This is the first part of a Year in Review. I will be sharing both challenges and celebrations from every country we visited. As this is only Oceania, part one, please note that Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe are coming.

+’s are Celebrations
-‘s are Challenges

New Zealand

Some Staff and LITs (Leaders in Training)

+ Worked with Totara Springs Camp in Matamata, New Zealand.

+ Learned about discipleship with youth.
+ Awesome staff at the camp. Made many friends.
+ New Zealand is B-E-A-UTIFUL!

– Sometimes youth are not well disciplined.
– Severe sunburns on both feet.

Australia

Part of the Team and Squad Leaders

+ First experience of ATL (Ask the Lord) ministry in action.
+ We were located in a very beautiful place.
+ Eastgate Church housing our teams when our campsite flooded.
+ God provided us cheap SPAR (Grocery Store) Meatpies.

– Hard to see the amount of Spiritual Oppression there is in Byron Bay
– Universalism made evangelism hard.
– Very Western culture was easy to sit in.
– Bryon Bay banned the selling of Bibles in the community.