Week 12!!!

This last week I have been preparing for the second half of my school called outreach when we go and put all that we have learned into practice!! We are meeting in our teams and practicing our testimonies, messages, skits and getting to know our team members better. We're also packing! I'm borrowing a backpack to pack everything in for 3 months!!!  It's been challenging already to try to decide what to bring and what I have to leave here in perth after buying a few aussie clothes.  Wednesday we had our commissioning night where the base prays for us, and sends us out into the nations!!  Then we had one last dance party! 

Tuesday the 31st is when we leave for South Africa! We will fly form Perth to Kuala Lumpur, then Kuala Lumpur to Johannesburg, then Johannesburg  to Cape town. 

Updating will be my highest priority during outreach because I'm not sure how often I will have internet access, but it should be at least a few times.   Thank you all, I love you!

Week 10 &11

Paul Hawkins came and shared with us about Spiritual Warfare. The reality of this earth being a war zone became even more clear during this week, along with the fact that everyone is spiritual by nature. This week was good until thursday when what God had been speaking to me about started happening, I started to be hit again and again with so many different things one after another.  Things at home were happening, God was showing me that it's not always easy to over come past difficulties and struggles, and we really started to talk about preparing for outreach.

Week 11 was our last week of lectures and Maged Kolta came form England to speak about missions. He shared with us about how jesus did missions, which is quite simple be right with the Father and then obey.  It was a good encouragement as we are soon going to leave and be "real" missionaries!!

Week 8 & 9

By the end of week 7 our school had really become unified and we are each others family now, sometimes it's hard to have 75 brothers and sisters but at the same time absolutely amazing, I Love Jesus.

Week 8, Evangelism

Kristen Williams came over from New Zealand to share with us about evangelism, during the week he shared with us that we are in a war and that we were created for a fight. That all the plans that we could possibly come up with for our life are absolutely nothing compared to what he really has planned for us. 

Peni Patu came from Kona Hawaii to give us letters from our dad :)  This was an amazing week, before he came he had heard a verse and word for each person.  He wrote down the verse and a whole page for each of us then he had each of us read the verse with our name in it and then read us the letter.  This is what we did all week and he would also tell us stories about his daughters and how much he loves them, which were an encouraging example of how God loves us and so much more. 

 At the end of the week there was an opportunity to be baptized, so I got baptized in the river that is a 10 min. walk from the base.  It was the perfect time to be baptized after really just feeling Gods love being poured down on all of us all week.  The sun was shining, people were worshiping the whole time, dolphins swam by, there were jellyfish everywhere and each baptism was each so beautiful.  I have pictures some where but with me right now.

Pictures!

These are just a few pictures from lecture phase :) there are many more on facebook too :)

Drying the laundry above the bed :) This is our bedroom

My very first tim tam slam! (it's a cookie that you can drink through, they're are pretty much amazing cookies)

Gillian and I, I Love her and she's from Northern Ireland!

The fireworks at Australia Day!

This beach was amazing!!

Some wonderful tree at the beach.

The Outback!! (on the way to a new beach!)

Our lovely house, I'm a "228" girl!!

Downtown Perth!!

I saw these on the way to base one morning!

This is the view of the city on our way to the train station.

Week 6 & 7

 Week 6 Shirley Brownhill (our base director) lectured on Bible Unity. I learned a lot about how you have authority when you have unity and about how forgiveness is key to bible unity.

Week 7 Mark Parker lectured on relationships. We learned about how we should relate to God, to our families and to everyone else. It was eye opening to learn how each relationship was created to be and how God has really created us to relate to one another. During this week God really started to reveal to me some major areas of my life where I wasn't trusting him with everything. This was only the beginning of a huge revelation in my life.

During these weeks God had really been revealing to me how I  trust worthy he is with everything from thousands of dollars for finances to a new note book. God just amazes me in the ways that he provides!!