I can't believe that I've already been here a full week! It seems like just yesterday I moved in and started to get to know everyone. We've had a pretty full week with orientation, training, and acquiring full time jobs for the summer. Getting to know each other has been fun and amusing. There are 30 students living in the house and 15 staff members down the street. I didn't really have a hard time learning every ones name, but keeping straight where they are from, where they are working, and what year they are... give me another week or so.
First off the house is beautiful! Apparently, in previous years, the student housing was kind of sketchy with holes in the ceiling and bathrooms so cramped that you had to pee sitting sideways! We are truly blessed to be the first mission in the house and I love it. There are 4 apartments with 7 people in each, 2 bed rooms, a bathroom, kitchen, and living room. After opening the big yellow front door the entrances to the first two apartments are on either side and the stairs in the middle leads up to another set of two apartments. There is also a loft that many of us hang out in at night playing games and getting to know each other. There's also a mini apartment up there for 4 other guys.
We are a part of three different groups while on project, the first is our bible study. A group of 4 girls, or 5 guys, have one staff member leading a bible study with us over the 6 weeks that we have with them, and they also will be individually disciplining us. I've never had a discipler but many of the other students here do, and have said wonderful things. We were also assigned a life group to go to church with. This is a bigger group of students, both men and women, with a few staff members. My group was assigned 1st Presbyterian, a church only a few blocks away that has graciously allowed our mission to use their facilities for meetings throughout the week. Lastly we chose mission teams, which meet weekly and plan events or outreaches for the entire mission. I chose the outreach team (if any of you know my father, that was the same team he was on during his first summer project), we teach and plan different outreaches every Saturday. I'm very excited to push myself and be bold in my faith by talking to new people.
I HAVE A JOB!!! Cru has been coming to Ocean City, MD for eleven years now and have built relationships with companies allowing students like me to easily get jobs. We had reps from three different companies come in to explain how many jobs they were holding for us and what they entailed. I will be working as an intern/assistant for the HR manager at the Harrison Group corporate offices. It's a lot of paper work and computer type things, but it keeps me busy and makes time fly.
Lastly I wanted to update those of you who have me in your prayers and ask you to pray for specific things as I think of some. First, I ask that you pray for the community within the house; as a whole I hope that we can all bond well and become friends who support each other in our journeys this summer and for a life time. In both our bible studies and life groups that we can be vulnerable with each other and love on each other in our time of need, and during our men's and women's time that we will be humble and graceful towards each other as the living space is small and that we resist the urge to gossip. I pray for all of our jobs this summer that we will be a light in dark places and create relationships with our co-workers. Thank you all for your continuous love and support!
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