Newsletter #4 "Time flys when your having fun."

     Wow, this week was a blur! It was fun, serving the Lord in a lot of different ways still and hopefully that will continue. It has been a wonderful, we had quite a lot of interesting days and life is still a bit chaotic here as we still try to get into a steady roll of things and pioneer a few new things. Although, I am beginning to doubt we will ever get into a routine, life here is simply too crazy with to many random opportunity's, but hey, keeps us on our toes not knowing what the Lord has planned for us day by day.
     So after our weekend(Sunday and Monday) We went back to Mayfield East Primary, and kept working on clearing out a space so they can keep building up their community garden. We made an even bigger dent then we did last time, I am under the distinct impression that we moved a small mountain of debris out of the area. But, maybe I am biased. After that we went to the Uni, to have lunch with the international students and invite them to the Sunday service we help host. Building relationships with so many people from so many different cultures is amazing, we all got to work on our chop-stick skills too, since that is what was available for our free Korean lunch! I got complimented on my chop-stick skills might I add, and we are all managing to not embarrass ourselves with them in general!!! What can I say? Our team rocks!
     Amanda and I also went back to help with three more year 7 scripture classes with the areas local school chaplain! We gave our testimony each time and helped with the games, we saw around if not over 250 kids during these classes, and in less than two weeks have had the chance to speak into over 500 kids lives, through our testimony and these classes! It has been amazing!!! On an interesting side note, the last class of the three was by far, these loudest, most disruptive, of all the classes. They were also the only ones to come up and thank Amanda and I for sharing our testimony with them. It is beautiful to see God touch broken hearts and broken lives. I look forward to going back to these schools!

Friday and Saturday was Youth Street prep and outreach! On friday, we went to go chill and hang with kids at Waratah, a local school. We got there only to find out all the kids were having a swimming carnival at a swimming pool a few kilometers away. Let the adventure begin!!! A few wrongs turns later, asking for directions twice and we made it!! Got to talk to kids and invite them to Youth Street it was great! The next day the Youth Street team I was on went to see pro-skaters at a demo! Newcastle just had a world class skate park put in, so we took the skate team to watch the pros and relax by the beach! It was finished off with Youth Street live where they talked on bullying and praying for your enemies(like the bully) and how it is far better to repay evil with good then evil with evil. When we broke up into small groups many of the kids stepped up and actually prayed for their "enemies" together!! All in all, another great Saturday!!!
     Once again thank you so much for your prayer!! I would love to hear back with comments and questions from you guys!!! Please keep praying for the different ministries we are involved in(Youth Street, Community Garden, International Church/outreach, and soup kitchens) and that God would lead us into any other ministry opportunity's that He wants us in!!! Thank you----Michael Kindle