God's Plan is the ONLY Plan!

I can't believe this journey of my life is coming to an end. My team just arrived back to the base here in Aussie Saturday night along with our fellow DTS members. It is so great to be reunited with them once again and share stories of how God showed up in big ways!!! I am so blessed to have gone to the Philippines & Fiji and God blessed me with an incredible team and leaders!

Our last couple weeks in Fiji were extremely challenging and I wish I could share everything with you. As I wrote in my previous post, my team had planned on going to Kadavu Island for our last week of outreach, but after much deliberation we felt like God was calling us elsewhere. The day before we left for the island, our leader Pia was diagnosed with a staph infection and that same night received two powerful dreams warning our team to not go to the island. We took these as clear signs from God, because that night we had asked for someone on our team to receive vivid dreams. It was a really difficult time for many of us and I'm thankful I had you guys at home praying for me. I had really been looking forward to this island and being the first team there building relationships and a firm foundation for future YWAM teams seemed amazing to me. But instead we left Suva, Fiji and headed back to the YWAM base in Lautoka, Fiji to work with our contacts there. The next few days our team did different hospital, jail and teen ministries and received heaps of confirmations from God. It was awesome to see that God's plan was greater no matter how difficult it was to go against such promising plans in Kadavu. During our last 5 days, we had got news from a pastor in Nacula in the Yasawa Islands that he would really appreciate it if our group came and brought our missions to his village.  Just like that God blessed us with another opportunity to head to an island and it was the such an jaw dropping adventure!

Nacula was like nothing I've ever done before and yet I didn't really feel out of place. It was such a wonderful learning experience being apart of the village culture and becoming welcomed into the exclusive community. We were there for 3 full days and spent most afternoons going around door to door sharing our testimonies and telling them about Jesus, as well as spending time with the kids at the local primary school.  Each night we'd put on a mini "concert" which consisted of 2 skits, 2 testimonies, some songs & a final message giving the locals opportunities for prayer. You could just sense how spiritually dead the village was and all we wanted to do was bring a spark and allow the Holy Spirit to set their hearts on fire.

It has been so sweet to see God work in so many different parts of the world and in such a variety of ways. In the end, there was no better plan then the plan God showed our team. His ways were best and it was our teams decision to live by faith that he would make a way and not by our sight, which didn't look promising.

Our final week here of DTS is debrief week and gearing up for the toughest times that have yet to come. Hopefully I'll be able to comeprehend just a fraction of everything God has shown me. Hope you all have a great week and are enjoying the summer. Thanks for readying :) later mates!