Life and Plans in Townsville Australia

I realized today that I haven't updated this page since things started moving uphill... Apologies to everyone who has been worrying for me. I'm ok (:

Life here is crazy, but it's good. Last week, as you know, was Identity Week. This week lectures are on Clear Conscience.  The speaker is good, though confusing at times. He makes us think. A lot. Rarely is an answer given when a question is asked. It's a new learning style for most if us, but I think it is especially appropriate for this topic.

Additionally with lectures we have homework, reports, devotions, and testimonies and sermons to write. Meetings to attend, people to talk to, songs and dances to learn, outreach to prepare for, and ministry placement duties to fulfill. Free time hardly exists.  But that schedule? It only stays this way for two weeks. Then we leave for camping in Hidden Valley. One week there and Pacific/Trailblazer is off to meet the ship tour in Cairns. Once on the ship we add to all that business with two or three school out reaches each day and running groups through ship tours on the weekends. (In other words, any free time that exists in the equation resulting in "no free time" will be squeezed out and filled with more responsibilities.). But it's all good!

The ship, YWAM Townsville's second medical ship, is called Ammari. She will be outfitted with clinics, class rooms, operating theaters, and a large lecture hall. We will be using her as we did the Pacific Link to sail up rivers into  PNG. Once there, we will be able to access more remote communities than even with the last ship, spreading our aid to 500% more people and services than we had previously reached. They will be brought access to dental care, glasses, immunizations, hand washing and birth clinics and so much more. Things we basically take for granted that these people have often never heard of.

The tour is to raise awareness, collect volunteers, services, and donations, and to spread the message of Jesus as we go along.

Once we finish the ship tour, we come back to base, continue lectures, and at an unforeseen time continue on to do more outreach.

So much learning. So much growing. And we all need so much prayer.  Thanks!