almost in a daze. It really is hard to believe that my time in New
Zealand is almost up. Lets do a bit of a recap since my last blog…
We arrived in Fielding where we were
going to be helping out at a christian festival called “Soul
Survivor”. My team and the other team with us were assigned the
job of Stewards for the duration of the festival which is pretty much
the same as saying were the muscle. Trash pickup, toilet cleaning,
gate duty, whatever needed doing that’s what we were there for. Its
not the typical kind of thing you might think of when you think of
missionary work but for me I really saw it more as just an
opportunity to serve others and so personally I rather enjoyed it.
Anyway, the days went by quickly even with what seemed like a never
ending drizzle kind of hanging around (isn’t this suppose to be their
summer down here?). The wind picked up once or twice and a couple
tents almost blew away. On one of the days I ran kind of a ring toss
game where one person held up a hula hoop and the rest tried to
through soaking wet sponges through the hoop for points. Needles to
say the people holding the hoops got soaked, it was pretty sweet.
And then all the sudden it was Monday and it was time to move on to
the next festival we would be helping out at.
further south to (Why-ka-nie, don’t ask me to try and spell it) and
the site of our next festival “New Wine”. For me it meant a
change in scenery but as I was to be on the Steward team here as well
not much of a change in what I would be doing. The rest of the team
however got a change of pace as they all ended up working with the
various groups of kids attending the festival. This week has been
especially challenging but good for me in a personal way. Amidst
helping with the festival I have had some really great conversations
with some of the staff here as well as other world racers. God has
really been speaking through some of them and making me take a deeper
look at how God works in my life and also how I try to limit the ways
I am willing to let Him use me. Some of it honestly has not been the
easiest to hear and even harder to actually receive it but Pride was
one of the things I ask God to help me really lay down before Him so
it wouldn’t make a whole lot of scene to fight it when he starts to
dig at some of the roots.
as well and in a day or so we will be heading Australia and month 2
of this little adventure. I’m told that I can expect a bit more
sunshine over there, lets hope =)
to be continued…
