God Bless Survivor week

I don't know if you all remember "survivor week". But it is the week of intense physical and emotional missionary training. In China there missionary schools are trained in the word of the Lord yes, because they preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God everywhere they go. However, they can read the bible themselves and get revelation directly from God, and the amount of time they spent immersed in the word gives them all the wisdom they need. But the training that is particularly important for them is the physical training. They are trained to run fast enough to out run the religious secret police. Trained to jump from the 2nd story of a building and land without hurting themselves. Jumping from roof top to roof top.
And although not as extreme this week is to get the students ready for hiking long hours into the wilderness and jungles of Malaysia and Vanuatu. It works on attitudes seeing as they are awakened in the middle of the night (1:00) to run an obstacle course through the jungle, eat strange foods, shimmy across ropes over swamps solve riddles and answer biblical trivia. At the end of the course they reach a tribe of people who do not speak their language, they must communicate in a culturally sensitive and acceptable way over the language barrier and save the tribe. And this is just one night of the long survivor week. We also set up markets where each outreach team gets an allotment of money and must cook for themselves with the food they purchase at the markets. the staff spend the day shopping for slightly out there food. Ox liver, veal heart, kidneys, whole rabbits etc... and some exotic fruits and vegetables they might eat on outreach. Each team buys enough food for two days and survives on unseasoned and unflavoured lamb kidneys for a day. They may not purchase their own food or eat any food they have bought prior to these days. It is a challenging week, but every student will tell you while being their least favourite week, in hindsite it is their favourite. They grow so much and at the end feel like they have truly accomplished something and overcome fears and insecurities they may have had all their lives.
God is a God of freedom and this week was freeing for so many of the students. Also, I was teaching on the body of Christ and unity. Essentially, the church. It went so well, far better than I could have expected, the Holy Spirit showed up and I was getting constant feed back of how the students were waking up to their destiny, what they were designed for and rather than being frustrated with the state of the world, realizing they are the church and are designed to change it and influence it. They enjoyed the teaching and I learnt so much through it. Even just little things like fillings exactly the four days I was alloted. Thanks to God the timing landing exactly perfect. I know that God has awoken something within me to teach or preach after this week and it may even be a key part of my ministry to teach on this topic and a couple others.

Anyway, this week is yet another busy week, I am co-ordinating evangelism at our next outreach so I have to prepare for that spiritually, pray into it and make sure that I have plenty of outreach ideas stirring. I would love prayer this week that God would give me creative ways to steer this upcoming week. Its actually a very scary position to have, I need a lot of faith and need to hear clearly from God because the success of this outreach will depend on my ability to communicate Gods heart for each night.

Thank you again for your love and prayers. And the financial support that completely enables me to do what I do for the Kingdom of God. Blessings on you all.