So still 4 days to go before we leave on outreach!!
This week is focused on outreach, get prepped and team bonding! fun fun fun!! We all are so excited and getting nervous ;)
Last monday we got together and around 1.30 we got the announcement that we had 15 min to pack and to be ready to stay somewhere else during the night in our outreach team!!
We got a paper that said
Hello New York Team!
We are so excited that you will soon be arriving with your team! we will meet you at Fila at 2.15. We will not be around too much for the first night, but we hope you get along fine with the program we have attached. you´ll have to make your own dinner tonight. in the morning, walk up to Ungdom I oppdrag at 8 and one of our friends will make you some breakfast at 8.30. after that, maybe you´ll have a little time to yourselves before we have to head straight o some ministry opportunities at a local organization. Cant wait to see you, and we hope you have a great time!
- Silvia
So we got at Fila, a church nearby, there we met our ´contact person´ who gave us a folder with more information. We got send to a different house 15 min walk from the church. once there we were aloud to look into the folder. Then we got send back to the Huse house, near the church to stay there for the night in their basement!
Meet team NY, Anna from Finland, Cristian from Switzerland, Mathijs from The Netherlands, Katie From Norway, Paulien from The Netherlands, Jena from the states, Maja from Norway
Unfortunately we were not complete as a team cause some of us were sick, still we made the best out of it and we had lots of fun. In the morning we got back at the base around 8 & had an amazing American breakfast. after that we needed to do he ministry that we had prepared the day before! What an amazing experience, it really gave a good view of outreach and how it could be like. All of our teams, students + leaders had no idea upfront what was going to happen.......
Our program is coming together :) we will be working with a ministry called Prison Fellowship as said before.. take a look at www.prisonfellowship.org , see what they stand for and get an idea what we will be doing. We will also work with The Relief Bus... The Relief Bus is an organization who distributes food, clothes and other necessities to people who live on the street in New York. Take a look for more information on www.thereliefbus.org
Please continue to pray for us as a team, our travel and ministries!
Well we´ll come back to you once were in New York ;)
Paulien- team NYC
