We are going in to our 5th week here. I can't believe it! The time is flying by - literally, our days come and go quickly and before we know it, we're into our next week!
Our typical day is something like this: Breakfast 6:15-7:15. Classroom time 8am-12pm. Prayer room or small groups 1pm-3pm. 3-5 off with kids. 5pm-6:30pm dinner. Mondays and Thursdays we have evening stuff as well. It's a busy time but it sure makes us appreciate our downtime that we do get!
We are learning so much more about God and about ourselves as well. It has been so great.
In a quick nutshell, we have had different topics of teachings each week with a different person teaching them as well. We have had a week on "Pure Heart" - a lot of inner healing things spoken about in this week. Very powerful and wonderful. It's such great teaching and although I've heard it before, it never gets old. I love it and learn something every time. It's a deep cleaning :) Another great week was with Brian Brennt who came with a message of Freedom. Just going over the simplicity of the gospel and how easy it is to find freedom from things that have bogged us down for years or decades. Loved it! Learned a ton! This coming week we get to listen to a lady - Amy Sollars. I cannot wait for this! I think it's going to be fantastic and have high expectations.
As you may haveread already - we have found out where we'll be headed for outreach - and it's right here! haha. We have teams going to South Africa, Uganda, India, Nepal, Tibet, Amsterdam, London, Washington D.C, New York state, Los Angeles and Hawaii!! All such super exciting places but also super rural places where it'd most likely be pretty tough to be going with kids. So, we are posted here in Hawaii and we are truly excited about what's going to happen. I'm still learning a lot about this place and there is quite a bit of poverty in some areas. Also a lot of tension between the locals and the Marshallese people that live here. Hawaii also has a few of the the "top 10" worst schools in the nation. There is a lot of opportunity for us here and we are excited to see what it all will look like. I'll keep you posted as I find out more of what our particular focus will become.
Our team consists of 1 single and 7 families. It's so great. We love our team so much and can't wait to get to know one another even more.
Today we celebrated one of the girls birthday (5 this week) and went to a beautiful place where the kids could swim and see dolphins and all sorts of other sea life. They loved it! And I finally was able to see some whales jumping out in the distance! It was so great! And so great that we can have all this free entertainment - God's creation!
We missed "dad" though as he has gone for the weekend (on his way back as I type). He went to Los Angeles for 4 days with a team of about 20 others from our school to be part of wildertour. The link highlighted will be able to tell you more about it than I can but I can't wait to hear all about it tonight!
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