Wow! What an amazing week! I want to thank everyone for being open and allowing our Abba Father stretch them! I am so proud of all of you for the growth I have seen in you! I hope and pray that none of us come back disappointed. As I was journaling on the plane home I felt The Lord saying that we always want to make a difference BUT we need to remember that WE ARE THE DIFFERENCE! As we allow God to change our hearts we become the difference in the lives of the people He puts in our paths! This week we were able to be the difference for the Zuni youth and Pastor Paul's family. We were able to plant seeds and now we r to water them in prayer that the fruits will begin to grow. I also believe God wanted to blow up our boxes on what a mission trips looks like! It's all about what He wants and how He wants things done. It is never about our schedules and what we want to accomplish. We were definitely stretched!
I also want to tell everyone how faithful God is to me! For those who don't know I was praying leading up to our trip and I kept getting the name Angel. I hope pray for Angel and asked The Lord to bless her or him. Well, when I had opportunity to interact with the local people I would ask if they knew of an Angel. Well on Thursday our plans had changed we went to visit some other BIC missionaries. There were neighborhood children who would visit the missionaries, well I found out and met a young nine year old who was named Angel! I explained to her what we were doing and she allowed me to pray over her and take a picture. God is amazing!
Many blessings!
Gail
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Home stretch
Sorry to you parents for not sending many updates. We didn't have much cellular service at the Zuni camp.
The Zuni team was awesome! Working in the sun and occasional downpours at 7,200 feet elevation, all the while keeping up an energetic pace, and maintaining positive attitudes throughout. They did a great job of interacting with the Zuni teens. They were really affirming with each other. We had good times of worship and good talks in the cabins.
Most of the people we worked with commented how great this group was. One person noted that it clearly reflected a solid youth pastor, a healthy church, but most most of all, good parents. Pat yourselves on the back, your teens are great young men and women.
I am a little tired. We put in about 1,000 miles of driving in addition to all the other stuff we did, and I couldn't nap like the (teen) passengers did. Haha. Nonetheless, it was worth every minute of it, seeing God move in and through them so powerfully. I would go with this group again, in a heartbeat.
Update from Mitch Martin's protégée
Saturday morning in the car with team alpha heading back to Albuquerque. (Chad, Lindsey, Bronte, and Peter- myself) this week was the bomb. The entire team was anchored by myself and Mitch as we provided entertainment for all with killer jokes. This entire week showed a lot of challenges for everyone, but our team came so close together and kept it together. We met a lot of awesome Zuni kids at DPCU (Dusty Pines Camp University) and at the youth group at the church. We worked hard on a path at DPCU that encircled the property. We did a lot of praying over it and our hope is that it will be a special place for all who use it. Mitch railed his head on Chad's door. I really feel like we did what God called us to do. People say that last year's trip fell very short to this year's in the food dept. I wasn't on it so I guess we can assume the rest of the team wouldn't lie about it. Whatever you do be doin work and splittin wood.
Heading Home-Bronte
I can't believe the week is over already! We're in the party car (Chad's) driving to Albuquerque and rocking out to Hillsong United. In some ways I feel like we've been here for way more than a week, but in other ways the week flew by. The kids at Dusty Pines were so welcoming and fun to be around, it feels like we've known each other for much longer than a week. I'm ready to get back to life in PA, but I don't want to go back to being the person I was before. The people and experiences in New Mexico have taught me how to love God and people without holding back, and I've also been able to experience the way God's heart breaks for His children.
Our team has experienced incredible unity on this trip. It's been especially cool to bond with the other girls. We've had some pretty awesome/hilarious late night chats in our cabin, and it was great to know that they always had my back in prayer and simply listening when I was struggling. It's been awesome to build new friendships on this trip and to watch some people become bold and really step out of their comfort zones.
Shout out to Jenn (our AIM leader) for keeping us well-fed, and to the Zuni kids who cooked for us. Thanks to the Scarbro's for their hospitality and to all the Zuni teens who have gone through things I can't even imagine and have come out stronger. And thanks to all of you for your support. Your prayers definitely kept us safe and gave us strength when we were exhausted. I can't wait to see you all at home and tell you more in person about the amazing things that God has done!
Heading Home-Bronte
I can't believe the week is over already! We're in the party car (Chad's) driving to Albuquerque and rocking out to Hillsong United. In some ways I feel like we've been here for way more than a week, but in other ways the week flew by. The kids at Dusty Pines were so welcoming and fun to be around, it feels like we've known each other for much longer than a week. I'm ready to get back to life in PA, but I don't want to go back to being the person I was before. The people and experiences in New Mexico have taught me how to love God and people without holding back, and I've also been able to experience the way God's heart breaks for His children.
Our team has experienced incredible unity on this trip. It's been especially cool to bond with the other girls. We've had some pretty awesome/hilarious late night chats in our cabin, and it was great to know that they always had my back in prayer and simply listening when I was struggling. It's been awesome to build new friendships on this trip and to watch some people become bold and really step out of their comfort zones.
Shout out to Jenn (our AIM leader) for keeping us well-fed, and to the Zuni kids who cooked for us. Thanks to the Scarbro's for their hospitality and to all the Zuni teens who have gone through things I can't even imagine and have come out stronger. And thanks to all of you for your support. Your prayers definitely kept us safe and gave us strength when we were exhausted. I can't wait to see you all at home and tell you more in person about the amazing things that God has done!
Elena Rossetto
Hey everybody! At the missions meetings and even on the plane rides here I don't think any of us really knew what this was going to be like. We left as theMcBIC youth group, but we are coming back as a united team. The enemy tried to scare us, tear are team apart, but we only grew stronger as a team. We are all coming back changed, (and dirty), but we are coming back with even stronger relationships than we had before. God showed us all what he wants to see in us. The pastors family, Faith, Kyria (spelling?) and Elijah, really had an impact on our Navajo team. Just about everybody cried when we had to say goodbye on Thursday. Overall I know everyone, including me, is going to miss New Mexico and everyone we met here. Heads up there will be crying at the airport. See y'all soon:)
Friday, July 19, 2013
El Morro National Monument
The Navajo team spent the afternoon at El Morro National Monument. This included a picnic lunch, hike to the top and lots of pictures of God's amazing creation!!!
El Morro National Monument
The Navajo team spent the afternoon at El Morro National Monument. This included a picnic lunch, hike to the top and lots of pictures of God's amazing creation!!!
Group Gail's ATL
We all broke into 5 groups for our ATL, our group was (Gail, Maitland, Julia, Jeremiah, and Jonathan). ATL stands for ask The Lord. We go off by ourselves in two increments of 10 minuets to pray and ask God to speak to us and put things in our mind and then we share our lists with each other to decide where to go and who/what to pray for. This is how ours went...
We decided to go to the code talkers memorial and courthouse we were at last night because different people heard wind (a movie about the code talkers is called wind talkers), history, circle (their is a giant circle in front of the courthouse), and the part of a worship song "The God of angle ARMIES is always by my side". On our we there we passed an old car a trailor and a green street (all was on Jeremiah's list), so we knew we were going the right way. Once we got their we went through the memorial and prayed at the courthouse (we later learned that a Christian was being prosecuted for acting on his faith when he shouldn't have). After that we stood on the edge of the circle where everyday different tribal groups perform different dances for the public, and we song amazing grace with another group that happened to be there too. After that we prayed where to go next and Jeremiah felt like we should go right but first we saw a police officer and decided to pray for him. While we were praying, Gail felt like we should pray for his mom and so we asked what his moms name was, he said Maria. After we prayed for her we headed to the map to look for where to go. We heard a lot of numbers while we were praying at the start, specifically 7 and 9, and we noticed the street names where numbered, however we noticed if we went right the only street number left was 1. Then we saw the building complexes were numbered as well, and the 9th complex was to the right and had a restaurant called Maria's Restaurant. We went there and we were going to pray for the business but Jonathan felt like we should go in and see the manager/Maria and pray for her there. When we first went in she was sceptic. As it turns out she loved the prayer. She offered us drinks and we talked with her more and found some more remarkable comparisons from our lists to her life, we heard Matthew and Angel and two of her close relatives had that name. Also she had 7 family members. In all it was a great experience for us and her.
Written by: Jonathan
Thursday, July 18, 2013
God is Great!!!
Today was amazing! We drove up to Shiprock and Farmington to see Jason and Rebecca and their 4 kids, the BIC missionaries. We met another missionary couple and a native Christian couple. Lucy told us stories and had a book in Navajo! It was great to hear how God is working in both couples lives.
Then we went to Jason's house and fed the chickens and milked a goat and cut wood. We also saw the neighbors.
The most interesting part was the watching of the beheading of the chicken and making it ready to eat.
I really believe it was God's will for us to meet them and we had fun!!
This morning in my bible reading I read Colossians 3:17. "And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of The Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." And I thank God for the fun we had today!
See you Sunday morning:)
God bless
~Hannah <3
A day full of adventures....
-chopped wood
-milked a goat (shout out to Maggie Anthony for doing this(; )
-watched a chicken die and get butchered
-oh and Gail got us all dilly bars from DQ. Thanks Gail!!!
I got to hangout with the two oldest kiddos, Christy and Abigail, who ran around and were crazy like me. We did not want to leave. So now we are on our way back to the church for dinner, worship, debrief and hanging out with Pastor Paul and his family. I absolutely love it here in New Mexico, especially the weather, people, and our team in general. This week has offered so much growth as I learned that through the trials, I have to put ALL my trust in God who can see the entire big picture. And well it has been so clear to me that our team is here for a reason. Thank you for your prayers, we can feel them! And God has already done so much and it's only Thursday!! Woo hoo- see you all when we get back- LOVE YOU MOM AND DAD!!!!
Megan
A day full of adventures....
-chopped wood
-milked a goat (shout out to Maggie Anthony for doing this(; )
-watched a chicken die and get butchered
-oh and Gail got us all dilly bars from DQ. Thanks Gail!!!
I got to hangout with the two oldest kiddos, Christy and Abigail, who ran around and were crazy like me. We did not want to leave. So now we are on our way back to the church for dinner, worship, debrief and hanging out with Pastor Paul and his family. I absolutely love it here in New Mexico, especially the weather, people, and our team in general. This week has offered so much growth as I learned that through the trials, I have to put ALL my trust in God who can see the entire big picture. And well it has been so clear to me that our team is here for a reason. Thank you for your prayers, we can feel them! And God has already done so much and it's only Thursday!! Woo hoo- see you all when we get back- LOVE YOU MOM AND DAD!!!!
Megan
Almost everything this week!!!(:
This week has been so different. It's been testing my patience, faith, and most definitely my cleaning skills. I just can't help but feel over whelmed with God's presence and the attack of the enemy at the same time. This week has been so amazing! The relationships I have been able to build with Pastor Paul and his family as well as Cindy! It's been challenging to be out of my comfort zone because I have never been on a missions trip. I do miss my family and wish they could see the beauty of New Mexico and be able to see how God is moving! My first devotional I did this week was Be prepared and Be fearless...... Through those I have really started to prepare my heart for why God holds for me and to be more confident in myself. It's so great to be so close with everyone here! We are all close I each other.... Some where in the bible ( Taking a guess Mark 10:35-45) it commands is to serve each other and love each other. Well we have come together with such passion an strength we definitely have done just that! You all should be proud of your kids and the leaders! When some of us are weak the rest if us are strong. Now think about that..... How amazing and touching that is (: I have loved all of this week from getting painted in cement to worshiping with a child hanging all over me :) God has something great planned for all of us! Pray for Pastor Pauls daughter as she will be getting surgery soon! God bless!
I love you family and friends!
Julia Locy!
Also mommy don't forget my tiara and daddy and les you would e so proud of my cleaning! Ally remember stay out of my stuff (: I love and miss you guys!
Romans 16:19-20
New Beginnings
God has done so much in my life over the past couple days. Since the airport, i have been feeling God telling me to be patient, and to wait through those tough circumstances that the devil was putting us through. We met pastor Paul's kids, and I don't think I have seen such joy and such happiness In any other children! From the second they met us they were sitting on our laps, and giving us hugs, and for me that was such a blessing!! We went to their house and we had the idea to clean their kitchen, which turned into cleaning their whole house when she was gone. It's amazing how the littlest things we do can bless someone so much without us realizing it! She was so grateful and God brought our team closer because of that day! The next day, during our devotions, some of the girls in our group got together and were talking about the way we have been acting so far in the missions trip. The result was of these actions creates broken relationships and tension between the two groups. We were crying, and praying for each other, and we were able to mend the friendships between the girls in the small group that we had created. For me, I needed to ask forgiveness from a girl in the other group. I was scared about rejection from her, and was praying all day at the pastors house to be given the right words to say. Later in the day, we had a time of worship and praying back at the church in Gallup. God spoke right through me and I didn't realize what was happening until we both all of a sudden broke down in tears. I am so happy to say that God was right in the middle of that conversation and he spoke RIGHT through me!! When I was sitting on the pew in the church, I was thinking about forgiveness and how nobody better deserved it than my father. The realization of how much I missed him hit me like a ton of bricks and I fell to the floor in a pile of tears. So much emotion that I had held back was coming up and demanding to come out. I went over to Gail and she prayed for me and I just had this overwhelming sense of peace that I've never experienced in my life!! I am proud to say that I miss my father, because there will be that one day that he will, through Christ only, come back and realize that he has left two amazing daughters and an amazing woman of Christ behind. GOD gave me this realization and I was so happy that I had the opportunity to experience this!!!
And happy birthday to the most amazing mother/woman of Christ in my life!! I love you so much mom and I miss you so much!! 2 sleeps!!! :)))
Mandi Betts
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Hello from NM!
hey everyone, Lindsey here!
It's been such a great trip so far! The past 2 days our Zuni team has been working on making/lining a trail around the camp we are staying at. The trail was already established, we just had to get logs to line the trail and then smooth out the path. We've made a lot of progress!
It's been also great to connect with the teens that are hanging out/staying with us. They were a little hesitant to open up at the beginning, but now they are really starting to open up.
Last night all of us went to see a Navajo dance and then afterwards we went back to the Navajo church and Pastor Paul talked for a little bit and then we did some worship. Michelle and I pretty much lead the worship time, which was great! We started with some upbeat songs and then broke out With Everything and How He Loves....needless to say, what was gonna be short worship time became an amazing time of prayer/worship/crying our eyes out, etc :) It was just amazing to see how God was speaking to everyone! It's awesome to see everyone stepping out to pray for others when they feel someone being laid on the heart. Some also prayed with the Zuni teens, and with the pastor as well. For me personally, the time was just amazing because I was reminded yet again of the gifts God has given me to lead worship and facilitate that atmosphere for others. When we finished singing, I went to just pray and i couldn't help but just thank God for giving me these gifts and choosing ME to be able to lead others into his presence. It's really an amazing thing. That night was definitely so refreshing for all of us, but we know and trust that God has even more in store for us the rest of the week!
Lindsey
(PS. Hi Mom, Dad, Trenton, and fam! I miss you guys! I can't wait to see you guys when we get home! Mom and Trenton, hope TIMs has been amazing! I've been thinking about you guys and hope all is going well and trust God is working and moving powerfully! Tell everyone there I said hi! :) and Mom, tell Trenton that I really do miss him, and that I love him! Love you guys! See you soon!)
Blog from Chad :)
Hey everyone! As you read in some of the previous posts, last night we had an absolutely powerful worship and prayer time. For me it was a blessing to watch our teens step out and minister to one another and the pastors family. We have such a selfless group of teens.
We haven't had much opportunity for our Zuni team to blog because of a lack of cell coverage a the camp. But yesterday I was able to spend the day with them. They are working on building a path around the camp that will be used for upcoming ministries. Our team has been doing an awesome job and is getting a lot done. They have also made great connections with the Zuni teens. Last night our team had the opportunity to pray over each of those teens.
It has been a great couple of days and I am so proud of our teens!
God bless!
HUMP DAAAY!!
Good morning!!
We're all probably going to end up hating the 'Hump Day' commercial by the end of the day. Last night both teams combined in Gallup and experienced a tribal dance performed by Navajo performers. It was cool to see how the people maintain their culture and practice their native language. Following the dance we all came back to the church in Gallup for worship and testimony from Pastor Paul. The presence of God was definitely felt in the church as we prayed for each other and worshipped together. I thank God for bringing me and my brother on this trip; it's such a great experience to touch the lives of Pastor Paul's family and the Zuni kids. I pray that God continues to work through us and show the people of New Mexico that we're different because we have the Holy Spirit guiding us. Praying for my family and everyone back in Mechanicsburg.
Perry
Worshipping our Creator...
We serve a powerful God who meets us where we are. Had a powerful time of worship last night with both teams.
Experience with God
"I don't know where the road will lead,
But in You I have complete trust.
All I know is in the end we win,
And with You, who can separate us?
Wherever the road ends, You will be there.
Whenever my time is done, You will be there.
However You direct me, use me, choose me, You will always be there."
The above lyrics were the words i jotted down during one of the most powerful experiences with God in my life. I came on the retreat with some baggage: anger towards certain people, insecurity and feeling unworthy to carry out His plan.
During the worship session tonight, I felt God tell me that He chose me to come here for a reason. I felt unqualified to be a missionary for Him because I usually don't pray out loud or feel led to pray for people; I usually sit back quietly, whereas everyone else I saw in the room were walking around praying for others.
He told me that my strength was expressing myself through writing music and lyrics. I don't need to be a full-on extrovert to be a missionary for God. I can use the talents that He's given me to do the same as the extroverts.
Through people's prayer for me (for whom I am extremely grateful) I let go of my weight that I had brought with me. I feel no anger, I feel confident, and I am ready to fully rely on Him and trust His plan for my life.
I hope everyone back home has an incredible rest of the week and an even better HUMP DAAAYYYY!!
-Jeremiah Hopkins
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Making the path around the dusty pines camp
Jamie Isley- yesterday and today the main job we had at the camp site was to clear and create a path for bikers, walking, and horse riding. The amount of work we have done in the last two days has really impressed me and the leaders of our team. We have about half of the trail done which I estimate to be about a half mile of trail. The team has really come together and all put in there effort to make this trail awesome. This trail will hopefully be a great light to the Zuni kids who use the trail.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Elena Rossetto
This trip has been a blessing to our group and to everyone we have encountered so Far. God's presence is so strong here! It's filling everyone in our team and allowing us to fill the people we interact with. The Lord is really showing me my spiritual gift on this trip and i never thought he would use me like this. Everyone is so full of joy and so happy to be here. The kids are so cute!!! That is all, got to go to a bonfire at dusty pines! Peace out peeps:)
Day two prayer team
Hey y'all, Madi Shover here:)
So today is Monday (I think, haha it feels like its been a week since we left mcbic) but anyways. Last night the Navajo team joined the others at the camp site thing, and surprisingly we (well I at least) got a really good nights sleep. My cabin has Maggie Mariana Megan and Bethany in it and Maggie and I share a bed;) (it gets freezing at night) and we fell asleep at 11 and woke up at 8:30. So after breakfast a group of us went with chad to a city like two hours away and met with two missionary families there. It was really cool actually. The people who went were Maggie, Elena, Minner and I. When we first got there we played with the kids of both families after we ate pizza. Then we listened to them tell us about what their ministries are doing and stuff. After they shared with us we got the chance to pray for them, their ministries and their families . I absolutely loveeeee praying for people so it was fun for me. After we prayed for them in general Elena and I felt like we were supposed to go down in a line and pray for each of the older kids individually. So we did that and it was really powerful. All those kids are incredibly anointed and it was such a privilege to be used to speak into their lives. The oldest girl named Lydia (she was 12) then said she wanted to pray for us, so a few of the kids did. It was such a blessing for all of us as well:) right now we are on our way back to the church to eat dinner and rejoin the rest of our team!! It's cool cuz we are driving through a dust storm!!! (Not a bad one).
Oh yeah!! That's the other thing. The landscape here is so cool! It's so different then at home!! Here is an example. It's so flat yet covered in mountains. Idk it's cool. Everything doesn't even look like we are in America. It's all like old and worn down and stuff.
Okay I'm done. To my family, don't worry mama dear we are both fine and having a great time. Nick, I found your future wife so I will work out a time to bring you here. And dad, hope you aren't missing us too much! Haha love you guys. Adios <3
Be... ?
Well, this group has been through it all... From late airplanes to changed plans daily. I suppose we all have been having the same thought... "Its just more evidence that we need to be here."
On that note, these past few days have involved such wonderful service projects and just in case my own lovely mother is reading this.. YES, I have been cleaning. A lot! Be proud please. I'm not sure I can ever repeat this mad cleaning zone I get in when I see a project that needs done. From labeling to mopping to cleaning a little girls room.. It's certainly a God thing... It's not me!
Yesterday's devotions have still been clear in my mind and I am praying will remain extremely valuable to me when this week is over. The title was, "Be available"
Just think about it...
Its Not:
Ask god what to do
Ask why things happen
Make it easy and then ill serve
I will clear out my life and only so the "Church stuff"
No... BE AVALIBLE!
In all that you do work for The Lord. When you wake up in the morning, ask The Lord to use you and be available for him. If you say that you are available, that means that it's no longer your agenda. Often your schedule will change as you ask to be made available.
As for my life, my life doesn't seem very "clear" or "available". i am always doing something! But it doesn't mean that is bad. It just means that in ALL you do, do it for The Lord. If you follow him, your interests may change, so may your calling, but it means you are doing Gods work. That is being available
My family is often an example in my head of being available. Our schedules haven't been completely cleared but we have made ourselves available through adoption in our every day lives.
This trip is a perfect example of being Available...
We came here asking God to change our lives and let us serve him in the way he wished. Little did we know that he wants us to be Available in different ways. So he made us Available. Very much so. We are serving him day to day in however he needs.
That is pretty cool!
So we have been getting a lot done!
And it's not even Hummmp Daaaaay yet!
I encourage everyone reading this fabulous blog to just keep in mind what I'm trying to take with me... Be Available. Shine your light. Serve.
Btw: I am VERY responsible for every typo... I apologize. :)
-Mariana King
Post Sunday Update
Yesterday was certainly an example of how God's plans are not always in line with our own. Instead of staying at the church all day and doing some work for them, we ended up going over to the pastor's home and blessing them. We did a clean sweep of their entire house while the pastor and his wife were still back at the church. We dusted, mopped, pulled weeds, cleaned the kid's rooms, etc. It was awesome to see how much she appreciated it. You could see the stress just come out of her when she walked in. Then we took the three kids to the park and went on a prayer walk from there. It was weird to see just how different all the homes are here. They seem like they are lifeless, yet there are families living in them. After we all met back up, we got our bags and relocated to the Dusty Pines Camp. It was fun to reunite with the other team and pray, debrief, and sing with them. But overall, yesterday is just proof that only God knows what we have in store for us. He knows what is best, and we had to trust all day that we were going to do what He meant for us to do, although it was NOTHING like we planned.
A small group of us are now heading to Farmington to pray for some BIC missionaries and the people they are impacting.
PEACE YO.
-Maggie Anthony (:
Heading back to Gallup!!
Beautiful view from our Amazing Creator! The Navajo team is on our way back to Gallup for a day of service projects at the Church. Thankful for a God who has been faithful and for the ways that he has been working through these teens.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Trust in God!
Hello!
Good morning, we have gotten here safe at 11:15pm and ate dinner and then got ready for bed!
But yesterday we learned to be positive and that things do not always go as we plan but as God plans. We were in Denver from 1:45 to 7 because of rain delays. But we had so much fun and a person said that " the people with the New Mexico shirts are too happy!" :)
But the plane taking off I personally learned to trust God because of the lightning that was very very close.
On behalf of the missions teams we thank you for your prayers!!!!
- Hannah Eyster
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Still waiting....
Hi!
Danielle shover here:)
We arrived in Denver about a half hour ago, and we had another 2-3 hour layover.
Everyone is very tired, but we are all still pumped to serve in New Mexico! I know God has a plan for all these delays and He is just testing our patience right now:)
I am excited for the week to come!
Megan here:
It has been a very interesting day- but it has been good team bonding and I believe that our team has been blessed so abundantly. Each team member got a free $10 meal voucher for breakfast and had the opportunity to check our bags all the way to New Mexico!! Woo hoo!!! As I was praying on the flight God lead me to this verse for our week: "Whatever happens dear brothers and sisters, rejoice." Philippians 3:1a
ALL of these delays have been for a reason that only God knows. And we are soooo pumped to see all that God has in store for us. Love you all! Thanks for your prayers!!
Delayed!
While everyone back home thinks we're on an airplane, we're actually still at BWI! Psych! Our flight was delayed, an we are still waiting here. So far, I would say it has been a positive experience despite the delay! We've had a good time catching up with each other and sharing our excitement for the rest of our adventure! Another awesome thing that happened this morning was that the airport felt so bad about our delay that they provided $10 food vouchers for each of us (aka, free food!). So we pretty much bought out Dunkin Donuts :) And now we each have an extra $10 to buy souvenirs! God has been good despite our delay: it's been a good reminder that His hand is in our trip, whether we expected things to go this way or not! On behalf of the whole team, hello and lots of love to all back home! Thank you for all of your prayers and for helping to send us on a trip that is bound to be life-changing!
Love in Christ, Allison
P.s. Plane is ready!!!!
Delayed!
While everyone back home thinks we're on an airplane, we're actually still at BWI! Psych! Our flight was delayed, an we are still waiting here. So far, I would say it has been a positive experience despite the delay! We've had a good time catching up with each other and sharing our excitement for the rest of our adventure! Another awesome thing that happened this morning was that the airport felt so bad about our delay that they provided $10 food vouchers for each of us (aka, free food!). So we pretty much bought out Dunkin Donuts :) And now we each have an extra $10 to buy souvenirs! God has been good despite our delay: it's been a good reminder that His hand is in our trip, whether we expected things to go this way or not! On behalf of the whole team, hello and lots of love to all back home! Thank you for all of your prayers and for helping to send us on a trip that is bound to be life-changing!
Love in Christ, Allison
P.s. Plane is ready!!!!
Friday, July 12, 2013
Countdown continues!
In less than 9 hours we meet at McBic and begin the exciting journey of watching what God will do in and through all of us over the next 8 days! Follow the adventure along with us.
Kevin
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Just a few days away!
Our team is getting very excited for the opportunity to serve in New Mexico! I have been very proud of our team and am definitely looking forward to this experience!
It doesn't seem like that long ago when several of the leaders gathered together at our house on Saturday morning, October 6, 2012. We had a list of about 10 options for summer missions experiences and as we prayed about it, the opportunity to serve in New Mexico was clearly the right choice for our group this year. It has been awesome to see how God has pulled all the details of this together.
We are anxious to see what God does through this time and God has brought together an awesome group of teenagers and leaders!
Keep following the blog throughout the week to hear stories and testimonies from our students and leaders.
God Bless!
Chad
Thursday, June 20, 2013
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