Hey guys :) Feels like only yesterday that I was writing my last blog but a week has already past and the countdown really is on till outreach! Only 4 more weeks of lectures left and then we're all off to our various locations for 3 months! It's insane that it has come around that quickly! I have been here around 9 weeks now and they really have just flown by! It's crazy. I've learnt so much and not enough at the same time! I'm pretty sure I'm growing not just in knowledge but in the things that I chose to do and not to do and the way i interact with people...but I guess I won't truly find out the extent of that until i return to those who knew me before! Basically it has ... read more

Hey devoted readers! Here is what I learnt this week on Evangelism! *The core of evangelism is inviting people into family, God's family. God wants everyone to be part of His family. Evangelism is focused on relationship, God so loved the world that He sent His only son so that the price of our rebellion could be paid and we could enter back into relationship with the God who created us as valuable, in His own image. Our value can be seen by the way Jesus had to die...each proscribed punishment of a law displays the value of the thing it protects...Jesus died in the most painful way, on a cross after rejection from His friends and followers and humiliation through beating, jeering and generally being grossly mistreated. The 10 commandments are boundaries established so that ... read more

Hey guys! So this week the topic has been relationships, not just romantic ones but with God, members of our church/other christians and other types of groups of people in our life. The focus for the first 3 days of the 5 days of lectures was our relationship with God and the impact this has on other relationships with the main focus on how we are to get our love and significance from God; He is to be our main source rather than trying to find it in other people/activities/things. A few main points which really stuck out to me about our relationship with God is how God's love is multiplied across His children, not divided. I'm sure a lot of you reading this don't have children but the example the speaker gave was how when ... read more

Hello again! Ok so if you haven't read part I please read it at some point as what goes on during the week is not half as exciting as things which I'm learning in the lecture phase and the application parts. This is not because I have really boring and pathetic weeks, it's just I really am enjoying learning about God and it is just all so amazing! So this week were were mainly in lectures because it was a hard-core topic so free time was pretty infrequent as we were in lectures during the day and then during the night and in most of the free times I had this week I spent having quiet time with God so that I could understand the topic better and learn more about His character. So on Sunday ... read more

Hello peeps :) I've been here for 2 weeks tomorrow and this week has been the first week where we have started the full schedule of waking up at 5:30 for morning exercise, morning chores at 8, worship at 8:30, lectures from 10ish-12:30, lunch, afternoon chores, dinner and an evening activity (only on tuesday, thursday & friday, other evenings are free). It's been a bit of a shock to the system waking up at 5:30am...i didn't even do that when I was at secondary school but you do get a whole lot out of the day. It can be a bit of struggle to give your full attention in lectures though. I'm sure that will improve when we're used to it. So we went to the beach on saturday. it was a lovely beach and had ... read more