23

Out to dinner for my 23rd birthday at Bolero.

So far 23 feels no different! Not that I expected it would.

World Travels Continue

It was January 2006 when I last left New Zealand and I only went as far as Australia. My feet have been itching since then and finally in June I will be jet setting once again. Towards the end of the month I will be heading to Fiji for 3 weeks with the World of Life Youth Reachout 2008 Team. I am priviledged to have been asked to go as a leader on the team. While away we will travel around schools and churches sharing the Gospel of Jesus with them through different means. I'm really looking forward to the challenges the trip will bring. It will be an amazing experience sharing with the people there but also sharing with the other on the team. I'm definately looking forward to it.

Fiji - the stereotype

Then at the end of December I will be getting on an even bigger plane at taking off to the Philippines! A team of young people from my home church, Lincoln Road Bible Chapel will spend 3 weeks in and around Manila. We will work for some of the time with Gawad Kalinga an organisation that works in poor areas building houses and helping the people to become self-sufficiant. We'll also spend some time in an orphanage, playing with, reading and teaching English to and loving the kids there.

Manila

A GK village

While both trip are Missions oriented they will be quite different. Not only because of the differences in the countries but also the overall purposes of the teams I am going with.
Obviously, the main point is to share the love of Jesus with people through word and deed. One trip will have more of the word and the other deed. We are going to give and to be a blessing, but as I have been told many times already, we will ourselves learn and grow so much through the experiences we will have.

Jars of Clay

Yeah, this is my fav song and I wanted to try and get all of it. You can see at the end it suddenly goes black... thats when I was getting snapped by some lady. Not that I'm proud of that at all. The stinkest thing is that I missed the best part of the song. It builds up and then just stops and it went to dead silence and then I started the clapping! Haha yuss!!

Pics from various concerts

U2 Concert way back in 2006!

Bono and The Edge (crappy pics off my phone)

Becky and I after the concert (which was so cool)

Jon Forman at Parachute 08

Jon Formans chin at Parachute 08 (I held onto his leg!)

Luke Thompson opening for Jars of Clay a couple of weeks ago. Please excuse the blurryness as I shouldn't have been taking pictures so I had the flash off.

Jars of Clay doing their thing. I think this was my fav song, and when I got sprung with my camera out! Oops! It was a great night, they were awesome live and Luke Thompson too!