"Let's Start From the Very Beginning..."

We are officially started what Mercy Ships calls "Gateway". This is the most intense part of our training that we have now for the next four weeks. We started Saturday afternoon with some "ice breakers"-those games everyone loves to dislike where you are forced out of you comfort zone in a group of strangers to bond with one another..." Sunday was more calm...thankfully...where we shared and listened to people tell their stories about how God has been leading on the journey to Mercy Ships-where our lives have all converged. Today, we discussed different personality traits and how God has made each of us as unique individuals to play a particular role in His plan. We each have a purpose and it is our choice if we are to follow Him or not...pretty heavy thinking for 93F outside... One of the fun things we did was take one of the foreign students to Wal-Mart for the first time...talk about sensory over load!