almost leaving!
we have only five days left on our brisbane base before leaving for india!!
a few logistics for you to pray for: next friday, 3pm (brisbane time) we fly out to bangkok, thailand! we have a layover there (most of our saturday) and that evening fly out to calcutta! we'll be in calcutta for about a week, working in the mother theresea homes, before laboriously traversing north to darjeeling. here is a gorgeous picture of darjeeling!
we just returned from busy ministry weeks up at airlie beach (north of brisbane, close to the great barrier reef on the coast) and our final week we have a speaker on "Lordship," promising to be an intense week of lectures, finishing workbooks and packing and preparing for our departure! We have raised almost all of our finances needed, thank you for your support!
i (callie) will be writing updates for you in these coming weeks. we're so grateful for your prayer...i reckon our team is excited, but also praying hard. following is a general (tentative!) idea of our first few weeks for you!
- week o - preparation! "Lordship week" of submitting to God :] pray for wisdom, peace in frantic preparations! also God's voice as we prepare sermons and teachings for outreach
- week 1 - calcutta, mother theresea home, travel =P pray for health in travel, peace of heart in midst of poverty and pain of calcutta, that we'd be able to bring help and encouragement to those working in calcutta, that we
- week 2 - orientation, joining with ywamers there, intense language study of nepali!! yes!! pray for quickness of mind, patience, motivation, and people we can start having conversations with! also settling in, that we would acclimate to culture quickly!
- week 3 - mini-dts (discipleship training school): we will be doing a two-week version of our school for nepali teens in darjeeling. the first week we'll lead lectures and teachings on what we've learned (Fear of God, Biblical Worldview, Character and Nature of God, Hearing the Voice of God, Holy Spirit, Spiritual Warfare, Father Heart of God, etc!),
- week 4 - mini-dts outreach! the second week we'll take the teens with us to villages for outreach! i'm excited about this, i reckon they will be more effective than we could be with their own people, God will use us together! we'll be going into some villages where they have never heard the gospel...i hear we do TONS of WALKING in the HIMALAYAS!
- week 5-6 - we'll come back to darjeeling and run another mini-dts
- week 7-9 - well, you'll have to come back to our blog site!! ;)
if you would like to respond to our blog just click on the 'responses' at the end of the posting and you can let us know how you are praying or if you have words, verses, or thoughts for us!!
in Christ we are stretching to the future,
callie (for the group)
1 comment:
Yes--reaching the lost TOGETHER. In Venezuela, we Americans were the curiosities--the drawing cards--but also with personal testimonies which God used, when interpreted by the nationals who walked door to door with us. After giving our testimonies, often the nationals took over in sharing the gospel and inviting belief. You foreigners might also might be the catalysts the nationals need to reach out to their own people. I guess I'm just asking you to not minimize your role or your effectiveness, under the control of God's Spirit, of course, as you already have striven to walk. Have been and will be praying often according to your requests.
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