Since the last blog post a lot of things have happened. On Sunday before our new speakers Hinrich and Katrina talked to us on their topic of Back to the Basics, we got to play rugby. It was pretty awesome. I don’t understand why we don’t play it in the states. Although it was fun, I did get a little hurt. What a surprise. During the first lecture Hinrich and Katrina had all of us take pipe cleaners and make our dreams out of it. That was really cool because I got to see what some of the dreams of the other people on my team. The next Tuesday was a good day, I made friendship bread. Mmmmm, so delicious! It was also a good day because, instead of normal lectures, we got to act out stories from the Bible with a partner. Not to brag or anything but we were pretty much the best, my partner and I did so well that we were asked to perform it again for open meeting on Wednesday.
For our biweekly adventure we went to Waipu caves and got to rock climb. That was a lot of fun. I never knew how much fun climbing things actually was until I got to rock climb here. There was a cave there at the caves, wow, fancy that, a cave at the caves. Anyways, the cave was massive, it wasn’t huge as in the ceilings were super high but inside you could just keep going it you climbed far enough. I went pretty far inside, far enough so that I couldn’t see the light from the cave entrance. As soon as I got far enough into the cave as to not be able to see the light from the entrance I noticed little lights on the ceiling. Glow worms! Glow worms are so cool, there must’ve been at least a thousand little green dots on the ceiling. It looked so awesome, it is too bad that cameras can’t get that kind of image. If you could see into my head though, you would be amazed at them. I would say that that was a really successful adventure. That was a friday, so that night we had a team of DTS students from Newcastle who were on outreach come to our base and stay with us for about a week. At first when they came I wasn’t too sure about them because they were very quiet and didn’t seem to want to interact with any of us, but after a while they eventually opened up to us and I was able to get to know them actually pretty well.
Kevin Stitt was our new speaker for the week. Hew spoke on the topic of the Character and Nature of God. That week started off really frustrating. Something about the topic made just about everyone in the group start to hate Kevin, but someone mentioned to us that no matter who the speaker was, everyone hated the person who spoke on the Character and Nature of God. Once we started to realize this, we were able to focus more on figuring out what we believe because the things that Kevin was bringing up were challenging us in our faith and in what we believe in. It was overall a good week, lecture-wise. But it was a really good week mainly because we had the Newcastle team stay with us. Over the week I got really close to just about all of them. Now that they are gone I really miss them a lot. During the week while we were having lectures the Newcastle team was speaking in schools and other places advertising about the main program that they were doing which was a huge event on Friday night.
Friday night was amazing to say the least. Friday morning we woke up and found out that the power was out. That was not very good at all. As you can imagine, we needed power to do everything that we wanted to do for that evening. Everyone was praying for it to be turned back. Apparently a major power line had gone out and just about everywhere north of Auckland was without power. It was such a major line that we were told that it could take up to a few days to repair, thankfully it was fixed in a matter of hours. We were expecting somewhere between one and three hundred kids and there ended up being at least three hundred, maybe more. The whole program was amazing, first we introduced the Newcastle team and then they played a few songs for the kids. A few of the guys on the Newcastle team are in a band back home. After that my team got to play a song for everyone and yes, I played bass in front of all of them. Go me. After that they did a pretty sweet skit that I will try to add a link to it or add it to this page but i’m not too sure how that will work out, we will see. Anyways the skit was very similar to the Lifehouse skit which some of you may or may not have seen and they did an amazing job with it. After that some of the Newcastle students gave a testimony and talked to the kids for a little while. When they had finished with that one of the Newcastle students hopped on his skateboard and did some fancy tricks for the kids and they all loved it. Afterwards the gospel message was given to everyone and then anyone who wanted to talk more about it was encouraged to come to the front and talk to any of the YWAM students. That was where the real fun began, I got to lead two boys to the Lord. Pretty sweet if you ask me. Anyways that was the main event and it was a huge success. The Newcastle team had to leave the next day and that was a sad day for sure.
This past week we had Patrick Dodson as our speaker and he talked about Identity, the Character and Nature of God, Biblical Worldview, and Your Future. It was a really packed week, especially because we had two lectures a day since Patrick had to leave on Tuesday night to go to his son’s sixteenth birthday party. The week was really good, it went by way faster than I had expected it to. On Friday a few of us went to the primary school in Paparoa and held a disco/dance party for about half of the kids at the school. YWAM has had a disco/dance party for the school kids for about four years now and we were told that we had done the best out of all of them. Probably cause I was there.... just kidding. Because some of us had gone to the disco party we were able to have Saturday afternoon off to ourselves. It was amazing how quiet the base can get when you take out most of the loud people. It was a very appreciated day of rest. There are only a little over two weeks until outreach and the time keeps going by faster and faster. I can’t believe that it has gone by as fast as it has. Before I know it I will be back home with all of you. So that has been my update for this time. I hope you enjoyed it and I want to thank you for all of your prayers, it really means a lot to me. Have a wonderful day.
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