Merry Christmas!
This week has had a lot of firsts. First week of outreach, first time at the tip of the south island, first time "preaching" (more like sharing) in a church, first time on a ferry, first time being on the north island of NZ, first time getting burnt in December, first time going to the beach in December or Christmas for that matter, first time away from home and in a completely different country for Christmas, first time eating sweet potato casserole with marshmellows, first time going to a midnight Christmas eve service, first time going a midnight Christmas eve service at an Anglican church with "carols, communion, and candles", first time having a Kiwi Christmas with a Kiwi family, there's been a lot of firsts. My first week of outreach has been so good. It's been heaps of fun and I've loved getting to know my team better along with getting to build relationships with awesome Kiwis. The Kiwi families and homes we've stayed at so far have been so lovely and so hospitable, God has blessed us with amazing contacts. Traveling through NZ makes you really appreciate the straight roads at home, their roads are so windy and curves at every possible corner or hill or mountain. It's also shown me how amazing God our creator, our Father is. God loves to amaze us his children. He is so vast and just like his love we'll ever only grasp a speck of who he is. Just helping a family do their yard work this week which couldn't be done due to family situations, we got to show them how beautiful and how loved they are in God's eyes. Even something as simple like doing someone's yard work because they aren't able right now God still uses us. He is just so amazing!
Some things that you can pray for is:
• team unity and a one-ness of our team
• that we would countinually be open and willing to follow the Holy Spirit
• that God would work through us and fill us up with more of His Holy Spirit
• energy for our team
• healing for my team leader, that her headaches and migraines would be gone
• open-ness and the softening of hearts of the people we meet and come into contact with
• that joy and thankfulness would be abundent
• for clarity and focus
Thanks so much for your prayers and may you be blessed in this epic Christmas season! Merry Christmas!
This week has had a lot of firsts. First week of outreach, first time at the tip of the south island, first time "preaching" (more like sharing) in a church, first time on a ferry, first time being on the north island of NZ, first time getting burnt in December, first time going to the beach in December or Christmas for that matter, first time away from home and in a completely different country for Christmas, first time eating sweet potato casserole with marshmellows, first time going to a midnight Christmas eve service, first time going a midnight Christmas eve service at an Anglican church with "carols, communion, and candles", first time having a Kiwi Christmas with a Kiwi family, there's been a lot of firsts. My first week of outreach has been so good. It's been heaps of fun and I've loved getting to know my team better along with getting to build relationships with awesome Kiwis. The Kiwi families and homes we've stayed at so far have been so lovely and so hospitable, God has blessed us with amazing contacts. Traveling through NZ makes you really appreciate the straight roads at home, their roads are so windy and curves at every possible corner or hill or mountain. It's also shown me how amazing God our creator, our Father is. God loves to amaze us his children. He is so vast and just like his love we'll ever only grasp a speck of who he is. Just helping a family do their yard work this week which couldn't be done due to family situations, we got to show them how beautiful and how loved they are in God's eyes. Even something as simple like doing someone's yard work because they aren't able right now God still uses us. He is just so amazing!
Some things that you can pray for is:
• team unity and a one-ness of our team
• that we would countinually be open and willing to follow the Holy Spirit
• that God would work through us and fill us up with more of His Holy Spirit
• energy for our team
• healing for my team leader, that her headaches and migraines would be gone
• open-ness and the softening of hearts of the people we meet and come into contact with
• that joy and thankfulness would be abundent
• for clarity and focus
Thanks so much for your prayers and may you be blessed in this epic Christmas season! Merry Christmas!
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