One Crazy Adventure...
I know it has been a while since I posted last and so much
has happened since then! Things have
been very crazy as we are trying to prepare for our two-month outreach to
Argentina. We are in our last week of
lecture phase and we will be all heading home for Christmas and then returning
to head out to Argentina. Since I last
posted we had a week of teaching on Inductive Bible Study...
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In this week we learned all about how to get the most we can
out of our Bibles. The lady teaching on
it was a South African lady named Retha.
It was so amazing to hear her read and talk about the Bible because she
truly made it come alive. She told stories from it as if they were from personal experience. I
know for me sometimes I forget that the Bible is a book of history about people
just like you and me. The people who
wrote it were just like you and me. This
is something kind of hard for me to wrap my head around but she really
showed me the Bible in a whole new light. I
definitely read the Bible differently now after hearing her teaching!
Just this past Friday and Saturday we had a guy named Dean
Sherman come and speak on relationships!
He is the same guy whose videos we watched on Spiritual Warfare a couple
week’s prior. It was a real privilege
that he came and spoke to our DTS. He is
basically wanted by everyone to speak so he can be hard to get to come but I am
so glad he did. We crammed over a weeks
worth of teaching in 2 days! It was
great! Relationships are obviously very
important! They are in fact the most valuable
thing in the universe and the only thing that is eternal (they have always been
and will always be). The one key
message in the Bible is in 1 John 3:11 which says, “LOVE ONE ANOTHER!” We have the ability to love and be loved
because we were made in the image of God!
(side note: image=shadow, if the sun shines past God we are the
result!) Relationships are such a big
deal that the one commandment that Jesus says is, “LOVE GOD and LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF!” That’s it. Basically all the problems in this world are
relationship problems (people thinking they are better than others, putting
their self above others, whatever, it is relationship failures). I could go on and on about this topic. He does have a book on Relationships that I
would highly recommend. I haven’t read
it yet but I do plan on it!
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| Fasting our bed for a couple of nights in preparation for outreach! |
Along with these teaching we have been doing quite a bit of
outreach prep. Unfortunately as of right
now we only have 6 students and 1 staff for sure able to go on outreach out of
a total of 11 students and 4 staff. We
are in need of about $23,000 total, which is due in less than a week. We all know God is totally capable of
bringing in all that money and would love if you could join us in prayer for
it. We have tickets purchased for those
of us with our money in but for the rest they will have to be purchased as the
money comes in so we are praying also prices don’t go up too much. The flight booked now is scheduled to leave
on December 30th and return on February 27th. We will be spending the first month in Buenas
Aires and the second month in Puerto Madryn.
We will be doing things such as speaking in churches, playing with
children, helping at local YWAM bases, prayer walking and just open evangelism. It will be such a great experience and we are
really hoping everyone gets to be a part of it.
We have also started having a Spanish lesson before classes so hopefully we
will be able to make a little conversation while there and really build relationships!
If everyone that reads this could just pray for my DTS as we are preparing for outreach and waiting on funds I would appreciate that so very much. If you feel lead by God to donate you can go to the link below and click on the pay pal donate button, write for purpose: Outreach and then type in the amount.
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