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Hey Amazing People!

I know it’s been a while, but I just wanted to say another thank you to all of you who are supporting me while I am over here! Thank you for all of your prayers, I have felt them weightily! So thank you! Thanks also to those who have been blessing me financially! It is soo appreciated and may God return the blessing to you, pressed down, shaken together and overflowing! I also wanted to give you a brief update on what has been going on here with me. So The classes that I have done the past half semester were a creative writing class, an in depth study of Ephesians, and I have been doing a school planting track, which will continue for the rest of the year, which I will graduate with a full ministry school curriculum that I could use to plant a school anywhere in the world. In addition to that, the activation that I have been put in this year, is running a leadership development programme for 14-18 year olds at the YMCA, so that is super exciting too. I am not the only one running it; we have a team of 10 of us who all lead on different weeks. It's really good fun showing these kids the potential they have to be amazing influencers. In addition to school I am volunteering with a local youth programme, called Youth for Christ, who have a Horse programme, where they take kids between the ages of 4 and 18 who come from a variety of different scenarios like, in juvi, on probation from juvi, or have come through the violence at home programme, and we teach these kids how to work with horses and how to ride them too. The horses that we work with are all rescue horses, and most of them have been abused, so the kids relate to them really well, and it's a great way to teach them valuable life skills, like how to trust again, how to love, how to receive love, how to treat something with care, what it means to respect something and someone, etc. The programme has a successful inheritance, they say that about 95% of the children that have gone through the programme have met God and now know Him as their saviour! It's soooooo much fun and I come completely alive sharing my two favourite passions (God and Horses) in the world with these amazing children and teenagers! I also wanted to let you know that I have applied to go on a ministry trip to Los Angeles in January and February. If I get accepted on them, my team and I will be ministering on the streets of LA mostly doing market place ministry as well as building up and equipping some of the local churches and ministries. Also the other exciting news that I have is, that Applications for our Missions trips went in about 3 weeks ago and I heard last week that I have been accepted to go on the trip to Zimbabwe!!!!!! We will majorly by in Marandera (not sure if thats spelt right) and some of the outlying townships. I'm not totally sure what is all involved as we haven't had our first meeting yet, so when I do I will be sure to let you all know what we will be doing. The last piece of news that I have is that I have been given a sermon project to do. I am expected to preach to my class at some point over the next 4 weeks, so when I have done that, I may be able to put an audio of the sermon on the net somewhere so any who are interested can listen to it. I'm super excited about it, but kinda scared and anxious, but I know God is gonna rock my world and that I have this, so your prayers as I prepare this sermon would be greatly appreciated! Anyways, thanks for taking the time to read this! I would really really love to hear from you guys, you can comment on my posts or you could email me at Salena30@hotmail.com or add me to face book! Miss and love you all very much! Love Tashie