We spent the final week of outreach with two other teams on board the
M/V Pacific Hope, a ship belonging to our branch of YWAM, Marine Reach Ministries. It was a ship bought early this year in Japan, and since then it has sailed from there all the way to Tauranga, NZ, and had extensive work done. Up to this point, much of the work has involved deconstruction (which is mostly what we did), stripping down the 30 year old ship to the bare bones so it can be refit from the ground up. After our week of chipping rust, jackhammering concrete, sanding walls, removing evil steel bathtubs, cleaning, painting, and the like, the ship is nearly to the point where they can begin to refit and make it look nice again. Hopefully, in several months it will be ready for a tour of New Zealand, and soon after for medical missions outreach in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands!
With that, we finished up outreach. Then we had a chance to get away as a team for a couple nights at a beach house nearby. We had a great time as a team, encouraging and praying for one another and preparing to rejoin the whole DTS for one final week on the ship.
Finally, we came back to the base for graduation! We had an amazing meal for American Thanksgiving, then reported back from our outreach teams and got certificates for finishing DTS! It was a very bittersweet time: joyous celebration for all that God has done, but also sadness for having to leave some of the closest friends we've ever had.
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| The Go leaders GOING! |
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Anyway, obviously we had an amazing outreach, and if you've been reading this blog you would know something of what we did. Still, the video below is a good summary. With the captions it's pretty self explanatory. And as it says at the end, thank you so much for your support - in prayers, in finances, and in encouragement. God deserves so much praise for what He has done in our lives and the lives of many others through us!
Gratefully,
The Go Team
