was a small church in the middle of the woods of Louisiana. Honestly we were not expecting much but BOY did God like to surprise us!! Jed said the other day that he is experiencing something totally different with raising support then he ever has had before. I have lived here all my life and I have been going on mission trips since I was 12 and I have always been provided for but this is different. We are going overseas for good, no more school, no more short trips, this is for life! Thats a little scary sometimes to think about. We are speaking at 5 different churches and two of them have mission committees that we are speaking to also! This isn't just two minute presentations, this is Jed preaching and having the entire morning service and then both of us presenting in the entire night service! We were not expecting this! God is good!

Pray!

There are a couple things that you could be praying with us about:

• Pray for the next six sundays we will be at different churches, pray that their hearts will be open to Mission Forward!
• Pray that we will figure out our visa situations for New Zealand soon!
• Pray that Jed and I will have meaningful time with family and friends before we leave Louisiana!
• Pray about what you can do to be a part of Mission Forward!

Mission Forward

Where we were, How we are now, and What’s ahead

From the Mekong back to Mt. Cook

The Indo-china trip

With various ministries such as leading cell

groups, teaching english, open air evangelism, underground pastor bible training, and sex-trafficking prevention seminars; our trip this summer gave the students inspiration for long-term missions. Once again, this trip has shown us the value of short term missions.

Since then...

We’ve been working full-time at a troubled youth home that takes in kids from domestic violence and neglecting parents. Jed worked with younger boys who are trying to be reunited with their families. Kayla worked with older girls and taught them how to independently live. W

e loved it, though it was hard. We were also leading a youth group on Sunday nights and we are currently enrolled in seminary where Kayla will have her Bachelors in Cross-Cultural Ministry and Jed will have his Associates in Biblical Studies by the end of December.

In the Meantime...

Though these things have been great ministry opportunities and ways to grow in the Lord, God is once again pulling us toward missions. In fact, as of this moment we have moved out of Missouri and are in the process of moving back to work with YWAM Oxford!

Our Mission: Expanding OUtreaches

Going back to YWAM Oxford, we will be heading up the Outreach Coordination for DTS’s (Discipleship Training Schools) for a commitment of 5 years. However, our vision is to expand this into an entire Outreach Teams Department that we are incorporating into our ministry project: Mission Forward. Mission Forward will not only plan outreaches, but build relationships with the missionaries we sends teams to and work with them personally to help them receive teams.

What this means...

is that we will be splitting our time every year between New Zealand and traveling abroad to the missionaries our base works with. In New Zealand, we will work at the base planning logistics for teams such as plane tickets and visas while also preparing the schools for the culture and ministry they will be going to and doing.

When we travel to the missionaries, we will work with them to receive teams by fitting our teams’ goals of evangelism and inspiration for missions with their long-term efforts. By visiting the missionaries in this way, our outreaches will be able to impact far more people.

Our Need: Partners

As any new business that starts out, it needs partners that will invest in it— the same is true with ministry. We can’t do this on our own and we need you as our brothers and sisters in Christ to partner with us. Whether it’s keeping our prayer needs in a prayer group, supporting the ministry monthly, or joining with us in closing the short-term to long-term missions gap, we need our friends like YOU to be a part of Mission Forward! We’re all called to make disciples for Christ, and our mission is a venue that you can join to make the Great Commission realized!

As Paul had the church at Philipi beside him, we

need people beside us!

Please pray and consider which of our goals you could help meet!

Prayer Goals	Financial Goals	Team Goals
Have 20 people dedicated to intercessory prayer that can be communicating with us regularly!	We need 144 people to give from $1-$144 (1 person gives $1, another $2...to $144) as a one time gift for us to get to New Zealand & start our ministry!	Successfully visit missionaries that YWAM Oxford would send teams to and work with them to be able to receive teams every year! Over 5 years we hope to visit 40 missionaries.
Have 3 prayer support groups that meet regularly who can put our ministry as a prayer need and also communicate with us! Let us know if your prayer group can do that!	More importantly, we need 50 people committed to giving monthly such as: 5 people @ $100/month, 20 people @ $50/month, 25 people @ $20/month	We also want to improve the DTS’s outreach preparation. This includes getting ministry resources (such as Dramas & evangelism tools) and making info books on culture and the missionaries.
We’d also want peopl e partnering with us in the last 2 categories to also spread the word: getting involved in mobilizing your community for missions and telling us about it!	These are just examples, but any one-time or monthly gift would help! Our total need is $2000/Month for support and $10,000 to leave for NZ	With all these goals, we want a staff team that can partner with us. We’d also like to see more DTS students to go back to ministries they went to for long-term work.

How you can send support

Make checks payable to: “Church WOW—Mission Forward”

Send Checks to: Jed and Kayla Olson/Mission Forward

c/o Church Without Walls (WOW)

619 S. Williamson St.

Altanta ,MO 63530

For Online Donations Click HERE

To set up Monthly Donations:

e-mail us @ jnkolson@gmail.com

Note: ALL Donations are Tax Deductible