And it's never felt so right!
AND...there's more when i get back in September but that's for later! ;)
Will be adding photos shortly :)
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Youth With A Mission...CDTS The course begins...
The last couple of weeks have been a bombardment of things including getting to know the ways of the base...there's about 150 people on various courses here each day and about half of them live on base so it's been a case of booking out laundry rooms, sharing bathrooms, bedrooms, dining rooms and suddenly realising after 4 days of contantly being with people that YOU NEED TO ESCAPE!!!
Which is where the lovely countryside and bike shed comes in handy! LOL "i vant to be alone!" But once you've been out for an hour or so things balance out again and it becomes all good again! We all have work duties so some of us help in the kitchen or clean or garden...i've been assigned reception duty which i feel is a bit of a copout cos i LOVE IT!
You get to meet everyone as they come in and out and see how it all works and check your emails! woohoo!! lol I don't know why they've assigned me this duty...maybe they like my posh english accent ;)
There are kids here at the base too which is fantastic! We have kids from the UK, Holland and the States right now...the English kids are slowly getting the American accent which is quite funny!
We play pool and ping pong and table football when the brain has been overloaded with info! lol I've met so many different people here, like Lisa, my room mate who's originally from the States...her hubby earns an income from a website business he set up years ago...they now live in Chilli and have set up a ranch that is a place people can go...just to 'stop the world and get off' as they say!
There are beautiful gardens, food, 5 star rooms, councelling if you want it etc...ALL FREE!
As you all know, I'm here to do a course first and then go out on mission…There have been so many things that have touched my heart..and i've written some of them below...A few years ago i prayed and asked God to break my heart with the things that break His...Sometimes i can't take all the injustice in this world and get so frustrated and heartbroken and He continues to remind me to not try to change the whole world but to take each day, one at a time and be a part of making a change, sow my seeds and watch the domino effect....
The stories of needs around the world are staggering. Stories of 'Honour killings' in Afganistan where women are slaughtered by their own dad's because they were raped, so they disgraced the family, and the only way to 'fix' that is to kill your own child! thousand's of women every year slaughtered because of this mind boggling DECEPTION!
Another story of a tribe in Brazil where they believe that when a man reaches 40, the way for him to reach 'heaven' is to kill himself, so they all drink a poison and die at the age of 40...another CRAZY DECEPTION!
