Hello, friends and family! Well its the beginning of April and like me I am sure that your first few months of 2008 have been full on, and at this stage there is isn’t a change of pass in sight. Anyway So there is heaps of what God is doing that I would love to catch you up on, and share some of the awesome things God has done here. REEF TO OUTBACK DIRECTOR GIVEN AWARD First of all, it has been really awesome to see God opening up new doors of influence for us in Townsville and North Queensland. Our director (Ken Mulligan) was named Citizen of the Year by the Townsville City Council on Australia day this year, which is awesome following receiving the Organization of the Year award in Townsville Last year. It's amazing to see them get behind us, knowing full well that we are a Christian organization focused on releasing young people into missions. In both of those cases it isn’t that the award is as cool as the fact that we are now able to be involved in so much more and people all around Townsville are starting to know who we are and through that there are many great stories of the Gospel being spread further and deeper in this region.
THE DTS As for the DTS, I must first start off by boasting in the Lord that I am blessed as a new school leader with a great group of students who desire to grow in God and see him more in their lives so that they can impact nations. Already we have had teaching on Clear Conscience and Repentance, Hearing God’s Voice, The Nature and Character of God, Lordship, Evangelism and a bunch more, all with the focus of not just giving head knowledge but applying it to our lives. Camping We also spend two weeks camping in the Australian bush, It's a bit of a tradition with every school to take them out into the the wild for a few weeks, away from all the distractions of life to really set some time aside for God to speak to us. The first week I spoke for my first time on 2 of the days really calling the school to an exchanged life looking at Gods grace in leading us if we give ourselves to him fully. We ended the first week with a Celebration Night to honor God for everything He had done within the school for the first six weeks. It's been such a privilege to be involved in watching the students grow to know God more and watch them get excited about a future in serving Him. I really couldn't imagine myself anywhere else right now. We started out the Celebration Night at the beach worshipping and thanking God and then headed back to camp for a huge feast and chocolate cake. It was a great night! The second week of camping we looked at the the subject of Lordship and where challenged, loved and encouraged to give Jesus all of our lives and live solely for Him. It was a special week and we ended it baptizing some of the students who had never been baptized. Again it was such a privilege after talking with their churches back home to be able to be a part of such a significant time in their lives.