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I think this week has been my most challenging week here. This week I've really been challenged on what I believe God to be. I realised that I thought I knew what God was like, and that I'd actually put God in a box (metaphorically speaking!) and said "that's what God is like". This week I realised God does not like being kept in a box! He is infinitely bigger, more complex, more aw...
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This week had a sad beginning as we said goodbye to the USA team. Adam, Sigrid and Kimmi flew out first thing on Monday, we went with them to the airport to say o...
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I think I always knew that I was going to enjoy my time here but nothing could have prepared me for how much and how much the people I would meet would capture my heart. It's not just the children either! The last week has been a real turning point for me as I feel like I'm starting to establish real relationships here, and I only have 3 weeks til I have to come home! So here's an update of w...
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It’s quite hard writing a blog when you know you have a really varied audience. I know that some people reading this are Christians and some are not, some people know me really well and some not so well (we can work on that!) some people know my background and some don’t. So I wanted to write a blog entry for my friends that don’t ‘do the God thing’ so they might understand (even if it’s just...
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One of the best things about being here is just being able to help, and it's great that I have so much fun doing it! It's like being on a holiday where you get to give back something to the community that's hosting you. When I was first thinking about coming away the only thing I...
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On the Sunday morning before I came away my church prayed for me and the trip here and one of the things that was said that I should be prepared to see God move in unexpected ways here, in ways I haven't seen before. One of the things that I've found odd here is that people have b...
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Well things seem to be settling into a bit of a routine here now. It's a bit hard writing this blog as I'm never really...
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So, in order for you to understand what it's really like here, I want to discuss some fundamental differences between here and home!
The Weather - It's VERY humid here! Mostly the tempreture is around the mid twenties, some days it's cloudy and hot and some days it's sunny and very hot. But it's always hot. Even at night, when it's cooler it's still hot and when it rains it's still hot, y...
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This week we've really started to find our feet and it's starting to feel like home. The cold showers are still taking a bit of getting used to, likewise the 'manual flushing' of toilets by using a bucket of water, but they're enjoyable experiences all the same :)
This week I helped out with the pre-school 'Health Day", you know how I love organised chaos! The children are picked up f...
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It was a really bad start to the week... On Monday morning Fern and I set out on our first big adventure alone, to get to the Juna centre unaccompanied! It was all going really well, we'd made it about 30 metres from the house when I fell over a man hole cover in the road. I twisted my right ankle and grazed my left knee and couldn't get up. After a few minutes of deliberating whether to go s...
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