I know it's been an eternity since I've updated... Not a lot to say about the last few weeks except that we've been CRAZY busy. The World Religions week was amazing, we all learned a LOT, I'll post some more from that week later. We also covered Compassion In Ministry, our speaker that week, Ray Highfield was so great. He's from the south, and he cooked for us one night... we all wanted him to stay forever. Then we had Doug Tunney speak on Personal Evangelism which was definitely not my favorite week, but my perspective did change a bit. Last week was Jeff, our school leader, speaking on Servant Leadership, which I thought was a good wrap-up of our whole school. We started lecture phase back in June with finding out our Strengths and Spiritual Gifts and the last day we talked about how those strengths play a role in servant leadership.
It's also probably time I mentioned... I'm officially going to be an intern this fall! My outreach portion of the SOMD is the internship, so I will be staffing the fall DTS -the school I did last fall- and I will be one of the outreach leaders, bringing one of two outreach teams either to Africa (actual country is still un-decided), or back to the Amazon of Peru. I'll let you guys know the official place probably by the beginning of next month. The DTS students will be showing up in less than 2 weeks, and classes start September 26th. Me, Ahnna, and Caitlin are in the process of moving our stuff all over the base right now as they decide where to put us because there's potentially going to be 9 girls and a family coming as students so room situations are still being decided. Please pray for patience for us because it's possible that we'll be moving all of our possessions not once, but 3 times. I guess the worst part of that is that I happened to sprain my ankle pretty badly last week... So I've already moved all my stuff once and my body is so mad at me for all the strain I put on it. Now if we have to move 2 more times this week, I can only imagine how swollen my foot will be.
But anyways. Please be praying for us interns -Scott, Brenden, Ahnna, Caitlin and myself- and the upcoming students and school! We will be needing it very much. The dynamics of this school are going to be really interesting. We've got students from all over (Netherlands, South Africa, Haiti, Minnesota, etc) and a wide range of ages too (18-26) plus the family and possibly another couple who will be coming. It's going to be quite the experience with all of us 20-something's leading people from seriously ALL different walks of life! Prayers for endurance, wisdom, patience, trusting God, and lots and lots of energy would be MUCH appreciated!
We'll be starting DTS prep this week through next week and it will be extremely intense, so if you don't hear from me for a while, just keep praying and hopefully assume that no news is good news! :)
