What day are we on....oh right day 8

Well we've been on outreach now for 8 days and man have we done a good variety of things already. We've been talking to backpackers, working in schools, going to a youth group tonight, been to churches, and having a lot of fun while doing it. It's been an amazing time and hard at moments, but God continually shows himself faithful and good.

I've been going through a bit of stuff myself. Find out that I hold a lot of my identity in the things that I do. I'm a doer kind of person and there is nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes who you are instead of just who you are and who God has created you to be and opperate out of...it tends to get a little messy. So I'm learning to just chill and do as God is asking me at the time. It's interesting and hard to be in leadership, but I know God has gifted me in it, it only needs to be skilled and formed more so that I can continue to be an affective leader.

Our team is getting along really well together and I'm blessed to have a team that love and I mean love to laugh. If we're not eating we're laughing up a storm. It's really a good time and we find that we'll be breaking a lot of mind sets of people who think that Christians aren't out to have a good time. So it's been good and ministry stuff is going good. Alot of the time we find out only minutes before hand what we are going to do, but it really all works out and God moves in awesome ways.

This morning I got to teach an RE class (relegious education) and I was teaching grades 1-3. I sat them down all around me and we read the story of jonah. Then I got them to all draw pictures of the story and they came up with some pretty good stuff! really enjoyed it and made me think even more about becoming a teacher. so it was really good.

i should get going I think we're heading out to see a little bit more of Dalby. But I hope you all enjoy your day and be blessed!

maegan

First Day of Outreach!

So...we're finslly here on outreach. We left at a good 10 am time and arrived in Byron Bay shortly after lunch time. It was alot of fun and felt slightly wierd to be on the road with only 7 people in the van instead of 25 other people. The first day went well. We arrived and unpacked a bit, found out what we were going to be doing a bit more and then went in to Byron to pray and see what God had to say about Byron. We also prayed in to just the start of our outreach. It was a good time. Then we did a few things like grocery shopping and buying food for dinner. Then this evening we watched a movie called Invisible Children. It really made us think....a lot. I recommend watching this movie and it'll change the way that you see a few things. It's about the children of Sudan and how they must move from their homes to a hospital so that they will not get abducted in to a Rebel army. It's amazing what these kids do and how no one is doing anything about it. So it makes you think about what you can do.

The day went over well and I hope we continue push in to prayer and really bring that out. I feel like God wants me to push more in to prayer. I'm excited for the future days of outreach. I's love for you to pray and things you could would be....

Unity

Balance between relaxed and trying to get things done.

Good relationships with people formed.

Growth in prayer.

Here are some more of the pictures that I took with Patrick's camera! It was so much fun!

I'm Back from a trip!

Okay so…. I said that I was going to update this lovely website of mine earlier and I have failed to do it as soon as I had said. However, I am here now typing on Microsoft Office waiting until the wireless internet decides to work.

Well the latest trip that we’ve been on was to Airlie Beach and then on to Harvey bay. I’ll start with Airlie beach; here we set up what we like to call the Chai Tent. It’s a big old army tent that we set up at a point looking out in to the ocean. Airlie is a major backpackers sight so when we have a sign out front of the tenting saying free chai at 8pm we usually get a lot of people. So we go out and invite people from the bars and where ever else people are hanging out to come to the tent for some chai. It’s a really easy opportunity for us to invite them in and let them know what we’re all about. Also to show them that we’re real people and give them a different perspective on what Christians are like.

For this week, however Rhoda and myself were on kitchen! So we were cooking for about 43 people. We would cook it at a house that YWAM rents and then we would drive it in to town where our event was being held. It was really fun…sometimes tiring, but I had a lot of fun cooking. I even got to make some lemon meringue pie with really lemon juice squeezed by my very own hands. Yummy!!!! So over all it was a really good week.

Then we travel on down back in the direction of Brisbane to a lovely place called Harvey Bay! Here we split in to outreach teams and went out to work in schools. My team and I went to a school kids who don't have anywhere else to go. So it was really neat to get to work with them and hang out with them. They have a really awesome set up there. For instance... they have a cooking called Glendyne. It was about 10 minutes out of Harvey Bay and it was a school for class where they cater for different occasions, they have a huge metal and word working shops, there is an art room, ropes course, climbing wall, and a lot of other fun things. So it really tries to get them involved. They are some rough kids who have gone through some stuff that they never should have had to go through. It was a lot of fun to hanging out with them and loving on them by just chatting.

For the week in Hervey Bay my co-leader Nate was and at the moment still is in Auckland New Zealand. He found out that his visa ran out in two days while we were in Airlie beach so he had to get a flight out of the country. So the week went good for having to lead alone, but it was good. I learned a good amount of stuff and not the hard way. BUT don’t worry he has his visa and is coming back on the 5^th of June. It’s going to be good!

I’ll give you a few more pictures now that I’ve taken, but these were with some ones camera, not my own. It was a ton of fun to experiment with and hopefully at some point I’ll be able to get my own camera of sorts.