Last week we announced the outreach locations to the DTS. I had planned on taking a team to Darwin, Australia to work with the aboriginals there for seven weeks. We gave a brief summary of all the outreach locations (Indonesia, Thailand/Cambodia, Vanuatu, Australia) and asked the students to pray for fifteen minutes as to where they wanted to go. Only two signed up for Darwin and I was so crushed! There was far too many people on the other teams, and so the idea was to approach students individually about joining the team over the next couple of days. Eventually, the outreach became the long running joke on the base and I was so incredibly discouraged. By the fourth day, taking into consideration a few situations, we went back to the drawing board. I decided that I would take an all girls team back to Thailand and Cambodia for the seven weeks. So the next day we pulled all the girls aside, and I shared my heart and vision for working with women caught in sex trafficking and asked them to consider joining the team. Yesterday, we finalized the teams, and the outreach drama was over.
There are five of us girls in total; Jacqueline (Canada), Amanda (USA), Maria T (Finland), Maria K (Denmark), and me! They are all such amazing girls and I know God already has been working in their hearts for this kind of ministry. I just pray that God will be already sppeaking to us exactly how He wants to use us there.
Now that I am more aware of what goes on in Thailand and Cambodia, I will be more careful in my planning, but I would love to be able to work with some of the same ministries as previously. It is never easy taking a team over there, but obviously it was God's will that I was to go once again. I thought I had it all sorted out and heard God in going to Darwin, but God had different plans. I do look forward to what He is going to do there this time around, and it will be amazing to see the same women again.
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