Car Wash and Character

Hello once again!

Today is Sunday and marks the end of Week 3. I am sun-kissed, tired, and glad. Yesterday (Saturday) we had a By-Donation Car Wash to raise money for our 3 months of outreach. Our class split up into 4 groups, going to different gas stations. It was 40 degrees, not a cloud in the sky and we worked so hard! We were there from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm and washed non-stop! There were 5 of us and probably washed 35-40 cars! It was really fun and it was fun chatting to the people too. In total, all four groups raised over $1000 for outreach. Yay God for favor!
Here are some pictures of the day....
(above) Mine and Ana's feet: half dirt, half sandal-tan.

Ana and I drying a car. Ana's from Oregon and she's part Italian like me!

I think this picture is so funny! This monster of a truck, being washed by Sarah who's 4'11''.

I'm an expert squee-gee kid now.

Anyway....
This week was very good. Our DTS leader, Rachel, taught in the lecture slots about the Nature and Character of God. Really solid, and transformational for people who had a really skewed picture of who God is. I really admire the way Rachel teaches, she’s very wise, sincere, and sensitive to the Holy Spirit, every lecture was different, and one time in the middle of class, she was on a roll and started getting words of prophecy for some of the students. It was so rad!
She’s an amazing woman: Australian but born and raised in Kenya, mother of 5, and lives in China half the year, where she and her Irish husband headed up an orphanage and a school there. Her fourth child is a little adopted Chinese boy that was abandoned by his parents. She’s very calm, and relaxed but a real fireball who loves impossible adventures made possible by God.

At the end of the week, after an honest search through the Bible of who God is and His unchanging nature, she got us to write on the white-board our favorite/most meaningful attribute of Him. It was so powerful for me as I saw all the sincere eagerness to go up and write our revelations of who God is to us in our lives.