So the end of the first week.

It has taken some adjusting to but it’s great! We’ve spent the week in the office rehearsing, having training sessions, times of Bible study and prayer, as well as scheduling in personal time to pray and reflect.
Taste have been learning songs and Diversion have been re-writing and learning All About Abi.
We’ve bonded really quickly as a team, spending Weds and Thurs (Happy Birthday Ben!!!) evening together socially has really helped. I’m very excited to have another girl on team, me and Becca have already had a good girlie chat over coffee in the Bistro! We’re starting to create our own ‘in jokes’ as a team…but us second years can’t help boring the first years with stories and jokes from last year (we miss you guys!).
See the beautiful new team on my CIO Team page.

**So today in PTO (personal time out) we were looking at Romans 12. 20mins so isn’t long enough to process all that is in it! The bit that really got me was verse 10 – in the NIV it goes something like this ‘Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honour one another above yourselves.’ What does it mean to be devoted? How do I do that? In my every day life, how do I consistently honour everyone else above myself?**

Tags: All About Abi, Bible Study, Birthday, Bistro, CIO Team, Devoted, Diversion, First Week, Prayer, Rehearsals, Romans 12:10, Taste, Training

So looking back at the first week…

What has struck me the most is how nice everyone is, genuinely nice. Usually as a newbie you expect people to judge you, look down on you, for you to in some way feel inferior but there is none of this at all. Everyone speaks to each other as equals and treats you really well. Maybe this will change as the year goes on but its a good first impression!

I love what I’m doing and feel totally settled. I have such a peace inside me knowing that I’m doing what I want to be doing, and more importantly what God wants me to be doing. I know that whatever the year throws at me is to ultimately bring me out a stronger, better person and God will be with me every single step of the way…hurrah!!!

Yay!

Tags: First Week