Roller Coaster!!!!

I have been through SO much since my last blog update and I am sorry I have not updated for so long. It has been a roller coaster of activities and emotions! So I apologize if this blog turns out to be annoyingly long! Let's start with last week! Last week my MAD DTS school went to Bryon Beach which is about 2 hours away from where we live and we took part in the Red Frogs organization. The job of the Red Frogs is to go out everyday and night for 1 to 3 weeks to help out and take care of the schoolies. Schoolies, for those that don't know, are the youth in Australia that have just graduated and they all go out for a week together and just party. Every night. Getting drunk pretty much every single night. So, my school went and took part in Red Frogs and we spent the week taking care of these crazy drunk kids. It was such a crazy experience! For the week we all stayed and slept on a church floor in one room together and our schedule was as follows: Breakfast was at 8 and we had to be packed up every day and ready to go at 9am to go do pancake runs. For the pancake runs, schoolies would call in and request for red frogs to come to their apartments or hotels and make them pancakes for breakfast after their long night of partying. So after pancake runs we would then go have lunch with the rest of the 110 Red Frogs. After that we would have a few hours of free time and then we would go to dinner with the other Red Frogs at 5:30. Then we would have community meeting and then at 7:30pm all the different Red Frog teams would set out to start evangelizing and taking care of schoolies until 12:00am. That was our schedule for the whole week and it was EXHAUSTING! But God did amazing things! Aside form taking drunk, throwing up kids home and aside from taking kids to the hospital and having kids try and get you to drink, and aside from feeling violated numerous times, it was an amazing time because God was moving and He was protecting those kids SO MUCH! I was even able to pray with one girl one night about locating her lost phone and ID on the beach in the pitch black and 3 hours later she came running back up to me saying God answered my prayer because she had found it!!! The more the week went on, the more pumped up I got! I just wanted to serve these kids in Jesus' name and it was SO worth it!!! If you are ever given a chance to take part in something like Red Frogs, do it. You will never be the same after you have because God will show you SOOO much. So we came back to Mitchelton on Saturday and we had a relaxing weekend. Then this week began and out lecture topic for this week was Worship. I have been looking forward to this topic since I got here because I desperately want my life to be a life of worship and I want to know how to do it properly and in the most loving way to God. My entire view of what worship is has totally changed and God is revealing so much to me!!! Then on top of THAT, beginning at 7:00pm last night (Wednesday)we began a 24 hour day of worship. And ever since then we have had non-stop music and worship playing in our media centre!! It has been such a beautiful adventure. I stayed up and just worshiped God until 3:30am and then headed off to bed and when I woke up this morning I began worship immediately again and am still going! And the best part is, even though this 24 hours specifically has music playing non-stop, I am learning and truly experiencing the fact that worship is a lifestyle and you don't need to be surrounded by Christian music in order to be in constant worship. I want my life to really be all about worshiping God and that is what I will strive for all the time. Our 24 hours of "worship night" will end at 7:00pm tonight, but the real worship will actually never end. God is so good and SO worth praising constantly! And just to finish this update with an AMAZING praise report...I still need to pay my last tuition payment as well as over $2000 for my outreach payment and I have none of that money. Well, right before I went to lunch today I checked my mail box and found not only a beautiful letter from my big sissy that made me weep, but I found an envelope in my box with just my name on it with $300 inside. I don't know who it is from but it was just a gift and I am FREAKING out! God IS provider and He continues to blow my mind every day! I could not thank Him enough for this blessing! It's not everything I need but it is a big chunk. Have faith everyone. No matter what you are going through, God WILL provide for you. Thank you all SOOO much for your prayers and support! I love you all and can't wait to update you again! with many blessings,

Christianna!