May 29

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