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Hey guys! Each week one of my team members is responsible for writing on our team blog. This week it was my turn so I'll just post what I posted there here :)
If you also want to see this Team Chile blog, message me (commited91@gmail.com)  for the password. And I will send you to send-me.org to go check our blog out :) Love you all!


  This last week was a real big week for most everyone here at the RIC. We had 2 days straight of intense ministry. Thirty young people one by one sat in front of everyone and confessed deeply rooted sins and pain that have effected the way we live our life. Empty wells we've pursued, sins committed against us, and lots of ridiculous things we've done. Some shared hurts so deep that they have never been shared with anyone before this. After they emptied the pain inside of them, Carmel Hendren, and Jeremy Miller prayed with each one afterwards and walked them through steps of letting go and asking the Father to forgive. The two days straight of this were followed by a whole house trip to the park to unwind and relax. We were all emotionally drained from all the heaviness unloaded for hours on top of hours. It was a very freeing experience, and knit us all together much tighter than we've been.
       The sessions this week have been a lot of follow up on what went on last week. So now that we are free of a lot of those things that we've kept inside us for a long time, and old sinful habits, we are learning where to go from here. We're learning how to walk in that freeness, and better glorify God with the things that we've been through, and how to keep those bad habits where they need to be which is far far away. In learning all this I have often found myself answering every struggle of mine with pure willpower, like just pushing through my struggles and trying to overcome them by myself. Well as you might have guessed this doesn't work. The first place we take these things is humbly before God and acknowledging that we can't do this by ourselves, we need Him to be our strength and self-control.    
       A huge highlight for me every week in DTS is outreach. We work with Hispanic kids 3 times a week with homework, at a trailor park not far from the RIC. A local church bought a trailor house there and they use it for kids ministry, such as homework help. Usually the kids will get done a little before we have to leave, then we get to play with them!  They have a park right next door and we push kids on swings, play double dutch, soccer, catch the little ones at the end of the slide, and have tons of fun! If you can't tell thats my favorite part. :) The other day we do outreach we go to a church for ESL (English as a Second Language), some of us sit in on classes and help where needed and some of us do child care for the Mommys and Daddys that are learning English. Its very helpful for spanish learning :p. If you didn't guess I prefer the child care stuff over the classes :p.
          Every Tuesday we have a training Rec thingy. Today we played soccer at a near by feild. Most of us will be going to countries where they play soccer A LOT, such as Chile, so hopefully we'll gain tons of soccer skills by the time we get there :)
            Welp I'm not a super long winded person, so Ima end this here blog thingy right about now. May you all be blessed.
All for the glory of God and the furthering of His Kingdom!  Jean :)

Hey guys! Here is my Address btw, my Mom said I should post it :)
2120 E 5th Ave
Columbus, Oh 43219

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Hola!

Well, this week was crazay! Lots of outreach at the trailor park doing homework help. Yesterday we actually went to the trailor park and just got to play with the kids. It was super fun, and the best part is we didn't have to do any homework!! YES! :P
Today we also started our Daniel fast for the weekend. There will be 3 people praying and one reading every hour of the weekend. So I'm signed up next at 430 am. So I better get to bed :) Just thought I'd let you all know a brief update of the week :) Have a wonderful day in Christ! Adios! :)

DTS

Hey guys! I finally found some time to sit down and write on this thingy! :p
Well these first two weeks have been super crazy! I'm already growing and being stretched in crazy super ways physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Here is how my day starts. I wake up at 6 am and go for a jog (except for this morning I got up and played basketball) (your required a certain amount of personal and team exercise every week) then come back take a shower, go to breakfast at 730 then quiet God and I time from 8-9 then a session until lunch time. Which is usually about pretty much anything you can think of to get you ready for a 6 month mission to a country overseas you know nothing about the culture lol :p. Then after that is pretty much never the same from day to day. Every tues. wed. and thurs. we go to a outreach at a trailor park, where we work with a local church ministry to help kids with homework, most of them are hispanic kids so we get lots of spanish practice :). Then sat we help at a youth group at a hispanic church in hilliard, Oh. Which on sundays we also go to they're church. Other things we do around here include, recreation with all reachers, one on ones, work projects, team prep, life groups (accountability groups), things like that :) Also have been playing lots of hacky sack (side note lol).
I have been growing and learning alot about my Father in Heaven. Very awesome things going on in my life. I will try to write more about that later but right now I have like no time left lol. I love you all very much. God Bless!                                      To God be the glory Forever!!!

This is our team blog if you guys also wanna check that out sometimes :) http://www.send-me.org/pages/Reach_CurrentTeamsBLOGS.htm