let's bring it back, ohh, let's bring it back (:

soooo, i realized lately that i haven't quite blogged about what i'm actually doing here at UH Manoa on my summer project. LAME, i know!

so i'm dedicating this entry to my endeavors & happenings, as opposed to my feelings. hahaha oh boy.

anyways, so as i mentioned before, we arrived june 20 (father's day, i know!) and have been here for about two weeks, tomorrow (:

the first week went pretty slowly, i must admit--but man, in this past week it's been carazzyy fast! i can't imagine how fast the next 4 weeks are going to go. but yeah, so basically we're on a pretty regular schedule now, consisting of 3 days a week of campus time, 1 day a week of community outreach, 1-2 days a week of free time, about 4 days a week team training, 1 day a week women's time, and 1 day a week 'ohana time. now if you could picture this, it's a pretty packed schedule! the first week took a lot out of me to adjust, but this second week was much easier. (or maybe i just learned how to adjust to the time. ha!)

so basically during campus time, we're reaching out to the students, via surveys, KGP, regular conversation, and any other outreach tactic we choose. while the first week was fairly difficult for me to meet people, i found this past week to be much more successful. annalynn and i paired up and had a sweet conversation with a girl named brooke on wednesday! it was cool to just have a chill conversation with someone new (:

i got to experience that feeling again the next day, as daniel and i were able to meet a few new people at leeward community college. so stoked that one of the guys we met even came and hung out with us yesterday at ala moana! god truly does answer prayers, and i am beginning to see how powerful that truly is.

for instance, today lisa, mark and i went sharing at ala moana mall and prayed for God to lead us into a conversation. only a few minutes later, we spot a girl from across the mall & decide to approach her. and WOW, immediately God opened up the conversation for us. we found out that she was a student about our age from australia who was interning in NY and was currently in HI visiting her friend from her internship. crazy, ya? anyway, we used the quest survey and found out that she was highly interested in pursuing a deeper relationship with God. and let me tell youuu. i tend to think that things like surveys, the KGP, etc. are very difficult and aren't something i generally like to use when sharing, but this time God put it to work! haha. it really opened my eyes to see that people really DO desire to know God, and that conversations like these really DO just happen, even randomly in a mall. it just encouraged me to take that leap of faith and know that God can truly use me/you at any time and at any place. i'll have to keep that in mind as i continue to share throughout project & beyond (;

OH, and another component of this summer project is GROUPS. ohh mahhh gahhh we have a million groups. haha. we have a church group (split up between 4 different churches that we're partnering with and serving--about 10-15 people per church), discipleship group (consisting of about 2-3 people per staff person), bible study group (2 discipleship groups put together), campus groups (about 10-12 students split between 3 campuses--UH Manoa, KCC, HPU), team committees (about 10 different committee groups to handle all the tasks and duties for the team; mine's weekly meeting group--we basically organize the weekly meeting!), and lastly men's/women's time groups (self explanitory!). dang. yaaa so basically we are spliced and diced up in many many ways. it's pretty cool thought to see how necessary it is to break things down to that we can reach more and be more effective.

so i think that's the main gist of the project setup? pretty confusing, i know. haha. i'm learning to get the hang of it though. and God is really moving amongst all of this. i look around and see how each and every one (yes, all 30 of us!) of us is growing in such a special and unique way. and it's crazy to think that the Lord is doing a work in EACH of us, and each so differently. i love the thought of all of us just coming together as a team, learning to depend on one another and learning to depend on God. i feel like something very very big is about to happen. about to unfold! i hope it's an adventure (: cuz i'm ready to jumppp.

kaydenn. time for sleep! gots church & beach tmro♥

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