The last week we had a fabulous time with Dr. Barbara Elgar who taught about Obstetrics in less resourced environments. She is a very sweet lady who has worked in Africa for quite a while and brought valuable experiences to the school. We heard everything about complications in pregnancy and childbirth, management and also how to set up a clinic with very limited resources in the bush. Twice a week we have workshops where we get a little more practical and suture sponges as if they were episiotomy wounds, we deliver breeches and twins and go through step by step management of shoulder dystocia with a baby doll and plastic pelvis. It's great, we are having a lot of fun.

Besides all the medical input we have regular worship and prayer times as "church family". In free/study time we work on a spiritual journal and write about what God has been doing in our life during the week. It's all about a close relationship with him and getting to know the true living God who we serve. It's an adventure to go on evangelism nights and see people respond to what we share. This is what we do once a week as a base in teams of ten to twenty and then split of in threes and twos to pray for people or tell them about Jesus. You know what ? The world is hungry for the truth and they long to know about a loving God who wants to give them eternal life and peace. On the first evangelism night we talked to many people in Perth and 4 of them gave their life to Jesus on the spot. I am sure God prepared them and lead us to cross their way. Sometimes we meet people who ask in astonishment:"Why hasn't anybody told me about Jesus before ? Why did it take you so long to share ?"

Last Saturday we spend all morning and afternoon at a gas station raising money through car washes that we offered for donations. We were given over 200 Australian Dollars which we put aside for one girl's lecture fees. She is still in need of about 2000 Australian Dollars (AUD) but we are in faith that it will come in very soon !! There are regular fundraisers on the base for various ministries that need money for airfares, travel and the like. Friday night we had a worship service with a few hundred people on base and took an offering which met the amount of 20.000 AUD !!! Crazy, but true ! The ministry called "Island Breeze" was in need of more than 40.000 Dollars for the whole team to go on outreach. So half of the need was met in just one night. On Saturday night they were performing an incredible show with island dancing and singing. It was awesome and another offering added over 2200 Dollars to the amount. It is very encouraging and shows how generous God is - He loves to give through a joyful and willing heart.

I am very excited about next week's teaching by Peter Brownhill. He is part of the leadership team and husband to the base directer Shirley. He will teach about Integrated Medical Missions. More about that next week. All my love from here to you.