Bula!!! First week in Fiji:)

  We are staying at the Vunayasi base in Nadi, Fiji. Since we have arrived last Saturday, it has been a whirlwind of awesome ministry opportunities and getting to see Christ move in this beautiful land. The staff at this base have already become family and we love getting to share this amazing journey with them. They have been such a big help in teaching us about the culture and the people we are to minister to. The food here is pretty amazing and definitely a new experience for us and we are enjoying every minute of it.:) (especially the guys lol)

 We have been able to minister in several schools by performing skits, sharing testimonies and basically doing whatever the Holy Spirit leads us to do. Some schools are more responsive than others but we continue to pray that God move among this wonderful and loving people.

 The kids love doing "Tootsie Wootsie" and it is a great ice breaker for us and the children. They see us acting silly and it allows us to minister to them about Jesus once their barriers are down. We have been performing many skits and just dramatizing different bible stories so that God's word comes alive for them as it does for us.

 We are so thankful to have a van that we can take to each place and we get to play games and just act silly together while preparing for each place of ministry. We have already spent hours in this van and have come to love the bumpy roads of Fiji!:)

 This was one of our favorite schools that we visited on Tuesday. The children were so lively and willing to jump right into singing and dancing and it encouraged us to even try harder. The picture below is when we do the skit "Sticky Chair" and we are showing that not even strength can get us out of sin but it is Jesus alone that gives us freedom. It is a school favorite among the primary:). 127 students plus teachers and us squished into this one room but it was soo amazing to share Christ with them.

We had the opportunity to teach Wednesday-Friday at a church and the Holy Spirit totally showed up and did amazing things for the people there. God also pushed us out of our comfort zones and was able to use us in crazy ways to minister to people. We were able to pray for the blind man at this church and he was is now able to see light and shadows!!!

 As a team, we were able to split up into pairs and go evangelize in one of the slums "Bangladesh". We saw so many healings including: a deaf person able to hear, knees healed, hips healed and others done. We are going back on Thursday to minister to a single mom/ single older women compound in that neighborhood  and bring them fruit and other basic necessities. We are so lucky to have been able to love on so many broken people and share the gospel with them. We were also able to attend a legit Fijian Funeral and it was 3 hours long.... We didn't really understand it but it was totally an experience and now we know to eat before we go to another one :)

 One of the schools we performed a program at allowed us to come back and clean and work outside and just spend time with the kids. It was such a fulfilling day and we got to love on the kids by playing and cleaning with them.:)  Nadi District School
We also got to spend one of the mornings learning from an amazing man of God, Joesph Hedgebeck, and just get a refresher on hearing God's voice. It was amazing and really helpful for the upcoming days ahead.  God was able to give us revelations and refreshment from the teaching.

 For our day off, we went to Natadola Beach and spent the day there. On the way home, John  gave his testimony on the bus which opened up doors for some of us to share with others on the bus about Christ. It was so awesome and we ended the day with a celebration dinner for our fearless leaders.:)

We were also able to share at a High / Vocational school and it was crazy how the schedule changes so fast and we have to be flexible to just go with it. God still uses these moments and we seem to do better when our plans fall through lol. A major part of this outreach is to just love the people of Fiji and share with them whatever the Holy Spirit lays on our hearts. We are so thankful for all the opportunities God has been giving us and the doors that continue to still open at more and more schools in Fiji and the churches here. We have been in:
Schools: 3 different schools and went to the same one twice
Churches: 2 and taught at the same one 3 nights in a row
Evangelism: the streets of downtown Nadi, bus, slum and just in random passing.


We have an even more packed week coming up so please keep us in your prayers and the people of Fiji too. We want to see soo many healings and crazy God things happen in the next 5 weeks. Until next week
Moce,
Worship Stream 2013