Hey everyone! I have finally made it to Greeley. I actually got here on Thursday night but I have not been able to get to the internet til now.
Wednesday we spent most of our time at the airport. I arrived in Colorado at 8:30 in the morning and had to wait for the rest of the Colorado Missionaries to arrive. The last one arrived at the airport at about 1:30pm. Right as the two kids got to baggage claim the tornado warning siren went off. We were then delayed a little longer. After everything had passed by we headed to Ponderosa Baptist Camp for our Colorado orientation. It was really fun to be able to meet up again with another group of students to hear about all the different summer missions projects that would be happening in Colorado.
On Thursday after we were done we headed to Greeley. Day one of being in Greeley we started working at the mission. The mission is the Church that is at the front of the Hill-N-Park trailer park. There are over 600 homes in this area with many children. The mission was originally a Church plant that grew and then relocated leaving only a building behind. A lady from the church decided that the building needed to be used and the people in that trailer park needed to be witnessed to so they then decided to open it up for a Food Bank and clothing location. This all started 13 years ago. Now the building is known as the Lighthouse Mission.
When we first arrived at the mission we went in to the food pantry and started to put food boxes together and wait for families to come in and pick them up. A food box consist of Cereal, 2 canned vegetables, canned fruit, chips or crackers, pasta, eggs, meat, bread, and a desert. They also were giving a bag if they wanted to go through the clothes closet and pick any of the clothing they could fit in the grocery bag. We were able to drive around the trailer park and meet a few of the kids this day as well. At 7pm, after we are done with the food boxes, we open up for a bible study at the mission.
Friday we hung out at the mission getting to know some of the volunteers, training in the kitchen for feeding the children for kids camp, and then in the evening at dinner at Chris' house (our supervisor).
This all leads up to today! Today was a team building day. When Chris first informed us that we needed an activity for today his first question was does everyone know how to drive standard. Well guess what I don't and all of the missionary vehicles that we have this summer are standard. So guess what Charles and I did today. We learned how to drive a five speed. We are gonna be pros by the end of the summer. We both caught on surprisingly quick. We started in a school parking lot driving a little car as we like to call Kermie. After Charles felt comfortable with starting and stopping we got him out on some of the roads. As we pull up to the main road. Charles turns around and with a serious face says, "This is the main road". We died laughing poor thing he was soo scared. Needless to say it was a great team bonding activity.
Prayer Request:
-Kids Club (starts June 2nd)
-Comfort in evening times
-Strengthen team relationships
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
May 23
This weekend was Orientation in Dallas at DBU and today was the last day. It was a really great weekend I finally got to meet my partner for this summer. We also got to know are Tribe (some fellow Go Now Students). This weekend was fun and now I am literally ready to Go. The time is getting closer. I will be boarding the plane at 7:10am on Wednesday morning to fly to Denver. When I arrive in Denver I will be waiting at the airport for the rest of our team to join us and then we will be staying at a camp to do our Colorado Orientation for two days. Then off to Greeley Colorado for the summer. :D
Prayer Request:
Safe travels
Team Member
-Me, Charles, Tiffany, Lee
Supervisor
-Chris Watson
Prayer Request:
Safe travels
Team Member
-Me, Charles, Tiffany, Lee
Supervisor
-Chris Watson
May 11
Hey, Thanks for taking the time to read my blog. I have never done anything like this before but I thought it would be a really good opportunity to give it a try. This will allow for everyone to stay connected with me while I am on my mission trip this summer.
Go Now that is what we are called to do. “Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’" Matthew 28:18-20
I have wanted to do a mission trip through Go Now since my freshman year of College now that I will be a senior next semester I decided it would be a good time to GO. At first I wasn’t sure where I felt like I was supposed to go. I read through the list of locations and was trying to decide if I should go somewhere within the states or outside the country. I went through the list the first time and I narrowed it down and really just prayed about what I should do. I originally narrowed it down to one specific one. I prayed about it and something didn’t feel right. I didn’t want to pick a trip because it was something I wanted to do I wanted to make sure it was God’s will for me to go on the trip. So I decided that I would just go through the interview and have them place me where I belonged. This is when I first realized if I didn’t learn anything else this would be the summer I would learn to become flexible.
Discovery Weekend is a designed to be a weekend for all of the student missionaries interested in trips to come together and go through an interview process and make a final decision on what trips they would like to go on. This year God had a different plan for us. We were all supposed to meet in Dallas but this is the weekend that they got 13+ inches of snow. SFA along with about 5 other schools all drove to Tyler for a Discovery Day instead.
After I went through the interview process it took about a week to get the results back. I was excited to see that the trip they picked for me was in my original top 5. Lighthouse Missions in Greeley, Colorado.
I was originally supposed to leave on June 1st and my schedule has already changed again. I will now be flying out from Austin at 7:10 on May 26th and returning on the 7th of August.
Go Now that is what we are called to do. “Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’" Matthew 28:18-20
I have wanted to do a mission trip through Go Now since my freshman year of College now that I will be a senior next semester I decided it would be a good time to GO. At first I wasn’t sure where I felt like I was supposed to go. I read through the list of locations and was trying to decide if I should go somewhere within the states or outside the country. I went through the list the first time and I narrowed it down and really just prayed about what I should do. I originally narrowed it down to one specific one. I prayed about it and something didn’t feel right. I didn’t want to pick a trip because it was something I wanted to do I wanted to make sure it was God’s will for me to go on the trip. So I decided that I would just go through the interview and have them place me where I belonged. This is when I first realized if I didn’t learn anything else this would be the summer I would learn to become flexible.
Discovery Weekend is a designed to be a weekend for all of the student missionaries interested in trips to come together and go through an interview process and make a final decision on what trips they would like to go on. This year God had a different plan for us. We were all supposed to meet in Dallas but this is the weekend that they got 13+ inches of snow. SFA along with about 5 other schools all drove to Tyler for a Discovery Day instead.
After I went through the interview process it took about a week to get the results back. I was excited to see that the trip they picked for me was in my original top 5. Lighthouse Missions in Greeley, Colorado.
I was originally supposed to leave on June 1st and my schedule has already changed again. I will now be flying out from Austin at 7:10 on May 26th and returning on the 7th of August.
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