Heaps of work

We met with Jase and Chris (two of the staff at the church) on Monday to discuss what's going on while we are here. They emphasized that the main purpose of our work is to build relationships with the young people and to guide them on their path towards God and an intimate knowing of him and his heart. Too many times people believe God and know about him, but they don't know him because they are not obeying him and following him to absolutely anywhere he requires.

Basically each week will look something like this. We will be doing RE and Supa Clubs at a couple of the schools, along with doing a brekky club on Tuesday mornings. For RE classes, we go into each class fortnightly for thirty minutes and teach a little lesson from a book they have and then help them complete a worksheet. We are doing eight of these classes. Supa Club is during the kids' play time at school, so they choose a group to participate in during this period of the day. At these we normally play a game and then do a little lesson or memory verse. We are doing two of these each week. We are expected to be at the church office two or three days a week to help with administrative work and any other projects they may come up with for us to do. On Sundays, I'll be teaching a Sunday school class in the morning and then just attending the evening service. We also will be attending different small groups throughout our time here and helping out with the different youth activities, such as Friday night services every two weeks and a Bible study for the older youth every other week on Wednesday evenings.

I'm going to be teaching in three different large group youth settings during this summer, so that is a definite prayer request. My first opportunity will be near the end of June and the other two will be in July. There is also a young adults camp that Polly and I will be attending, and we're going to be planning a couple events for the youth during their school holidays at the end of June and beginning of July. There is obviously other stuff throughout the summer, and they'll let us know about it as it crops up. Thank you for your prayers; this summer has already been challenging just with being patient and the people always wanting to be super social. I've always been a task-oriented person instead of people oriented, and this mission is about reaching the people, not accomplishing certain tasks.