Hey sooo here is the latest update we are coming towards the end of my stay in Mexico. In two weeks i will be going on Outreach!!!! woooo. so i'm guessing you all want to know what i will be up to on this crazy outreach: i thought so. For the first two weeks we are going to Mexico City and will be working with Street Kidz and Prostitutes, then we are flying to Columbia. First Three weeks in Columbia we will be in Leticia this is in the Amazon right at the bottom on Columbia (if your looking at a map it boarders Brazil and Peru) There is a possibility that we will be camping for a week or so in the jungle and visiting some tribes but this is not certain. After that we are going to Cartajena and Bocca Chica (possibly spelt very wrong) for three weeks. I'm really super excited about it. we are spending our last two weeks in Mexico preparing drama's, and a fire show that we can preform as we going around places.
However as exciting as that is i have still yet to tell you about the last two weeks. We had a speaker Called Kenny Peavy who talked about Spiritual Warfare. To all those non christians this probably sounds really crazy but it is not about going to war or crazy attacks i promise. its actually about the spiritual aspects of things and good and evil so to speak. it was a really amazing week and he acutally went off topic a bit. we had a time when we went through and forgave people in our lives who had hurt us. it was really powerful for some people it was a time of forgiving parents who had been abusive or just made them feel like they weren't good enough or that a divorce was their fault. their were lots of tears but it brought us all closer. A remarkable time but hard to put into words.
The this week has been on evangelism and youth culture we had a very dynamic and expressive Aussie who was very funny. however i have kinda come to the end of my concentration span and am glad the lecture phase is over. Today we have been working a the skate ministry called revolution, we went and set up a load of ramps up in an area and then just hung out with some of the youth. it was super fun, even though i struggled with the language there were some younger boys of about 10 who we ended up just playing balancing games with while the old kidz did all their tricks. super fun and i wish i could go around and do that sort of thing in england, however we don't really have the need for a portable skate park...in mexico you cannot skate on the street and there are n't any skate parks to go to however there is still a huge cultureof skating.
tomorrow we are going to Tecate to vist another of the bases and to start our dramas.
i gotta go now but will fill you in one more time before ourtreach hopefully.
lots of love
Ruth xx