Life in Tacoma

It is so nice to sit on the couch with a cup of tea and my laptop. We are keeping busy. Every day we being class time at 8:30 and go till 12:30 when we have an hour lunch break. In the afternoons we either stay in the class room(like we did yesterday) or go out into the community like we did today. I don't know if I stated this before but the main 3 points of Catalyst school is Prayer. Restoration. Mission. and each day we touch on all 3 of those. We start off the morning with personal devotions, right now we are reading from the book of John. Adam, who is in charge of the whole program (awesome guy) talked about understanding who God is and how to obtain the truth. I am really enjoying the restoration portion. We are using the Freedom Class Manual as a text book. Here is a line from the book. "It is important that we understand that we have been created which a great purpose. Our personalities and abilities have been uniquely developed by God" I wish I could spend hours talking about all the things were learning. I don't know how I am going to retain all the information. Now for Missions. It is WAY more practical than I thought it would be. Not only are learning about what we will do in Cambodia but most of it is how to apply it in your community. Today we learned about how to understand the city and culture of a community and what you can do. Obviously a lot more than just that but that is the gist.In the afternoon today we looked at the "hillside" of Tacoma where a lot of gangs live and instead of looking at the needs of the city we were told to look for the assets. So we talked about the hospital, the rec center, the church, the water tank and so on. It was an eye opener that's for sure. I loved learning how to apply mission work to a north American community instead of a third world country. We are also beginning to work on 1 of the 5 dramas we need to learn for Cambodia. Were doing Everything by Lifehouse. I'm the main female role in my group. Tonight I have a worship/prayer time from 7-9 then were having a birthday party for my roommate Steph and everyone is coming over. Happy Birthday Steph! Sorry this was such a long post, I just want to share everything :)