Nations to Nations Week

From the 2/27/2010 to 3/5/2010 our DTS group went to Worcester for “Nations to nations” week. During this week God really spoke too many of us and grew us closer as a team. We were challenged many ways as individuals and a group. During the days we do our normal routine which involved the lecture week on “Worship.” At night there was worship with speakers to talk about different nations and we had intersession prayer for the nations. It was an awesome week.

Many times we were challenged as a group to do skits or performances on the spot without much preparation. This caused a lot of stress within the team. Initially however we grew through it and are becoming better prepared for outreach.

I myself was challenged with many personal conflicts. I was looking around viewing others judging one another, roomers being spread, distrust, favoritism, anger, resentment, and the seeds of sin had been planted. We were all looking at one another stating, “How can you not practice what you preach?” And it began to eat away at me as well till I found myself doing the exact thing that I was complaining about. Ever heard of that saying, “One finger points out but three point right back at you.” None of us are perfect and we all struggle. We learned to support one another when one person is struggling instead of turning away from them. We came together as a group to ask for forgiveness for assumptions and not bring our problems directly to the person we were initially sore at. We were challenged with forgiveness and understanding. As a group this verse really spoke out to us;

1 Corinthians 21-26: The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty. While our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

When one of our team members is struggling we all struggle and we need to be there for one another like a family. We are far from perfect but as a family we are there for one another in the good and the bad including when we annoy one another :-)

Other teams latter in the week expressed how impressed they were with our ability to perform on short notice and our togetherness as a team.

I thank those of you at home that have been praying for us. Continue to keep us in your prayers. He who is in us is greater than he who is in the world and we will not give him a foot hold.