It’s really hard to believe that the trip is halfway done. I feel like I could stay here for so much longer—the people here are amazingly welcoming and I have so much to learn from them and from the rest of the team.

We finished the VBS yesterday. It was a wonderful experience. I met so many children that I have come to love so much—I am still amazed at how deep a love can grow between people who have known each other for only four days! These children have really opened my eyes to how big and how loving God is.  I find it incomprehensibly amazing that God is intimately involved in each of these children’s lives, even though many of them do not know Him. I am in awe of His plan to bring them back to Him, and humbled that I could have played a role in that plan.

Yesterday, we gave the salvation message at the VBS. It was so powerful to see so many children come up to the cross and accept Jesus. Please pray that God would continue to work in those children’s lives and that His love would be very clear to them in the days to come—that He would solidify what we tried to teach them at the VBS, and that He would claim them as His own. Also, please pray that He would have His way in the results of the VBS, and that He would be extend it and the Church’s influence far into the community.

Today is a bit of a rest day for us. I have gone through some spiritual ups and downs so far in the trip, and I am hoping and praying that God would give me the strength that I need to continue on. Please pray that God would have His way in me on this trip, and that I would be able to completely surrender to His plan and design for me. Before leaving Edmonton, I had really desired and felt that God wanted to make a major change in me during the trip. Please pray that He would do that—and that I would not try to stop Him, but would be able to trust in His plan and in His love.

Next week, we are going to be doing construction work and running a soccer camp. Please pray that God would have His way in these activities, and that He would equip us all with what we need to serve Him in the coming days. Many of us have been, or are getting sick (But I’m getting better—yay! =D), so please also pray for healing and for energy for us all. But most of all, please pray that God would teach us to rely on Him in our weakness, and that His Holy Spirit would just come and saturate us and the mission, so that we would be able to do His work and would develop into the kind of team and people that He wants us to be.

Thank you so much for all of your prayers and support! I love you all so much and I can’t wait to see you again!