I'm drinking a hazelnut frappacino in 80 degree weather wearing shorts and a t shirt and it's frenzy friday!

We’re just finishing the second week of the school and things are still going full speed. Oh man! It’s been another emotional week, but this time it was for healing. I’ve been crying out to God to help me deal with a certain area of my life and He ceased to be silent. HALLELUJAH!!! On Tuesday we had a heart-to-heart and together we’ve begun a much needed healing. I fell on the ground and wept in the middle of prayer in class (you should all know how uncharacteristic that is for me) and then all the girls came over and prayed for me… it was unbelievably awesome. Chicka yeah! God is doing some awesome things in my life! Also, last night was super awesome; almost all of the students and a couple of the staff went down to our drained-pool-turned-skate-park and looked at the stars. It was so beautiful! We can see way more stars here than in Sioux Falls or Minnesota and we even saw a shooting star!!

I’m having an absolute amazing time here, but I really don’t want people thinking that this is a vacation. Yeah it’s gorgeous and I’m sitting on our back deck (in shorts and a t-shirt :D )that overlooks the beautiful mountain-ish hills in our backyard… but seriously its hard work. We wake up at 6am and have prayer and intercession before breakfast and then have time with God and then three straight hours of really intense class time followed by afternoon activities, dinner, and after dinner activities… and then we start it over again. It’s the most rewarding hard work EVER. Ohmygoodness.

This week we talked about developing a biblical worldview and identity. The speaker is a super awesome woman named Josie, she leads a Justice DTS in New Zealand and she’s super passionate about the sex slave trade. I’d consider myself pretty informed on the subject, but dude she has opened my eyes! 90% of slaves in the world are in the sex trade, 90%!!! 90%!!!!!! Think about that. Unbelievable. This needs to stop! Josie’s DTS did their outreach in South Africa and they actually managed to shut down an entire ring of the sex trade there, SO AMAZING!!!

You all also need to know that I’ve made a connection back to Minnesota from here. One of the staff here lived in Alexandria, Minnesota and went to my uncle’s church when he was younger. CHICKA WHAT?!?! Seriously, what are the odds?

I hope all of your weeks have been awesome and I hope to be able to skype some of you soon! If you have skype sign on around 7-7:30 pm (your time) on Thursdays! (that’s 2-2:30pm on Fridays here in NZ… weird.). DO IT!