Were to begin on the last 6 weeks in Jeffreys bay...
A few words that I gan think of to describe the past weeks in Jeffreys would be growth, unity, love, grace, compasion, friendship, prayer and team building.
I say growth because not only did I grow, but we grew as a team closer and in unity. Spiritualy it was a great journey were in the first few weeks God really came to shape us and to prepare us for the journey, taking out and away stuff in us that we don't need. And through that I grew as person so much, just learning about myself and God revealing how He sees me and that is perfect and elect!! With that I also grew in my relationship with God and really being more sensitive for His voice and being obedient to what He says.
God also gave me a bigger love for people. We worked in the community and I just felt Gods love for His people. How He love everybody so much and how He see people different than we do. He just sees the best in us... I really felt a few times how His heart breaks for His people and how helpless He sometimes feel. I grew a compasion for people that I never knew I could have.
It was awesome to see God's hand during our challeng (it's something lik amazing race) and how He open people's hearts and hands. Just thinking about all the people that picked us up when we hiked, and driving us around Jeffreys and PE. And what a blessing it was to do the race with the people I did it with and getting to know then in a whole different way and how each one of them surprised me - in a good way. After our race we were in the bush at a campsite for 2 weeks. Here we learned about a lifestyle of simplicity after we did surviviour for 3 days and getting to know eachother while being out of our comfort zone completely. (Less is more.)
During our time in the
bush we cooked food over the fire, took cold showers, never used our phones, used a longdrop and slept a few nights under the stars. And just being in nature and the stillness experiencing God in a different way. I would go back there any time. Being in nature and camping we also did some teambuilding activities and through that learning about the team and elements/factors that is important in our team for this year.
The last week, we came back to Jeffrey's bay and I experienced the last week as the week were I grew the most. I felt God just saying now we are ready to go into the world and make a difference. Now we are ready for Him to start the good work in us. That makes me so excited and I can't wait to see how God work in us and through, we just need to be and He will do the rest.
So this is my last night in South-Africa and we are flying out tomorrow afternoon to India. So India, ready or not, here we come to make a differnce!!!