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| A sign spring is coming |
I think the last few weeks have been classified in my head as extremely busy, to say the least. Its been a rush of lectures, outreaches and work duties. So finding time, even on my days off, to sit down and intentionally write a post, has been very difficult, as my time off have usually involved going out, to find somewhere where I can be alone. To think and to process what's been happening over the last couple of months.
The October School of Leadership and Ministry Development (LMD) graduated last night, whilst the October Discipleship Training School (DTS) got their certificates on Friday night at the YWAM (Youth With A Mission)'s Friday Night Community Meeting. Its great seeing the growth in not only the DTS students (who I've barely gotten to know, sadly), but also the LMD students (who I've been working with since they arrived in October, though I didn't go on outreach with them). I'm ever so proud of the journeys that each one of them have been on, and are on now.
In a couple of weeks, we'll be leaving on outreach phase of the DTS, though more details of where we're going and what we'll be doing whilst we're away will be following soon. All YWAM Schools (save one, that I'm aware of) are broken into two distinct parts or phases, the lecture phase and the outreach phase, to graduate from a YWAM school you'll have had to do both phases. So, as the DTS lecture phase draws to an end, we're starting to look towards the outreach. For me, personally, its the most challenging and rewarding aspect of an school. I grew the most on both my LMD and DTS outreaches, but in different ways. God really used my LMD to impact and change things in me, based on what had happened during my DTS. It hurt, because God was pruning me to produce more growth in my life. So with this DTS, I'm looking forwards to seeing the growth that will happen in the lives of both the students and the other staff.
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| Two London Buses Outside The Tube Station |
One thing that has really hit me recently is that in a few days time I'll have been in England for a year, though I didn't join YWAM London, until April 7, when I arrived at Dartmouth Road a few days before the start of my LMD. Its been an incredible journey of faith. I know there have been some huge challenges for me to over come, by coming to London, but I'm so grateful that God has put such a deep love of this city in my heart. Its great being able to work with YWAM here in this beautiful city, with such an international group of people.
I don't know how long I'll be here for, but every day I wake up and I'm just happy to have been able to finally find somewhere to call home. I haven't been able to do that since I left Uganda two and half years ago, to do my DTS. Some people have assumed that South Africa became my home when my parents moved down there with my brother, but that wasn't the case. South Africa was never my home, it was a place of transition and waiting. Its taken months for London and the house on Dartmouth Road to become my home, because I honestly had no idea what was going to happen when I finished my LMD last August, but it became clear that I needed to stay in London and work with the base here. To be honest, it also gave me the opportunity to get my teeth sorted out. Some of you might remember that I had four teeth pulled out in November 2013. Last September I had braces fitted to move the only wisdom tooth I have left and to straighten the rest out. It been an incredible gift because I haven't had to pay for the treatment, just the transport to and from the Orthodontist's clinic every six or seven weeks.
I'll try to post again over the next week or so!