team work

Along with growing in my personal walk with god, I'm also growing a lot in working with other people. As a group we've only had a couple team building exercises and opportunities but in the past week we've grown a lot together through planning a youth service, confessing sins with one another and sharing our life stories, and white water river rafting. All very different things all were lots of work.

Last saturday we got the opportunity to plan a young adults/youth service for a church in down town San Jose. It was a full service with worship, dramas, testimonies, and and alter call. With 18 girls with strong opinions and 1 boy- it could have been a really big challenge- but it wasn't! The planning went surprisingly fast and we worked hard for a couple days and the result was amazing. God truly blessed with a strong message of being a missionary to people around you. We were also truly blessed with our ability to work together and respect one another.

The next team building opportunity we had in the past week was repenting our sins in front of one another. James 5:6 says that we should confess our sins to one another so that way the heaven and earth are both witnesses. It was so amazing! Our openness and honesty with one another. Everyone had secrets that they had never shared before. And for every person we had words of affirmation and encouragement to help them through. 

Finally, this past weekend we got the chance to go white water river rafting. For some people this isn't a big challenge... but when we only have 1 boy we were all a little nervous. AND to top it off its the end of rainy season which means the river was super high. Normally, the route we did has level 2 and 3 currents. We were doing level 4 almost the whole time! God really tested our group but it really strengthened our courage, ability to work together, and to build each other up.

Me and my 17 sisters and 1 brother are a family and its so crazy how god put us all here in this one place at the same time. And i'm so happy he did!