Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Day 2: Angels of Awesomeness
and pick up people's trash in the dining hall tonight. One lady called
them angels. To quote Amelia, "I love this and can't wait to do it for
the rest of the trip!" Go team!
Monday, July 18, 2011
Student Life Camp 2011 Day 1
learn to be by the end of this week. Please pray for each of us by
name to experience God in a big way.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Day 7: Cedar Point
tattoos! One of the guys took it to the extreme...
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Day 6: Starbucks really helps!
We all joined in the afternoon to work at 'Medwish' packing supplies
for medical missions and clinics. It was a great day. Everyone
celebrated with a big slushy.
Day 6: Blink!
Here are some pics of the painting project we worked on. We had to scrape all the old paint of off the entire front of the garage, which was surprisingly fun. I am so proud of our team. When lunch time came and the other 2 groups had brought the food to us Team Blink wasn't content with taking a break. We finished that garage before we ate and the team worked really hard on it.
Day 6: Random Pic
Pudding Pops." seriously we were just helping clean up the movie night
and I snapped this pic.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Day 5: Men's Shelter and Yard Work
serving guys who really needed a smile and a morning meal. The rest of
the day we spent serving people in the community doing yard work. My
group served a lady named Mrs. Gail who was so excited that she was
going to check put Velocity with her daughter. Everyone beasted it and
transformed people's lawns and shrubs. We rounded out the day with a
movie night we helped put on for local kids.
This is a pic of my group in downtown Cleveland after the men's
shelter. If you're a parent you should be very proud of your son or
daughter. I know I am!!
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Day 4: Finishing The Box
people to Velocity Church. Here are some pix of some of the group with
the their empty box and celebratory slushies.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Day 3: Handing Out Flyers
inviting people to church at Velocity. There was a great attitude
among the group as everyone walked in pairs from house to house
leaving flyers on the door.
Many people quoted the park we had lunch in as a highlight for the
day. As you can see from this pic, three of the girls learned how to
walk on water. We passed out more after lunch but had to call it quits
due to rain, got all cleaned up at the YMCA and headed out to dinner.
We spent a lot of time tonight hanging out and bonding as a group.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Day 2 - "Here Today, Juan Tomorrow"
(Sorry this is a little late. There is no WiFi in the building we are staying in)
Hi everyone! Elizabeth here. Like Todd said, we got up and ready pretty early and headed to Velocity to help them set up. Some of the teens split up and helped in the children's ministry. It was muy divertido! BUUUT…..I AM NEVER HAVING KIDS!!! haha oh jkjk :P they were wonderful :)
After church was all torn down, we stayed at the Kiddie Company to help them. We cleaned windows, cots and we changed light bulbs, vacuumed, and we power washed playground toys. We stayed at the Kiddie Company until 4 and then we headed to the pool to take showers…however, some of our group stayed and went swimming for a bit.
For dinner we ate tacos…they were very yummy! We are so blessed to be able to stay at this church, it is so nice here - we have two rooms, bathrooms, a kitchen (even though it is hard to find pots and pans to cook in), and a hugeee "dining room."
Tomorrow we will start working in our separate groups (Grellow, Blink, Orple) and get to help out the community in a few different ways. :) Pray for safe work and experiences that will impact the community and our lives.
Miss y'all! :)
-MT11 Team
Day 2: Velocity Church & Kiddie Company
to church by 8:15!!! We are at Velocity Church waiting for services
after helping setup.
Please pray for us this week. Last night we learned a few things about
Cleveland. In Raleigh the economy is down but it's nothing like here.
When people speak about Raleigh it's usually positive and about
growth. Here it's not so upbeat and in fact the city is shrinking. In
Raleigh about 12% of people are connected to an evangelical church
and, while we have a long way to go to reach 100%, here in Cleveland,
less than half a percent are connected to such a church. As teens in
Raleigh many are connected to a youth ministry and have friends who
are too. The lead pastor here shared that he knew of no youth
ministries anywhere in the area!
Pray for God to use us to connect one life at a time this week to help
lift the spiritual darkness in this place. Know at home that we are
blessed beyond measure both economically and spiritually and thank our
father for that.
We miss you Lifepointe!!!!!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Mission Trip Day 1 Late Night
Mission Trip 2011 Day 1
pizza in 'Little Italy' at Mama Santas before meeting up with the guys
from Velocity Church to get settled into our lodging for the week.
Here's a shot of my top notch copilot hard at work on the way there :)
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
10-12th Grade Mission Trip 2011
morning for Cleveland OH so please pray for us and the work we are to
do. I can't wait to see God move on this trip. Keep an eye out for
nightly blog updates from the team.