I feel that God has been preparing me through my school closing down. At the time I didn’t think it was such a good thing but now I know that it was all God working in me so I could come to Zeeland Christian and get the experience of going to the Philippines. The Philippines was one of the best experiences I have had in my entire life it changed me so much and I hope God uses that for me in the future. I never want to forget what I learned. I would love to share with everyone what I learned but I don’t think I am ready to be so vulnerable but at the same time I want everyone to understand what I learned and be a testimony but I don’t really know how yet.  I think God is using my knowlage from Freedom Christian and Zeeland Christian and the Philippines to combine and help me in the future. I also hope God will use my abilities with sports, acting, and being social in the future to help with his plan. I can’t wait to see what God has in store and I hope it involves what I have learned from the Philippines.

~Avery

In Egypt I have learned some stories about Persecution. One story is about Egyptians that got beheaded by ISIS because of there faith. Another thing is that one man was choked and killed by his teacher who told him to hide his cross necklace.

It is important that we study persecution so we are educated what is happening around us. We need to help support those people by praying for them. If we didn’t know about persecution then we will be stuck in our a christian bubble and not realize what sin does to the world.

Ibn Bible class we made a list of our ideal church and the early church and contrasted them. For example on thing from our Ideal church was a breakfast Buffett and for the early church was always being together. This is very different from each other and we should be more like the early church and be a community but also they should get more comfy chairs to sit in because my butt starts to hurt after awhile.

One poster I did was Have compassion on people; care for need. I chose this one because we should treat people equal and not look at people differently because of what they look like or if they are in wheelchair or special needs. When Jesus was on the cross he had compassion on us and he forgave us of our sins.