After a short visit with my parents here on the Sunshine Coast, a quick spontaneous trip to New Zealand, and a Christmas with some birth family in Newcastle, it was time to staff another DTS. The January DTS was twice the size of the July school, with 29 students. There were two girl houses and one guys. I was in the "quiet" house, but to be honest, it was the sweetest house! I think we became more like family than roommates. They called me mom and they were my girls! We were all so different, and yet we had so much to learn from eachother. I am currently living in the same house and I miss them so much.
God did a lot of transforming lives within the lecture phase and it was so neat to be a part of God moving in that way. As we were praying for outreach locations I really wanted to hear God in knowing where to go. We were given 15 minutes, and I really felt like I was supposed to go to Cambodia, but it was not one of the options. So for a week I did not say anything. I told them that I was undecided. One of the other staff was talking with someone the next week and she said that she had a dream about going to Indonesia and Cambodia. That was my confirmation. Since there were so many girl students, we decided that I would take an all girls team to Thailand and Cambodia to focus on womens and childrens ministry. It was my heart to follow up on some of the ministries the base had worked with in previous years. So I had some old contacts and some new ones and went to planning the outreach.
The other outreach locations were Indonesia, Uganda, Phillipines/Australia, and Darwin (Australia).
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