My outreach team is Fiji 1!!! This is a little bit about who we are and what we will be doing so that you can start to pray for our outreach!!!
Who?
Leaders:
Dave Remus
Dave is from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He is 19 years old and has the beginnings of a beautiful mullet. Dave is the Rock of the team.
Sarah Lowe
Sarah is from San Diego, California, USA. She is 26 years old and has the most beautiful singing voice ever. She is gonna be our mamma on outreach. I am super excited that I get to be on her team!!!
Aleisha McIennan
Leish is a Kiwi from Wallacetown, New Zealand. She is 19 years old and has a really thick accent. She will be our comic relief.. if we can understand what she says. She recently broke her had by punching the ground... don't ask...
Students:
Steph Reynolds
I am from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Some people call me the veggie queen. I am one of the two people that are over 5'5 feet tall on our team. And I sweat a lot so I feel really bad for my team while we are in Fiji.
Hannah Douglas
Hannah is from Franklin, Tennessee, USA. She is 19 years old and is my new little sister. She is going to be a famous singer one day because she has insane pipes. And she is always happy and affectionate but in a pleasant way that doesn't annoy me! I love her!
Jacob McCormack
Jacob is from Portland, Oregon, USA. He is 20 and is God's personal pianist. Jacob is a man after my own heart because he has an obsession with cats and I have an obsession with cat shirts and cat necklaces. He is really good at purring and meowing.
Jacob VanZanten
Van is from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. He is 18 years old and is a pseudo ginger, so we will be bringing lots of SPF 100 to Fiji. He also wants you all to know that he is extremely good-looking. He is the one other tall person on our team. We have a secret handshake. It mostly involves high-fiving too high for anyone else to reach.
Beth Roughton
Beth is from Hamilton, New Zealand. She is 17. We like to call her Beeth (like Beef), because that is how she says her name in her Kiwi accent. She is an eager beaver and a prayer warrior (I wonder if Kiwis know what beavers are...).
What?
Outreach!
The scripture for our team is:
"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion - to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor." (Isaiah 61:1-3)
"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion - to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor." (Isaiah 61:1-3)
We will be doing all sorts of things - from street evangelism to door knocking to children's ministry to helping out at churches... the list goes on....
Where?
Lautoka. Pastor Jare
Paihia/NZ. Operation Jerusalem.
Kaitaia/NZ. Pastor Graeam
Auckland/NZ. Pastor Trent. C3 South Aukland.
When?
We will be leaving New Zealand on November 24 and flying to Fiji. We will be in Lautoka working with Pastor Jare. Pastor Jare is Dan's dad. Dan is one of the students on my DTS and he is from Fiji!!!! Our base has been doing outreach with Dan's dad for a long time, and finally Dan was able to come to New Zealand and take part in his own DTS!!! How awesome is that! I am so excited to stay with his parentals for a while! We will be staying in Fiji for about a month. We will arrive back in New Zealand on December 26. So we will get to have a Fijian Christmas! I am so pumped for that!
When we get back we will be volunteering in Paihia with Operation Jerusalem. Paihia on New Years is the place for young people to go and get drunk and party. So we will have a booth, giving out free sausages and water. It will be a super opportunity for us to minister to the youth of New Zealand! Beth is pretty nervous to hang around drunken youth, so pray for her! (And the rest of us too!)
Then we are going to Kaitaia. While there we will be planning and running a children's program. It will be kind of like Vacation Bible School (VBS).
And our last stop will be in south Aukland. This is a rough part of Aukland and we will be doing something at a big church down there called C3. There are lots of street people and prostitutes and stuff like that in that area. During our DTS, we have had 'Hope Cafe' every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during our break in the middle of the morning lecture. There is coffee and cookies and icecream available by donation. All of the money raised goes to the prostitutes in South Aukland. So we will actually get to meet these girls and minister to them! Pray for them!
When we get back we will be volunteering in Paihia with Operation Jerusalem. Paihia on New Years is the place for young people to go and get drunk and party. So we will have a booth, giving out free sausages and water. It will be a super opportunity for us to minister to the youth of New Zealand! Beth is pretty nervous to hang around drunken youth, so pray for her! (And the rest of us too!)
Then we are going to Kaitaia. While there we will be planning and running a children's program. It will be kind of like Vacation Bible School (VBS).
And our last stop will be in south Aukland. This is a rough part of Aukland and we will be doing something at a big church down there called C3. There are lots of street people and prostitutes and stuff like that in that area. During our DTS, we have had 'Hope Cafe' every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during our break in the middle of the morning lecture. There is coffee and cookies and icecream available by donation. All of the money raised goes to the prostitutes in South Aukland. So we will actually get to meet these girls and minister to them! Pray for them!
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