The sailing begins today as we head off to our first location of Orama located in the great barrier islands of the northeast coast of New Zealand. We will be there working with a camp and finishing week 7 of the lecture phase. Great Barrier is an absolute beautiful place. I had the opportunity to sail there last September and it was such a experience. The sail is short just 12 hours and were praying for smooth seas.
After our week in Orama, we will head back to the main land in Auckland to dry dock the ship and do any last minute preparations for the ship before we sail. After a week of of inspections and week 8 of lecture is finished we will sail 4 days out to Lautoka, Fiji. We are planned to spend the last 3 weeks of the lecture phase in the YWAM base in Fiji then we will begin our first half of outreach by working with the medical team on the ship. We will be doing eye care, dental care, and also primary health care. Once we are done with our first outreach on the sip with the medical team, the teams will be split up and sent off to our 2nd outreach locations. The first of 8 which is led by Dahvede and Caroline will be flying back to New Zealand to do a backpacking type outeach traveling through the parts of the North and South Islands. The second team which is led by Hayley and myself will take our team of 8 will be heading out to Rabi Island. A small Fijian Island in the northwest islands of Fiji. We are still not set on what we will be doing there but we feel called to simplay let God lead us. It is hard to make contacts with the people of this islands seeing how it is ran by generators only running at certain hours of the day. Both teams will be staying in there location for 3 weeks and then we will meet back up in New Zealand for debrief and graduation. I will be updating my blog the progress of the last weeks of lecture and also outreach when it begins. Hopefully I will be able to find an internet source to update you at least once a month.
Please be praying for our safety as we sail, for safe seas and complete guidence in the open south pacific seas.
Also please be praying for Gods Revealance of his plans for us. We are blessed to have the opportunity to reach out to these people and we ask that we can can be as much as a blessing for them as they are for us.
Thank you so much for reading my latest blog and I will updating you as soon as possible. Bless you all. Thanks for all the love.
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