Hey everyone!!!
So, we have had a lot of opportunity's come up this week, its been really busy and really long. We feel like we have been here forever, not just two weeks! We are getting out into the community to see what we can do and have already had a lot of events and activities...... We started off the week working on the beginings of a garden at a near-by school. The school wants to give and sell the produce to needy families, this is a great opportunity and its going to impact people around us. It was raining a bit so it felt just like home...kinda. It was still real warm but working there was great!
Then we went to the local university to hang out with people from our international church, had lunch with them. We got to invite a bunch of new people to church, the women at church cooked food for them which is what gets them to come!
So after that all four of us went off to have a devotional time and really put some questions into my head.... what does hope mean to you? What is your hope in the Lord?
Later that night we went got to serve some homeless and hungry people. It was a great time to build relationships with people that are hurting and I got the chance to sit and talk with people and hear some amazing story's abouth their life.
Our next adventure we went to go help serve some more people but praise the Lord but they have to many hands but they said to check in every once in a while to see if they need help if we are in the area. On our way out we met this guy and he invited us to church the next day he was a wonderful guy he told us his story and how the Lord changed his life. So while we were down in town we had lunch at the park and then we hit the beach and had some good individual quality time. So then Sam came to pick us up and he told us we had an opportunity to go on a road trip so when we got back we met with this lady and only two of us went and two of us stayed back to do testimonies and help with youth street.....so Ricky and Shaina went on the road trip, while Michael and I stayed back... (Ricky will share share about the road trip) So for Michael and I we woke up Friday to head to the school to help share the word with the kids. Something that really stands out to me is in Australia schools they have set time aside(1 hour per week) for people to come and do "religious studies" with the kids. Christians luckily are the ones taking advantage of it and use it to build relationships, its a great opportunity. While we were there we did some games,and we talked about the body and how important it is how God created it to work and how each person is beautiful and wonderfully made! It was amazing to be able to speak into over 150 kids lives!! Then comes the big day, Youth street!!! So this week we went to the skate park to hang with a bunch of kids and tell them about youth street and invite them, i got to talk with 2 girls and they plan to come this week so I'm stoked for that!! Then we came back to the base and we had youth street live, it was on purity and relationships! It was amazing to see teens choose God's plan for purity in there life... Then Ricky and Shaina came back !!!---Amanda
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