Sunday, October 28, 2007
hello loyal blog readers
there is'nt a whole lot to update this week so im sorry but this is going to be a short one.
This last week was nations to nations which is a big one week long confrence about how important it is to stand as one in God. God loves all the nations and loves all tounges so every year there are these confrences all over the world. There were 3 YWAM bases that came and stayed at my YWAM base. Two were from South Africa and one was from Bethlem. It was really intense because there was masive amounts of people here and we all ate at the same time we all needed to shower at the same times and well it was tricky but overall it was good. There was music dance and drama every night and every night we ended with a huge dance party and well everyone knows how much i enjoy a good dance party especially if it's for God. We were not able to go to our regualr outreach in Zwelethemba this week though but we still went to DeDoorns which was cool because i had never been there before. It was all 7th and 8th graders and we taught them the story of Daniel and played games it was actually alot of fun.
As for our little ministry that we started in the local stores, well it's going great! we already got some donations! we got 2 bags of books a trash bag full of clothes, 150 rand, some soaps and there is still more to come! one resteraunt asked us to make a grocery type list and they would just go to the store and buy whats on our list and that was a huge blessing! we also are still waiting on a few promised donations. It's really exciting now because when it comes christmas time the children will recive presents! We are really really excited. We also have almost finished our documentary and i will send it out ASAP. We are planning on using this video to raise money for the house of orphans. It will cost between 4-5,000 rand to build the house but we are confident we can get it (thats a little less than 1,000 U.S. dollars) then we need to start fundraising for our outreach, the more money we get the more we can do there. Im a little scared though because we will be living in a village in Tanzania and we will most likely need to fetch all our own water slaughter and cook our own meals, sleep on the ground with the meassive amounts of cockroaches and it will be blazing hot on top of that. We are all actually really excited for this though because we came for an adventure like this.
Well i think thats about it... for all those that are missin me IT HAS BEEN 1 MONTH! see how fast it went! now 4 more to go and i will be back! well much love to everyone leave lots of comments they always make me smile...
This last week was nations to nations which is a big one week long confrence about how important it is to stand as one in God. God loves all the nations and loves all tounges so every year there are these confrences all over the world. There were 3 YWAM bases that came and stayed at my YWAM base. Two were from South Africa and one was from Bethlem. It was really intense because there was masive amounts of people here and we all ate at the same time we all needed to shower at the same times and well it was tricky but overall it was good. There was music dance and drama every night and every night we ended with a huge dance party and well everyone knows how much i enjoy a good dance party especially if it's for God. We were not able to go to our regualr outreach in Zwelethemba this week though but we still went to DeDoorns which was cool because i had never been there before. It was all 7th and 8th graders and we taught them the story of Daniel and played games it was actually alot of fun.
As for our little ministry that we started in the local stores, well it's going great! we already got some donations! we got 2 bags of books a trash bag full of clothes, 150 rand, some soaps and there is still more to come! one resteraunt asked us to make a grocery type list and they would just go to the store and buy whats on our list and that was a huge blessing! we also are still waiting on a few promised donations. It's really exciting now because when it comes christmas time the children will recive presents! We are really really excited. We also have almost finished our documentary and i will send it out ASAP. We are planning on using this video to raise money for the house of orphans. It will cost between 4-5,000 rand to build the house but we are confident we can get it (thats a little less than 1,000 U.S. dollars) then we need to start fundraising for our outreach, the more money we get the more we can do there. Im a little scared though because we will be living in a village in Tanzania and we will most likely need to fetch all our own water slaughter and cook our own meals, sleep on the ground with the meassive amounts of cockroaches and it will be blazing hot on top of that. We are all actually really excited for this though because we came for an adventure like this.
Well i think thats about it... for all those that are missin me IT HAS BEEN 1 MONTH! see how fast it went! now 4 more to go and i will be back! well much love to everyone leave lots of comments they always make me smile...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
holy spirit week
hello everyone! it is wednesday night of week three and i am fantastic. Yesterday i woke up with what seemed like a sinus infection... the left side of my face just ached and my nose was stuffed on the left side and my eye constantly watered on the left side and my ear ached on the left side and my throat was increadibly swollen....you guessed it on the left side. I still went to class however and a close friend prayed for me to get better and guess what! im completely fine today... i actually didnt even need to take an allergy pill today ( the first in a week or so) so thank God for that!!!! this week is holy spirit week and we have mostly spent our time talking about the gifts of the spirit...1.faith 2.knowledge 3.widom 4.healing 5.discernment of spirits 6.tounges 7.interpretation of tounges 8.prophesy (these arent in any specific order) which has been really really interesting. The base leader and actually he is the ywam leader of all of South Africa is teaching this week and man does he have some amazing stories... like AMAZING AMAZING stories. Anyways tonight was worship for our class and we worshiped God by giving to eachother and wow you would not believe what God asked people to give. A man named Derek on my dts had very little money and he was actually late to the meeting cause he needed stregnth to give his gift.. it was his very best dress suit.. and it was really nice and pressed and in plastic and everything..i cried when he gave this. Another gave away his video ipod and some really expensive Bose headphones... another gave away 500 rand which he was saving to use to go back to Congo to see his family that he has not seen in 9 years and needs to go to tell them he is getting married and he gave every cent of his savings..... there was also alot of exchanges of huge amounts of money and other really incredible things. The whole night was just amazing and we let go of these worldy things that give our life "value" and gave it away because simply God asked us to. It was amazing. We also went to Zwelethemba today which was really great.. we performed a little drama, did some singing, did some dancing, and we held small groups for the older children. However we have a desire to bring children what they really need and thats food and shelter... we already are working on the shelter part so yesterday i came up with an idea to go to the supermarkets resteraunts and all the "food" places around us and ask what they can donate at the end of their day to us. Luckily YWAM is very well known around this area and many buisnesses already donate money so we are pretty sure they will be willing to do something. I also want to set up some cans in front of the grocery store next month to collect toiletries that we can give the children as christmas presents.... this will not start untill next month however the food donation will begin this friday hopefully. we are praying about fasting for a while for this but we want to make sure it is really God's desire for us to do this first. So please pray for the begining of what we hope is major change for these people.
The group of girls in my doorm realized we all have the same problem all of our families, friends and supporters want to see more pictures of us however we are always the one behind the camera and it is difficult so we created a photobucket account that we will dump all our pictures and videos on that way you will see this dts from a few different veiws and hopefully see all of us...as im posting this it is only my pictures on there so far but go look because they are new. Anyways i hope everyone is doing well. Love
p.s the link should appear on my page i hope it works
The group of girls in my doorm realized we all have the same problem all of our families, friends and supporters want to see more pictures of us however we are always the one behind the camera and it is difficult so we created a photobucket account that we will dump all our pictures and videos on that way you will see this dts from a few different veiws and hopefully see all of us...as im posting this it is only my pictures on there so far but go look because they are new. Anyways i hope everyone is doing well. Love
p.s the link should appear on my page i hope it works
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Week2
Hello all!
So this is my second week of DTS and it is going great! This week is callled plumbline which basically is all about inner healing and digging up all the things from your past and truly dealing with each one and letting go of it and forgiving those you need to forgive. Wow it sure is alot you aknowledge happening but you have totally and completely said well it is in my past and thats where it will stay but they are trying to teach us that alot of psycho syematic sympotms are from things we unknowingly carry in our hearts from past experiences. HEAVY STUFF! tonight we had to write a letter God and then simply listen and without thinking for yourself or doubting God just write down everything he is saying to you and wow some random stuff comes up that is really confusing but it is a cool experience.
Today we went to zwelethemba for our first day of our outreach and we introduced ourselves by singing the hokey pokey except we called it the hokey pokey nations and instead of putting body parts in and out we but the Americans, English, nigerians etc. in and it was really fun. There is an outreach team that just got here a couple days ago from Tyler texas and they lead the rest of the activity and it was really good. They danced and did like 3 skits one of which i just broke down and cried during and the poor girls sitting next to me holding my hands were like "whats wrong" and I tried with all my might to sputter out "J-J-jesus L-L-Loves you so much and so do I" and i wept hahaha. It actually allowed alot of people to see how much i really was involved with God and how deeply I wanted them to know him and love him too. They were very Rowdy as they have not had much order in their lives and they were very very excited for the candy at the end haha but a really touching moment was when we asked them all to close their eyes and raise their hand if they were in trouble and needed Jesus to recue them. Nearly 190 out of the 200 (estimate) raised their hand and it was really touching.
this is what it looked like today when we met. at the gym in the center of their town
it takes a long time to upload pictures on to here but i asked my friend if i could put up a link to his picture site and he is on the same DTS as I am so all the people with their flags this was for our Hokey Pokey nation and these are the other students on my DTS and the pictures of the children are of the children we are outreaching to so i hope this helps give you all a better visual. Please excuse all the random pictures ha he is a little camera friendly.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13669084@N02/
I hope everyone is doing well i miss you all!
So this is my second week of DTS and it is going great! This week is callled plumbline which basically is all about inner healing and digging up all the things from your past and truly dealing with each one and letting go of it and forgiving those you need to forgive. Wow it sure is alot you aknowledge happening but you have totally and completely said well it is in my past and thats where it will stay but they are trying to teach us that alot of psycho syematic sympotms are from things we unknowingly carry in our hearts from past experiences. HEAVY STUFF! tonight we had to write a letter God and then simply listen and without thinking for yourself or doubting God just write down everything he is saying to you and wow some random stuff comes up that is really confusing but it is a cool experience.
Today we went to zwelethemba for our first day of our outreach and we introduced ourselves by singing the hokey pokey except we called it the hokey pokey nations and instead of putting body parts in and out we but the Americans, English, nigerians etc. in and it was really fun. There is an outreach team that just got here a couple days ago from Tyler texas and they lead the rest of the activity and it was really good. They danced and did like 3 skits one of which i just broke down and cried during and the poor girls sitting next to me holding my hands were like "whats wrong" and I tried with all my might to sputter out "J-J-jesus L-L-Loves you so much and so do I" and i wept hahaha. It actually allowed alot of people to see how much i really was involved with God and how deeply I wanted them to know him and love him too. They were very Rowdy as they have not had much order in their lives and they were very very excited for the candy at the end haha but a really touching moment was when we asked them all to close their eyes and raise their hand if they were in trouble and needed Jesus to recue them. Nearly 190 out of the 200 (estimate) raised their hand and it was really touching.
this is what it looked like today when we met. at the gym in the center of their town
it takes a long time to upload pictures on to here but i asked my friend if i could put up a link to his picture site and he is on the same DTS as I am so all the people with their flags this was for our Hokey Pokey nation and these are the other students on my DTS and the pictures of the children are of the children we are outreaching to so i hope this helps give you all a better visual. Please excuse all the random pictures ha he is a little camera friendly.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13669084@N02/
I hope everyone is doing well i miss you all!
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
hello blog readers
Hello everyone I am sorry i have not been able to update the last few days I have been busy starting school and other things. Well school is going great and Amazing things are happening. We are just learning about how to hear from God and the YWAM values and today the speaker for the week shared his life story and it was very sad as he was born into the Zulu tribe and left to live on his own at the age of 16 and was rejected by his community after accepting God into his life because the Black people from the Zulu tribe think christianity is only for white people and alot of them are very racist. Then he came to Worcester Ywam with only 3 rand in his pocket (this is less than 1 U.S. dollar). He is still struggeling with money but God taught him to not rely on money but on God and somehow he has been able to travel to Egypt, England, and Uganda and a few other places without having any money. We also went to the two sites in the community here where we will be doing mini outreaches twice a week. These communitys are very poverty striken most of you would be sick at the mere sight of it. Those suffering children ads on t.v. are basically what it looks like. There are tons of children living on their own because their parents have either died because of Aids or drugs. All of the children run around outside through the trash on their own looking for food all the time with not a parent in sight. There are some children with parents as well but they still run around on their own there were two little boys there younger than 2 maybe not even 1 years old completely wandering on their own. None of the children have shoes or food and the clothing they have is very dirty and worn they do luckily have water and electricity for free however that does not mean they have lightbulbs and that does not mean the water is clean. I did not know we would be able to get out of the cars and walk around when we went yesterday because they said we would just pass by and see it so i did not take my camera but I will definitely take it next time we go and I will take video as well so you all can experience the heartbreak that I did. Please pray for zwelethemba and de doorns (these are the names of the two communitys) We are going to make a website to help get support for these areas although it will take a long time to do this but i will post the URL as soon as we make it. We are trying to come up with ideas of how to change their lives so if you have any ideas of how to train them at jobs they can do or have ideas of ways we can help in long term ways all suggestions are welcome. I hope all of you are doing well I am feeling great. I will try to update more often.
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