Daily duties

To all those who are loved by God and called to be saints: Thank you to all who donated for this portion of my trip, England has been completely paid for! I thank God for you all in my prayers, thank you for the prayers and the donations. Without you all responding to Christ, I would not be here. The community here is extraordinary. From egypt to switzerland, italy to korea, there are so many nations represented! Quite a few americans as well, from chicago to virginia, hawaii to washington, even the diversity amoungst the americans is tremendous! And knowing this, we are more tight than any other organization ive ever been apart of! Christ is so able to work through everyone here as they are living in such a sacrifice of their wills to Christ. I do miss home, but I cant imagine leaving this place! Ben and Jo, my leaders are from england and new zealand, Martina is from Egypt and Lara is from switzerland! What an awesomely diverse group, Im learning so much about everybody's cultures! :)        The past week has been quick! Every day, we have breakfast at seven to prepare for the eight o’clock session of worship and sermon/intersession, which is always amazing. There are so many talented people here who have led worship. It’s remarkable, having these leaders truly lead as we are brought to a time of sincere worship to be in the right place for either intercession/prayer, or to learn from the day’s sermon. The fore mentioned time is followed promptly by about three hours of lecture, which is a time when speakers who have been involved in YWAM instruct us through scripture. Each week is assigned a different leader and coordinately a different topic. Our leader Ben, in the first week, led us through scrture in the things achieved through the cross. Which led to a time of awesome clarity in our lives, as we confessed of guilt and shame that we carried with us, as Ben put it, as to not walk a victorious limp. Last week, an amazing man of God named Dave led us through the scriptures in full context of how to live in community, in short, how to have Godly relationships with everyone we commune with. He was well prepared every day, and had an immense amount to share, but he was so willing to recieve instruction from the Spirit. His openess to pray for issues in our lives was beyond that of anyone that i have come in contact with. The first day, he started off with the announcement that someone in the class was homesick, hadnt been sleeping, and was frustrated with nearly everything that was going on. One girl in the class instantly came into mind for my roomate Dane. Shanon had been telling him the night before that she was extreemely homesick and couldnt sleep. She shyly attracted Dave's attention, and we were able to pray for her! She had such a relieved expression after that time of prayer, since then she has been so much more involved with the group! On wednesday, Dave suggested prayer for someone whose family has had heart problems, bypass surgeries, and whose father's blood pressure seemed frightening as the student thought of their own future... My heart started beating out of my chest, but i was a bit hesitant to stand up and ask for prayer in that, but he continued by saying that one of our friends was in serious trouble and was falling away from Christ, inwardly i reeled at the thought that he had heard from the Spirit that I needed prayer. My close friend had just been arrested and was hating God. With that, he began a time of intercesion. I raised my hand and told him of how he could pray for me, and the things he had been led to pray for, he did. (later that week my friend in prison accepted Christ!!!!!) to say the least the sermons have been great! After the time of learning, we are blessed with the opportunity to serve the base in work duties. Work duties are assigned based on each student’s willingness to serve and previous experiences, and for the past two weeks, I’ve been involved in the demolition and removal of the interior of a corridor here. It’s quite the workout, but the team is a lot of fun to work with. The woman in charge of construction and maintenance, Hermione, is such a work horse! She was a double Olympic athlete for South Africa in softball and field Hockey, and is so cool. She also teaches on a different book of the Bible every week in a very estudious way, walking us through the history, purpose, and applicative purpose of that particular book each week! She is such a blessing here. My roomate Dane has also been assisting, a girl named Racheal from the medical education team originally from Virginia, Sampson, a school of biblical studies student from Niger, and another student from the sbs named Kieth from The Isle of Man. This team and I have removed an entire hall of tiles, toilets, and walls to prepare for two large shower rooms! Its been quite the experience :) Every thursday so far, we have been able to go to the closest town and evangelize! Its been so geat trusting in God and simply walking up to people to talk, and spreading the gospel to these people's lives! We have had quite a few great experiences. Carly was even able to pray for healing in two seperate people's lives, and both were cured of chronic back pain! A girl from Virginia in our team, Rachael gave her ug boots to a teenager who was quite extatic! Sorry it took so long to post this, but ive been quite hectic :) The grace of Christ Jesus be with your spirirt! :)