Things to pray for...

On Sunday the 11th, the team and I are headed out at 6 am to start a 3-week long outreach trip.  We will travel 10 hours to Gladstone and put on a week of seminars in local high schools... 3 different schools... 5 different days and age groups.  Yikes!  This seminar focuses on the students' goals and values in their lives and how God can fit into those.  I am a seminar presenter along with Matt, another Texan on my team! Next, the team is splitting up.  One team will lead a week-long camp going to an amusement park, water park, some shopping, learning to surf, and ending the nights with messages of Jesus.  The team that I'm on will participate in a program called Mission Adventures.  We will host students from a high school in Melbourne here on base.  They will spend 4 days in "lectures" learning about God and how to share God with other people.  Then for 6 days we are traveling to a neighboring island called Palm Island.  For this, I'm giving a message on how to share the gospel and I will be a group leader once on Palm Island.  Great responsibilities! 

Whew! Then 1-2 days of rest!  I'm thinking it will be MUCH needed!  Here are some things you can pray for:

• team unity
• swift conflict resolution between team members
• intimacy with God- that we will individually seek God even in the midst of the craziness!
• safe travel/health/physical and emotional rest
• Auslife-
• that Matt and I can memorize our scripts
• program goes off without a hitch
• the students are open and ask questions about God
• Mission Adventures-
• students are open to learn
• students are open to serve
• opportunities to invest in the students lives
• opportunities to learn from the natives on Palm Island
• wisdom, guidance, patience as I lead a group on the island
• we can share God with Palm Island
• safe travel, good health
• opportunities to talk with and serve the people who have opened their homes for us to lodge at

Thank you everyone!  Talk to you in 3 weeks!