Anticipation

It’s hard to believe that tomorrow I leave for training camp.  After months of waiting, wondering, preparing and anticipating it’s finally here!  I finally get to learn how this all works, I finally get to meet my teammates in person and I finally learn how all my stuff will fit into my pack!

 

 

 

But this trip is more than all that.  It will be 10 days of intense preparation spiritually and physically and I’m sure there will be information overload.  We need to be prepared as much as we can be when we launch in January.  The staff will help us release the “junk in our trunk” so we don’t take that extra crap with us.  How will I be able to help and reach out to others if I’m dealing with my own stuff?  It would be rather difficult I can assure you.  Though it won’t be a pleasant process it will be so freeing and liberating to know that I will be free in Christ.  And truly free!  I just need to be open to the process that I will go through next week and LET GOD WORK!  There will be guest speakers and lots of worship and team building.

 

I have also found out a bit more about our teams.  We have 2 squads of 60.  We have maxed out the amount that can go.  In fact we maxed out their housing at training camp so the guys have been banished to sleeping in tents for the week while us girls will have the luxury of being indoors (I’m assuming – probably not a good idea to assume anything with this trip – hahaha). 

 

 

 

During the week I will be doing team building with my squad who I will do ministry on occasion with during the month.  We will then be further broken down to teams of 5-7.  This is the group that I will do ministry with 24/7.  We will see our squad during the month, but not every day.  We will more than likely be sent to different ministries within the country we are in because most ministries can’t handle 60 people at one time.  So there will be those I get to know really, really well (like I’ll know their sleeping, eating, everything patterns); those I will get to know really well; some that I will know a bit and some not at all.  The January team is just too big.  On one hand I love that we are big.  But it makes me somewhat sad that I won’t get to know all of them.  But we are connected no matter what.

 

My prayer this week is to let go and let God.  To let God work through me and that I allow Him to.  I pray for our teams, that we bond and that I bond with my personal team.  I pray for safe travel and I pray for change.  Change that I will not be the same person as I was when I left.  That this process continues until I leave and beyond.