APRIL DTS

The Date today is June 2nd. It's been too long and Im back to write again.

So far DTS staffing has been awesome. It has been a giant bundle of emotions and experiences. Sometimes its really easy, hard, fun, stressful, boring, relaxed, busy, challenging, a breeze, energizing. It is the most fun thing I have ever done. To look at it in real terms, my full time job is loving God and helping others know and Love him. Being available at any time of the day for anything that they may need. Someone to talk to, someone to pay for their food, someone to pray with, someone to laugh at, someone to vent to, someone to seek the Lord with, someone to just talk or just hang out with. I get a chance to seek God and also help others seek him and know him in a powerful way.

The Winter DTS teams have arrived today from outreach so we have a very crowded base right now. The returning school is awesome and had an amazing trip and the school I am staffing right now is in a place of growth and revelation with God. So seeing these two groups merge the next few days will interesting and im sure a lot of fun.

We have had some amazing speakers come through and just really pour TRUTH into all of us. It has been so amazing for me. I feel like I am learning more now than I did in my DTS, which is a good thing I think. The way the Lord is challenging me to live out what I say I believe has been difficult but yet awesome!

So as far as the DTS goes. This group of students is very unique. 90% of them grew up in a Christian home and have known the Lord from childhood. But they have had the pressure of life and lies of the enemy weigh them down to a place of believing but not knowing God. So now the Lord is fully redeeming them back to their original design. They are being redeemed from all the lies of satan and beginning to believe and know God in a way that they will never run scared again. Its awesome to see and its such a blessing to be apart of.

Pretty soon they are going to be leaving to Fiji, India and Nepal, and China. And then I will be headed home to work and raise support and just serve in any way. This next month is going to be extremely busy and crazy but man will it be awesome for the students. Its going to take a lot out of us staff but it will be so worth it. So we are going to finish our lecture phase with a Bang and really see the Lord work and reign in all our lives.

- Nick Triola