It's Sunday night, everyone's nestled in they sleeping bags. I'm not sure if anyone's asleep yet, they all seemed so excited. We met at the church around 5, get settled in, went over the rules and reviewed the convenant that they all signed. Joining me this week is Don Glass and Debbie Krone and each night a dad is volunteering to come sleep on the floor of the church with the boys and Don.
Around 6:00 we left to head on over to Farmington Hills to eat dinner with some folks there and with the visiting church from Columbus, Indiana. They had just arrived but we ate right away. Pizza and salads and yummy desserts provided by First Farmington.
At first the kids from Geneva all sat at one table together. All I had to do was ask them to go introduce themselves to the people from the other church and they were off. The boys ended up sitting at a table of boys, some girls sat with a table of girls, and some other girls introduced themselves to a full table. I was so proud of our kids setting the example of welcoming, friendliness and hospitality.
After dinner the youth all played a game (led by our kids!) while the adults had a meeting to find out how the week was going to work. I loved looking over and seeing our kids interacting so well with the group from Indiana.
After we came back to church we had a visit by Beth Delaney, who told some history of Detroit and Calvary Church (where we will be eating dinner on Tuesday.) The kids seemed very interested to hear some of Detroit's history, are saddened by racism and can't wait to start doing stuff in the city.
Another game, and reflection/devotion time was followed by some "business." Not much free time at all before lights out (which was late), but we should get enough sleep for a full day tomorrow.
Whew... seems like we've done a lot and we haven't even started "working" yet. I"m looking forward to seeing how God works through these young servants this week.
Keep praying for us this week.
Your sister in Christ,
Nancy
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3 comments:
Sounds like a good start. Keep up the good work!
We will be praying for you!
Reaching out to the other groups on the first night....I am most impressed!!!!
Great leadership Nancy. So glad the kids were willing to step up and reach out to the others! Looking forward to reading more about your week and we'll keep you all in our thoughts and prayers!
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