A Quick Update

Right - so seems that I have quite a bit of blogging to catch up on so will try to keep each account brief! Have just finished my Minty assignment (YAY! 1000 words), and like I've said before, if only those words came to me as easily as the words of this blog!

So AUTCF - we have been doing our usual Milo Mondays. Met a couple people last Monday, one of whom showed up to Bible study yesterday with a friend! Bible studies running Tues, Weds and Thurs from 4-6pm in WT1101. Last Tuesday we had an amazing turn out! 13 people altogether, with 7 newbies and 6 oldies. Praise God for answering our prayers about integrating the new and the old and for providing people eager to study the Word! Weds was a good turn out as well - 8 altogether. Yesterday I was leading the study, and E from Milo monday brought her friend and we started straight away as they had to leave after 30mins. We were able to work through the first half of the passage, but pray that they will come back next week. Then C arrived and we did a little one-on-one bible study as the two Es had to leave. This was a little different to what I had prepared for so we just worked through the passage, observing and interpreting as we went. Some good applications were drawn and we closed in prayer.

AUTCF are also preparing for an Easter outreach on Campus. More details and pics will be up after the event on 9th April.

EU - We had a very summery Bible study in Jonah last week as we decided to hold the bible study outside, in the shade of the tree on the lawn outside Maclaurin Chapel. It turned out to be a little dangerous though with the acorns (?) dropping at any moment and we had a few loud clanks on the table!

On Weds 1 April, we had a table in the AU Quad from 10-1 and we were giving out lollipops and flyers for EU. We had about 160 flyers and 200 lollipops. I think we had about 20-30 flyers left so will be praying that some of those people with flyers would come along to check out the group.

We had a very small Auckland Team Meeting yesterday, with Jeff in Wellington and Andy deciding to use his 12 hours for the meeting in Wellington as well. There were just 4 of us and we shared what had been happening and prayed for each other. As I was writing down the prayers, I decided to start a prayer journal, just so that I could keep track of what needed to be prayed for so that I wouldn't forget.

Sarah and I will be off to Tauranga tomorrow at about noon. We are going for 2 nights, staying with our good friend Justine! It's her 21st birthday today and we're going to join her for her celebrations on Sunday - a high noon tea party, Jane Austen style.. (still need to find something to wear!) Am really excited to see her!!

Am LOVING Skype at the moment, even though I only really use it to chat to a couple people. But it's great being able to see Esther's face! (She's my beloved bestie.. who decided to rough it in wild South Africa (or safa) for a year). It's been good keeping in touch AND getting some very good shots of her through the webcam:P There's one in my previous post, and here's another:

There are some others that are less tame, but they will find their way up here somewhere in the near future!