March 4th heralded the victory home run to the September 2008 DTS. Five blooming, rosy cheeks individuals made it to the finishing line and all succesfully completed and graduated from their DTS.
The past 5 months have broughts ups and down, struggles and victories, changes, transformation and, peace. The kind of peace you get when you achieve and found what you were looking for. There is too much to recount over the past school but below are some glances back at the memories that comes to my mind and that showed a marked difference in our lives.
Victory in Torino
People fully seated and waiting in anticipation. We were prepared to present a drama and a couple of the 
team were also chosen to give a testimony. Throughout that whole morning Kim, one of our team had been struggling with sickness, tiredness and feeling extremely weak - she not only was in the drama but she was also due to give her testimony. Visibly struggling she could have easily asked to back down and take some time to recover, instead she chose participate in the drama and with all the strength she had left, give glory to God by speaking out her testimony. At that moment I saw someone who had stood her ground, grabbed hold of God and snatched victory. Though it may seem like a small thing the decision that she made that day had a transforming effect not only on that day and Kim but also on the rest of the time in Italy.
Rehabilitation - binding the broken
On the second week of our outreach we went to stay and work with the REMAR centre in Milan. During this time we had the opportunity to minister worship, testimony and drama each evening in different REMAR centres around Milan. At several of these meetings Joanna was given the opportunity to share her experience.
Joanna stood in front of a gathering of people who were in almost the very same position she had also found herself one year ago, to the date of her talk. Coming from a difficult and dark past, Joanna retells of her time in a maximum security room, recovering from her latest suicide attempt, surrounded by mentally disturbed, suffering people. Sentenced for her own protection to a minimum of 3 days in the crisis centre, Joanna finally cried out to God and God heard her.
Joanna’s testimony really rang true with so many people there. Many were able to relate to her experience and the desperation and helplessness she had felt at the same time. But so evident was the miraculous power of transformation that God had done in her that no one could deny it. I don’t know who was more impacted that day - the testimony was so powerful that it made all of us pay attention and just be in awe of who our God is and the endless possibilities in Him.
Evangelism in Milano Central Station
I think this memory very much relects the personality of one of our team - Ezequiel. We had set off one 
Friday evening to the main train station in Milan and were joining up with another church to do some evangelism that evening. As part of a small and faithful group we set off in pairs to strike up a conversation with some of the commuters. Walking, praying and watching I see Ezequiel with determined steps approaching several people and engaging them in conversation - animated, enthusiastic and determined he continues unhindered by the fact that we can’t actually speak Italian or any doubts that sometimes get in the way. Instead, he finishes one conversation, proudly announces that the gentleman he had been talking to accepted Jesus, he takes a different partner with him and goes for someone else!
There are many more memories and moments, too many to count but I am sure those stories will be told well and long into the future because you cannot just forget it when God does something really special.
As a team working on DTSs we often say this - there is only one ingredient that God needs to completely revolutionalize you, and that is willingness.
Are you willing?
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