It amazes me that I have just completed two thirds of my DTS. Friday was my last day of lectures and tomorrow I leave for my major outreach. It seems to me that I have only been here for a fraction of the time but as I think back at all I have learned and the time I spent with God, it is evident to me that I have been bearing the fruit that comes out of fourteen weeks of lectures and outreach.
As I began to try and prepare myself for the next six weeks of outreach and walking into something completely new, I came to the realization that there was no point of me to try and prepare. If I try to predict what might happen or try to figure out what God might possible do, I realize now, that I would be putting God into an entirely way too small of a box and I wouldn’t let anything happen the way it should. Plus I would be for too over whelmed at all the thing that are going to come. I’ve decided the less I know the better, just give me what I need to know and I will run with it. So I will give you all the gist of what I know. First stop is in Gladstone and there we will be working with the schools doing Auslife. The only thing that I really know about Auslife is that the schools give us time with the kids to impart foundational values into their lives through games, talks and small group discussions. Then we head up the coast to Makay and Airlie Beach. At these destinations my team and I will work with a backpackers ministry and a camp for “troubled” youth. Next we head all the way back to Mount Isa for around a week. I’m still not sure if we know what we are doing there but I figure it will be a lot like the first time we went. Lastly we will go to Maggie Island during schoolies to work with Red Frogs crew. Really the only thing I know about our last stop is that schoolies is like an Australian version of spring break. So I’m assuming it will be a pretty intense time for my team and I to be a true representation of Christ.
That’s about all I know of the next six weeks of my adventure. I’m doing everything possible to go into this time with an open mind and an open heart. Only God knows what this time will hold and I hope I will be in the position to allow his will for this time to be done. I appreciate everyones prayers and thoughts and if you would keep them coming it would be a huge blessing.
I don’t know if I will be able to write a blog in the next six weeks, due to lack of internet or time. If I do get the opportunity I will be sure to send something your way. I will also be sure to come back with stories and heaps of photos. Hope you all are well.
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