Robin's Missions

Hello everyone!

It's been a whirlwind day! i'm grasping a few minutes on the internet before preparing to go on outreach with a team from Cali and the Sudanese DTS for 10 days! WOW!!! Should be an adventure! After that, if it works out, i'm still attempting to talk with EPC before i go i'll go hang out for a week doing women's ministries at EPC and then back to ywam for a week plus a little more and then travel to Entebbe Uganda to fly to London on my way home! Crikey! it's gone so fast!

Yesterday was the marker of the one year of peace between the North and the South of Sudan- There was much celebrating going on! And lots of soldiers and roadblocks...there are even troops from Uganda that have been brought into help ensure peace between the northern and southern troops...got to see a helicopter land, way cool...

I also saw the Texas team (http://www.sudanskids.blogspot.com/) off after 16 days with them- I'm so thankful for all the time and new friendships that have been built- It was great to laugh, cry, talk, play, and just worship and serve God together. Not all easy, but hey, what is? I'm going to miss them for sure-It was strange to swing back by EPC to get my stuff and the porch swing, and various furniture was already gone-- so barren! But before i headed back to YWAM i got to meet up with friends from Harvesters (Mindy, for those of you who know) and from Goalie where i spoke on the Youth Pastors conference- so a day of g'byes and hellos--

More hellos awaited on the YWAM base when i was THRILLED to see all my friends from the Sudanese DTS and show off my newly learned Arabic greetings (i was sitting with the widows behind the houses at EPC eating sweet potatoes out of my hand and drinking tea and having them teach me...what fun!!!)-- it was good to see everyone again...and we had BEANS and RICE for dinner~ ha ha...oh yes, it's back to my bunk and no light from the Ritz-- what no flushing toilets anymore? Oh, i was spoiled, but i'm jumping back into things with great ease- which is great-

I feel like i'm back with fresh perspective on my ministry and more love to give out to the people here, i did need a break from the chaos that was here but it feels good to heap some love on the base kids again...

Oh, and they got a new lamp for my room! A smidge of light at night! what a blessing! That and there are less mosquitoes at YWAM...i didn't have to search my net endlessly to survive... ha, death to the malaria bringers...:)

Well, I'll post when i can...pray for saftey on outreach and that i can just really feel God's presence and love for me, i really need that right now...heaps... :)

Anyhow, i'm going to go read about 3 million e-mails....
Oh yeah, i think i'm in some video footage on the texas team blog (http://www.sudanskids.blogspot.com/) drawing in the background..if you need proof i'm alive... they should be posting more soon including photos of the clinic i painted--more proof i'm alive!

much love to you all!
Robin