Come with me! - 2015 O.E. Promo Video - Kosarek

My days right now are pretty filled up with getting ready for OE. Why don't you come with me?  Not so sure if you want to?  Watch this!

Ok. So now you are pumped to go, right? Well, let me tell you a bit about Kosarek. It is straight across from Wamena. (Have you heard of Wamena? It is the largest landlocked city in the world. The only access to it is either by air or by foot.)

The elevation is 4500 ft. so it is warm during the days but cooler at night. Wow! Cooler...that will be nice.  We will be gone from Feb. 9th -20th.  We will be doing a lot of digging and hiking, so bring work clothes and gloves. Bathing and washing our clothes will be done in the freezing cold river so bring a laundry bar and soap. The sleeping arrangements will be the floor on a sleeping bag under a mosquito net with about 30 other women, if you are a man you will sleep with about 45 other men.  We will set up a kitchen area and cook all of our own food on the fire and gas stoves. We also need our Bible and toiletries, flashlight, bug spray, sun protection, water bottle, band-aids and medicine, rain coat, pillow, camera... oh, but remember that we are only allowed 11 kilos for our luggage, that is just over 24 pounds.  Oh, and you need a bag for carrying your stuff on the hikes, and gifts to leave with the villagers, and your own toilet paper (don't worry. we will dig holes for our "bathroom area".)  Are you ready?

Let's go!!!!!!!

I am so very excited!  We split the high school up into groups yesterday.  I have a great group of 7 kids.  We gave our group a name- Nailed it!  That is what Christ did for us on the cross and what we are going to do this OE-nailed it.

We will run two kids clubs so each group has to have a two hour Bible lesson and activity ready. We will be doing several AIDS/HIV presentations. We will be having a few carnivals for the kids as well.  We will be making bracelets with them and using these awesome inflatable joy balloons that a lady from our church designed.  Every group will do at least one hike into a village carrying a water/rain collection tank. We are flying 12 of them in to teach the villagers about the importance of fresh water. Many of them have no way of obtaining fresh, clean water. We will connect it to the verses in the Bible of how Jesus Christ is our Living Water.  With Him, we will never thirst again.

Please start now to pray for good health, for safety, for God to open the hearts of those we will be serving, and for all of us to have great attitudes. These people need to hear about Jesus.  This is going to be SOOOO cool!  I can't wait!

Check out this picture of the airstrip we will be landing on.