What does our daily schedule look like?

Many have asked how we spend our days.  The pace is different from a homes of hope build, as we need to set a pace for 2 months and not burn out.  Plus do ordinary life as we go too.  It varies quite a bit, but here's a look...

We live in seperate residences, so we have personal bible and prayer time at our homes in the morning.  Sometimes we get in a morning jog or maybe even sleep in a bit :)

Each day we meet at 10am,either at our place or maybe the park.  This is a time for us to "Fill ourselves up with the Holy Spirit"  YWAM is very good about making sure we stay filled up.  If we are not full and happy, then we cannot "overflow to others".  This is a  great life lesson I've learned.  Filling up is fun and invovles:
- worship in any form.  signing, dancing, playing freeze tag in the park, singing in the park, etc.  anything that glorifies God
- we share experiences from the previous day and reflect on our progress
-we lift each other up, speaking truth into each other

After worship and updates, we each lunch together.  We have cooking and clean up teams and these home cooked meals have been a highlight.  Penne with cream sauce, Japanese Udon noodles, Korean mixed grill, fish tacos, yummy stuff.  otherwise we grab a quick bite together close to the park.

Afternoons we often split up and find ways to serve.
- Everyday some of us a teaching English, which is a great ministry because we can actually speak to them!!! Plus, many people interested in English tend to be interested in the Western Culture and Christianaity. 
- We've also spent afternoons cleaning homes and bathrooms for elder long term missionaries here.  We cleaned up the Christian Center after the flood, etc. 
- We also have spent afternoons planning and practicing for our Aloha Cafe show this coming weekend.  - --- Sometimes we go out and pass out Christian Tracks at the train station, sometimes we just go hand out with our friends, building relationship.
- Jessica and another member of our team taught a new mothers class at a local church.
- Other times we may do intercessory prayer for people we are meeting here or for others in our group that are out in the field.

Simply put, we do what is possible and let God handle what may seem impossible... that is leading people closer to him.

Sometimes we do dinner together and often our ministry work spills into the evening.  If not, we are free many evenings and that's when we do laundry, shop, clean, type blogs, etc.  What is fun on an outreach like this is that you keep your "mission eyes" open all the time.  So we may talk with someone or cheer them up at the laundry mat or disucss faith with a ticket collector at a local baseball game.  Its amazing when you are away from home and in regular, deep contact with the Lord, how the world can look different... so full of chances to share Jesus.  Sometimes directly, often by example.  We hope to take this lesson home with us as well.

Five days a week we do the above.  Sundays we attend a few church services and eat lunch at the church, helping in anyway we can.  Then Monday is our free day.  The world goes back to work and we rest :)

Hooray for Mondays!!!