January 3, 2010, my team and I packed up all of our belongings and headed to the Los Angeles airport. Destination one… NEW ZEALAND!!
So far life in New Zealand has been pretty easy… I haven’t had to see to many heart breaking things or experience a giant amount of brokenness, but as much as I’d like for those things to happen… this month was and is about community!!! You see, my team and I have been working for a Christian camp called Narrows Park. We’ve been doing mostly manual work such as painting, cleaning, weeding, and building while we are here!!
(Sadly leaving tomorrow)!
And while manuel work might not always be fun.. This month we’ve been extremely blessed with mattresses, our own kitchen, hot showers, a pool, and ice-cream.. PRAISE GOD!!! (Below are our amazing ministry contacts.. family for life 🙂 and my team.) But because of the comforts that we’ ve had I really feel like my team had the chance to get to know one another.. it’s been awesome!!! Not always easy but always good!!
One thing I’ve been constantly reminded about this month is how blessed I am that God put us here… simply because we haven’t had to worry about the “little things” and comforts we might be missing out on back home… but instead we get to focus on developing relationships and uniting our team together, Which is such a blessing!!!
God is just SO GOOD and he truly knew what he was doing when he put the 6 of my team mates together!! Each of us.. so different… but every one of us brings something so powerful and unique to the team!!! I’ve already learned so much from being around them for such a short time!!
The only thing I can even think to do right now is praise the Lord for what he’s done and is doing… Praise God for my team and thank him for his many blessings!!! There may be challenges this year but for some reason I know I’m right where God wants me to be!!!
P.S. Dearest New Zealand… I will never forget you.. i’ll be back someday!!!
