We travelled from Chinchilla to Airlie beach yesterday. It's supposed to be around 14-16 hours but it took us 21 hours!!! We started at 2230 on Saturday night and arrived in Airlie around 1915 on Sunday! I got about three hours of sporadic sleep!
Today we have the day off and some of the students are going on a rafting adventure to see the Great Barrier reef!
My co-leader is back in Australia!!!!!! We leave for India in four weeks. Two visas are completely processed. Slum-dog millionaire has been watched. Our bellies have been prepped for heaps of rice. Hearts have been pricked with His love for this place!!!
God is good.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Saturday, October 13, 2012
smile cause it happened!
It's been quite a while I feel!
So I will start with an update on team India! 6 out of 7 members of team India have visas in process. It should take about 10 days for all of them to be back. God is starting to give us excitement and vision as a team!
We are about to leave on the Pass it On tour in Chinchilla! [this is one of my FAVOURITE places AND where God started to heal my back!] Please pray for our whole school but especially my team. My co-leader had to go back to the states for 1 week because of some "technical difficulties" so I will be leading our team solo. We will be doing school programs and work projects all week!
[I am not stressed at all but it's weird not having her around. I know God has a plan and wants to challenge and grow me in ways I couldn't be if I had her here for this week!]
After being in Chinchilla for a week we will drive 17+ hours to Airlie beach for a week of lectures on Missions. From Airlie we will migrate to Stradbroke Island to do lectures, from Stradbroke we will head back to Brisbane for two weeks then on to INDIA, SAIPAN, GUAM, PERU, JAPAN, INDO, MALAYSIA!
During the two weeks we are on base we will be joining with another Discipleship school that has the focus of Music, Art and Dance for lectures on worship and then we will go on a mini road trip to read the bible ALL THE WAY THROUGH IN ONE WEEKEND!!!!! We have about 76 people and we are going to a really hard place to read through it. As you can see with the all caps that I am HEAPS excited. The bible is my favourite book and has changed my life. Every time I get something new out of it! It really is living and active.
That pretty much sums up the next few weeks for me. I am, as I type this, sitting among a pile of clean laundry around what used to be my couch waiting to be placed in a suitcase.
Honestly I could go on and on about what God is teaching me and how good he is and how much life isn't about me, but I am heaps tired.
A few prayer requests are:
-Jennifer gets all logistical stuff worked out in America.
-We have favour with our visas.
-Jennifer and I get money for outreach so we can buy tickets. [ASAP]
-Our team continues to have a heart/vision for India.
Thank you so much for reading! I truly appreciate everyone that reads this. My heart is content and I enjoy see people's lives change because of the Lord. I do miss people and events back home and every once in a while my heart gets sad. But I know that life goes on and I know that I am supposed to be here. So again, thank you for putting up with my sporadic updates and random quirks.
I am truly blessed by my parents, siblings, my church: Image, friends, and family.
Cheers,
Shannon
671 Samford Road
Mitchelton, QLD 4053
AUSTRALIA
**Urgent need.
We have 5 students and two leaders. All of our students have enough money for outreach. Currently neither my co-leader or I have money for the initial deposit to buy plane tickets. As we are travelling over christmas and new years the longer we wait the higher the prices. We have been emailing, writing support, prayer, fundraising the best that we can and we still have no money. I DID [thank the Lord] have enough for my Indian visa, but Jennifer cannot get hers until she is back in Australia. [and has enough money] So all of that being said our team cannot go on outreach without one of us. [preferably BOTH! (; ] We are really stumped as to the next step. We both felt that he lead us to go and it looks "impossible" right now. So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pray/support/tell friends/shout from the roof tops for our financial needs!!!
If you are in America you can send support to my church. Or you can direct deposit it into the YWAM account hear with an online form. That I will attempt to attach and if not you can email me at: shannon@goywam.com
So I will start with an update on team India! 6 out of 7 members of team India have visas in process. It should take about 10 days for all of them to be back. God is starting to give us excitement and vision as a team!
We are about to leave on the Pass it On tour in Chinchilla! [this is one of my FAVOURITE places AND where God started to heal my back!] Please pray for our whole school but especially my team. My co-leader had to go back to the states for 1 week because of some "technical difficulties" so I will be leading our team solo. We will be doing school programs and work projects all week!
[I am not stressed at all but it's weird not having her around. I know God has a plan and wants to challenge and grow me in ways I couldn't be if I had her here for this week!]
After being in Chinchilla for a week we will drive 17+ hours to Airlie beach for a week of lectures on Missions. From Airlie we will migrate to Stradbroke Island to do lectures, from Stradbroke we will head back to Brisbane for two weeks then on to INDIA, SAIPAN, GUAM, PERU, JAPAN, INDO, MALAYSIA!
During the two weeks we are on base we will be joining with another Discipleship school that has the focus of Music, Art and Dance for lectures on worship and then we will go on a mini road trip to read the bible ALL THE WAY THROUGH IN ONE WEEKEND!!!!! We have about 76 people and we are going to a really hard place to read through it. As you can see with the all caps that I am HEAPS excited. The bible is my favourite book and has changed my life. Every time I get something new out of it! It really is living and active.
That pretty much sums up the next few weeks for me. I am, as I type this, sitting among a pile of clean laundry around what used to be my couch waiting to be placed in a suitcase.
Honestly I could go on and on about what God is teaching me and how good he is and how much life isn't about me, but I am heaps tired.
A few prayer requests are:
-Jennifer gets all logistical stuff worked out in America.
-We have favour with our visas.
-Jennifer and I get money for outreach so we can buy tickets. [ASAP]
-Our team continues to have a heart/vision for India.
Thank you so much for reading! I truly appreciate everyone that reads this. My heart is content and I enjoy see people's lives change because of the Lord. I do miss people and events back home and every once in a while my heart gets sad. But I know that life goes on and I know that I am supposed to be here. So again, thank you for putting up with my sporadic updates and random quirks.
I am truly blessed by my parents, siblings, my church: Image, friends, and family.
Cheers,
Shannon
671 Samford Road
Mitchelton, QLD 4053
AUSTRALIA
**Urgent need.
We have 5 students and two leaders. All of our students have enough money for outreach. Currently neither my co-leader or I have money for the initial deposit to buy plane tickets. As we are travelling over christmas and new years the longer we wait the higher the prices. We have been emailing, writing support, prayer, fundraising the best that we can and we still have no money. I DID [thank the Lord] have enough for my Indian visa, but Jennifer cannot get hers until she is back in Australia. [and has enough money] So all of that being said our team cannot go on outreach without one of us. [preferably BOTH! (; ] We are really stumped as to the next step. We both felt that he lead us to go and it looks "impossible" right now. So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pray/support/tell friends/shout from the roof tops for our financial needs!!!
If you are in America you can send support to my church. Or you can direct deposit it into the YWAM account hear with an online form. That I will attempt to attach and if not you can email me at: shannon@goywam.com
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