week two- The father heart of God

So last week was kool. we had a speaker for the whole week. his name was Jack Kody and he came with his friend skip (who played a mean harmonica and wrote ace songs). the topic was the father heart of God and honestly i wasn't looking forward to it at all. i've never really God this topic and havn't ever agreed with previous teaching i've heard about it. however i was plesantly suprised...he said that we need to understand that God wants relationship...he is not a big guy in the sky but someone who want to see how are day has gone etc. it was refreshing to have someone say that it doesn't matter what mood we are in when we come to god but it is the mere fact that we are talking to him that matters. he went on to explain different aspects of a father and how that relates to God. a very kool week.
we also managed to find the matrix and watched it one week so that the only guy in our goup now understands what it means to be the one!
our first exercise class was on thursday and it was soo funny...we went to the beach and played football and it ended up that me and coray got chucked in the sea by sojerd. all great fun... i made an awsome goaly i would like to add! ahha.
at the weekend i was in the kitchen which ment waking up at 5:45 and preparing american pancakes on sunday we went to church and then had the rest of the day. a group of us walked up to starbucks and then back just intime for the most beautiful sunset ever! and i mean ever... i have never seen one like it; we stopped at the beach and just marveled at the colours and the creation before us.
so as this blog is a little late i will tell you about the begining of this week at well.
the topic is team building....sounds fun but it is exhausting and has been a hard week. Our speaker has been Tim Pratt (yes yes being British i was the only one who laughed at his name); he is an awsome guy who is so easy to relate to...heeps of respect for him.
so the bases of a team is trust....yes trust...the thing that is soo hard. so we all had to talk about a hard situation in our lives ...it was a time with alot of tears and opening up. everyone has different backgrounds and has gone though some very different things. we have also done some great team games. yesterday we did a personality test to help understand who has what position in the team. i came out as a peaceful person haha rather than the organised one or the loud one haha...no suprise there. it been really interesting week and am really starting to understand how people react underpressure and how to best cope ( each game put pressure on the team to react and for people to take lead and communicate). Everyone is pretty tired but doing well.

so lastly today we had to do our local ministry (last week we painted a ladies house). this week we were told to go in 2 teams and pray about what God wanted us to do. everyone Got words or pictures but none of them seemed to link. so we were sent off with some money and just told to pray and see what we should do with it. so my group (Jessie, coray and me) were just walking towards this stadium as this is the word jessie got; and along the road we passed these kidz in this yard. they were really poor and cute so we stopped and said hello but then carried on walking. this road was soo dusty and had all these dogs going crazy barking...at the end of the road coray stopped us and said "guys do you realised some had a picture of this dusty road with all these dogs"
we were like..hm yeah..ok." so we turned around and there were these three dogs not far away barking. to turned back around and prayed "god show us what we should do down this road" decided to just walk back up at down as we turned back around, the dogs were gone...no where to be seen. not round a corner or in a yard...no where. so we walked up and down praying and came to the house with the kidz again. we decided to use the money to buy them some basic food shopping. the shop turned out to be next to the staduim (we recone that was like a direction from god otherwise we would have gone into town center) we got food and gave it to the family. we said it was a gift from God and not from us and they invited us in as we showed them what we had got. we then went of our merry way feeling really excited. the family seemed touched and the little kidz kept waving at us after soo cute.

so it is totally food time now so i need to go.
hope you enjoyed the ramble its kinda long again. thank you for all your comments and messages i've loved hearing from you all.
next week the topic is relationships which is usually an intense topic and we have been warned our speaker is a no nonsense guy and not to get offended with how direct he is.
lots of love to everyone
God Bless
xxx