Today was the last day of week one. It's so real - I am one of 18 staff for a school with 42 students and I love it! Instead of bringing in a speaker for the first week, all 18 of us got a chance to share our testimony with the class. Then today Mike Brown, our school leader, brought a message on hearing God's voice and we got to reveal OUTREACH LOCATIONS!!!! I spoke on Tuesday, which at first I was really nervous about. I hadn't told my testimony in months and never had in front of so many people before, so it was quite a new experience for me! It worked out great, though! I got to share about what it was like growing up - how I had such a solid family and church background as well as my struggles in being demonically oppressed. It's not a story I've ever shared much, but I am done acting ashamed of my past. I got to open my heart up to my students and give them a taste of the petrifying fear and overwhelming depression I had struggled with before Jesus delivered me as well as the amazing grace that God poured out on me when He freed me from that oppression. It was a nerve wracking yet awesome experience opening up in such vulnerability to so many people I have yet to get to know, yet I am so glad I did it because I am so filled with joy in how God did such a miracle in my life and I truly love sharing that story with people!!! God is so good and I want to tell everyone I can about it!!!!! That was Tuesday, and today was the big day everyone's been waiting for: the announcement of outreach locations! We made a really cool video that showed all 8 locations on the globe and played video clips from each place, then gave the students an hour and a half to go practice what they had just learned - to go pray and listen to what God was saying and then come back and give us their top two choices for where they would like to go for outreach. Over the weekend, our school leaders will pray over the students' answers and hopefully by Monday we will know who is on what team. That's when we can officially announce details!! =D We're getting so close!!! Once we know who is going where, we start getting close as outreach teams, doing research on the countries we are going to, praying for those countries, etc. That is also when the schedule gets MUCH more busy, so I am planning on fully utilizing my work-free weekend. =) Quiet weekends are so nice! The anticipation has been slowly building to this point and now we are just a couple days away from everything being determined and decided. Praise God, I am SO excited for Monday and to see who is on my team!!!
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