This last week for the DTS was a little difficult for us as a team. One of the girls from our DTS (one of the girls I personally mentor each week) decided that she felt like she should go home early. This for me was probably the greatest challenge that I have faced so far in the DTS as a leader. She approached me early in the week and let me know that she had been praying about this for a couple of weeks now and she felt like she should not go on outreach with us. It was nothing that she could really point out, she just felt like God wanted her to go home instead of finish the DTS. I felt really discouraged about it, but I thank God for the encouragement through friends and other staff on the base who have experienced something similar and walked me through it. All this to say, Sara flew home this last Sunday and the team is adjusting to life without one of our team members. I really am thankful to God because the team has started adjusting just fine and God’s peace and grace is with us.
Despite our difficult circumstances, our teaching last week was incredible. We had the base director Giacomo teach on having a Biblical worldview. As I learned more about the worldview in which we live I realized how much the secular worldview has crept into my life. One of the things that constantly is a reminder for me is how to God nothing is secular and nothing is spiritual, everything in our life is spiritual. When we work at our jobs, we are not doing something “secular”, we are working a job as though we are working unto the Lord. When we do anything it is in the presence of God. Colossians 3:23 says “And wahtever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men.” God is not more present in the church than He is at my job or when I go to the grocery store. We were challenged to live not in a secular worldview, but to live in a Biblical worldview. The Biblical worldview recognizes that people are created in the image of God and people are of most value, rather than gaining more things. In this worldview we have a freedom and ability to choose within the loving limits of God. Our worldview is so important because it is the basis by which our beliefs are rooted. In the Biblical worldview, the Bible is our true source of life and our guidebook for how to live this life. This next week we are appropriately learning how to study the Bible, which is the perfect way to segment from Biblical worldview.
To finish off our week, I was able to leave on Saturday for Puerto Viejo (the Caribbean side of Costa Rica) for the weekend to enjoy the beach and watch 2 YWAM friends get married. I stayed overnight with some friends and a couple DTS students and we had a great time swimming at the beach and just relaxing. It was an awesome way to end an emotionally difficult week for me. God is faithful and won’t give us more than we can handle!
Thank you so much for your prayers for me and my team. We are leaving in 3 weeks for NIKO, a boot camp type experience in the jungle and then onto Panama for outreach. Seven of our fourteen students still do not have all of their funds for outreach, so I would ask you to please join us in prayer that God would supply their needs so that they can go on outreach with us (we are lacking $7,500 as a team and we need this money by Sept. 27th). Please also pray that God would continue to give me supernatural strength to keep going and that our team would be unified during this transition time.
I miss you all and pray God’s blessings on you! Thanks again for all of your continued support.
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