Hey everybody, greetings from the USA!!
Sorry it’s taken so long for us to update this but we have been so busy here. We have been reading loads and doing a lot of books and Bible reports already. We’ve now had 3 weeks of school and we are loving it! The first 2 weeks were a lot of information about the year as well as great teaching and worship. We had either Bill Johnson or Kris Vallotton everyday so there was a lot of really good stuff to take in and to try to process (and trust, 4 hours of Bill Johnson and Kris Vallotton a day really is a lot to take in). We also had amazing worship times, there is so much freedom here so there have been times when 1000 people have been dancing and jumping up and down which has been so powerful and a lot of fun.
We are loving the environment here, Bethel has amazing core values that they really live by. There is such a family environment, were everyone is accepted and loved. They encourage us to be so open and vulnerable with each other without any judgement but just acceptance. This has been fun to get used to but we love it, this really is a safe environment to be open, especially in our revival group, which is a group of about 70 students who we meet with once a week and is really our family here. (will talk more about this in a different post soon)
Last week we went on a retreat for 3 days with our revival group. We went to a Ranch in Northern California which was really beautiful. This was just a time to get to know each other better and we also had meetings at night. Last week we also had a day were the 2nd years at the school prophesied over us for this year and our futures which was really encouraging.
This week we are back in school and it’s the first week of our regular schedule. We start our chosen classes (which are called Advanced Ministry Training) and also our outreach. Daniel is doing the class on prophecy and I am doing one on healing and we don’t know yet what kind of outreach we’ll be doing but we are really excited to put all we’re learning into practice. At the minute we are also trying to decide which mission trips to sign up for. At the end of March we have the opportunity to go on a mission trip for a week or so, there are about 60 different ones to choose from going all over the world so please pray for us in the decisions we have to make.
We are really settling into life in America now, we love where we live and our housemates and we’re even getting used to the food. Also, we were able to buy a car which has been such blessing, especially now that its starting to get quite rainy here. We got a 1994 Volvo Station wagon, which is a lovely green colour and who we’ve named him Burt. We bought it of a lovely Christian couple for a really good price, so now we’re trying to figure out how all the paperwork works here!
Please continue to pray for us that we’ll continue to grow in our relationship with God and be stretched in everyway, that we’ll be able to process and really apply all the great teaching we are getting and that we’ll see God use us as we start our outreach etc.
From now on we’ll be updating this blog more often, so you guys can keep up with what God is doing here and with us, and send us some prayers.
Love from the Oliveiras!!
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