by Kayla Norris | Jan 7, 2018 | Community, YWAM DTS
Dear Lewis House, When I last wrote, I didn’t expect we’d meet again. Sure, I thought I’d give a dramatic wave, a final goodbye from the street corner. Yet to pace your grey-carpet hallways again? To wash my dishes in that orange kitchen? To watch Netflix in...
by Kayla Norris | Oct 1, 2017 | Community, YWAM DTS
Dear Lewis House, I was thirteen when I first saw you, even younger when I first heard of you. So as I come to this letter, I’m at a loss of where to start. I always imagined I would be vacuuming your hallways and balancing my boxes when this day finally came. I...
by Kayla Norris | Apr 2, 2017 | Community, Loving Jesus
One day that night will just become YWAM Bethlehem myth. Even now, it’s difficult to separate fact from fiction, lies from truth. Did one of our staff members really slap our leader with a slice of pepperoni pizza? There are only a few eyewitnesses who can retell the...
by Kayla Norris | Feb 19, 2017 | Community
It’s the perfect example. This afternoon I opened a fresh page to start typing this blog post, and I didn’t even get past “Untitled”. I need to get out of here. Instead of describing my huge personality transition, I lived it. I left an empty post– the poor...
by Kayla Norris | Apr 24, 2016 | Community, YWAM DTS
There’s an air of unreality, returning home to New Zealand. It’s Inception, really. This afternoon I slouched on the couch in the house I spent three years in, but it’s been over a year since I’ve actually lived there. I watched Leonardo...
by Kayla Norris | Jan 4, 2016 | Community, The Creative Heart, YWAM DTS
[As 2016 begins, I want to honour a girl who got me through 2015. Micah Madsen is one of those people who you hear about for years and when you finally meet you are fast friends, despite soon-to-come distance. After a year or more of long emails, she is one of my...
