Friday, October 12, 2007

Back To Palm Island..


Imagine hopping on a plane no bigger than a 6 seater. The door shuts behind you and you realize you are the only light skinned foreigner The engine starts and the hole plane starts to rattle. LIFT OFF! your off the ground and blue-green water is below you and island after island, you feel as thought you are flying in a tropical post card! 15 mins later you see this small , very SMALL strip of land the some-what resembles a landing strip. Turbulence hits the plane threw the hills and you hit the ground.

I got off the plain being greeted by a familiar face and her 2 beautiful boys. Lindsey (Old DTS friend) has started a youth ministry, something God spook about a year ago, to keep the kids out of trouble and love on them with the love of Jesus. I was able to serve dinner and play ball with 24 familiar faces that have grown a bit taller since last summer. I was able to pray with some of the most amazing Island worriers.
I always fall in love with this Place. For those of you that have never heard of Palm, It use to be a place were "criminals "( not really) "Hafe -casts" (white and black) there also use to be a leprosy colony just across the water and people were not considered valued to the rest of Australia , 40 different tribes live here not native to western living but forced by many.
They a beautiful warriors and God is restoring these beautiful Island people.