I have just returned from outreach and glad to say it went very well. The last three weeks have been jam packed full of new experiences and adventure. During this time the team and I have lead school programs, church services, a youth camp and did a bunch of praying. Through all these experiences all the class time I have received has come in to use and became more valuable than I realized it would be.
Mount Isa was the first stop on our trip and a great first introduction to outreach. One of the days we were there we did a school program that we able to lead for a group of 11th graders. Here we were able to share biblical truths with them and get to see in what ways these ideas could help them in there day to day lives. Another opportunity we were able to serve in was an evening church service for young aboriginal kids, we had so much fun singing songs, doing a drama and playing games. To top off the time in Isa the team and I went to the top of a mountain and prayed with a man named Ray who has been praying every Tuesday night at 5:30 for the last eleven years. It was a real humbling experience getting to pray with him for his city and to witness, first hand, such dedication and passion to see something change.
The second half of outreach we spent with with eleven high school kids from Melbourne. The first week we spent time discipling these young kids a lot like we had been through the first ten weeks of our DTS. After that, as a big group we ventured to Palm Island were we spent the next week serving the community and one of the local churches as much as we could. Palm is a much different place than the rest of Australia in the way that most people consider it to be the closest thing to a third world community that is still a part of a first world nation. We also learned that the people of Palm have a lot of hurt from the past in the way the government and caucasians have treated them, so we did everything we could to be an example of Christ and to help mend the wounds that are there.
It’s crazy to think that these last three weeks were just a taste of what is to come on my major outreach. I am doing well and looking towards the next two weeks of lectures, then it’s off again on outreach. Thank you all for all your prayer and if you would keep them coming that would be much appreciated.
Hope you all are well.
N.G.
Mount Isa. The whole town is built around this mine and that tack is a giant lead smelter.
A late afternoon at the beach on Palm with the Jetty.
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