Our God is an awesome God

So last week our team went to Uitenhage in South Africa for a short mission. We were beyond blessed throughout the whole week. All of us were split up to live with different families from the church we were working with. And man that was an experience in itself, my friend and I ended up staying in a shack with a family of four. We shared a twin size bed and had a leaking ceiling hahahaa, it ended up raining so much we had to move out of the house to a different family so we would stop getting wet while sleeping. Both families wow they were so welcome and accepting to us. That was probably the biggest thing for me, how open the people were to us. We had women of the church cooking us all three meals for the whole three weeks, and we did not even have to pay for them it was all blessed to us. Our team learned so much about unity. God really broke us individually as well, for me it was my pride, which was long over due. We did a lot of door to door evangelism which was really awesome, any house we walked into would offer us everything they had to eat or drink it was amazing. There were a couple people on our team that literally slept in a horror movie house. They had to fight with demons for two nights straight without sleep, it was pretty intense. Overall it was very successful, we learned about our athority we have in Christ, and just in general how much we need to all be united in order for our ministry to be effective.

The week now that is just ending our speaker talked about Prayer, which was a very good topic for all of us. Its been really good to be able to practice prayer and to understand why God needs us in the first place to pray. We are getting ready for Nations 2 Nations which is a huge worship thing that is happening in JBay with our base and three other big churches. There will be speakers, and alll kinds of nations together worshiping in our own way. It will last a week, but man we have been cleaning this base like crazy. Its looking very very nice! Ok OK I almost forgot, wow ok on Thursday we did this activity where our speaker challenged us to pray about the things that were keeping us distracted from God and to give them up. He challenged us to find seven things that we could give away to other people to bless them. So we got an hour to pray about it. and well lets just say I don't have many electronics left. Its been something ever since I got here, like man I have wayyy too much stuff, more then I ever will need in my lifetime. But it was amazing how life changing this exercise was, it was really hard for some people to give up stuff. But I received this Gold necklace that was passed down from a Madagascan King, man the significance behind it was so great to the person who gave it to me so I felt so blessed to receive something like that. It was so crazy how much joy you get from giving things. And it was also crazy how much God was speaking through every gift. No one got something twice, and everyone got exactly what they were needing at that time. It was incredible. God is so good.

Prayer request:
Nations 2 Nations-just that instead of focusing on the event, we focus on the real reason behind it, God.
Patience
Our DTS unity
Just for our overall focus to be on our realtionships with God.
We have gotten our outreach teams and fees, so pray for money.
Many of us have the flu, all the girls do at the moment, so just that we can all get better.