WEEK FOUR

So it has begun. I am in Logan, WV this week for what is known as Early Bird. It is the first week of particpants being here. There is 12 staff members present instead of 4, and it is a chance for us to get to see how a real week works. It has been amazing so far and God has been using this week to reassure me of many things. I love youth, and this week I have gotten numerous chances to connect with them. God has been so faithful this week and things have been going very well. I am the program staff, which means I am officially in charge of the evening activities. During the day I get to float around from site to site and see how things are going. This week we are building a wheel chair ramp at one house, painting two others, and running a Kids Club program, (kind of like a VBS.) We also work at a local soup kitchen called the Dream Center and help serve meals to the homeless. This is something that is totally new to me but God is using it to stretch me in new ways. Yesterday, I got the chance to do my very first prayer walk. What happened, is I got partnered up with 5 other youth and we had the assignment to walk around downtown Logan and pray with random people. We walked into businesses and prayed with them, and even stopped people on the street and asked them if they had any prayer requests. I was kind of wary of what this would be like but it was totally amazing! God opened up so many people to us and we had a relatively good response by everyone we encountered. This whole summer is going to be like this I have a feeling. It is something new and a little bit scary, but in the end, God will show His goodness throught it all. This is only the first week of the summer technically, and it is still a training week, but this Sunday it begins for real. We will be travelin back to Lincoln County and doin it for the next 7 weeks in a row! Pray for me, that God will continue to bless us and keep us in His care!