I'm home again after two weeks on the road, and boy am I tired! We were in Roma and Stradbroke Island as a school. And it was quite an eventful couple of weeks! Roma was an outreach week in the small country town of Roma. We participated in RE classes (Religious Education classes) where we take an hour to present ourselves and our faith to the classroom. Its an amazing and powerful thing. One young guy (high school aged) got saved on the last day, and that one salvation made it all worth while. We also went to some handicapped peoples homes to serve them, mowing their lawns, cleaning their homes etc..etc..
While all of this was going on we have been putting the last touches on our outreach co-ordination for December! And I have another amazing story of God providing for me just in the nick of time. I got $1504 in 6 days or so and I needed the money for my flights to Thailand by the 22nd of October...TODAY...the flights costs 1700 and noone knew my financial status. One of the students on my outreach team came to me after I had the rest of the money and was waiting on the last 200 and told me his dad overpaid his outreach funds by 200 dollars and wanted to help support me by giving me that 200 dollars. So in the end I come out of the situation with 4 dollars in pocket change, haha. God is good and just in time...as usual! Having said that, the $200 is not the only money that has allowed me to go on outreach, thank you to all of you who have supported me in this trip to Thailand, I have amazing expectations that it is going to be an amazing and powerful 2 months. My final needs are just $720 for my ground fees, allowing me to eat and live in thailand for a couple of months.
Stradbroke Island is when we do our survivor week, the intense games and training to build unity in the teams and challenge them into confrontation (somewhat). Its always a week students look back on and say that they can't believe they overcame, or they can't believe they conquered this fear, or that fear...OR ate that food... ;) haha.
But it was a very overwhelming week for me, my job descriptions were stacking up that week, from mentor, to school leader, outreach leader, friend, boyfriend, and in this case also teacher for the week on body of Christ and unity. It just got to be quite draining with so much on my shoulders, but the way I handle responsibility without bating an eyelash is a way to really gauge my growth and maturity, God is doing amazing things in me, I feel it and am excited for the character and skills this season is giving me for further work in the future.
I hope to get another update out to you all, but I thought I would send an updated picture of Hanna and I, we are leading the Thailand outreach team together which is very exciting, our first chance in ministry together!! It will be a powerful thing! Many tough times as well I'm sure, but only to be learnt from, which is the important thing! I will let you all know our itinery for our Thailand trip in the next update!! Continued blessings on you all...
