It was another fabulous week here in Perth. The temperature is currently 41 degrees Celsius which for all those who have not experienced that before is HOT! I was on car wash duty this morning so am well acquainted with just how hot it is! Let me just say that you know it is going to be a hot one when you wake up sweating at 5:30am because it is so hot in your room! It's good though . . . I think I am getting better acquainted with the heat, but of course that means I will be cold all the time once I come home! Oh well!
We had another exceptionally busy week filled with fundraising, classes, and other adventures. Yesterday a group of friends and I took the train to Fremantle which is on the coast not too far from Perth and enjoyed strolling through the summer markets there. As I already mentioned I was on carwash duty this morning, and on Tuesday our whole school participated in a trash-a-thon and picked up garbage around the city in an attempt to raise money for outreach. I personally picked up 527 pieces of garbage which was the most out of the school . . . I am not referred to as the garbage queen! I was really amazed at how much money some people were able to raise from the trash-a-thon alone . . . one girl raised $3,800 and she had already paid all her outreach fees! It's been really encouraging to see how giving people have been as we have been working together to get our outstanding outreach fees down to $0. It is a slow process, but we have gone from a deficit of $73,000 to about $23,000! We still have some money to raise but we are getting there and are really praying that the money will all come in in time for outreach.
Classes were also really busy this week. We had Jono Turner from New Zealand come to speak to us about the Fatherheart of God. It was a really good week of teaching, but an intense and emotional one as well. Everyone here comes from such different backgrounds some with terrible fathers or no father at all, so the topic of Fatherheart of God can be a painful one and definitely hard to grasp. The focus for this coming week is on Spiritual Warfare and Freedom in Christ which will again be very full, intense, and emotional I'm sure! We have Peter Brownhill speaking to us, and he is one of the base founders as well as quite schooled in these topics, so it should all be really great.
Christmas is fast approaching, and outreach begins right after Christmas so pretty much all our free time is spent preparing for the two of these. My outreach team currently has no information about what we will be doing during our month of outreach here in Perth, which is abnormal for sure! The other 2 outreach teams from our school both know what they are doing at least for their first week of outreach in Perth and one of the teams knows exactly what they will be doing for their whole time in Perth! I know there are people on my team who are really itching to know more about what we will be doing, but I'm okay with it. My biggest concern was the people who would be on my outreach team and I am thrilled about every single person on my team with me, so I am not too concerned about what we will actually be doing. I am somewhat concerned about the heat though! It is only December and it is reaching 40 degree heat! January will be far hotter and we won't have the air conditioned classrooms we are used to. In addition we will probably be out in the sun more during the week, or at the very least in areas of high heat and the heat is just exhausting! So we will all need immense pray covering for energy and protection from the heat and sun here in January. At this point I am far more excited about outreach in Mexico City than here in Perth, but I'm sure what we will be doing in Perth will be great fun as well!
So that's about it for now. We are getting very excited for Christmas around here and many people are itching to get out on outreach. I am excited for outreach but also really enjoying lecture phase too, so I am just enjoying each day for what it is and not looking too far ahead. As always health is an issue in our communal living situation so please continue to be praying for health for our school. And as we prepare for outreach please be lifting up our outreach teams and praying for unity as we begin to bond together and spend more time together.
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