Booya!

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 :)