Don’t worry it hasn’t stuck yet. The school has been going for just over a week now. So far it has been great! Everyone clicked right away and everyone seems to get along pretty well. Our group consists of thirteen students, four girls, one from Switzerland, Samoa, America, and England, nine guys, two from America, six from England, and one from Rwanda. Then we have 7 or so leaders, Gina and Jeremie, two guys from England, one from New Zealand, one from Brazil and two other girls from England and Ecuador. As we mentioned before we have a sports focus on this DTS, which has been awesome. Right now we are in the process of taking a FA level one coaching clinic for soccer. Meaning when we come home we will know how to coach, we may even throw in an English accent. In case some of you are wondering this means on top of taking classes on topics such as intercession, honesty, forgiveness, humility, ect., we also play and learn how to coach different sports and how to use sports to love and outreach to people, especially young people. This is awesome because as we talked about in class today it is important to connect and relate to people where they are at and with what they like. Now if we think about it, people may not like going to church but it’s rare to find someone who isn’t passionate about some sport.
Another thing, in case you are curious, this is what an average day looks like, generally. We have morning workout from 7-8, breakfast from 8-9, class and/or small group from 9-1, lunch from 1-2, sport training or study time from 2-4, work duties from 4-6, then dinner from 6-7 and then finally depending on the day we have church, more sports or just free time. Obviously things change around depending on the day. For example tonight we booked a gym to play some basketball so we pushed dinner back an hour. Hopefully that gives you an idea of what we are up to. Gina’s schedule is a little different but she can share that with you in the text post.
Thanks again for your continual support in prayer. We miss you all!
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Herts
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Ambrose Lane
Harpenden
Herts
AL5 4BX
About US
My name is Gina I'm 20 years old (almost 21!). My brother Colin and I are here in Harpenden, England working with the international, interdenominational Christian missions organization, Youth With A Mission. Last April 2009 I came here to do a Discipleship Training School (DTS). A DTS is a course aimed to prepare messengers of the gospel, helping students to know God in depth through both teachings and practical work. Now I'm back here to be on staff on a similar course except now there is a sports focus. Colin will be a trainee on the school, which should be interesting =). Our school will be going to South Africa on outreach this summer doing a lot of work with soccer (football) camps and other sports focused outreach.
We're both excited to see all that God is going to do with us and through us during this time and would love it if you could be keeping us in your prayers.
We're both excited to see all that God is going to do with us and through us during this time and would love it if you could be keeping us in your prayers.
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