Week 1 - Faith foundations

Sorry this is a bit late I've gotten a bit behind with my posts.

The first proper week of Gateway started with a few team building games to get to know each other, with the obligatory dressing up in funny costumes to play the chocolate game.

We then went on to learn about a variety of topics including:

• The God we Serve
• Kingdom principles
• Communicating with God
• Hot and Cold climate cultures

We have class 8-12 and then 1-4:30, and then some sessions at the weekend.

On the Friday evening we all went to one of our leader's houses for a BBQ (chicken, sausages and brisket - beef) which was lovely to spend time socialising outside of class or our dorms, and I saw quite a few hummingbirds although sadly I didn't get any pictures.

On Saturday we had a silent retreat.  We spent 4 hours at Tyler State Park which is a lovely park with lots of trees, tracks and a lake (which has turtles in!).  The idea was to be silent for the whole time, to spend the time listening to God, praying and reading our Bibles.  For me it was a lovely time to slow down and be peaceful after what had been a busy week.