NET says no to sleep.

NET says no to sleep has been the running joke for me and Alyssa this week, she is the sister I was hosted with this week and had the pleasure of telling her this every morning at 4am. Over the past week we have had an encounter day everyday with the expectation of only half the team running an E-day for 17 people and the other half filming a drama, which is performed to the song “Dare you to move” by Switchfoot which will be used by a Priest who is a great speaker. Today is our only day off and we have another E-day tomorrow on Sunday. This week we have had very little sleep, we are expected to fully invest in the lives of our host family, which is an awesome part of our ministry this year as the National team but it also means we generally have late nights and super early mornings, gotta love natty team. I have had such an awesome hose family this week we have literally been living across the road from the beach, it reminds me a bit of The Mount, it’s a place called Moreton Beach at Redcliffe.

My life on a personal level is good I miss home and my life and friends and family a lot so please pray for me about that. On a ministerial note it certainly is a mixed bag each school is TOTALLY different the kids are all disciplined differently and you never really know what to expect when you walk into a school. Over this week I have had my first chance to EDL (Encounter Day Lead). The EDL is the person who writes the schedule for the week and is pretty much the MC for the day in layman’s terms, you have to be approved by staff before you can do it and I was approved last Wednesday so it was pretty cool, I was EDL to a group of Grade 9’s and the theme was “Worth What” and that is self-image. I also gave my first talk on Thursday to a group of grade 6 and 7 on “Steppin Up’, Worth what and He said, she said” which is leadership, self-image and peer pressure. Normally we only have one them but a school can request as many as they want which makes life interesting some times but I really enjoy speaking, I don’t think I did a particularly good job but I’ll get better with time, I hope.

Below is our official NET photo as the National Team, enjoy. Also I will try and write more in detail and with less grammatical errors in my next update.

 L-R Adrew 19 from America, Kevin 18 from Brisabne but orginally El Salvador, Phil 22 our male Team Leader from America, Lyle 28 from Sydney, Big Mike 21 from NZ. Girls L-R Megan 21 from Melbourne, ME!!!!, Grace 19 from America, Danielle (Dani) 23 our female Team Leader from America and Alyssa 18 from Canada!

AMDG