Sooooo…. some of you have been wanting some general information about my trip… so here ya go! I will give you all I have.
I am going to Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa for 9 months.
Training camp is from September 8th to September 15th.
We fly out on Sept. 15th.
I return on May 15th, 2009!
My team is 41 people, including me.
I have 10 leaders.
I have to raise a total of $12,000 for the trip. This includes 2 round trip tickets, food, boarding all the things we need for ministry, and pretty much everything else.
I will be coming home for Christmas Break for 2 weeks.
My team will be mainly working with Ithemba and Joshua’s Project, in ministering to orphans and troubled
children.
children.
I will also be ministering in the townships to the
AID’s victims and the sick.
AID’s victims and the sick.
My trip is divided up into 2 differnt parts.
September to December: The Awakening.
Training camp: one week packed full of team building exercises, training, and orientation. We will be sleeping in cabins or tents, using portable toilets, etc. We will be roughing it, kind of!
Time alone with God: we have this every morning at the same time as everyone else.
One-on-one discipleship: I will be linked with someone who will help grow me up as a leader and a follower of Christ. They will be the same gender as me. I can expect a lot of prayer and accountability out of this. This relationship is alot about being gut honest about anything and everything. It is going to teach me alot of trust!
Large group discipleship: These are every morning. During this we go deeper into what it means to be a follower of Christ. We will have different discussions, teachings, worship, journaling, and praying with one another. Basically, we are seeking the Lord together!
Team Discipleship: Once a week we meet in smaller groups, our teams. We will go through different studies together. And this gives us an opportunity to grow closer as a team, as we will be working fairly close together.
Outreach ministry: Every afternoon I will be involved in ministry with my team. This will give us an opportunity to be involved hands on with people. These will vary from anything to working with children in day care to doing street evangelism or working with a church.
Blogging: I will be blogging about once a week, depending on the internet access we will have. This is to talk about what I have learned and to keep updates posted for anyone who wants to know what is going on.
Team Activity: Once a week, my team will have a dinner and a time of hang out just to have fun and relax together. It is supposed to be a restful break from the rest of the hectic week.
January to July: Outreach
During this time we will be moved to different locations as teams.
Internship: 25-30 hours a week we will be involved in a specific ministry. My ministry focus is a prayerful choice. In most cases, we will choose from the ministry options already established. In most locations, people will be using public transportation to get around, which will usually require a lot of walking and living like the locals and the people we will be ministering to.
We will still have team discipleship and group activities. I will still be blogging once a week. The only thing I won’t be doing is having one-on-one discipleship.
Things will not be as structured here as they were the months before. We will have more freedom!
This is the gist of my trip, and what I will be doing. Now everyone can have a little more insight to how my life is going to radically change, and how I am going to be radically changed!
This opportunity is going to be so great, but it is not my work that is being done, it is not my teams, or AIM’s work or power… it all comes from God and goes back to God, full circle!
-“For from Him and to Him and through Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.” Romans 11:36
How beautiful those words are to me, and hopefully to you as well!
God Bless, and thank every one of you who are behind me on this journey!
Hey girl,
Question: Would you care if I posted this on my blog as well? You did a really great job of putting all the info together and I was just thinking that I hadn’t given everyone a complete overview. If it bothers you, it’s cool.