Here’s a video I made showing what our days tend to look like here! This was definitely a crazier day because of ‘prom’, but this is our basic schedule for everyday.
5:00-5:30 wake up and be downstairs ready to start making breakfast (what time we get up depends on what we’re making)
6:30 serve breakfast, normally yogurt, eggs, or on a special occasion banana bread with a ton of fruit
7:00 devotions and prayer time in teams
7:30 clean up from breakfast (dishes, sweep,mop, tidying)
8:15 get in the tuk tuk and tell Mr. Sam which markets* we need to go to, typically last until 9:30-10. We have a budget of $4 per person per day to shop with. It turn out that it is way more than enough, the fresh fruit and vegetables are very cheap!
10:00 start prepping/making lunch
11:30 serve lunch (other teams rotate cleaning up each day)
**some of the lunches we cook are fried rice, chicken salad, taco salad, etc.
12:30 whole squad meets downstairs to have personal time with Jesus (read, journal, paint, rest) (sometimes leaders show us how they spend time with Jesus and then the next day we can model what they did if we choose)
1:00-4:00 free time (have team time*, got to the lake, ATL*, go to a cafe, rest)
4:00 start making dinner
6:30 serve dinner (other teams rotate cleaning up each day)
7:30 have team time if we didn’t do have it during free time
9:00 be in our compound
10:00 be quiet in our room
*We have a chicken man, an egg man, a veggie woman, a fruit woman, and we typically go to two grocery stores
*Team time varies each day (worship, journey markers, free for all, teaching, feedback, debrief)
*ATL = Ask The Lord. The other day we did a scavenger hunt. We spent some time in prayer asking God to give us visions or words, and then we journaled and shared with each other. Then we went out and looked for the things we heard from Him. When we approach people we say something like, hey God sent me here to talk to you, is there anything I can pray for specifically. Sometimes they say no and give us weird looks. Sometimes they don’t speak English so if Mr. Sam is with us, he translates. Sometimes they say yes and the conversation goes deeper. ATL should be a way of life and we’re striving to make it our routine every single day.
