With less than a month to go we are busily preparing for Colombia (and the other teams are preparing for their locations). This week's focus is Outreach Prep, so basically learning and practising skits/dramas, presenting testimonies and sermons and Bible stories (without aids), and multiple other things. It's going to be a full on week, but crazy fun!
But with also less than a month to go I realised that I haven't updated you all on what our Colombia team is doing. So... here we go. This is a rough outline of what we're doing - it may not occur exactly as this outline says as things don't always go as planned and plans change, but as of Saturday 24th of November, 2012, this is what we are doing...
14-17 of December, 2012 - Outreach teams Africa and Costa Rica depart, whilst the Colombia outreach team cleans the Eagle Rock base, and prepares to leave.
17th of December, 2012 - Colombia OT departs! Flying from Denver, Colorado, to Bogota, Colombia.
Denver:
Bogota:
17th of December, 2012 - Busing from Bogota, Colombia to Pereira, Colombia!
3 Weeks in Pereira:
In Pereira we will be spending it with a local contact who has just church planted a new church, helping him in whatever way we can. We have also been requested to make long term contacts there, not just a hi and bye contact, but an actual friendship developed. <-- I really love this idea as there is no point to missions if it's just a temporary connection with minimal help or advice available/offerred. Some of the things we will be doing whilst we're in Pereira are going into orphanages and working around the town. We will be spending Christmas and New Year here as well, which should be amazing!
Pereira to Leticia (bordering Peru):
Early January - 26 January 2013: During this time we will be in Leticia, which borders Peru and is on the Amazon River.Whilst we're in Leticia we will be working alongside a medical organisation, putting on a medical brigade. Our main role here will be looking after approximately 200 kids whilst their parents are queuing or being seen by medical professionals. This could involve skits/dramas, songs, puppets, face painting, Bible stories, games, and we've been requested to do a soccer tournament <-- I AM SO HAPPY!!! I have been told that this will mean early mornings and late nights, with the soccer tournament being at night time, but I am so looking forward to this opportunity to spend time with children, my team and people who just love life and know how fragile life is but look for the positive and push through the hard times!
26th January: We will board a power boat, with a medical organisation, for 6 hour boat ride down the Amazon River, into Peru, to a remote Indigenous tribe whose outside contact with the World is through this medical organisation only. This tribe is truly remote, sees very few white people and do not easily accept outsiders, but we have the privilege of being a part of this medical organisation's trip.
As the tribe is in the jungle, we will have no access to technology, electricity, running water, showers or western toilets for a week. Not too long if you think about it. But it will be an amazing experience and one that I've dreamed of ever since I was a little girl! Can you tell how EXCITED I am?!?!
First full week in February: We'll be back in Pereira helping out with a few jobs there, before flying back to Denver for debrief.
8th of February - 15th of February 2013: Debrief week.
15th of February, 2013: Graduation day.
I am so pumped and feel so blessed to be given this opportunity and cannot thank you enough for helping me to get here. Hopefully I will be able to keep you guys updated through this blog, and also another blog that has been created to inform everyone in the YWAM community (with access world-wide), whilst I am in Colombia. I would definitely love to hear from you - email, mail, etc. too. Thanks also to my room mate and team mate, Alex, who helped me out with information on what we are doing through her website http://livingthisdayforthatday.blogspot.com/2012/11/humidity-mosquitoes-and-children.html?showComment=1353801093976#c7142325722985856911
Until next time, have a great week, and GBUG!
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