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| My on boarding group including our instructors and small group leaders! |
It’s hard to believe how
quickly our 6 weeks of training in East Texas has gone. It has been an
incredible time of growing in my relationship with the Lord as he is preparing
me to serve in West Africa with Mercy Ships! It has been a challenging time,
but also a very rewarding time. God has shown me so much about his
unconditional love that does not depend on what I do or don’t do.
Our training has included
kingdom principles, cross cultural dynamics and communication, worldview, and
interpersonal development among others. It has been a time of learning more of
the nature and character of God. We will
soon be living with 450 people from over 35 nations on a ship. This will be such an incredible experience.
As you can imagine there will also be challenges. Our training has given us
some great skills that will help us thrive on the ship. We pray that much of
what we have learned will be implemented in a way that men will see Jesus in
the way we love and serve one another.
For the last week of our
training we completed Basic Safety Training. After 4 weeks of classroom lecture
we were eager to go out and do some hands on exercise. These included
fire/water safety and CPR/First Aid.
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Bunkers on and ready for our
first day of Fire Safety.
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Cowboy Church!
(Chris, Gabriela, Esther, Catrice, Jeremiah and I)
Esther and I at the
rodeo following Cowboy Church
My small group:
(Darrion, Agnes,
Catrice, Nikki, Esther and I)
Prayer time as we
prepare for field service!
March 6th
we will fly to Conakry, Guinea to begin 2.5 weeks of field service before
heading to the Africa Mercy ship. We
will be conducting a Vacation Bible School for a local school as well as
building a playground for the local community.
Please Pray For:
- · God to prepare our hearts as well as those we are going to serve in Africa
- · Health and protection for the team
- · Strength as we will be working long, hot days to complete the playground
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