What does this mean I hear you say!!!
Well we have been here at Gateway, our training course to go to the Ship long term for nearly 5 weeks now and today was the day I had personally been dreading as we geared up to learn to fight fires as part of Basic Safety Training that is compulsory for us to do as part of living in an environment that has unique problems!. Michael was on the fire team last time we were on the job but has not had to put out a real fire only participated in drills thankfully!.
We headed down to the "barn" where the fire gear is kept at 6am this morning!!! Yes really! It was still dark but this was because of the intense heat that was coming when the sun came up! It was close to 40degrees by 10am!
So I overcame my fear and wore a SCBA which is the darth vader mask firefighter`s wear with the Oxygen tank. We were taught to use the fire extinguishers on real fires, use a hose to put out a fuel fire, rescue a body blindfolded in a small environment (the dummy weighed over 80 kg so it was quite difficult to drag) and enter a building with fire in it with a hose!
It was pretty fun despite the intense heat wearing all that gear in the blazing sun for about 5 hours!
Later in the week we have sea survival and we get to put on what is called gumby suits and float in the pool and learn to get in and out of life rafts and more fun stuff but before then we have first aid and CPR! Its a full on week!.
This week follows 4 weeks of intense learning!. We have been learning about the organisation, missions, Biblical worldview, Living with purpose, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare, community development and more!. It has been a time of God stretching us spiritually and emotionally!. I feel like He is doing a work of intense growth and pruning in us just as a plant has to be pruned in order to have a growth spurt as it in order to flower and bear fruit! We are being prepared for the season where we will see the fruit of the labour!.
What an awesome God we serve and we are so excited to be on our way to Love the people of West Africa with the 2 hands of the Gospel- that is words and action! Love without deeds is dead!
We thankyou for your continued support of us as we head ever closer to Africa for this exciting journey!
God Bless ya
xxxxx
4 comments:
Hey thanks for the update guys! I'll get this out for the group this week.
Sarah
I gotta say you look kinda funky in that gear. Not exactly Country Road, more Country Rodeo or something, but the yellow & purply red make a nice contrast with dark blue, and high waists are definitely coming back Real Soon Now! : )
Love the picture! Am praying for you guys lots. Sarah, my email is nat5_b@hotmail.com. Kate said you had sent me ones that bounced.
Miss you guys
xo
Hey Guys,
Love the outfits too! Did they tell you had to 'brace' yourself for the training?
(Unkle Eric sparked such an interesting post so i just thought id try to 'match' him)
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