Thank Jesus for safe travel and for a nice place to stay for training! I can very happily say that I have had a shower every day I’ve been here and have been blessed with a fan to cool me off in the night! We even have women who have blessed us by cooking our meals for us. I mean, they cooked chocolate cake for us for dinner last night. Chocolate cake! I could smell it being baked that morning and was so excited to finally get my hands on it that night.
I have been eating all of this up, just delighting in it, because I know it will end soon. Team Judah’s first assignment is the dumps of the Philippines. Basically imagine a school in the middle of a HUGE trash dump where 4,000 people live, and that’s where we will be working. I don’t know how to describe it exactly as I haven’t been there yet, but I know it will be HARD. I just have to laugh when I think about the fact that this is the first place we’re being sent, because it seems like one of the hardest things we could be asked to do. I have been asking God for years to send me to the hard places, to the places that no one else is willing to go, and He has been answering my prayers! But honestly my team is excited for the dump. We are not excited for the smell or the dirt or the hard things we’ll encounter, but we are excited to learn from the “least of these”, to get to know them, and to love them. I am praying that as we are being sent into this hard place that the Lord would be shaping Team Judah into the team that we’ll be for the whole year. One thing is sure – we can’t go into these places by ourselves with our own strength and be okay. We need Jesus, we need the gifts He’s given us, and we need His Holy Spirit to be in us and working through us.
Please be praying for health and safety! It will be so easy to pick something up, and there will be a lot of spiritual warfare going on around us. Be praying that my team would step into our giftings and be learning to work together as the body of Christ. Be praying for humble hearts, for a willingness to do whatever is needed, and for team unity and learning to put each other before ourselves in action and in thought.
Thank you for keeping up with us, and for your prayers and support!
