Outreach

So outreach for the BCC is way different then the outreach for my DTS. Now I thought that things were going to be a bit different this time around, but I guess so many other things were going on before we left that I never really wrapped my head around it. The layout of our outreach looks like this: 2 weeks in Wollongong (just outside of Sydney) first week is preaching and teaching in schools, and the second week is an Amos seminar for the YWAM staff. The next 2 week will be in Newcastle (4 hours from Wollongong) which will be the same as the first two weeks-preaching and teaching in schools, then another Amos seminar. From there we will board the medical ship that I have talked about before in the post Life update (check out the link at the bottom). We are going to be able to sail with this ship for the last two weeks of outreach and really serve the ship in anyway that we can. We will be on the PR team (Public Relations) which means we will be give tours of the ship and sharing out heart (YWAM Australia) behind this ship which is, being life to PNG ('I want to live'). This is going to be such an amazing time to get involved in this ministry. Please watch the link (its just a short video clip) because it explains what it will be doing.

So far outreach has already been very challenging, mostly because I feel 100% outside of my comfort zone. We have only taught a few times and honestly they went fairly well (which is encouraging) I think a lot of the time I get overwhelmed when I think about teaching the bible - with good reason! God is definitely teaching me so much more then I understand right now. I feel like he is just asking me to continue walking even though I don't feel him, I'm outside of my comfort zone, and it's all hard work - but to still know, love, believe, and trust that he is God. He is asking me if I will keep going when its rough, but to be able to fully say yes I have to go through it. It truly is good though because I know that God is going to break out through me and in me ~ which is beautiful even at the thought of it. God is good and he is big, the whole point of learning more about him is to know but then to Proclaim! What is the point if it is only ever head knowledge, because you will save no one if you puff up with your own pride of "how much you know". God has made it clear for us to GO and make disciples of all nations - so it is exciting to be moving in that direction.

I think a lot will come from this outreach, and it will be cool to see how powerful it will be by simply using the word of the Lord. It is the tool he left/gave to us!