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We're off in 2 days! Ethiopia here we come! A team member will be keeping a blog during our trip: www.ethiopiaoutreachteam.blogspot.com, so you can check that out when you feel. Please keep us in your prayers. Here are some prayer suggestions: Unity, clear communication, safety, health...etc.! :). Here are the names of our teammates (from left to right, top to bottom): Alex (who's hugging, 'the Holy Ghost' :), from Ghana), Mitch, Arnbjørg (Norway), Mal, Alicia (Tennessee), Ingibjørg (Iceland), Anna (Minnesota), and Maria (Russia). We have a wonderful team! And thank you again for the prayers, they make such a difference, and it's simply so comforting to know people back home are praying for us.
WOW! Mitch and I are in total amazement! As of February 19th we owed $6200 for our outreach to Ethiopia, plus $615 for immunizations, plus $115 for travel insurance. As of today our new total owed out of everything is $1,630! Last Wednesday we had an offering night here at the base that gave the opportunity to give to those lacking money for outreach. And since then anonymous people here at the base and in Norway have been giving to us. Almost everyday we find another envelope in our mailbox.
I think the greatest thing out of it all is the lesson that it's all out of our strength. Although we worked hard before we came and have been contacting people while we've been here, God has shown us that even if things don't work out completely by our own ways, they do by his. He knows what we need, when we need it, and he'll give it!
Thank you to those of you who have given financially and prayerfully! We still owe the $1630 but we're still going to Ethiopia, and we know it will come.
Hey! Try an oatmeal face mask, they're great! it's cheap, free of chemicals that make your skin worse, if some gets in your eye or mouth on accident it's a-okay, and your skin is so soft afterwards. So what if it looks like someone barfed on your face, get over it! :).
I have now been in a music video! How exciting. The dance team split up into three groups, and each group had to make up a dance inspired by one of Gods characteristics. Our group did, 'God is a Creator.' Because I see God in nature a lot this was a great project to be able to pour that into. Two verses that also inspired our movements were Pslam 139:13-14a, and Genesis 2:7: 'For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mothers womb. Wonderful are your works, my soul knows it very well.' and 'Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.' After choreographing we picked musician who wrote songs to our dances, and after that, the film track made it into a video. It was such an interesting process and so much fun! The other two groups did, 'God is a fighter,' and 'God is a companion.' This last weekend we put a dance show on at a new local teen center. Among other dances these were some of the dances we performed. Hopefully more on that later though...Another neat thing is that these videos will be put on the school's website, so you guys can check it out there. I'll let you know when they're up.
