As some may know, I am preparing to go with part of my class to the Philippines for my outreach phase of DTS. This, I am beyond excited about because its one of the places God layed on my heart and its a two month mission trip.... which is a little slice of heaven for me. So as we approach the departure time form Colorado, we weekly prepare for this outreach phase.
One night a week we have outreach training, which is basically learning of skits, plays, puppet shows, and other "tools" we need to put into our toolbelt for reaching all sorts of people when in the Philippines. Not being an actress, God took this time as an oppurtunity to put me in every skit we do. One of them, Fix You, is all about redemption and Gods restoring love; how He can take a broken, abused, unloved, etc. person and make them new again through Him. And yes, it is to the Coldplay song. They warned us that by the end of our outreach phase, these songs will no longer be appealing to us because they will be so overplayed. All well! Our other skit, so far, is called Family. I play the older sister (fitting huh?) in a 5 person family. Through the process of the song the family starts to break apart as satan enters into their lives. Its very dramatic and after watching the other teams perform it I can understand how it could have a huge impact on people. Its a very common problem or topic in this world today, which is really sad, but at the end the family, individually, runs back to God and becomes restored. Which is a hopeful and happy ending! Its cool because not only do we get to act and participate in this but leaders constantly tell us stories of how mid way through God starts putting specific crowd members on your heart, and you get to do ministry time afterwards. I honestly can not wait!
One other part of outreach prep so far is the puppets. I also got selected to participate in this, which is actually really neat. At first I was bummed because it seemed like a lot of work and I would rather be doing something a little more hands on but soon I(because puppets arent hands on, right?) realized that those were both horrible excuses. Putting your hand in a puppets mouth, crouching behind a curtain, and choregraphing puppets to music is truly a ministry in itself! Our puppet team consists of six of us, each having our own character. And we all have different personialties so its really enterataining to sit back and watch us. We have three performances down so far, and currently get to look for new songs to do. It will be a great time and I am so excited to see the mile wide smiles on the children and adults faces when we use a piece of cloth and string to entertain them!
So far that is our major preperations that are taking place. We have also started working on our testimonies and learning how to relate our life stories to other people. Taking the bad or heart breaking and turning it into a story of hope and redemption. Words can not express how excited I am for this trip. God is already starting to prepare the hearts of His children there, and we get to be the vessels of His love and plant the seeds. It will be one of the most amazing experiences ever!
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