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Surprise!
- 30 Nov 2008
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Today started off with a trip to my Portsmouth church (King's Church), where I stayed for the sung worship time. Then my girlfriend and I popped off to a nice cafe in Portsmouth: The Tenth Hole for breakfast/lunch. She later had to go to the Portsmouth football match, so that is when I made my way back to Holmsted.

Soon after arriving back, I was informed we were having a party for one of the girls on the YWAM DTS course, so I got back in to the clothes I went to the engagement party in, and got ready. It was a fun party, and a complete surprise for the girl.

I have one full week left in the country. It is a pretty amazing time in my life. I've never been overseas for two months before. I hope I remember to take everything I need!

Here are videos of the sketches we have learned: "Everything" and "Bring me to life". In the first one I'm playing the boyfriend/Satan who distracts the girl first (which is why I need to work on my dancing!), and in the second I'll be one of the white shirted ones.

Have a great week!
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Party Time
- 30 Nov 2008
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Today I enjoyed spending some time with my girlfriend, then we went to
my friend's engagement party. It was all good.
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Dramatic Pause
- 29 Nov 2008
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This morning the DTS boys were treated to a surprise breakfast cooked by the girls. It was very nice. We had pancakes, bacon, and various other nice treats. It was a great start to the day.
We spent the rest of the morning preparing a couple of dramas to be performed while we are away. This was quite good fun: I've been involved in quite a bit of 'amature dramatics' in the past, so it was nice to get back in to the swing of it. I just need to be more coordinated when it comes to the dancing bit of one of the dramas. I'll try to remember to post a video of other people performing them at some point, so you can see what we will be doing too.
After Community Care and lunch, I got some sermons ready on my computer to listen to when I'm away, and prepared for our final local outreach.
We arrived in Brighton for the final time, only to realise that we had been very fortunate in the past to find parking spaces so easily. Tonight, it was not so easy. Once we parked, we made our way to meet a man who we'd been given a sleeping bag for by the Homeless project leader. The man was so thankful for the bag, the drinks and food we gave him. He actually said we had saved his life by doing that tonight, which was good!
We made our way up near to Brighton station, meeting a few more homeless people on the way. They were all so friendly and grateful for what we offered them. Then I went to the station and got a train back to Portsmouth (again!). It is a good friend's engagement party this weekend, so I've come back for that. Of course, it is great to see my girlfriend too!
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Thanksgiving
- 28 Nov 2008
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In Quiet Time I read some of Galatians.

Then we split in to our Prayer for the nations groups, where I prayed for India again. As you may have seen in the news, it certainly needs a lot of prayer at the moment!
Today we finished our lecture series in Relationships by discussing what was important about sex.
Then we had lunch, performed our usual Community Care duties, and then we had a meeting with a couple who have been working in India. They let us know a lot about what we should be expecting when we go there. I will not be able to blog as much, or talk about a lot of what I'll be doing there.

Then we celebrated Thanksgiving YWAM style, with a huge gathering and turkey for all!
It has been another long and tiring day here, but it has been fun. I give thanks to God for bringing me here.
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Back to business
- 27 Nov 2008
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Today I got back to the usual YWAM DTS activities.

After Quiet Time, where I finished off reading the book "Spiritual Warfare for Every Christian", we continued our lecture series on Relationships. Today we looked at how infatuation happens, but that does not equal love, and how we can not depend on feelings, as they can change too. As a class we listed several things that love is (for example, the list in 1 Corinthians 13), and also discussed what it is not (i.e. loving up to a point, then letting your own agenda rule). We also looked at "The 5 Love Languages":
- Words
- Time
- Thoughtful acts
- Physical
- Giving/receiving gifts
and one extra: Humour.

We went on to talking about dating relationships, how to approach them, and good ideas for what to do in them.

After that, we prayed for our outreaches - teams going to India praying for those going to Poland, and those going to Poland praying for those going to India. Some good news: everyone in Team India now has their visas except one person, so please continue praying for them!

After Community Care we had another meeting about our outreaches. Here we talked about the customs, dress, worldviews and other such matters in Indian society. It was quite informative.

After dinner (yay, I managed to keep it down!), them men's small group went to a local pub to meet and talk about relationships.

It has been a quite full and tiring day. I'm glad I'm back with everyone now though.
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