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.