Sunday, August 9

This Week

August 13th. The day we (moreso, Curt) have been waiting for. It's the day we officially begin on campus. Meetings will start and we will begin planning with our staff team for the year. Students are returning (how did summer already end??) and we are getting back into the mindset of being involved on campus.
We began homeschooling the girls about a month ago to try to get into the groove while Curt was home to help. It's been a good month and I feel like we have a better handle on what we're doing.
Our most exciting, recent news is the Lifelines' event we got to help out with yesterday (pics to come). We helped take out 24 students on a paintball trip. We took along Turi and Bitsu who helped out with cleaning equipment and such inbetween games and it was fun to see them involved with the students.
They played two different games and then took a break where they began processing different questions that were thrown out to them. For example, the first game was every man for himself. We asked things like, "What does it mean to be alone? How did you feel being out for only yourself as oppossed to the second game where you were on teams?" These lead to good discussion and eventually we talked about how you feel being isolated in life and how God can play a role in that area. We had seven students who indicated that they want to know more about God or talk with us more about spiritual things. It was fun to actually be a part of something we've been training about doing for awhile.
Pray for us as we start up this week. Also, pray for us as we feel it's time to begin the home group we've been praying about. Thanks!