I am still alive, I promise.
I know it has been a while since I have last written a blog, almost a month and a half to be exact. Time has been flying by and so many different things have been happening, that I have forgotten to keep you all up to date and I am sorry about that!
So, here are a few things that will get you up to date!
Last month I spent on the Ruth Bell Medical missions boat in the middle of the Amazon river basin with team Fiercely Loved. I had an incredible time with them and loved doing boat maintenance, kids programs and living life on a boat alongside them. We watched pink dolphins from the roof of our boat, played tons of card games, bought empanadas daily from a lady in our town, and spent tons of time still before the Lord. I look back on this month so fondly and am so grateful I got to be a part of it.
Here is a video made by two members of Fiercely Loved that will tell you more about each person on the team.
Then we traveled to Mendoza, Argentina for a debrief and time of the whole squad being together. After months of praying and seeking the Lord, it was finally time to share with the squad some changes that the Lord had for them. Team changes, Raised Up Squad leaders (to take Jenny and I’s place after we leave the field) and a change in their route.
So many changes, I know! The Lord was ushering them into new wine and it was so exciting to finally share what he was inviting them into. We changed up the teams and now have four new teams with four new team leaders.
Below are each of the new team names along with the blog site of the new team leader. Feel free to check out how each teams first month has been thus far!
Team New Ground – maddiehungate.theworldrace.org
Towdah – hannahnorris.theworldrace.org
Grafted In – brooklandt.theworldrace.org
Zolaish – suzannerinks.theworldrace.org
Then, we announced who the two new raised up squad leaders would be.
Sara Kidd and Cami Chickonoski.
This is sweet Sara!
and this is Cam!
These two sweet humans will be leading the squad in the day to day things on the field once Jenny and I leave in a little over a week. EEK. Cannot believe that it is all happening so soon.
After this time, we took the two new RSQL’s and went with our Squad Mentor to spend the next 10 days training them. It was a sweet time of passing on all the information and things I had learned over the last year of squad leading in being a RSQL and ASQL. I quickly came to realize that passing the baton would be harder than I thought, because I had deeply cherished my time squad leading on the field with C squad and N SQUAd. My heart began to ache already about letting it all go.
Here is a picture of all of us during our training together.
Then, after our 10 days we split up and each went with one of the RSQL’s to one of the new teams for the rest of the month. I got the privilege to go with Sara to spend the rest of the month with team New Ground that is with YWAM, Mendoza. At YWAM we have gotten to facilitate outdoor camps which is right up my alley. I have gotten to belay kids and work on the high ropes course, zip line, go white water rafting, hiking, rappelling and so much more. Our time has been so full and is flying by so much faster than I expected that it is hard to even process it all.
Here are a few photos from our time with Team New Ground!
As my time on the field is coming to an end I have been starting to process what it means to leave and no longer walk alongside this sweet group of people in the day to day, what the Lord has next for me and so much more.
Thank you all so much for your support and for making it possible me for me to go on this trip and be a part of their lives. I am so grateful and will cherish the memories with them forever.
I am also so excited to share with you an exciting thing that the Lord does have for me next, which I will be letting you know soon in my next blog post!
Thanks for everything, I mean everything.
Until next time,
Han 🙂
