Saturday, November 9, 2013

Bullet point memory week two of outreach

Ok, so the whole previous post was JUST week one of this amazing outreach, so as an infomercial would say: BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! And here is week two's things I want to remember.

Background: For week two, while we were in the Koue Bokkeveld, we stayed in this church that had an adjacent kitchen and gym/auditorium/stage/hall kind of area. We did kids ministry in the mornings and in the afternoons and evenings, we worshipped and prayed with the youth.

  • Jesus in the gym — in the middle of the day, we had a bunch of free time our second day. I decided I just wanted to pray. Out loud. By myself. And somewhere where I could yell. So I went to the gym. I put on some music, and I just had a really honest, real time with Jesus. I got loud. I yelled. I listened. I sang. It was awesome.
  • Crazy worship night — Things got cray. I stood on a chair for a long time. Impromptu poetry started coming out. People were getting visions. God was speaking like crazy. It too was awesome.
  • Conversation with Lisa — I got to have a really cool conversation with Lisa just about struggles and my life and stuff. It was cool because I've been semi-bad about opening up.
  • Making a new song — one day during free time, Gareth, Lisa, Thinus and I decided we just wanted to mess around, so we ended up making a worship song complete with animal sounds and crazy other sounds. Check it out on Facebook. :)
  • Learning Ballet — Xandra taught us how to be ballerinas on the stage. I couldn't sit comfortably for a few days. I have so much respect for dancers.
  • Getting locked in the bathroom — CRAZY STORY! Ok, so one morning before breakfast, I went to take a shower and when I had finished I was going to leave. When I tried the door handle, I had been locked. From the inside. And I was no where close enough to any of the team members for them to hear me screaming for help. So I stayed locked in there for a while trying the door. I had no phone or anything. I was starting to get frustrated, a little bit scared. So I prayed. I decided to try the handle one more time. The door came right open. CRAZY! Prayer is so powerful.
  • LoEllen's smile — I'm sure I didn't say his name right, but there's this really cool dude in Opi Berg who loves Jesus so much and just has one of the most beautiful smiles I've ever seen.
  • Jesus in the gym #2 — One of the nights, we decided to do an all night prayer in which we each took time slots during the night where we would wake up and pray. That way, there was always someone praying throughout the whole night. I decided to do extra and I took 4 hours during the night and I wanted to do my time in the gym area. At first I just worshipped for over two hours. I could only really play one song because I'm still learning, but after a while I just started to make up my own lyrics and it was cool because it was like I was really singing to Jesus what was on my heart. Around 12:30, the demons started to come and let me tell you I was TERRIFIED! I have never been more scared of them. I wanted to run, or wake someone up to come pray with me. But then all of a sudden, I really was filled with the holy spirit and I just heard this voice say: "sing. Just sing."I was filled with all sorts of courage. I grabbed the guitar, started to play and just sang. Instantly, I saw this ring begin to expand around the building and the demons could not enter the ring. God reminded me how much of a spiritual battle this side of eternity is and I immediately began praying protection over our team and for Koue Bokkeveld.
  • Magic tricks — Gareth decided he was going to be a magician. It didn't work out so well. Lisa really is a magician and showed us some crazy card tricks!
  • Lastly, I want to remember all the people who accepted Jesus on this trip — we were truly blessed. We got to see so many seeds drop on fertile soil.

So that was everything I want to remember about our two week outreach. I know I didn't give much detail on what we were doing in each place, but you can read about it somewhere on the JAM website I'm sure. This was just the outreach from my perspective.

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