In almost exactly 5 weeks from today I will be starting my minor outreach. This will be with the missions adventures . . . A youth group will be coming in and for 4 Days my team and I will be training and preparing these youth to go out and minister to people, then after there short period of training we will head off with the youth group to Palm Island for around 10 days . . . Side note here Palm Island is an Island off the coast of NorthEast Australia, it will be about a two and a half hour boat ride for us. Palm Island is the largest grouping of indigenous people in the Australia left, it is also known as one of the most violent places in the world. We have been told that it is quite the cross culture difference and that it is rather similar to the conditions of a third world country even though it is still considered Australia . . . After we return from that we will then begin 5 Day Escape, If you dont remember 5 day escape is a week long youth camp that we here run and I will be a part of the staff, there will be about 60 kids that are from Townsville and are a part of youthstreet. We will load these lads up on a double decker bus and drive all the way down to the Gold Coast (thats about 12 hours, Gold Coast is an hour south of Brisbane and one of the biggest surfing areas in the world). While we are in Gold Coast we will be staying in a camp with cabins and meeting halls. This week is more about relationship ship building with the kids than anything else but at night we will have devotions and worship. As well I will be a leader of a small group of young fellas that we will have discussions in each day. As for the activities we will be going surfing one day (YES!!! SURFING) and we will be going into the city just to hang out and shop and we will also be taking the kids to a couple of amusement parks.
For my Major Outreach I dont really know many details just that we are going to first be flying from here to New Zealand, then from New Zealand to Southern Australia (possibilities are Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and others but it will mostly be in the states of Victoria and New South Wales . . . If you dont know your Aussie geography I am in Queensland as is Brisbane we are located above New South Wales this is where Sydney is and Victoria is the next state over to NSW and that is where Melbourne is) other than that all I know is that we will be going to help at other YWAM bases, working in and for churches, and going into schools as well as just the general communities that we are going in. Most of what we will be doing will be focused on getting things ready for the ship tour that is going on as well as focusing on youth in these areas and trying to help them see the Love of the Lord.
I am super excited and cant wait, as I find out more details I will let you know. I feel kind of silly being a missionary from America and coming half way around the world and never leaving a first world nation but I know that there are lots of people everywhere that need to see the Love of God and I know that exciting things will take place and I know God will move.
Please keep me in your prayers and I thank you for your continuing support, I thank you all!
Love and Light,
J.
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