.APEX 
So we all began our debrief in Australia in our old teams, but we have switched. Hannah, Carrie and Brittani are still on my team, but instead of two boys we are now a team of six strong women! Alicia and Jessie are my other new team mates and we are team .APEX. So far we’ve only had three days of ministry together, but the travel day was a really good test for us. We left the church at 2pm to go to the airport, caught our plane at 6:20 Aussie time, landed at 10ish (local time) in Singapore, spent the night in the airport, where they were doing construction… meaning pretty much no sleep. Started moving at 5:30 took a train to the bus station, took a bus through the border into Malaysia, walked to a mall to take a train to a bus station to meet our contact. Then we took a taxi to another bus station to take a bus to Khala Krai where we are staying for a while. So after leaving Australia at 2pm on Tuesday, we arrived at our location at 4am Thursday morning and began ministry that evening. EXHAUSTING! but a great way to learn to work in God’s strength and not your own!
That evening we went to an Indian church and Hannah and I gave the message. The church is on the second floor and the only way in is up a flight of stairs. I watched a woman with one leg climb up the stairs on her hands just to hear the word of God. All I could think of when I saw her, was is that how strong my faith is? Would I battle and climb just to hear the word of God? Being Indian in this community and being Christian usually means being outcasted from the rest of the community, so her struggle up the stairs is probably one of the easiest parts of her faith. This floors me! We had communion that evening and everyone went up to the front, but the pastor walked back to her to give her communion. I wish you could see the want and need that were in her eyes; it was as if he was carrying water to her and she hadn’t drank anything for weeks. I’ll be honest, at first I thought it made sense for her to have this want of Christ, with all the struggles and battles she faces on a daily basis, one really must rely on God. We have it easy, I thought, in America we can be Christians without persecution and practice openly and even take an elevator or have a wheel chair ramp to hear the word. But I was wrong. We don’t have it easy. We are given almost every single advantage possible in our lives, we have luxuries that we count as necessities, and because of that we live with this false assumption that we can make it on our own. I want this need, this hunger for God; I want my life to be solely dependent upon Him. 
