Sunday, September 23, 2012

mini outreach & outreach!


On Monday, a sign caught my attention in the bathroom at the castle. It had been there for a couple of weeks, but I hadn’t thought much of it until Monday. It was an informational piece about the Cheb (pronounced “yheb”) YWAM base and it was encouraging people to join in helping with the first DTS in February. I looked it up online and thought that I might want to visit it in the coming weeks, to see if it would be someplace that I would be interested in helping with. The region between Czech and Germany is the window of human trafficking from east and west Europe, so Cheb is located in an ideal place for working with human trafficking victims. I’m not sure what their plans are related to this, though. And then on Tuesday, I found out that my DTS will actually be going to the Cheb base for the mini outreach beginning in two weeks, for two weeks. !!! I’m really excited to learn more about what they are hoping to do!

This past week we studied the nature and character of God. I was reminded of how incredibly exciting and amazing God is all the time, and of how infinite all of his characteristics are. I am so lucky to be able to be in relationship with Him. My God is amazing. Seriously!!! :)

There will be two teams for the three month outreach that takes place after the lecture phase (I think we’ll be leaving sometime in November). One team will go to South Africa, and the other will go to Eastern Europe. We were asked to pray about it, and the team leadership will organize the teams based on their prayers and what we communicated about our prayers. There have been a few things in the past couple of weeks that have drawn my heart toward Eastern Europe, and I feel that that is where I’m supposed to be. God is doing amazing things in Eastern Europe, and I was able to hear about some of them from another DTS that returned from their outreach last week. Sex trafficking is big in Eastern Europe, which is the area of justice that my hearts breaks for the most. We’ll see what team I end up on! Your prayers for cohesive teams and outreach would be so much appreciated.

Love & prayers!

2 comments:

  1. Hey girl, sounds like everything is going well. We talk about you all the time and miss you so much. Your mom and sis update me every Sunday. I miss seeing your face at Itown every week. Your mom gave Em and I a hug today and said she felt in a way she was hugging you. She is so sweet!! I'll try to send you some mail. Your mom said you love receiving mail from people. Thanks for the updates through blogging. I read them all. I wish you only the best and pray for you and your journey daily.
    Love ya girl,
    Sarah

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    1. Hey Sarah! Thanks so much for this! Yes, I love getting mail!! I miss seeing you and being at itown, for sure. It will be so sweet to come back and see all the new faces and all the new changes, whatever they might be. :) Have a good week, Sarah! Thanks so much for your sweet comment!

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