Blog entry Feb 5
Hello everybody!
I hope everything is well where you are, im still having great times here at capers, despite the fact its been raining since Sunday and its supposed to rain til this coming Sunday. Here are a few things we have done in the last week.
We went to the beach on wednesday, which was great. It was cloudy but still a good time. I swam in the ocean for the first time! It was salty, and the waves were awesome. Unfortunately i didn’t get to try surfing but another time. We had a bbq there and hung out for quite a while.
Highlight from Thursday was playing volley ball, fun stuff.
We got our family groups, which are small groups that we meet once a week for prayer, and once for a bible study, which a different student leads each week.
We wrapped up our week that we had lectures on Christianity explained, oral presentations and devotions.
We had our first full weekend which was awesome. On Friday we had guys night. We drove an hour out to a farm with a bunch of paddocks(fenced fields). We had an awesome bbq and when it was dark, we jammed onto the back of a few utes(4x4 trucks essentially) and searched for kangaroos and wombats. We saw a wombat and a bunch of guys chased it in the dark, which was really funny. We saw about 25 kangaroos in one field and actually hit one(by accident of course). It was being chased by guys off the other truck and ran in front of ours and...ya, we had to put it out of its misery. And yes i got some pictures of kangaroos, but its hard to see them when it’s so dark, plus they move quite fast. They were little ones, like 4 ft tall. I still plan on seeing the big ones in the taronga zoo at some point
We slept outside under the stars on Friday night and it was amazingly cool, and cold. We drove back on Saturday morning after having bacon and eggs!
On Saturday a few guys and I rented bikes and biked for around 30km and ended up in bowral, where we bought tons of pop. We played capture the flag that night, then watched movies. I watched counte of monte cristo...great movie.
On Sunday we went to church, i went to a Baptist church which was good. I found out that the ministry i am going to be working with is funhouse, which is an after school program for youth on Thursdays, should be interesting.
Also on Sunday we had snac, which stands for Sunday night at capernwray, where we have worship and a program that the locals are invited to...kind of our own version of church. I ran the powerpoint for the worship. It was a fun night.
yesterday it rained again but we went into town anyways, i got access to my Australian bank account and pulled out some money....this is trouble! Haha. Last night we (20 of us) went to a gym and played indoor soccer which was lots of fun
This week we are studying prayer....should be good. It’s kind of cool that we are talking about prayer now because we just covered that in my youth group back home. I also have to prepare a bible study outline for next Wednesday on prayer. Cool stuff
Today we learned about what our dean of students has done in hong kong in Jackie pullingers ministry there and then we had a prayer soak. You might be wondering what exactly that is...well we moved all the tables out of the conference hall and put down blankets and pillows, we relaxed and listened to a worship cd, with freedom to do whatever(pray, read the bible, think, sleep etc) and the staff prayed over us while we did that for an hour. It was totally awesome. Also today a few of us went to the recording studio in town and learned to how to start producing, so we can make a capernwary cd(they have done one each semester for awhile apparently.
I’ve also posted some pictures.

Thats about it for now from Australia. Shout out to ryan, thanks for the card(s) buddy. I hope you enjoyed this long post everybody.
Bye for now from down under,
Adam