Hey everyone
This week has been awesome. We had my school leader Adriel Booker speak to us on Missions and different injustice issues.
I learnt alot of things I didn't know about the world, and what happens day to day. The statistics were unbelievable. We also learnt about lots of different people that are doing things to change this world. We watched lots of videos about these people and the sacrifices they made and the joys they had. It was really awesome. I am pretty sure God is calling me to missions long term, but will see what happens. I am definitely going to be back here in Townsville in April for a year staff internship, and then after that I don't know what will happen, but I am sure God is sorting this all out right now.
I leave tomorrow Sunday 18th Oct for Papua New Guinea. I will be gone for 6 weeks and will most likely have no communication, but I will try and see if I can send letters to my family and church. Still need to find out if there will be a post office where I will be staying. I will be back on 26th November so will loook forward to writing to you when I get back.
Please pray for my outreach team. My leader's name is Keevy, and my team members are Lexi, Derek, Callie, Renee, Jacob and Anthony.
I would appreciate this so much!
Will write again in 6 weeks!
Love Gia
Friday, October 16, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Week 13
Hi All,
Sorry I am late in writing. I have been busy in the weekend, as we have welcomed the October DTS and new staff interns. There are almost 40 new DTS, and about 12 Staff interns who have joined us on this base. It has been very exciting and noisy all at the same time with all these new people here, but I am enjoying it. My good friend Micah, whom I grew up with in India is one of the staff interns, so it has been awesome catching up with him, since I have not seen him for 3 years. There are also two New Zealanders on the October DTS who I have chatted to a little bit too. I am soo excited for what God is going to do in these student's lives. It is so funny thinking back to my first day at DTS. I was absolutely clueless, and now God has just completely changed me and I am such a different person.
Lectures were great this week. We had Fiona Gifford come speak to us on Communication. It was good seeing things from a new perspective, learning how to only speak for ourselves, and learning how to approach conflict and repair situations.
Please pray for me this week, as I am feeling quite run down. I have alot of preparing to do as I leave this Sunday (18th Oct) for Papua New Guinea. I will be gone for 6 weeks so I will be out of contact as we will be staying in rural villages most of the time. I am very excited for outreach.
Thanks to my lovely mum and dad, I am able to go. I was very short on outreach funds so mum and dad provided the remaining for me. I love my mum and dad! I am still currently looking for monthly supporters, as I am planning to come back to Townsville in April 2010, and do a staff internship for a year which will mean more finances will be needed. I am currently unaware where this will be coming from. There is no specific amount that you have to give, any amount would just be awesome. If you would like more information on what I will be doing when I come back, please feel free to email me at reserved.4.one@gmail.com. I would really appreciate this.
I will update you again this weekend before I leave for Papua New Guinea. Please keep me in your prayers
Thank you
Gia
Sorry I am late in writing. I have been busy in the weekend, as we have welcomed the October DTS and new staff interns. There are almost 40 new DTS, and about 12 Staff interns who have joined us on this base. It has been very exciting and noisy all at the same time with all these new people here, but I am enjoying it. My good friend Micah, whom I grew up with in India is one of the staff interns, so it has been awesome catching up with him, since I have not seen him for 3 years. There are also two New Zealanders on the October DTS who I have chatted to a little bit too. I am soo excited for what God is going to do in these student's lives. It is so funny thinking back to my first day at DTS. I was absolutely clueless, and now God has just completely changed me and I am such a different person.
Lectures were great this week. We had Fiona Gifford come speak to us on Communication. It was good seeing things from a new perspective, learning how to only speak for ourselves, and learning how to approach conflict and repair situations.
Please pray for me this week, as I am feeling quite run down. I have alot of preparing to do as I leave this Sunday (18th Oct) for Papua New Guinea. I will be gone for 6 weeks so I will be out of contact as we will be staying in rural villages most of the time. I am very excited for outreach.
Thanks to my lovely mum and dad, I am able to go. I was very short on outreach funds so mum and dad provided the remaining for me. I love my mum and dad! I am still currently looking for monthly supporters, as I am planning to come back to Townsville in April 2010, and do a staff internship for a year which will mean more finances will be needed. I am currently unaware where this will be coming from. There is no specific amount that you have to give, any amount would just be awesome. If you would like more information on what I will be doing when I come back, please feel free to email me at reserved.4.one@gmail.com. I would really appreciate this.
I will update you again this weekend before I leave for Papua New Guinea. Please keep me in your prayers
Thank you
Gia
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Minor Outreach (the last week)
Hey everyone! My minor outreach is over! I'm back at the Town
sville base, getting ready for 2 weeks of lectures! yippee :P
Once the 2 weeks of lectures are over I will be heading to Papua New Guinea for 6 weeks so please keep me in your prayers and pray that God would prepare my heart and also that the remaining finances I need would come through.
My last week of minor outreach was fun! Our base runs a youth group program on Saturdays from 2-10pm and so we took a majority of these kids down to the Gold Coast for a youth camp. It was an awesome time. I met a girl who I was in a cabin with who knows a family that I used to babysit for in New Zealand and are now living in Cairns. Her name is Caitlyn. We got along like peanut butter and jam :P. Her cousin Maddie, and friend Helena were also in my cabin and it was really fun just getting to know them really well. I had another girl in my cabin called Taylor from Mt Isa, and it was funny because she looked soo much like my cousin April, it was hilarious because everytime I looked at her I would see my cousin. That was cool though.
So anyway, 5DE was a combination of theme parks, night games, dance parties, surfing, watching millions of movies on bus rides to and from our campsite, and just building relationships with the kids.
We stayed at a campsite called Koonjewarre, and it reminded me so much of New Zealand because it was sooo cold. I didn't pack much warm stuff so I wore the same things every night and morning. It was still really nice though, and up in the mountains so the scenery on the way up was amazing!
I did have a tough week in sense of spiritually connecting with God. I found it hard to do with the amount of things going on. Please pray for me and keep me in your thoughts.
Good news is my friend Micah (who is my childhood friends) is coming to join staff this week. He arrives on Wednesday and I am very excited to see him as I haven't seen him in 3 years. It will be really good to just catch up with him and share with him what's been going on over here. Please pray for him too that his flights will go smoothly and that he wont have any travel worries.
I will write again at the end of this week.
Thanks for reading!
Gia
sville base, getting ready for 2 weeks of lectures! yippee :P
Once the 2 weeks of lectures are over I will be heading to Papua New Guinea for 6 weeks so please keep me in your prayers and pray that God would prepare my heart and also that the remaining finances I need would come through.
My last week of minor outreach was fun! Our base runs a youth group program on Saturdays from 2-10pm and so we took a majority of these kids down to the Gold Coast for a youth camp. It was an awesome time. I met a girl who I was in a cabin with who knows a family that I used to babysit for in New Zealand and are now living in Cairns. Her name is Caitlyn. We got along like peanut butter and jam :P. Her cousin Maddie, and friend Helena were also in my cabin and it was really fun just getting to know them really well. I had another girl in my cabin called Taylor from Mt Isa, and it was funny because she looked soo much like my cousin April, it was hilarious because everytime I looked at her I would see my cousin. That was cool though.
So anyway, 5DE was a combination of theme parks, night games, dance parties, surfing, watching millions of movies on bus rides to and from our campsite, and just building relationships with the kids.
We stayed at a campsite called Koonjewarre, and it reminded me so much of New Zealand because it was sooo cold. I didn't pack much warm stuff so I wore the same things every night and morning. It was still really nice though, and up in the mountains so the scenery on the way up was amazing!
I did have a tough week in sense of spiritually connecting with God. I found it hard to do with the amount of things going on. Please pray for me and keep me in your thoughts.
Good news is my friend Micah (who is my childhood friends) is coming to join staff this week. He arrives on Wednesday and I am very excited to see him as I haven't seen him in 3 years. It will be really good to just catch up with him and share with him what's been going on over here. Please pray for him too that his flights will go smoothly and that he wont have any travel worries.
I will write again at the end of this week.
Thanks for reading!
Gia
Friday, September 25, 2009
Minor Outreach (first 2 weeks)
Hey All,
So I have just come back from 2 weeks of minor Outreach and am heading out tomorrow for 5DE on the Gold Coast, which I have mentioned in previous blogs.
So my first week of minor outreach we had Bayside and Heatherton Christian College come for Mission Adventures. We had an awesome time getting to know these kids. Most of them were Yr 7 or 8, age range was from 12-15. My Outreach team was with Bayside Christian College, but both outreach teams and colleges joined together for the first week. It was cool because we became staff for 2 weeks and the kids really looked up to us. They had lectures twice a day, and we also did heaps of fun stuff with them. I was amazed at how much God really changed these kids in such a short period of time. I had such little faith, and that really woke me up and made me realize God CAN do anything, so much more than we can imagine. I got the opportunity to speak into kids lives, and I gave some really specific words. I was really excited that God was using me! So we commissioned the kids and then the other Outreach team took their college to Palm Island and my outreach team headed to Mt Isa on an 11 hr bus ride for outreach....and yes...11 hours. It passed unusually quickly, but I think the reason was because I slept most of the trip. Thank goodness for Ipods! (thanks Robyn :P)
We gave the kids the opportunity to really lead out while we were in Mt Isa by giving them ownership and responsibility for a 3 day Vacation Bible School. They organized games, skits, crafts for the indigenous kids that were coming. It was pretty hectic but they did an awesome job. The indigenous kids were soo happy to have us there and were climbing on our backs and cuddling us. It was fun. We got some chill time too and visited Lake Moondarra, where I got some awesome photos.
If you want to see pictures of these events you can go to these links:
Photography Album: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=126334&id=700994895&l=712cf51544
Outreach: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=156670&id=700994895&l=2877aa815c and http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=152371&id=700994895&l=85f2ee6204
I am heading out again for a week so will write when I get back!
Thanks for reading!
Gia
So I have just come back from 2 weeks of minor Outreach and am heading out tomorrow for 5DE on the Gold Coast, which I have mentioned in previous blogs.
So my first week of minor outreach we had Bayside and Heatherton Christian College come for Mission Adventures. We had an awesome time getting to know these kids. Most of them were Yr 7 or 8, age range was from 12-15. My Outreach team was with Bayside Christian College, but both outreach teams and colleges joined together for the first week. It was cool because we became staff for 2 weeks and the kids really looked up to us. They had lectures twice a day, and we also did heaps of fun stuff with them. I was amazed at how much God really changed these kids in such a short period of time. I had such little faith, and that really woke me up and made me realize God CAN do anything, so much more than we can imagine. I got the opportunity to speak into kids lives, and I gave some really specific words. I was really excited that God was using me! So we commissioned the kids and then the other Outreach team took their college to Palm Island and my outreach team headed to Mt Isa on an 11 hr bus ride for outreach....and yes...11 hours. It passed unusually quickly, but I think the reason was because I slept most of the trip. Thank goodness for Ipods! (thanks Robyn :P)
We gave the kids the opportunity to really lead out while we were in Mt Isa by giving them ownership and responsibility for a 3 day Vacation Bible School. They organized games, skits, crafts for the indigenous kids that were coming. It was pretty hectic but they did an awesome job. The indigenous kids were soo happy to have us there and were climbing on our backs and cuddling us. It was fun. We got some chill time too and visited Lake Moondarra, where I got some awesome photos.
If you want to see pictures of these events you can go to these links:
Photography Album: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=126334&id=700994895&l=712cf51544
Outreach: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=156670&id=700994895&l=2877aa815c and http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=152371&id=700994895&l=85f2ee6204
I am heading out again for a week so will write when I get back!
Thanks for reading!
Gia
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Urgent Support Needed...and some news
Hi All,
I have been given special communication time to write to you about my finances. I have just worked out that the actual amount I need, including expenses to be able to go on Outreach is around $1800 AUD, so I am hoping that you will consider supporting me in this.
I need this preferrably by the 11th of October, so that plane tickets and other necessities can be purchased.
Please pray about this, and even if you start giving small amounts monthly, it would be an enormous blessing! I am really wanting to go on Outreach to Papua New Guinea, and I give thanks to God for providing for my minor outreach here in Australia.
If you would like to support me, through prayer or finances, feel free to email me for more details and I will tell you as much as I can!
to give, you can either send a cheque to my parents :
Gia White
C/-Adam White
11 Sovereign Way
Paraparaumu 5032
or just do Direct Credit into my New Zealand Bank account:
Bank of New Zealand
02-0733-0041387-083
If it doesn't let you do the 3 digits at the end, just drop the zero. As long as the 83 suffix is there, it will work
Also, in other news... :)
At Youth Street on Saturday, it was my day off but I decided to go and hang out with the kids anyway, and God blessed this decision amazingly by giving me the opportunity to lead 3 wonderful girls to the Lord. I spent two hours with them and a friend of mine, just answering questions and telling them about Jesus and His love for them. I led them in the sinner's prayer, and I have never done that before so it was sooo exciting! So praise God for that! Yay!!
So far this week, I have been involved in Mission Adventures. We have two School Groups, Heatherton and Bayside Christian College. It has been a really full on but amazing week and I have had opportunities to really minister into these kids lives. I am really excited for outreach to Mt Isa. Please keep me in your prayers
That's all for now, but will write again next week when I get back from Mt Isa.
Gia
I have been given special communication time to write to you about my finances. I have just worked out that the actual amount I need, including expenses to be able to go on Outreach is around $1800 AUD, so I am hoping that you will consider supporting me in this.
I need this preferrably by the 11th of October, so that plane tickets and other necessities can be purchased.
Please pray about this, and even if you start giving small amounts monthly, it would be an enormous blessing! I am really wanting to go on Outreach to Papua New Guinea, and I give thanks to God for providing for my minor outreach here in Australia.
If you would like to support me, through prayer or finances, feel free to email me for more details and I will tell you as much as I can!
to give, you can either send a cheque to my parents :
Gia White
C/-Adam White
11 Sovereign Way
Paraparaumu 5032
or just do Direct Credit into my New Zealand Bank account:
Bank of New Zealand
02-0733-0041387-083
If it doesn't let you do the 3 digits at the end, just drop the zero. As long as the 83 suffix is there, it will work
Also, in other news... :)
At Youth Street on Saturday, it was my day off but I decided to go and hang out with the kids anyway, and God blessed this decision amazingly by giving me the opportunity to lead 3 wonderful girls to the Lord. I spent two hours with them and a friend of mine, just answering questions and telling them about Jesus and His love for them. I led them in the sinner's prayer, and I have never done that before so it was sooo exciting! So praise God for that! Yay!!
So far this week, I have been involved in Mission Adventures. We have two School Groups, Heatherton and Bayside Christian College. It has been a really full on but amazing week and I have had opportunities to really minister into these kids lives. I am really excited for outreach to Mt Isa. Please keep me in your prayers
That's all for now, but will write again next week when I get back from Mt Isa.
Gia
Friday, September 11, 2009
Week 9
Hey everyone!
Hope all your weeks have been fantastic. Mine certainly has. We had Dean Sherman, founder of YWAM Australia come and speak to us this week on Spiritual Warfare. It was such an amazing week and Dean taught us all so many things we had no idea about. It's really funny because Dean actually spoke on my parent's DTS through video about the same thing! We got to see him in real life which is apparently really rare. We felt really special because only the week before he came to speak to the 30 or so people on our base, he was speaking to a church of 13,000 in Indonesia! What a good guy!
I guess you could say he is pretty well known, but I had never heard of him except for through others on my DTS.
Anyway, so back to what I learnt....
So I found out Spiritual Warfare is 24/7.
Also..have you ever wondered why your non-Christian friends never understand you when you speak about your faith, and it doesn't really interest them?? It says in 2 Corinthians 4:4 that the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light!
We need to pray and rebuke all the lies of the enemy, and pray that they can see the light, engage in spiritual warfare, before we even speak to them! I thought this was so cool. This can be before a phone call conversation, even chat, or when you take them out to coffee or something. This way, the enemy flees and God's light can come in!
Dean used a funny illustration, he said:
" Now, today at break I am going to give you all a box and you are going to take it into your closet, or dark room, open it, fill it with darkness, close it and then come out and we will all open ours together outside and see how dark it gets."
It was funny, because some of us didn't get it, but obviously, darkness cannot overcome light, it HAS to leave. So have faith in that when you pray for your friends!
Also, never say that you are weak, because Jesus died on the cross and now lives in you! How can you be weak, when the creator of the universe lives inside of you!
There were so many things I learned this week but I don't have time to write them all.
I may not be in contact for another 2 weeks. We start Mission Adventures on Sunday, which I have explained in my previous blog. We moved out of our house and are moving down the road to a Parish house for 5 weeks till we leave for Papua New Guinea, so its really nice. Finally we will have a living area and kitchen to hang out in :)
The kids arrive Sunday night and we will be busy all week training them and equipping them for the mission field. We leave on Friday for Mt. Isa, which is an 11 hour drive, so please pray for a safe trip. Here we will minister along with the kids from Mission Adventures to the Indigineous people in Mt. Isa, so that will be awesome. We go for 7 days and so I may be able to write again 2 Saturdays from now, but unsure right now. Please pray for my outreach, and also that I will be able to minister to the kids that are coming here next week.
Thanks for reading, will write again when I can.
Love Gia
Hope all your weeks have been fantastic. Mine certainly has. We had Dean Sherman, founder of YWAM Australia come and speak to us this week on Spiritual Warfare. It was such an amazing week and Dean taught us all so many things we had no idea about. It's really funny because Dean actually spoke on my parent's DTS through video about the same thing! We got to see him in real life which is apparently really rare. We felt really special because only the week before he came to speak to the 30 or so people on our base, he was speaking to a church of 13,000 in Indonesia! What a good guy!
I guess you could say he is pretty well known, but I had never heard of him except for through others on my DTS.
Anyway, so back to what I learnt....
So I found out Spiritual Warfare is 24/7.
Also..have you ever wondered why your non-Christian friends never understand you when you speak about your faith, and it doesn't really interest them?? It says in 2 Corinthians 4:4 that the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light!
We need to pray and rebuke all the lies of the enemy, and pray that they can see the light, engage in spiritual warfare, before we even speak to them! I thought this was so cool. This can be before a phone call conversation, even chat, or when you take them out to coffee or something. This way, the enemy flees and God's light can come in!
Dean used a funny illustration, he said:
" Now, today at break I am going to give you all a box and you are going to take it into your closet, or dark room, open it, fill it with darkness, close it and then come out and we will all open ours together outside and see how dark it gets."
It was funny, because some of us didn't get it, but obviously, darkness cannot overcome light, it HAS to leave. So have faith in that when you pray for your friends!
Also, never say that you are weak, because Jesus died on the cross and now lives in you! How can you be weak, when the creator of the universe lives inside of you!
There were so many things I learned this week but I don't have time to write them all.
I may not be in contact for another 2 weeks. We start Mission Adventures on Sunday, which I have explained in my previous blog. We moved out of our house and are moving down the road to a Parish house for 5 weeks till we leave for Papua New Guinea, so its really nice. Finally we will have a living area and kitchen to hang out in :)
The kids arrive Sunday night and we will be busy all week training them and equipping them for the mission field. We leave on Friday for Mt. Isa, which is an 11 hour drive, so please pray for a safe trip. Here we will minister along with the kids from Mission Adventures to the Indigineous people in Mt. Isa, so that will be awesome. We go for 7 days and so I may be able to write again 2 Saturdays from now, but unsure right now. Please pray for my outreach, and also that I will be able to minister to the kids that are coming here next week.
Thanks for reading, will write again when I can.
Love Gia
Friday, September 4, 2009
Week 8
Hello everyone! so Week 8 is over, heading into Week 9. I've almost been here for 2 months, which is kinda scary.. :)
This week we had Captain Jesse come speak to us. He is captain of the ship that we will be getting next year and touring around Australia and PNG. He was an amazing speaker. He spoke to us about Hearing God's Voice. One thing that stuck out to me was that you can't be lazy, because if you sit around doing nothing about the last thing that God told you to do, He will eventually stop talking to you. That kinda freaked me out, because I am a little lazy sometimes, and so...mm some work to do there :).
I had a really good week. My finances are coming along well, thank you to all of you who have contributed so far, you were an answer to prayers.
I still need around $1000 AUD more, but am hoping this will come through soon. My leader has advised me that I have another 2 weeks to make that payment, so just praying that will come through.
I am still praying about the Australia PNG Ship Tour, but am very sure this is the step I will be taking next. I know that I am called to Missions, I know that this is an open door, and so I think this is what I will be doing next.
The April DTS graduated on Friday, and that was really cool to watch. I'm excited to graduate but I will be very sad to leave my friends that I've made.
I gotta scoot but will write again soon!
Love Gia
This week we had Captain Jesse come speak to us. He is captain of the ship that we will be getting next year and touring around Australia and PNG. He was an amazing speaker. He spoke to us about Hearing God's Voice. One thing that stuck out to me was that you can't be lazy, because if you sit around doing nothing about the last thing that God told you to do, He will eventually stop talking to you. That kinda freaked me out, because I am a little lazy sometimes, and so...mm some work to do there :).
I had a really good week. My finances are coming along well, thank you to all of you who have contributed so far, you were an answer to prayers.
I still need around $1000 AUD more, but am hoping this will come through soon. My leader has advised me that I have another 2 weeks to make that payment, so just praying that will come through.
I am still praying about the Australia PNG Ship Tour, but am very sure this is the step I will be taking next. I know that I am called to Missions, I know that this is an open door, and so I think this is what I will be doing next.
The April DTS graduated on Friday, and that was really cool to watch. I'm excited to graduate but I will be very sad to leave my friends that I've made.
I gotta scoot but will write again soon!
Love Gia
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