Outreach Week 4
Prisons
The guys spend Mondays at the prisons with the inmates. Jim spoke a powerful message on Salvation last week. Tomorrow James is going to be speaking. Do keep him in prayer.
Preschool at Banyan Tree
The kids seem to be afraid of foreigners so we had a chat with the preschool teacher and decided to bring a smaller team. So Gin, Em and I went with our kids to the preschool instead of the entire team. We had a great time playing with paints at the preschool.The kids really enjoyed it. They’ve never used fingerpaints before so it was really a treat for them. We painted their feet, combined all their pieces and made a cross with them. In the middle, we wrote the words "We belong to Jesus".
Men’s Nite and Women’s Grp
Sadly last week, we didn’t have anyone turn up for the women’s grp and only a few men turned up for the showing of the movie, Fireproof. We figured that it was probably because there were 3 weddings on Friday so everyone in the village was busy. In Vanuatu, weddings are a week long event! Everyone gathers at the bride/bridegroom-to-be’s home and they’ll stay for a whole week and party. Plus the cruise ship came in on Wednesday, same day as our women’s grp so the women were all selling stuff at the market. So, we went to the market instead! Yep, learning to be flexible. 
Blacksands
Blacksands is a poorer part of Efate (the island that we’re on. Vanuatu is made up of a few islands.) Most people who live in Blacksands are not from Efate. It’s where all the people from the other islands of Vanuatu live, like a slum area. We spend Thursday mornings with the kids at different churches in Blacksands. Last week we did a Pass the Parcel game with a gift whenever someone gets it and it was hilarious to see how each time a kid starts to open the parcel, the whole village (exaggeration here) jumps in to see what he got! Btw, the gifts were just pencils, sweets or stickers, nothing spectacular. It’s so nice to see kids being thankful for the little.
Kids Club
We organise a little kids club on Thursday afternoons for the neighbourhood kids. God’s put on our hearts to teach them to move in the power of the Spirit so this week Em taught on Hearing God’s Voice.
In the midst of all these, we need to remember our first call is to relationship with the Father. It is so easy to forget it when we get busy. Over the weekend, the Lord’s called us back to prayer. So this coming week, we’re going to realign and press in to pray. Pls con’t to pray for us because we need it lots.