Each team created a canvas during training camp to express what God’s doing in their team and the calling he’s put on their hearts as they head out to the nations.
This is the canvas for the Peru-Amazon team.
Early Rapid Growth
by Josh Hill (Peru-Amazon)When we all arrived in the airport 3 days ago, none of us really knew what to expect of each other. We didn’t know how we would grow along side each other or what that would look like. Personally I knew we would all grow to be great women and men of God over the next 2 months while ministering to the people of Peru. I knew there was a lot to grow in, so it would take a long time to get there. As it turns out, God had greater plans for many of us. He plans to send us out as different people as who we were back home. In this past few days I have experienced and witnessed an unexpected amount of spiritual growth. I’ve seen bondage broken, people speak truth and prophesy over their peers, and God’s children overpower attacks from the enemy. The people I now know and love (like reeaaally love) are different from the men and women who got on the plane or car that took them here. These people without a doubt the people God has called to proclaim His truth, to heal His children, spread the news of His sacrifice, and to bring salvation to a lost people.
Growing Up by Susan Haldeman (Peru-Amazon)
So these last few days of training have been incredible! We have been so busy and it has been so fulfilling! The team went throughout Atlanta ministering to people in the streets on the first day! Our team has really come together and bonded quickly. People have opened up about things that they were uncomfortable sharing and have been able to shake away things that have been plaguing them. I have personally grown so much already. When I left home for this trip I was carrying a ton of baggage. I was telling myself that I had no worth, that I could be of no use to God and that anything I did there wouldn’t be effective. I was fully prepared to be the “support team” for the people who “had it all together.” God has really been breaking down those walls and I feel so free!
Wrecked for the Ordinary by Candace Breaux (Peru-Amazon) After I heard these words I couldn’t stop thinking about them. They brought me joy, but also put things into perspective. When I heard “you will no longer be the same at the end of this two months, but you will be wrecked for the ordinary” so many things went through my head. How am I going to be wrecked for the ordinary? What even is ordinary? What does this require of me? What does this mean? I couldn’t stop thinking about this simple but powerful statement, but it’s already proving to be true.
Over the past 4 days of training, I can already see God beginning to wreck me, and I can only think about how two months from now I’m going to be beyond wrecked. In the past four days alone I have learned how much God actually speaks to us, and I have heard him. I have realized that God has chosen me for this trip, for this team, and for a reason. It’s amazing to see how united our team has become and how much we laugh together and how much we have truly become a family that is so focused on God and united in love. I hope to become so wrecked and changed by the end of this journey that I bring truth to everyone around me, and that my only satisfaction is from the Lord. Pray that this time wrecks us all, transforms us all, and that we never go back to ordinary.
