The weeks seem to be going by faster and faster as outreach gets closer! I now leave for South Africa in two and a half weeks which is very soon and I'm starting to look ahead to packing and such. We also found out that for our outreach in the United Kingdom we will be going to Newcastle, England! We don't yet know what we will be doing there and may not till closer to the date.
This week's lectures were led by Steve and Jo Bishop who are the DTS center directors. They spoke on relationships and identity. We spent a lot of our time looking at who Jesus related to and how He related to them. We were often broken off into small groups to look up scriptures and give examples of those relationships. As Christians we are called into relationships with those around us so that we can share our faith.
We also spent some time looking at our identity and how that can be influenced by many different factors and how we have two different identities. Our natural identity which is how we would try and define ourselves through the world (through material things and concentrating on what we can achieve) and we also looked at our spiritual identity which is how God views us (found throughout the Bible). We also looked into the how our identity influences our self image.
This week I also saw the amazing ways that God works! There are five people who go to the same church as me here in Harpenden and on Sunday we had a little bake sale, face decorating and balloon animals for the congregation after the service. We spent four hours on Saturday baking and preparing for it and then on Sunday we just asked for donations towards the baking. Once we got back to the base we counted the total and we were amazed to find it totaled 360 pounds! It was wonderful and has helped out our team in reaching our financial needs.
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