Hey Guys!!!
I am so excited to tell you... "though it has been such a long time," that I got all the money I needed to enter training camp!!! The Lord provided the money.
Camp was amazing! We all have grown so close together over the past week. I had thought at first that this week would tell us things like, "don't drink the water.... if this happens... then do this... don't eat raw meat..." stuff like that... but it turned out to be a week of intence spiritual training.
Some of the first things they had us do was leave our pasts behind, and start walking in Christ more and more. They also taught us how to listen to Christ more and more. Some of the things they had us do was this thing called ATL or Ask The Lord.
In Ask The Lord, we were told to go into a certain area and start praying to ask God to tell us how He wanted us to work in our area, and what He wanted us to do there. My team went to a park and prayed for about a half our asking God where He wanted us to go. Our team felt called to worship God for a while. After about a half our of that, we felt called to go around the park and pray for people.
God showed me that He wanted me to pray for some of the mothers on benches watching thier kids play in the swing and slide area. So I went there and met two amazing women of God, Andrea and Colleen. I got to pray for these women for their tri-athalon the next week, and also wisdome as they raise their kids. It was such an amazing experience meeting these women.
Yesterday was our last day in America. So all the teams going out, "Swaziland, Kenya, South America, India, and South Africa of course :-)," all went to a the park and had diner there, talking and having fun with each other. It was very nice.
As I write this, I am waiting to get on a plain to go to Washington DC and then to Johanesberg, and then to Port Elizebeth. From there, we will drive to Jeffreys Bay. We are thinking that we will get to Jeffery's Bay around 3PM tomorrow, Pacific Time. It will be around 12-1AM by the time we get there. We will then start our ministry probably on Wednesday or Thursday.
Aaryn, one of our team leaders, told me that I will probably go with the Joshua Project, working with the kids there. From what I hear, there is so much oppression there in the people. I feel I am ready for my heart to be broken when I see them, but I know that it will still be hard.
Please pray for safe travels as we go to Jeffreys Bay today. Pray for our hearts to be broken for the people. Pray that Christ will even now start to prepare us for His ministry and work as we start working where Christ wants us to go. Most of all... Pray that our team will be Dangerous for Christ.
Love you all,
I will write later to you all!!
In Christ,
Andrew
