Nearly There...

...one week of lectures left yikes!!! Which means Nepal in 8 days

We are learning some practical things we can use to help folks out there...

VA - I've learned how to do Visual Acuity tests (eye tests where you try and read the letters that gradually get smaller).. So we can give out glasses. - I love having resources and skills to help people practically...Don't get me wrong I love praying that God will meet their needs in some way too but it's really satisfying to be the answer to those prayers.

We are also going to teach people how they can take care for peeps with the flu - its pretty easy for most of you's I know but people actually die because they have wrong ideas of how to treat flu...

We have been rehearsing some dramatics to convey the good news - they're not cheesy thank goodness!

Other DTS teams have just got back from their outreaches. There's lots of different types 4 times a year -so they've just arrived as we're heading off...they have some amazing stories. it's encouraging and a bit scary. I know itll be AWESOME! It's also going to be intense with a high probability of diarrhoea -at least I won't get dehydrated, not with ORS making skills.


I know NOW know where I'll be in Nepal!

4 weeks in Kathmandu which is going to be tres cool..
Then 3 weeks in either Dadeldhura, Biratnagar or Pokhara.
We will be doing healthcare jazz, working with kiddies, youths and girl sex workers, churches.

We have talked to the lady who is arranging everything for us in my second country - showed us photos and everything!
I'm excited about the orphanages and the place we are staying looks proper boss!

That's it!
With limited internet access I may not get another chance to update while I'm away (I know you're all gutted), this may be my SECOND to last update So Ta very much for reading...please, please keep praying for me:-)

Prayer requests:
>safe travelling
>We honour the people we want to help...so we don't come across like arrogant annoying foreigners
>we will be a blessing to our hosts
> (in my smaller team) I'm going to be responsible for account/book keeping -please pray I do a good job and I don't lose any money:-)
>finances for my flight back to Norn Iron

P.S
I want to say thanks to my Ma and Da for my presents...I really appreciate all the clothes and chocolate. And the family calendar, I love it! My friends think all yous are beautiful/handsome:-D
I am also tremendously grateful for proper Irish tea. With 160 tea bags to get through I HAVE been sharing and everyone has complimented the good ould Irish brew. So thanks very much.

4 weeks til Nepal!!!!!

I can't believe it's come around so fast! I guess 4 weeks is still a while away but time is flying by so it'll only feel like...I dunno, less than 4 weeks.

Lectures are still boss (cracking), I'm enjoying ARMS and we are getting sorted for Outreach to Nepal and beyond.

I survived 'slum survivor'! We had a great time making our little slum houses and doing challenges that represent different aspect of slum living. Sleeping in the slum house was definitely humbling.

One challenge was piggyback racing as if we were driving a rickshaw. a rickshaw is basically a cart thing that would have couple of passengers in and the driver would pull it by cycling and sometimes he might actually pull it on foot.

We also had a decoding test where we had to decipher a code to try and get the right 'medication' (in our test thankfully it was m&ms -or i would have surely died) because many people in slums don't have access to medicine and treatments for the simple reason they can't read the name of the drug or the instructions. Crazy isn't it? There's a lot of things I took for granted.

At the minute we are doing lots to see the finances come in to go away - lots of fun FUNdraising happening.
I have found the Aussies are really generous and want to help for good causes:
The whole of our base did a can shaking collection for ARMS in the city centre and we got $12000 in one day!!

My school did a sausage sizzle fundraiser for our outreach..we were selling hotdogs. A hardware shop provided the barbecue tent and gas etc. We raised an amazing $1100. A day car washing we also raised $1000. Praise God! And bless you citizens of Perth, we are very grateful!

If you're not sure what outreach actually is; as part of our training our school takes all that we've learnt during lectures to help people in a developing country and share what we know about God and His plan. It's going to be so good.

If you would also like to help with our fundraising we are doing a sponsored 12km walk at a place called lake Monger.

Where we are going:

The whole school will be spending the first 7 weeks of outreach in Nepal.
In Nepal we will be doing a variety of things, partnering with local believers:

Sharing the goodness of God, dramas, skits, sports, etc…

Training - DTS seminars

Mercy ministries Feeding programs, health care, homeless ministry, street kids etc…

After Nepal we will split up into 3 teams, I will go to another big Asian country (some of you may know where already) for the remaining 4 weeks:

Here we will be reaching out to university students in the community.

Serving alongside another Christian ministry that works in orphanages which I'm really looking forward to.

We will be helping serve the needs of the communities.

Im going to share what I've learnt here in Perth and serve people in cool and crazy ways!! it's going to be life changing - not just for me but I believe there will also be lasting impact on the people we are want to serve.

How you can help:

On Tuesday, 5th march all of us in the DTS will be doing the walk-a-thon around Lake Monger in Perth. Most of us will do 12 km of walking, but some may do more!!!

Would you consider sponsoring me by pledging money that will help me reach out in these countries? You can either give a one time donation or sponsor per Km. Please let me know by Wednesday this week and I can tell about how to transfer money:-)

I really appreciate your support and prayers. Sorry this is short notice but any money you pledge can be given by 11th March.

Please continue to pray for me.

And thank you for reading, it's comforting to know people back home are interested in what I'm doing.