Question: What do you call 12 people ministering to 8 churches with 4 Missionaries, 1 Evangelist, 7 Pastors for 26 days throughout the 3 major regions/cities of the beautiful country of Australia? Answer: A memorable and life-changing opportunity to experience God's...

Within our 26-day trip, we spent our time in three regions: began in Melbourne (Victoria), then traveled to Sydney (New South Wales), and finished up in Brisbane (Queensland). Realizing that we never gave you a synopsis of our Brisbane week, here's a summary of our...

Throughout our 26-day ministry, the team was able to experience all the sights and sounds of Australia. Whether it was enjoying their gorgeous sunrises or sunsets, spending time in their major cities (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane), driving throughout the countryside,...

As of Tuesday evening, all 2023 Team Australia members have now safely returned from Australia to their respective final destinations! The return trip home from Brisbane to Los Angeles was "only" 13.5 hours which was at least 2 hours shorter than our initial Los...

Within one hour, we will be officially leaving Brisbane, Australia, and heading home to Los Angeles. Just wanted to let you know as we are not sure when this will post. Please pray for safety, a smooth flight, and that all our luggage will also arrive safe and sound....

With the team arriving to Brisbane safely, they spent the rest of Saturday evening resting up for their last week of ministry. This week's ministries will be both Life Gate Baptist Church (our first Sunday) and to missionaries Joe and Melissa Marshall throughout the...

Just like they had done while in Melbourne, the team again had an opportunity to spend some time fellowshipping with each other while visiting the sights in downtown Sydney. As a gracious tour host, Ben not only arranged an exciting outing to see the Darling Harbour...

On Tuesday-Thursday from 7:00-9:00 pm, the team conducted a Youth Rally at Bible Baptist Church. Like Condell Park Bible Church, it was great to again see Pastor and Mrs. Medina since we last ministered to them in 2019. Each evening, various team members had the...

After four long years, it was so wonderful to see our friends at Condell Park Bible Church as the team had the opportunity to serve in their Holiday Kid's Club. For four days, the Diving Dolphins (team blue), Squirting Squids (team red), and Clinging Clams (team...

After getting a good brekkie at our local Macca's/McDonald's (we know that some would contradict this statement), we headed over to the Melbourne Airport to fly up to Sydney (about a 1.5 hour flight) while Ben and Dr. Cirone dropped off our rental vehicles and hitched...

After saying good-bye to our camp brothers and sisters in Christ and especially our friends from Calvary and Faith Baptist Churches, Ben and his group headed down to Wangaratta to check in at our caravan park and Missionary Zacharias and his group (Dr. Cirone, Josh,...

In many of our lives while growing up, camp has a special place in our hearts--oftentimes it is a place where we can come away from the hustle and bustle of life and allow God to work in an unforgettable manner. On Thursday morning after a quick morning outing to the...

After our Saturday and Sunday ministries at Calvary Baptist Church, the team headed to Faith Baptist Church to team up with Pastor Frank and his crew. It was great to see the Guglielmo family again as well as members of their church as we ministered together during...

One of the life-changing blessings of a missions trip are all the fellowship opportunities that one experiences. Each morning, our guy Day Leader (Trevor in the picture below) takes the time to share something from God's Word to encourage us onward as we go throughout...

What would be the likelihood in 2023 of two men being called to serve full-time in Australia serving on the same YOM Australia Team (2019) AND being from the same church? Seeing Missionary Josh Zacharias standing next to Educator Ben Jackey on Sunday was almost...

Today, Madison brings us our exciting update--take it away! On their first full day in Australia, the team jumped right in to a full day of ministry. This morning, the men headed to Calvary Baptist Church (CBC) to participate in the men’s breakfast. Dr. Cirone was...

Thank you for your prayers as we arrived safely to Australia this morning (Friday) around 9:30 am. The flight was fairly smooth and uneventful and several of us even feel rested from our 15-hour plan journey. It was so good to see Missionary Josh Zacharias and our...

Everyone has made it to LAX, checked their bags, gone through security, and are now sitting at Gate 154 in LAX's Terminal B awaiting our 10:20 pm flight--15 hours of sheer excitement! ;0) Today was a great day filled with team bonding and surprises such as the...

A quick praise as the Atlanta contingency just arrived around midnight (Karina & Marenda) and we are now only missing our two "locals" (Madison & Trevor) who will be arriving Wednesday am. We will meet our last team member, Ben Jackey, in Melbourne when we...

Lord-willing in less than a week, YOM Team Australia will be landing in Australia to begin our 26-day ministry. We continue to be excited and are praying that both the semester training as well as the preparations done at home between the end of the school semester...