To think that I have been here in the Philippines for 2 months is so crazy! Only about 5 more weeks I will spend here. Time has flown by faster each and every day! My weeks continue to get crazier and I'm learning so much. I have met some amazing people through this whole experience. People are speaking into my life as I speak into theirs. My future plans are stirring through my head each and everyday that passes.
On tuesday I was really able to spend that day like it was outreach all over again. There was a team of kids and there leaders from Hong Kong that came down for the week. Me and Rona took the team with us as we went on our feeding in Angono.. Most of the time when we go on our feedings we give them the food/ medical care and then when its empty we pack up and head back to the YMC but not this time. The Team was able to feed the families, make balloons for them, hand out clothes, and spend time with the children. We were there for about three hours! It was hot, and man did we get sunburned but it was such an amazing time. The faces on the children were priceless. Now when I explained before that the day felt like outreach this is why. When we were getting ready to go on a prayer walk around the community the team leader came up to me.. Normally I'm not asked to explain things to teams and Rona or other adults are but he asked me. At first I was alittle shocked! It brought back the memory of when I was standing in the feeding home in South Africa and Tracy, our leader, came up to all of us and said " We need someone to share their testimony". The leader asked me to explain to everyone about what a prayer walk is and How it's done. He asked me to lead a group around. It was really differnt to be put on the spot like that but I wasn't scared. Since the experience of YWAM I have been able to do more than I would ever of been able to do before!
Lately I have spent alot of my time with a group of the salon ladies as well as the Childrens home staff.. It has been really amazing to hear some of their stories of how they got where they are today. I spoke with Minda one day and we were discussing alot about my life as well as her life. We talked about our childhood and when we each came to know Christ and the struggles we went through until now. It's really neat that here in the Philippines once you take that time to really get to know someone and visit with someone then, they take the time to really share their lives with you. I think me and Minda spent two hours or so talking about so much. It was so nice to hear about the lives of a filipino. Before leaving that day Minda said something to me that has stuck with me everyday after that long conversation spent with her. Minda told me "I loved hearing your story, because even though you are younger than I you have taught me so much and I have learned so much from you already today." Another Salon lady I spoke to was Yoli. A huge difficulty for some of the salon ladies is there english. They can speak English but it is still sometimes hard for them to come up with the right words and they get nervous about if we can understand what they are trying to say. Me and yoli were able to speak about so many differnt things that day.. I could tell she was worried if I wasn understanding her sometimes but to make her know that I did understand I would sometimes finish the sentences for her and she would get a huge smile on her face because she knew I knew what she was trying to say. God is really using me for different things that I didn't ever see coming.
EASTER EASTER EASTER! i love Easter! One really neat thing I did on Easter was go on a walk where there was different stations that went through Jesus' life all the way to the ressurection! The facts that were brought up to me really hit hard sometimes.. Did you know that, during the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the historian Josephus accounts that the Roman General Titus had as many as 500 Jews crucified daily? IF you would like to check out what the different stations were online here is a link of them
http://churchsimplified.com/in_study/post/walkway_online_2012/
Thanks for reading.. and The next blog is going to be up shortly. Sorry for the delay of this blog!
On tuesday I was really able to spend that day like it was outreach all over again. There was a team of kids and there leaders from Hong Kong that came down for the week. Me and Rona took the team with us as we went on our feeding in Angono.. Most of the time when we go on our feedings we give them the food/ medical care and then when its empty we pack up and head back to the YMC but not this time. The Team was able to feed the families, make balloons for them, hand out clothes, and spend time with the children. We were there for about three hours! It was hot, and man did we get sunburned but it was such an amazing time. The faces on the children were priceless. Now when I explained before that the day felt like outreach this is why. When we were getting ready to go on a prayer walk around the community the team leader came up to me.. Normally I'm not asked to explain things to teams and Rona or other adults are but he asked me. At first I was alittle shocked! It brought back the memory of when I was standing in the feeding home in South Africa and Tracy, our leader, came up to all of us and said " We need someone to share their testimony". The leader asked me to explain to everyone about what a prayer walk is and How it's done. He asked me to lead a group around. It was really differnt to be put on the spot like that but I wasn't scared. Since the experience of YWAM I have been able to do more than I would ever of been able to do before!
Lately I have spent alot of my time with a group of the salon ladies as well as the Childrens home staff.. It has been really amazing to hear some of their stories of how they got where they are today. I spoke with Minda one day and we were discussing alot about my life as well as her life. We talked about our childhood and when we each came to know Christ and the struggles we went through until now. It's really neat that here in the Philippines once you take that time to really get to know someone and visit with someone then, they take the time to really share their lives with you. I think me and Minda spent two hours or so talking about so much. It was so nice to hear about the lives of a filipino. Before leaving that day Minda said something to me that has stuck with me everyday after that long conversation spent with her. Minda told me "I loved hearing your story, because even though you are younger than I you have taught me so much and I have learned so much from you already today." Another Salon lady I spoke to was Yoli. A huge difficulty for some of the salon ladies is there english. They can speak English but it is still sometimes hard for them to come up with the right words and they get nervous about if we can understand what they are trying to say. Me and yoli were able to speak about so many differnt things that day.. I could tell she was worried if I wasn understanding her sometimes but to make her know that I did understand I would sometimes finish the sentences for her and she would get a huge smile on her face because she knew I knew what she was trying to say. God is really using me for different things that I didn't ever see coming.
EASTER EASTER EASTER! i love Easter! One really neat thing I did on Easter was go on a walk where there was different stations that went through Jesus' life all the way to the ressurection! The facts that were brought up to me really hit hard sometimes.. Did you know that, during the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the historian Josephus accounts that the Roman General Titus had as many as 500 Jews crucified daily? IF you would like to check out what the different stations were online here is a link of them
http://churchsimplified.com/in_study/post/walkway_online_2012/
Thanks for reading.. and The next blog is going to be up shortly. Sorry for the delay of this blog!
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