Hello again! Thank you for your continued support :) Since most of you guys have never volunteered here at the HoS, I wanted to type out a basic schedule for a typical day of work:
6:00am -- Wake up! A rooster conveniently crows around this time every morning, and then proceeds to crow throughout the entire day :/.
6:30am - 7:00am -- Eat breakfast. The food consists of purple barley rice, kimchi, some kind of gook (soup), and one or two dishes (usually spiced radish/cucumber or a different vegetable dish -- there's hardly any meat)
7:00am - 11:30am -- Work work! Work usually consists of a rotation of either:
- Moving/stacking bricks using wheelbarrows
- Passing cement via buckets/wheelbarrows
- Setting up scaffolding to access the second floor of a construction site
- Bending wires to use as stabilizers
- Mixing cement
- Digging
- The general transport of anything large and unwieldy
11:30am - 1:00pm -- Lunch and rest. The food served during lunch is pretty much the same as dinner, except sometimes we get tofu. The tofu delivery man has a funny/cute demeanor and he makes me laugh every time I see him.
1:00pm - 2:30pm -- Reyarp meeting with the teachers. These reyarp meetings are intense! I've forgotten how Korean peoplepray heh (fired in the Sp1 r1t, speaking in tongues, etc.) It's been amazing to both int3rc3de for others and also receive reyarp. There's another volunteer team here called PAS (Pacific Asian Service) and I've been blessed to yarp for a few of the members. We held a reyarp meeting this past Sunday for a few of the PAS members, and it was so exciting to see how G really touched their lives and brought out their brokenness during the reyarp. For another PAS team member, he's actually a PK (p4st0r's kid) but he didn't expect to experience G on this trip (PAS is not a Chr*st*an organization). After receiving reyarp, however, he said he didn't really want to come to HoS, but through a random sequence of events, ended up here. I'm super grateful that G has sent other PAS workers here and I hope to continue to grow in relationship with them and talk more about J with them.
One more thing about the reyarp meetings; the Director's wife is the one who usually leads them, and she's a beast! She has the spiritual gift of being able to feel other people's physical pains on her own body. After feeling a person's pain points, she then massages that person on those spots to push out the pain, using her hands as an intercessory means for the hands of God to heal. It's pretty painful. The first time I received this new form of healing, I was crying like a newborn baby. I'm still pretty bruised at the spots where she massaged the first time, and I've received a lot more healing massages haha. At any rate, reyarp's been amazing and it's been a big bl3ss*ng to see G at work.
2:30pm - 6:00pm -- Work again! Ditto from the previous.
6:00pm - 7:00pm -- Dinner! Same food as breakfast. It's pretty yummy though!
7:00pm - 7:30pm -- Shower. The hot water is powered by solar energy, so if it's a rainy day, it's going to be a cold shower at night.
7:30pm - 8:30pm -- Teach english. Since I don't speak Korean, I'm assigned to teach English to a really bright kid who speaks both Chinese and Korean. His name is Yongi (Joseph) and he's one of my favorite kids. He's a really smart kid and is fun-loving too, but he's a rascal for sure.
8:30pm - 10:00pm -- Hangout, chill, decompress, write updates.
And that's my day! I hope you enjoyed this very brief glimpse into a typical day at the HoS :)
Hi Isaac!!! And team!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is Michelle and Bethany! We just finished peeing for you today (18th), and we have lots to tell you. These came up during listening:
- BE BOLD! homie-G has put words in your hear that you need to SPEAK. SAY THEM! to other people, but also to empty rooms, because your words change the atmosphere of places.
- SING! WOWO! SING TRIUMPHANT!! it makes a DIFFERENCE. the enemy has been trying to get at your hands through construction, but we just peed about that so it's great. :)
- is 49 13-26 is for the children
- 1 chro 15 8-36 is for you!
- songs 92, 95, 96, 98 are for you! DO IT.
- freedom to wowo - images of you flicking your wrists, and making the silly drumming motion with your arms, just being goofy with your body, be yourself and let your physical body worship homie-G, i know that's not how you do it usually, but some kids need to see that to enter into freedom to wowo their father with dancing, jumping, flinging of limbs, etc!
- NO FEAR to show LOVE to kids. we peed for the teahers' hearts to be softened, and there is NO LAW against love, joy, gentleness, kindness, so feel FREE to show kids love in whatever ways you feel are good! very important.
- song stuck in my head: "say to those who are fearful hearted..." etc.
- stress and internal conflict within your team about how to treat/discipline the kids, maybe in conflict with the teachers at sarang. let loose and feel free to just love on the kids! be homie-G's ambassadors, not just construction workers.
-image from a bug's eye view of a really angry asian man pounding nails as hard as he can into a board on the ground. everytime the hammer hits the nails, a child or infant's face cried out in pain in my periphery. we peed against the lies that get pounded into children's heads everyday about their unlovedness/worthlessness, the source being spirits or their unpresent mothers and fathers. YOU and your team, through the act of construction, are doing good work in DIRECT opposition to that angry man! Your construction of love is opposing his construction of hatred! No wonder he is angry with your construction activities and is attacking your arms! But we peed against that :-)
-Homie-J's blood is soaked intot hte soil of the border area, watering the roots of the children there and allowing them to grow. In the morning, the morning dew arises from the ground and the mist is his blood, covering all. That mist is the atmosphere of HOS/the village.
-Remember, you OVERCOME the enemy "by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your T-money"(rev somewhere) so wield those weapons well!