Outreach #1

Okay, so i thought I better get back onto this. I'm currently on my weekend prep for my ten day outreach next month. How crazy that it's already February!? MENTAL. Anyway, I guessed some people might like to know what I'm getting up to while I'm here! 

So, it turned out I was going to Burnley. Which is in England, and about an hour away from Capernwray. The best part is, my friend Jemma is incharge of us. Plus, I met another one of her friends during my stay on staff at Capernwray at New Year, and he's been hanging out with us too which is fun. SO. There is six of us, and we're all pretty different, but I think we are all going to gel together really well which is fun! We got here around dinner time today, and we had a yummy meal at the church. Then we just hung around, and chatted to some of the people who we were going to be working with. Then we had a quick briefing as to what would be happening this weekend. Sounds like it's going to be a fun weekend! I'm still at Jemma's hanging out just now, but I'm really looking forward to meeting my family, though they arent the same people I'll be with for ten day, but that's cool. 

So once we left the church we came back to Jemma and Anne's. Now, I LOVE "God things" and one of them happened, in fact, I'd say two things happened. Firstly, it turns out that Zach, who's our team leader noticed a picture of his friend here. He had been encouraged to come to Capernwray by this friend, but he had no idea that they now shared the same outreach,  just a year later for him! So that's the first really cool thing. The second was as soon as Jemma's house mate, Anne, walked in the doors of the church. I KNEW I knew her, but I had no idea how.   It turns out, the summer of 2011, she had worked at Capernwray over the summer while I was there. That was the summer before I would say I really came back to Christ. So it was kind of weird to know where I'm at now, as to where I was when I first met her. Anyway, back to after we left the church.. We came back to the house, dumped our stuff and then headed out to a community which is basically all Asian. We went to a youth club and hung out for about half an hour, it was just crazy to see such a busy youth club! 

We came back to the house, and now I'm just chilling on the couch. I'm so excited to get to know my team more, and spend some time with some cool people! 

Pray for us this weekend that we can begin to build relationships with the people here!

Thanks! x