Update from Merv: Don't Worry, Be Happy.

Hey Everyone. Can’t believe 3 weeks has already gone by and I’ve learnt so much in such a short time. This week was filled with many long days and long evening. We had teaching during the day, work duties during the afternoon; we spent most of those time preparing for the upcoming conference... Then we also had homework from 8 to 9:30 every night. Our days normally start 6:30 in the morning so yea, needless to say its been intense. This past week, I had the privilege of teaching a 2 1/2 our class on Understanding Media & Marketing. I was very nervous teaching (I shy away from often) and actually spent some time researching to prepare for the class... YEA ME! LOL. But most of those research time was actually spent praying and asking God to help me focus my thoughts. I was amazed on how that session went. I learnt a lot from it and I had to take notes afterwards because some of what I shared made sense :) and I figured I should remember that. LOL  But I’m amazed even in an area like Media and Marketing how the Bible gives strategies. If you want to read some of my notes on this class visit my blog (www.mervdouglas.com)

Well Tonight (Sunday) our team hosted our love feast and it was amazing. Our Theme was, “Don’t worry, Be happy.” We prayed and felt God led us to have an evening where we can just relax and be stress free after having 3 long weeks of learning as well as preparing for the YWAM Conference (Our Practicum) this coming week. For those who’s wondering what a love feast is, It’s pretty much an evening where we get to prepare a meal, decorate nice, dress up and feast together as family and friends. Those preparing the meal would hear from God on what the theme would be and build the evening around that theme.

Our team was made of Lizzy Snow (Haitian), Phil Bontrager (American) , Jason Martin (Dominican) & Myself (Belizean). We wanted a relaxing evening so we had had everyone come dressed in bright colored clothes and jeans. The came in and I spent a few minutes entertaining them with a Jamaican accent, playing a guitar and wearing a RASTA cap. I was singing, DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY.

We were going for a beach sunset scene so we had colored drinks, colored table setting and everyone assigned by seats with their names written on the banana. I  shared a few scriptures about God’s heart on us not being anxious (Phil 2:4-6). Then we served them burgers, with fried plantains, pineapple, papaya. We ate to our content then played a few group games. Finally it was dessert time and we served banana splits with brownies. It was a really awesome evening of fellowship and much fun.

Prayer request:

1. This is our last week of class and then we start our practicum.... We need grace and speed to get all together in time for the conference.
2. I’m organizing the worship time for the conference and making sure that Burn 24/7 (the worship group we’ve invited to lead) and the various musicians from around YWAM mesh well in forming one team. So I’m asking God for wisdom to help serve both teams and help them unite as one. We have 2 solid days of practice.
   

Thanks for all you prayer and support.

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