g in the Holy Spirit and Relationships. The students did awesome with tons of response and a complete movement of God. For myself I have been so blessed with more and more opportunities to connect with the guys in my small group, each one of my small group guys' love doing different things so its been great to find out the things that they love and going out and doing it with them. One of my guys loves the water so we have been able to surf quite a bit lately, another few of my guys love to just go out and play sports or walk and its been great finding out what it is that gives these guys excitement and finding out the keys to there hearts.
This past weekend as a DTS we went to see the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team. It was so awesome for all the students to really be able to get together and travel outside of the classroom and experience some awesome Kiwi culture. Although they lost to the South African Springboks it was still good fun.
In other awesome news Outreach locations and team leaders been decided. After days and even months for some, God showed us where we should take the outreach teams. One team of 8 including 2 staff will be heading to Papua New Guinea and I will be leading a team of 12 with 3 other staff to Bali, Indonesia. The outreach will last a little over 3 weeks and it will begin on October 15 and we will be flying back into NZ on the November 10. We are still unsure of where we will staying in Bali or what we will exactly be doing but as a team we have been praying a lot for direction and God has really been speaking to us. So far the team feels very led to do prison ministry, hospital ministry, and most of all orphanage visits and children ministry. Most of all we have a heart to do straight up evangelism, this is radical group of motivated individuals and there hungry to see some lost and alone people find the Father God. Also there is another surfer on the team and we have been praying a lot into possibly doing some surf ministry so the possibilities are endless with God.
Once we return to NZ we will be joining up with the Ship In Christchurch and begin a 4 week ship tour around some of New Zealand's major ports including, Wellington, New Plymouth, and Bluff. Our main purpose is to rise up 30,000 young people into missions and share with them all of our stories that God has given us and show to the Kiwi Youth that they CAN serve God anywhere and that God is all about relationship with them. Once the NZ tour is over we will sail back into Tauranga harbor and then Graduate on December 10.
The next question is.. What are you doing after the school ends? Well as of now I have booked a ticket to Perth West Australia where I will spending 8-10 days with my good Ozzie mate Cheyne and his family. I was asking God "How do you want me to wrap up this amazing spiritual journey in NZ before I go home?". As soon as I began to pray I got the invite to Perth and new right away that it was God calling me. So after a solid word of the Lord and Spending every last penny I had I bought a ticket to Australia. I am so excited for the trip and feel very blessed that I have this amazing opportunity.
Prayer Requests
As a school we must still be focused on what the teaching is and it can be very easy to become distracted especially when outreach is on your mind, so please be praying for focus within the school and great opportunities for both outreach teams to become connected.
Also please be praying for guidance of both outreach teams and that we can be in complete step with God and hsi calling for us in Bali and the PNG team.
I always love spending time with my guys' so prayer for more amazing opportunitites for me to invest into them would be so amazing and such a blessing.
Lastly, I am so thankful for Gods financial provision over me being able to purchase both a ticket to Bali and Perth. It has been so great being able to have such amazing stories of faith for what God has done for me and the unique ways he has provided for me. I still do not have a tcket home though and still owe a staff fees so I am really trusting God for a lot right now. At the end of the year I will owe about $2500 in staff fees and about $1300 for a flight home. SO please be praying for me to get a ticket home before the ticket prices sky rocket for the holidays.
Thanks to all who have been in prayer for me and have blessed me with prayers and encouragement and also a huge thanks to all who have supported me finnancially. I feel so blessed to have such amazing opportunites to serve God in such amazing placs with such God hungry young people.
Love you all.
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