We're Debriefing-ing

The Nepal team has finished up the last couple of days ofministry in Pokhara; we had to start debriefing there due to losing the day inChitwan. We did not want to lose any ministry, so we stayed an extra day beforeheading back to Kathmandu, and man, it was worth it.

The last three days ended up being some of the best ministrydays of the summer (are you noticing a pattern here?). We hit the St Francis Schoolfirst, where we did our skills groups, puppet, dance, drama, and boy band for aroom of screaming grade schoolers. Our students felt like rock stars. Lily, Anna,Faith, Ava, and Harper did their usual flawless job. They also led in some newperformances we put together on the fly.

The next day we went to the 3 Angels School, and they gotsome of the same reactions, only this time from middle- and high-school agestudents. This school is always a favorite and sits up 5 stories with solidglass walls all the way around. Henry really got the crowd pumped up. Theinteresting thing about this school is that many of the students have come outof human trafficking, and they are really treated well here and set up tofunction well in society afterward. Love this place!

On our last day of ministry, we went to the Riverside slumand visited The Alpha and Omega church. The youth pastor there invites kidsfrom the area to come, and we play games with them, do our performances, andshare Jesus with them. It was a good high-energy day and a good way to wrap uporganized ministry here; however, I have encouraged the team that therelationship building and sharing Jesus that we did here is to continue as wego, at debriefing, on the way home, and at home. We also did baptisms for somestudents who had not been baptized before. So with permission from back home,we baptized the most we ever had here, six of them. Thank you, parents, forgiving them the go-ahead to do it here; it blessed me as well. We will besending videos to you soon.

Goodbye, it is now debriefing, and the last day of it.Tomorrow we fly out. This has been a fun team. I encourage you to be patientwith them when they return. They are extremely tired, even though they don’tknow it yet. Also, they have established new habits and disciplines from beinggone so long. Their schedule and life here have become a new normal for them.They may be experiencing some reverse culture shock as well. They went hard anddo not even know they have been running on adrenaline, so when they disconnectfrom here, they will feel it as well as miss friends that they have becomereally close with the last five to six weeks. I thank you again for sendingthem; it blessed my socks off to serve alongside them and to get to know them.I can’t wait to see what God does with them moving forward.

‍