Monday, December 10, 2012

Outreach is Here!


Hello Everyone!

I am so sorry for my lack of blogging recently. Our life here on the base has been incredibly busy as usual.

However, I have some very exciting news! I found out last week where our outreach is going to take place. We are leaving this next Sunday to spend 7 weeks in a village on Doi Inthanon! Doi Inthanon is the tallest mountain in Thailand and from what I’ve heard it’s one of the prettiest places in the country. We will be spending our time up there in a village making buildings, digging trenches and most of all, farming rice! We will be fully submersed in the village life and be able to reach out to the locals through daily conversations and serving them. I am very excited to see what it’s like to live in a mountain village. There will definitely be plenty of opportunities for personal growth (for example it will be absolutely freezing and there’s only one bathroom for 20 people!) but it will be a great learning time for me.

As for the last couple of weeks, we have mainly spent our time on base wrapping up our lecture phase and preparing for outreach. This last week we had a man from the Philippines named Joel Bringas come and talk to us about having a clear conscience. It was not a week full of pressure and guilt rather a time where people could share past mistakes and receive healing and release. It was a great week and unified our school tremendously. This week is our last lecture week. We have a Norwegian man named Eivend Freeon talking to us about the Two Kingdoms. He is an old time YWAMer (started at the Switzerland base with Loren Cunningham!) and has many amazing stories about the revivals he has been apart of in China. I believe that this week is going to be extremely interesting and a great way to end our lectures.

These past couple of weekends I have had a lot of fun as well! Last weekend my classmate Sarah and I went to a sort of zoo called Tiger Kingdom and got to play with tigers! She played with the bigger cats while I decided to stick with the babies J. They were so adorable and soft! It was loads of fun and an experience I will remember for the rest of my life!

Yesterday (Sunday), a big group of us from the school went to a nearby limestone waterfall and swam. It was so incredibly beautiful and so much fun! The water was warm and since the waterfall was made of limestone we were able to climb up it from bottom to top! It was definitely a good way to spend our last free weekend together as a school.

This will probably be my last blog post for a while. As you may have been able to guess, a mountain village does not exactly have internet (let alone electricity), so I will be leaving my computer at the base. However, I will make sure to tell you all about my outreach when I get back in February!
I hope that everything at home is going well, and as always, remember that I am praying for you all!

Blessings,

Hanna

P.S. Below are some photos from Tiger Kingdom. Enjoy!











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