Pictures around the base

So this week, I thought I would share some pictures from where we live.  Hopefully it will give you a better idea of our surroundings.  

 Here is our water tower!  Yep, we have our very own water tower with the YWAM logo.  

 This is the student center.  It has a library, snack bar, weight room, gym, and hang-out area with ping-pong and foosball tables.  There is a nice sofa and fireplace, too.  :)

 Here is the library.  We spend lots of time in here studying.

This is one of the student dorms.  It is where all our fellow SBS students live. 

Another view of the library

This is our classroom, without all the desks and chairs set up.

This is the soccer/football/ whatever field we have for sports.  There is a
lovely little creek that runs at the back of it, by all the trees.  

 So this is a little taste of where we live.  There will be more pictures to follow, so keep checking!

SBS Week 5

     Well, it's been an incredibly busy couple of weeks for us.  We've been studying the books of Acts and Mark, and not doing a whole lot else.  :) I got put a bit behind in posting.  It is definitely fall here, which means that everything freezes during the night.  But, thankfully, we've had beautiful sunny days lately and can look out our window at the gorgeous fall colors as we study.
     I will try to describe a typical week for us here.  We attend class four mornings a week from 8am-12pm.  We have small groups that meet once a week and have a Thursday night meeting, which is basically just some worship and teaching that the whole YWAM base attends.  The rest of the time is for our own study and work time, which is much needed.  We basically write the equivalent of at least a 15-page research paper for every book of the Bible that we study.  Sometimes it may be more, or less, depending on the length of the book.  Our assignments are due every Saturday.  Though the workload is intense, we are enjoying what we are learning.  The characters in these books are coming alive to us in ways they never have before.  Most importantly, as we study the gospels, the character of Jesus is becoming more real to us than he has been before.

     The last couple weeks have been a bit hard as far as trying to balance everything and get our assignments done.  But, we are encouraged by what an incredible privilege we have to study the whole Bible in depth.  Many lives have been lost over the centuries just for the right to even own one's own Bible.  We feel very blessed to live in a country where we are free to read and study what we like, and that we have this wonderful opportunity.  We're really excited to see where God takes us from here, and how he will use this time as a foundation in our lives.  Thanks for keeping up with our adventures!  We would love to hear from you!