Bullet point memory week one of outreach

Ok! Outreach! In case some of you out there don't keep updated with JAM or any of their social media websites or get their newsletters or any of the other marvelous things they do to keep in touch with people all over, then let me fill you in. Our team (well, majority of our team) went on a two week outreach first to Prince Albert and then to Koue Bokkeveld (spelling is so butchered; I'm sorry).

It was nice because, well many reasons, which I will list and briefly explain below, but especially because of how small our team was. The super six included: Myself, Tessa, Lisa, Xandra, Gareth and Thinus. And that was our team — just the six of us. It was quite nice with the flexibility of a small team and the "homey, family" feel. But here's some things I wrote down that I wanted to remember about this outreach.

• Mixed CDs — I got to make some killer mix CD's for the 10+ hours we spent in a car over the outreach. I included all the best like some Disney, some '80s, some techno, some oldies, a little bit of this, little bit of that. But bottom line, they were awesome mixes and it was SO much fun to rock out with the team in the car
• Mountain Update — in case you are slightly behind, Gareth, Masi and I have started a youtube channel all about the life we have living on a mountain. Don't worry, we DID do updates while we were on outreach. 
• Card Games — almost every night, the team would have some time where it was just the six of us and we would play super fun card games like UNO or this one game called Mao. Looking back on the card game moments, we kind of looked like a cheesy hallmark movie where the family sits down and plays a game together, but it was PERFECT!
• Tent collapse — the first half of outreach, we were staying in tents and one of the nights/mornings, there was a HUGE thunder storm. While everyone was running around grabbing bags and things, our tent literally collapsed on me and I was stuck there for a while, haha! It was quite hilarious.
• Braii — oh man! We had such a yummy braii with Tannie Heleen and Oom Karl. It was lamb chops and bread and other yummy things, oh my word!
• Job — Every morning the first couple of days, youth from a surrounding town came and helped us build  camp activities for the Prince Albert base. One of the mornings I got to lead the devotional and I decided to do it over Job. It turned out to be super blessed and was exactly what some people needed to hear. Go Jesus! :D
• Worship with Kalisdorp — oh my word! We did a weekend camp in Prince Albert with two neighboring towns' youth and their worship! These people were such worshippers! All of it was beautiful and most of it was made up on the spot. It was so lovely and blessed
• Testimony at the cross — during the camp, we "hiked" up to a cross near the house where I got to give a Little snippet of my testimony which was cool because it was really only the second time I've done that in all my life.
• Smores — 'nough said.
• Enslin & rap & poetry — I met a guy who will be joining JAM next year named Enslin. And he's awesome. I got to perform some poetry for him and a few other guys and in return they all started rapping. They were sooo good! All their raps were about Jesus.
• Create a song — during one of the camp sessions, tannie split everyone into 4 groups, and each group was given a verse in the bible in which they must make a song out of. It was SO much fun and so cool how the spirit showed up.
• Tannie's session on blessings and encouragement — Tannie had a session all about speaking words of life and encouraging each other. We got to stand in two circles (an inner and an outer) facing each other, then we took turns telling each other encouragement. It was incredible!
• Tannie sayings — throughout our time with Tannie Heleen, she would randomly just say such encouraging things to us. Things she told me: You're lovely. You've got a beautiful instrument (meaning my singing voice). You're a great composer. And, others enter into God's secret place because of  your one-ness with Jesus. So encouraging eh?
• Response to testimony — there were two young people, a guy and a girl, who each came up to me and said how much they needed to hear my testimony at this point in their lives and it was SO awesome to know that God had used me in that way.
• Sheep Tending with the Haus' — I got to herd sheep.
• Playing guitar on the porch — I'm reteaching myself guitar and I got to play on our lazy day where I was overlooking a sheep pasture, and the mountains and this beautiful sky. It was so surreal

So that all was from week one of outreach. My next post will be week 2.