Training is an Adventure All Its Own....

Our LST training is well underway....and while it's been a lot of work, it's also been a blast!  We love how God incorporates so much joy into serving Him!! 

Edana, Kent, Madi, Kendall, Wes & Bailey
Neteroi Team 1

We meet weekly for 2 hours at our home church (Park Plaza Church of Christ) with all of the Let's Start Talking (LST) teams that are going out on summer projects (more on that later in this post).  Our training takes place in "LST Land," as our trainer, Jamie, refers to it. There's something unique every week in LST Land....it may be a "typical" greeting in the language of our destination country.....or maybe wearing strange head gear to help us step out of our "comfort zone".  No, we don't typically wear bunny ears, Irish girl hair, or funny hats to training....unless we're in LST Land! :]

We just returned from an intense training weekend in Dallas, Texas where we trained with over 150 missionaries in the central US who will be going on summer LST projects, just like us. Have we mentioned how humbling it is that God has called us to "go"? Truly, we can't say that enough!

It was a fantastic weekend with LOTS of information, and also, a lot of team building exercises.  From attempting to build the tallest structure with some unusual supplies...

wire coat hangers....

more wire coat hangers....

wire coat hangers and an empty paper towel roll....

all poked into a cardboard box, with some tape,
and a random plastic bag...

Just look at that engineering masterpiece!

Okay, so we may not have won the contest, per say, but what we walked away with was the confidence that we have a really good team who can work together (that's 1A {1 Another} leadership) under pressure.  Oh, did we mention that we had to build these contraptions in 10 minutes?  Oy!

Our lunch time activity proved just as successful, as God continued to mold the dynamics of our group together.  It was a "scavenger hunt" of sorts with challenges related to transportation, talking to strangers, identifying a random building....things that forced us to put our noggins together and find solutions....again, with time restraints.



This is Wes, running to get the physical address from the
above-mentioned random building...did we mention the time restraint?  Go, Wes!!

Oh, yeah!  Made it back with time to spare!!

Every training session is an "adventure" all its own; but at the heart of each session is God....and our readers that we pray for each and every day.  We hope you're praying with us, too.  God calls each one of us by name....and He already know each and every reader that He is going to bring to us. We can hardly wait to know them, too....and to introduce them to you through this blog.  Thanks for taking this journey with us!

We mentioned earlier about our LST teams that we're training with at Park.  Our team ~ which includes the four of us and the precious, young couple you see with us above, Kendall and Wes LeFlore ~ will be traveling to Niteroi on June 17th.  There is another Niteroi team of six who will overlap us a day in Brazil.  There is a team of ten heading to Honduras. And two darling young women will be heading to the Ukraine (for six weeks!).  We would love for you to keep all of us in your prayers as we prepare to share God's Word around the world! 

LST Park Plaza Summer Mission Teams 2011

Your prayers mean the world to us….we can't reiterate that enough!  And we can't thank you enough for praying for us and partnering with us in God's work.  We are blown away by what God is doing through you....prayers, words of encouragement, and generous donations continue to come our way.  We are truly humbled as we thank God daily for you and your faith that "through Him, all things are possible."

Sending you our love,
Madison, Edana, Kent & Bailey

We love and appreciate you so much!!

*If you would like to contribute toward our work in Niteroi, you may do so online at www.LST.org/2011projects/brookfamily1; or donations may also be mailed to Let's Start Talking Ministry, PO Box 99321, Fort Worth, Texas 76199-0321.  Please include "Kent Brook" in the Memo.  Thank you!