Mix and Match Update
Monday began our first official week of DTS with speakers and such, our first speaker being a man named Phil Cunningham; he started an awareness raising organization called Steps of Justice. This week he's been just giving us a lot of information on a lot of different injustices and it's been heavy but great.
Tuesday we found out our outreach destinations and the choices are.....*drum roll*.....................actually I'm gonna leave you guys hanging on this one. There are 2 options and one wild card lol. Please be in prayer with me as I try to discern where the Lord wants me to go. I have to let Josie know by this Friday (ya'll's Thursday). And when I let her know I'll let ya'll know.
Every Wednesday here we have a thing called, Community Lunch, where people from the community are invited to the church that hosts us (Urban Vineyard) and they give them a great free meal. Who are these people that come? -The homeless, people on parole, people fresh out of prison, addicts, drunks; basically, the lost and the least, the people Jesus would be hanging out with. This picture underneath is from yesterday. The man playing the guitar said he didn't want anything to do with religion and then maybe an hour later he was in there leading us all in precious worship. God does crazy things and is bringing a lot of healing. I wasn't sure how I would like Community Lunch but I look so forward to it; you meet new people and just get to build relationships with the broken. It's not so much about giving them Jesus but being Jesus.
Tuesday we found out our outreach destinations and the choices are.....*drum roll*.....................actually I'm gonna leave you guys hanging on this one. There are 2 options and one wild card lol. Please be in prayer with me as I try to discern where the Lord wants me to go. I have to let Josie know by this Friday (ya'll's Thursday). And when I let her know I'll let ya'll know.
Every Wednesday here we have a thing called, Community Lunch, where people from the community are invited to the church that hosts us (Urban Vineyard) and they give them a great free meal. Who are these people that come? -The homeless, people on parole, people fresh out of prison, addicts, drunks; basically, the lost and the least, the people Jesus would be hanging out with. This picture underneath is from yesterday. The man playing the guitar said he didn't want anything to do with religion and then maybe an hour later he was in there leading us all in precious worship. God does crazy things and is bringing a lot of healing. I wasn't sure how I would like Community Lunch but I look so forward to it; you meet new people and just get to build relationships with the broken. It's not so much about giving them Jesus but being Jesus.
Today I believe we're doing a prayer walk around the city of Auckland. And this Friday we're doing a day in someone else's shoes, kinda thing. We each chose a team "Poverty", "Malnourished", or "No Water" and all day Friday until Saturday morning we're to live life as one who is afflicted by these things would. So the Poverty team would go out for the day in whatever they went to sleep in, they own nothing so whatever they use they have to ask for to borrow. The Malnourished team cannot eat all day but must be present at meals. The No Water team is not allowed to use water at all; no flushing toilets, no washing hands or teeth, no drinking, no nothing. I'm very excited about this experience. I'm on the Poverty team and will certainly blog about the experience with that.
One more thing I want to talk about is a picture; it's a picture of a nice Victorian style building called, "The White House" and it's a brothel, one of the few that are known about in Auckland. Please look at the picture, think of the girls inside it. Are they there by choice? Are they there by force? How did they get there? How old are they? But don't just think and feel for them. Pray for them. Our team has made a habit that every time we pass this place we stop in front of it, circle together and pray. God hears our prayers and He hates what goes on in there more than we do. Pray for them
