Outreach began...

Hey my lovely friends

For the next 3 months this is gonna be the team blog from team India...

After 5 Days at the awesome Slack`s, where we had a beautiful Christmas time, a lot of fun with paintball and  a lot of prepare time for India, we started our adventure...

On Thursday we went to the airport to get on the plane for 10 hours to Singapore.  With a 2 hour layover we then got on the final plane to Mumbai.  Once we arrived at the airport Daniel and Samuel came to pick us up.  We got to Daniel's house at 3 in the morning.  The next morning we got up at 9 and had our first Indian breakfast of scrambled spicy eggs.  After that we did some shopping for water and culturally appropriate clothes.  We prepared our stuff for the first evening of preaching at a church in the slums.  Kevin was the first to preach and he spoke on forgiveness.  It took an hour and a half to get to this church via train and taxi. During the service our team sat in the front and we sung praise and worship for an hour and then Kevin preached. After the service everyone came up to us to take pictures, shake our hands and see what God tells us about them.  We prayed for healing and to bless them with words of God.  We then went to the pastor's house where they offered us a real Indian dinner.  We later arrived home at 2 and fell fast asleep.  

The next day we did the same, breakfast, shopping and then to a different church in the evening.  At this church Ruby preached about Joy. It was the same as yesterday after the sermon everyone came to us and shook our hands and said `praise the Lord`. After this sermon we went back home and could go a little bit earlier to sleep. 

Today we went in the morning in a church. It was in the St. Augustine High school in a classroom. Today it was Kathryn`s turn. She preached about the authority we have in the name of Jesus. And how we can bring pieces of heaven down to earth by praying for healing and against evil thoughts.

We have been so blessed with wonderful food and a loving host family. The wonderful people that we have met have taught us so much about true generosity  They feed us their best food even when they don't have any for themselves. 

We all sleep on the concrete floor of a small room and share a "toilet" with 14 people. The water from the taps is only available in the morning for an hour, so the family collects it for the day in large tubs. Although they have so little they take such pride in their home and work together as a family to make it a clean and welcoming environment. 

Tomorrow we'll be heading to Bellary to meet Pastor Christopher. The train leaves at 2am on the first and will take 20 hours. It's going to be a wild experience. 

Thank you all so much for praying for us. We can truly feel God's presence around us, filling us up and overflowing form us. We are so thankful for all the opportunities we've been given and we hope to continue being a light to those around us. 

Happy New Year

Prayer Points

• For good health for our team. (Especially Kathryn and Vania's cold.)
• That we can become even more united as a team/ family.
• That the families who've blessed us will be blessed ten fold. 
• For protection on the train to Bellary

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Hey Guys

It's here the 25th in the morning. I'm sitting beside our christmas tree and think on all you guys.
The last few weeks were so intensive for me.

After the faith weekend we had two speakers named Adam and Ryan. They are so connected with our father. The topical was Identity and original Design. Everyday they took a few person's and asked God for his original Design for them. Over me they got some Picture's. One of them was he saw a brass band and they saw me in the horn section but I wasn't playing I was giggling and talk to other people. He said I'm gonna be the one who is bringing joy every where I go. And that I am a leader.
This Week was so intense.

Then on the Weekend we went to Castle hill. It's so beautiful there. And we made an cave stream. That was so awesome. We were in a cave for 45 minutes and walked the whole time in a river. The water was on the highest point was to the shoulder. It was so cool.

For our last week we moved in to the High street house. And there we had Kirsten. He's so on fire for jesus. And it was so an good week. At the end we had to prepare an 5 minute servant. Really challenging but a good experience.

And then the lecture phase was finished and we had to say good bye to our awesome new friends. It was so hard but I'm so super pumped for Outreach. Our team went to Christchurch to John and Mari Slack. We celebrate our Christchurch there and made a treasure hunt. We prepare us now for India.
Today we gonna met Team Australia and celebrate with them Christmas ond the Beach. It's so different  celebrate christmas in short's and shirt.  So I wish you an awesome Christmas time and a happy new Year.

personal prayer Points:

• Power for outreach
• Anointing my hands for gift of healing
• That God shows me what i should preach in the church in India
• For more filling with the Holy Spirit 

Prayer points team:

• No culture shock
• Safety journey
• Healthy for the whole team
• Open Hearts for all the people we are gonna meet

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Faith-weekend with Candice, Jenna and myself

Hey Guys

This blog was written by Candice, Jenna and Kevin...

Luke 10:1-12

Luke 10 weekend is one weekend out of DTS where we are sent out with $10 each, an emergency phone card and lots of faith. On Wednesday we got together as groups, our group was Candice, Jenna and Kevin, and we prayed about where God wanted us to go. We prayed and Kevin got a "W", Jenna got an arrow swooping West, and Candice got an image of a wave. And so we came to the conclusion that He wanted us to go West.
We expected to sleep in a field and eat very little, but we recently learned that if we pray for specific things, God will provide it.  As a group we decided to pray for specific things we wanted God to provide, so we prayed for a meat dinner, to see mt. Cook, and that we would be able to bless a lot of people.
On Thursday, we started hitchhiking at two P.M.  We were dropped outside of town where we prayed for a ride.  We waited for about twenty minutes and got a ride from a local farmer to Springfield.  From Springfield, we were picked up by man named Mark Boere who is the area commander for the New Zealand west coast fire services.  Mark was going to Greymouth so we decided to go with him.  We told him our story on the way and he invited us to stay at his house with his family.  That night we had a delicious meal with his family of ham and quiche and got to go to a christmas program with his family.
The next morning we helped him prepare meals for next week, did laundry, and cleaned the kid's room.          In the afternoon, we felt like we should move on so we said our goodbyes and left for the south.  We got several rides and ended up in Fox Glacier.  Our last ride to Fox Glacier was with a guy named Tim.  Tim is a glacier guide on the Fox Glacier.  He is a christian and he is awesome.  We told him where we came from and that we were on faith weekend.  He offered us free tickets for any tour on the glacier on the following day.  He also lined us up with a place to stay in a beautiful lodge, brought us to his house for a nachos and meat sauce, and took us to the beach.
The next morning we went to the Fox Glacier tour building.  We asked if there were any openings for either the half-day glacier tour, the full-day glacier tour, or the helicopter hike. Low and behold, there were three open spaces for the heli-hike!  We were so excited!  As Kevin says, "we were freaking so out!" We all immediately thought that we were going to have the best story out of all of the groups.
We got on the heliport and were ready to get a briefing for the helicopter ride when we were told that one woman backed out of her ride.  Since it takes four people to fill up a helicopter we couldn't go because she would pay for the helicopter.  We were devastated!
Instead, we got up to the glacier and walked around it.  We stood in awe of the majestic beauty that God created wondering why the plans fell through.  On the walk back through the rainforest we asked God why that happened and got the same answer.  We would have use the story to brag about our weekend and have the best story out of all the groups.  It hit us that we were so prideful.  We forgot that the weekend is not about having the biggest story, but about showing God's glory and his faithfulness.
So, we ended up back at the cafe in Fox and enjoyed a nice cup of coffee that we bought using the money that a Swiss lady gave us at the glacier. Kevin had just started writing "Wanaka" on our cardboard sign and before he could finish writing the "k" a man named Kevin asked us if we wanted a ride with him to Queenstown after we we're done our coffees. We drove with him in his deliver truck and told him our story, and he ended up inviting us to stay at his little cabin in beautiful Queenstown. There we had the best bbq ever and spent some time with Kevin as he showed us Queenstown by night and where the best ice-cream place is. After we went back and before bed we stuffed ourself more with a piece of custard log, which was so good!
In the morning he dropped us off at the best hitchhiking spot in Queenstown, from where we were picked up by four different rides and ended up back home in Oxford in 10 hours.  

Answered Prayers:

• At the beginning we prayed for one meat dinner, to see Mt. Cook, and to be able to bless the people we meet. 
• We ended up eating meat dinners every night.
• Travelling 1285km around Mt. Cook, being able to see it from every angle.
• We were able to help and bless people with gifts, time, and service.

What God Showed Us:

• That our adventure was not about having a crazy story to tell people, but rather about how awesome God is and how he provides for us.
• That before settlers came to New Zealand there were no land mammals, only birds. 
• There is no nuclear power in New Zealand and any ships that have nuclear power on board are not allowed to dock. 
• That Fox glacier is one of only two glaciers in the world that are in a rainforest (and the other is in Patagonia).
• That He is so awesome! 

Prayer Points:

• For the people that we met, that they would have more encounters with Christian people and see how good God is.
• For safety and open hearts for the Justice school who leave this Saturday for outreach.
• For our last two weeks to learn and prepare for outreach, and that we can have peace and enjoy our last few weeks on the base. 

First picture:D

First Family Boere

Beach in Fox Glacier

View direction east

View direction west

Best Nachos ever with Team

Lodge for the second night

Fox glacier in the right the rainforest

speechless

Swing bridge:D

Rainforest

Feast of meat

Last night with kevin ( in the right)

Best place to get a picked up:D

Lake tekapo and Mt. Cook in the back

Our route

Update...

Hey Guys

I'm so sorry my weeks here are so busy. And the time here at base is coming to a close.

Church serving week was in Nelson. Sooo beautiful. We worked for a Church there. We stayed in the pastors house and worked trough the day with shovel mulch and wrote verses on rocks. On Monday evening we went to the cable bay. It was pretty awesome there...

Then on Wednesday we could preach in the youth service. We could share our testimony and on sunday we helped in the service. It was there 25th birthday. That was so cool. The people were so lovely. We helped a family to make a new wall and they were so blessed. On sunday the made the best present ever for us. We had to go in the front and the pastor took a white pocket and gave everyone one. And in there were peunamu. Thats an traditional green stone. And you should wait until someone from New Zealand is giving you one and then you are accepted in there culture. People waiting for 2 Years. I was so close to tears. After that we went to an beautiful spot and put them in the river to bless them.. So good. The 3rd from right is mine. It was so an awesome week. My team is so awesome. It's gonna be a great time in India. I'm so pumped.

Then last week we had the theme mission. It was really inspiring. I loved the passion from the speaker and what he was teaching.

Then this weekend we went to West Coast. Ou yeah. Amazing. We were in a Jungle hostel. 5 Minutes from the Beach away. I had my first sunset at the Beach with worship time. I was so speechless. A fully load of the beautifulness of GOD. In the evening we went to a glowworm cave. WOW. We had a dance party in it and a few moments of quietness:D On saturday we went to the beach. but could reach the beach just through a river where you have to swim. Like a secret beach.

This two weekends were just amazing. I had so many good and not so good experience. One morning we had an spiritual warfare. But Jesus won ( Hey wins all the time). It was the perfect time. Two weeks ago the speaker preached about this and I was so scared. But since i had this fight i know witch power I have in the name of Jesus. And that we have the authority. We have just 3 weeks left here on base. The time is flying. In one point its so cool because I see Michal soon.  And you all;-) Exciting...:D But its so cool here. We speaked a lot over India here is the link where we work for the first 4 Weeks. I'm so pumped for it...

Prayer points:

- Against spiritual warfare

- For India for open hearts and safety

- For all people we met and we will met

- Just more from Jesus for all the world

Miss you Guys and bless you... 

Love you all...

The Holy Spirit works

Hey my lovely friends

I had two so busy weeks. It's now Saturday afternoon and I sit in the library and write this:D

Last week was father heart week. That was so intense and good. Our speaker talked about wounds from mother and father. And how to forgive. Deep Stuff. 

Last weekend I was a weekend warrior. That means we stay at the base the hole weekend and cook and clean. It was so funny. We made chicken cordon bleu. It was so good:D 

This week was Holy Spirit week. Deep, deep. On Tuesday evening we had worship time, it was so intense, James wrote a song in half an hour ( holy Spirit). On Wednesday we could experiment the different in the holy Spirit. One part was, we sat in a circle and in the front was a mirror. 4 People looked in this mirror and read from 2 corinth. 3:18 and then we had to look at ourselves in the mirror, during the other people in the circle made some prophecies over you. It was so good sometimes 3 people had the same picture. The next experiment was, we went in a group of 4 and someone prayed over me in tongues and 3 other interpreted. Kekoa had a picture from me in the desert and over me was a cloud who gave me shade and water and where I'm going there is life:D 

The next one was. We went outside and made two lines. The front line didn't know who was behind. And we asked for words of knowledge. Kekoa was before me and had a picture from a owl who was painted on a wall and became to life and fly away... Wow. I was freaking out in this moment because in the morning a draw a owl for my mortal ( I explain later why). And how you can see the owl is in freedom. That stuff blows my mind. It was so good for me. Because i never knew what are my gifts and now I know. I can connect so fast with people and have the gift of compassion i can feel when something is wrong in a room. Ou Yeah... Thank you Jesus. 

This week was too the angel and mortal week. I had Elizabeth as mortal and it was so funny to bless her everyday. We made some back massages and treasure hunts. On Wednesday i draw this picture for her because it's her favorite animal. And for Thursday i got a letter from her best friend and gave this to her. On Thursday evening we had a "thanksgiving party" and the theme was masquerade. So the girls took her best dresses and the boys didn't took it so. We had turtles, Batman and Joker, Hulk, Zorro. It was so funny. I was the Joker. I made a mask but i decide to draw it on my face. It was so awesome. Batman (Tyler) an me we had so much fun this evening. It was so amazing. 

:D

Team India

Indiaaaa

I'm super excited to show you what we will do Indiaaa:D

Our Outreach will start at 21 december but we will not go then to India. We went to a young couple, John and Mari. She is from Norway and he is from Christchurch. So we stay there for one week and celebrate with this lovely people christmas. I'm so excited. We will have on December the 24th a traditional Norway christmas and then the next day BBQ. And this all in summer:D So cool...

Then at december 27th we start our adventure we will fly to mumbay (purple) from there we travel with the train to Hampi (green). In Hampi we stay for 1 month to work in a christian cafe. This cafe was built from YWAM people and we have there every morning team meeting and worship. Soo good:D
Then at January the 19th we travel to Goa (pink) there we stay for 2 weeks and made some contacts with backpackers. At february 14th we will go for 3 weeks to kolkata (orange). There we will stay in a hostel and work in a mother theresa house. After this we will go to Agra (purple with A) there we'll have our debriefing week. This is like a week without ministry for our team. And there is the TAJ MAHAL... WOOOW:D and form there we will go to delhi and fly back to Christchurch where we'll have another week with all from the school:D

And then we'll travel with a few guys in New Zealand. After 3 weeks is this day I'm looking so forward to:D Michal and Achim will come (yeah) for 2 Weeks and we will stand the last 2 days in the base. Then we'll go for one night to Sydney and stand by a friend of mine:D So exciting... Thank you Jesus

Prayer Point
- for India and the special places we will stay
- For our team: here the names and when you got something for them let me know:D That would be so encouraging
- Ruby ( Leader), Vania, Markelle, Kathryn, Erik and myself...
- Safety for our team
- that the holy spirit will lead us
- My neck has ben stiff since 4 days:-( for healing:D

Hi Guys

What’s up? 

It’s another week over. The time here is going so fast. We had a few more mind blewing thoughts about the jewish traditions. He explained us every feast from the jewish people. They made so many different feast’s but they don’t know why. I’m so excited to meet one and tell them about de Messiah:D so they haven’t to wait for it:D

At the weekend we went a second time to Kaikoura. It was so awesome. The weather was amazing it was 25° C and we stayed in a nice hostel. There were 2 swiss people it was so good to speek swiss german. Then was there Sebastian. He is a french teacher and tooked one year off to travel. And Stuart he is an english guy. Two Girls from wales (important not from england from Wales). On sunday we walked 4 hours around the hole Island. It was so nice. Here a few picture’s.

This week we have Gordon. He is a guy who bring us the father heart closer. The theme is to heal wounds from our hearts who we get from words or stuff in the past. 

Prayer Points:

• for this week, that my wounds will open and I can let they heal from Jesus
• for power and against the attacks from the enemies
• for India prepare our place there

Inductive bible study and edwards pass

Hey my lovely friends:D

Finally i got some time to write the next blog. The last week was so busy but awesome:D 
We had an speaker who teached us about the inductive bible study. It was so interesting. I learned so much about the old Testament. The hole history is so exciting. And then we looked at the letter philemon. This is one of the shorter letters. But the main idea from this letter is so huge. It's about forgiveness. Paul is writing this letter to Philemon and his hole church. And its about to forgive a run away slave. And in this time when a slave run away and you find him again you can make whatever you want with him. Paul wanted that Philemon forgive Onesimus and in this time that was a really huge like. 

And then on the weekend we started a 3 day tramp with the men's form the baptist church. We started at 4 pm on Friday. After 5 minutes walk, we had to cross a river. The water reached our knees, so our boots were wet. Really wet:D
We walked for 3 hours. 1 hour in the night. that was a new experience for me. But it was so awesome. 
at 9.15pm we arrived at the hut and made diner and went to bed at 11pm. 

We get up at 7 pm and made breakfast. Mmmh porridge ( i didn't like it). And we started our second day. We walked for 1.5 hour up on the edward's pass high. This way was so ingeniously. We arrived at the pass and there was a big surprise. The wind was so fast we couldn't stand still and it was impossible to go farther. And the weather was changing to rain. We decide as a  group to go back to the cars and go home. I was so disappointed at this moment:( But it was a good decide because as we went back the river were so high. And theres a few more rivers as before:D 

And so we went back at saturday. It was good because i was so tired and needed the time to hang out with my friends and talked about all whats happened last week. 

Since monday morning we have a speaker named Scott Brown. He's a jewish believer. That's sound a little bit crazy. Why i explain later. Hey was a jewish man and lived under the jewish law. Then he would saved( Thank you jesus) now he is an missionary for jewish people. That's so amazing. 
He told us so much about the history from jewish people. There's 3 different types. 
Orthodox: They are these with the black dresses and the big huts
Reforme: They are liberal and open for everything
Conservative: The are in the middle:D
Everyone from the jewish believers are waiting for the Messiah.
Today we had a few Messianic prophecies from the old testament. 
Theres one example who is so awesome:D Look at Daniel 9: 24-16

There's a picture to imagine that...
Daniel 9: 25  Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven^[c] will pass from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until a ruler—the Anointed One^[d]—comes.
(d) hebrews says messiah
The restore from Jerusalem was in the month Nissan 444 BC.
And 1 sevens are 7 years. 
So we have 69 sevens what gives 483 years in the lunar calendar this are 426 years in our calendar. 
When you count this to 444 BC it gives 33 AD. Thats exact then when Jesus would crucified. So the Holy Spirit said through Daniel when Jesus would die for us:D 
There's so much more stuff.

Prayer Points:
- We need here power to defense the enemies, because everywhere where people learn form God is the devil too.
- For healing 
- And for the next weekend. I go to Kaikoura again and i make some bread and we share this  the european backpacker. This is so cool.
- For India to prepare it that we can go an speak the people there direct in the heart:D
- and just for power because every moment here is so cool and need so much power...
When you have something let me know.

Love you guys

Amazing Saturday

Hey Guys

It's so great what happening here. So we went to sumner beach near to Christchurch,  there i laid down my idol. That was so liberating.
In the evening we went to a worship night, every church in Christchurch was invited there and it was so an great atmosphere. One person had after we prayed for healing gold dust on his hand. Wow that's the first time i see something like that happened, before i just hear it.

And then we went back to the camp. When we were all in the bed jonathan came and tell us a story. After that we prayed for our brothers healing. First it was a knee from one of my brother and after praying it feels better:D And then 3 brothers with problem on the toes. And this was over too after praying:D WOW. One brother rolled 3 weeks ago. It was still swollen. We prayed for his ankle and we could see how the swollen is going back:D That was too much. God is so great. Awesome. I read form

Matthew 7:7-11: Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking and you will find ... if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly father give good gifts to those who ask him. This verse was so good for this night:D
And on Sunday morning in church the same verse coming too. That was so cool.

And the time here is so beautiful, but i miss you all so much. I'm so excited to meet you in a few months. Thank you for all you've done for me.


Be blessed

Friday Tabernacle:D

Wow... It‘s now saturday morning the sun is burning and its amazing Weather. Yesterday was so an „blowing the mind“ day:D We made this tabernacle:D For the beginning we stand all in a row and then we made a kiwi hongi. You give an other person your right hand then you put your nose and your brow together and look in the eyes:D WOW.. 

We began with thanksgiving everyone cant tell a storie for what he‘s thankfull. And then we praised the Lord with songs and shout out what we have on the heart. We came back in the Room and now was the buirnt offering. Everyone cant offer a Talent, a song or an picture. I made a chocolate mousse because he gaves me the talent to cook. And i gave all my money to the school. (Just that what i had here). 

The next step was the sin offering. That was not so easy. But after that every person looked so free. That was a fully load from the love of God. I never forget this picture from the happy and free people. 

After that we went to baptized people. For 4 People it was the first time and for 6 people it was a refresher:D Thank you jesus. Then we go back to the classrom and worshiped and prophetict until 22.30. We had communion and then all went to bed:D I‘m so excited for everything what is coming:D 

Prayer points:

• for everyone here to fight vs the sin
• for the Countries we go to
• for the holy spirit 
• and the next week

And when you get something to pray just let me no. I‘m here for you:D

Thank you all 

Love you guys:D

a short Please

Hey Guys

This week we got so much new Stuff. 

We had to decide us for our Outreach country. Thank you for praying about that. I choosed 3 different countries. Which one ask me please by e-mail. ;-) ( Because we shouldn't talk about it between the other Students)

Tomorrow we had a the to make that the isreals did in the old testament in the tent of meetings called tabernacle. They have to do this physical and we do these tomorrow in the spiritual way. Thank you Jesus:D

 The steps are gonna be:

1. Thanksgiving
2. Praise
3. go to the Cross A: burnt offering B: Sin Offering
4. Word
5. Holy Spirit
6. Word and communion
7. Prayer, Intrercession
8. Disobedience
9. Holy Spirit
10. Holy Spirit

I explain the Steps in the next blog, when i now what happens.

Please pray for the hole day;-)

Be blessed and the next update is coming on Sunday;-) 

Kevin

Kaikoura:D

Hey Guys

The Second week is over. It was an awesome week. We had lessons about backpackers, how to begin a conversation with them and the different groups of backpackers. It was really interesting I learned a lot new things about this special kind to travel. And then at the weekend we could apply our new qualities real world:D We made 6 Groups, 4 of us went to kaikoura and the other 2 went to akora. I was in one Group who went to Kaikoura. We had a awesome group. And Kaikoura is the most beautiful place in the world i've ever seen. There is the ocean and the mountains are so close.  Just awesome. Our hostel was very big. We had a swimming pool and a hot tub. Wow. At saturday we saw a few seals. The adult one were so angry... But the baby seals were cute:D And now I'm back at the base, tomorrow is Sunday. Sleeping in.. Whooop.  

Prayer Points:

• for the guest speaker
• open hearts and the holy spirit
• for the backpackers in every part of this world
• for healing all sick persons at this base and the world