OUTREACH!!!

Hey everyone! Ok sorry our internet at base seems to be crap most of the time so I'm thankful that I can get this out!!! But I would like to announce (with excitement!) our outreach location...dun dun duh.....BRAZIL!! :D I'm super stoked if you can't tell!! We have eight people total on our team 3 leaders and 5 students! The other half of our Justice school is going to Cambodia...our Compassion school is going to Thailand and the Philippines...and our Medical school is going to Fiji and Papua New Guinea! So that's all the locations...
But in Brazil we are planning on visiting 3 different cities..Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, and Brazillia. In Rio we are planning on working in the fevela (slums), in Belo we are going to be working with the YWAM base there working with sex trafficking and street kids. The base in Belo has a bunch of different Restoration Homes for kids with HIV/AIDS or girls at risk or a rehab house, etc (things like that), and then in Brazillia we will be working with the YWAM base there who work alongside an Indian tribe that are currently in the process of trying to pass a law prohibiting the practice of infanticide (or burying of children alive) which is one of the tribes common practices...so while we are there we will be mainly doing manuel labor I think (not 100% sure yet)...and if you want to know more about the tribe google HAKANI and it will explain everything really well. It's her story that has started this entire process of beginning to fight this practice....so that's an overview we are just at the beginning stages so things could be changing if God says something or doors get shut but currently that's what's up.
Life in general has been really good...very very busy but so awesome. God's been really faithful and really gracious. I had the opportunity to teach last week Thursday and Friday during our Justice stream on the topic of Child Soldiers..introducing organizations like Invisible Children and WATOTO and showing some videos. So that was really fun and an awesome experience because I got to share a little bit of my heart and my passion for those kids. So things have been going well. We just finished our Cultural week which was really fun we all had the opportunity to stay on a Maori (the indigenous people here) Marae (their little compound thing) and learn more about their culture...as well as learning about Fiji, the Philippines, and Brazil...oh and we had a guest speaker talk about Redeeming Cultures and that was So awesome! But I don't have time to tell you anymore than that.
Ok that's a little bit of an update I'll try and get out more stories and different things later...but I would like to ask you to prayerfully consider supporting me in this moment...it's kind of painful for me to say this, but I need your help. I have to pay for $140 visa app, a shot (don't know the cost), and outreach which will roughly be around $3,500-4,000 so don't feel pressured to give but please pray because it is a definite need and I'm trusting the Lord for it. (if you do want to give you can hit the donate button on my blog, or mail a check to 1115 220th street pella iowa 50219 with Hali Steenhoek on it...and if you have questions feel free to email me at ladydutch_7@hotmail.com)

Thanks so much...you guys are awesome and I greatly appreciate you reading this and lifting me up in prayer. Blessings to you all!!