Its something that I personally have been learning, and was something that was in one of our books. You see, so many times we are looking for adventure, looking for something more. Often a sense of adventure is satisfied by traveling the world and seeing new things, but the truth of it is, "There is no real adventure in all of the world." The real adventure is following Jesus Christ in everything we say and do and in every situation no matter what it is, even when it feels like we aren't doing much at all, adventure can be found by looking for and seeking after God.
That brings me to last week, starting with July 2nd. We headed out to Mirik, Darjeeling, India. Its kind of close to where we are, just down the hill in fact, but it took about 3 hours to get there. The Jeep ride was hard, and all of us got a little car sick. Constant bumps in the road and winding down the switch backs while being stuffed in a jeep. It wasn't easy but soon enough we got to our destination. A church that was putting on a 'Youth Camp' for the week. We met the director who told us that we are suppose to just help in anything we can, he isn't going to assign jobs for us, but to just be around and help in everything. It really seemed like that was going to be a lot of fun and easy as we get the freedom to hangout with the students all day. Come to find out, the camp was different then we were expecting.
We got to our hotel and feel asleep pretty quickly knowing that we had to be up and out by 5:45 the next morning. Ready for a full day of camp! People started rolling in about 9am when worship started, we spread ourselves out among the locals. Worship lasted about an hour, then lecture. They taught on Fear of The Lord, a topic that we had just learned in our DTS. Then Lunch break, then more worship, another teaching for an hour, then afternoon break at 3:30. By that time we were feeling pretty helpless. We hadn't actually done much other then just being there. In the evening we got to share testimonies and ate dinner with some of the students. This is how the week went. It was really cool to be there and encourage the church. More then anything else I think that's what we did, the leaders constantly asked for our opinion and wanted feedback on how things were going. We tried to help in anyway we saw possible, and more then anything else, we tried to proclaim the name of Christ in everything we did.
The end of the week came quickly and we really enjoyed the camp, and the times we got to hangout with the students. Come to find out that there were 320 people there at the peak, we know God was moving in that place and only hope that the camp gets even bigger next year.
You can check out our personal blogs if you want to know more, I'll post links later this evening. I'll also hope to post some pictures.
Prayer: More then anything, health. We all seem to be sick in some way.
May the peace of Christ be with you.
Jeremy's Blog: http://jeremyrobinson33.blogspot.com/
Ronnie's Blog: http://letmystorybehis.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/life-is-an-adventure/
Michael's Blog: http://norrismichael70.blogspot.com/
That brings me to last week, starting with July 2nd. We headed out to Mirik, Darjeeling, India. Its kind of close to where we are, just down the hill in fact, but it took about 3 hours to get there. The Jeep ride was hard, and all of us got a little car sick. Constant bumps in the road and winding down the switch backs while being stuffed in a jeep. It wasn't easy but soon enough we got to our destination. A church that was putting on a 'Youth Camp' for the week. We met the director who told us that we are suppose to just help in anything we can, he isn't going to assign jobs for us, but to just be around and help in everything. It really seemed like that was going to be a lot of fun and easy as we get the freedom to hangout with the students all day. Come to find out, the camp was different then we were expecting.
We got to our hotel and feel asleep pretty quickly knowing that we had to be up and out by 5:45 the next morning. Ready for a full day of camp! People started rolling in about 9am when worship started, we spread ourselves out among the locals. Worship lasted about an hour, then lecture. They taught on Fear of The Lord, a topic that we had just learned in our DTS. Then Lunch break, then more worship, another teaching for an hour, then afternoon break at 3:30. By that time we were feeling pretty helpless. We hadn't actually done much other then just being there. In the evening we got to share testimonies and ate dinner with some of the students. This is how the week went. It was really cool to be there and encourage the church. More then anything else I think that's what we did, the leaders constantly asked for our opinion and wanted feedback on how things were going. We tried to help in anyway we saw possible, and more then anything else, we tried to proclaim the name of Christ in everything we did.
The end of the week came quickly and we really enjoyed the camp, and the times we got to hangout with the students. Come to find out that there were 320 people there at the peak, we know God was moving in that place and only hope that the camp gets even bigger next year.
You can check out our personal blogs if you want to know more, I'll post links later this evening. I'll also hope to post some pictures.
Prayer: More then anything, health. We all seem to be sick in some way.
May the peace of Christ be with you.
Jeremy's Blog: http://jeremyrobinson33.blogspot.com/
Ronnie's Blog: http://letmystorybehis.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/life-is-an-adventure/
Michael's Blog: http://norrismichael70.blogspot.com/
Road trip!
Tea field.
Ronnie giving a Devo.
Excited to have come across your blog- I'll be attending YWAM Brisbane this fall! Its great to come across a blog capturing the journey. I'll definitely be checking back and keeping the team in my prayers.
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