For any of you who know what my title is alluding to, I appreciate you and I hope the reference may help you better understand my emotions right now. I've been in Ocean City Maryland for fifty two days all of which have been jam packed with adventures and memories I hope to never forget. I've made some amazing new friends, ministered to a multitude of people, experienced God in very real ways, and have had a roller coaster of emotions along the way. I thank you all for joining me on this journey and sticking with me thus far, but looking ahead and realizing we only have a little over three weeks left before leaving the preserve and the comfortablitity of such loving and God seeking new friends terrifies me.
I've had "Christian" friends before, who say they will hold me accountable and occasionally talk about spiritual things with me, but after meeting these people and developing (hopefully) life long friendships with them, I've realized the friends from home and school who are truly living the spirit filled life, is much smaller than I thought. The twenty nine other individuals I'm living with will not simply be "those people I met that one summer in college" but rather, best friends that I have made and hope to keep in contact with for the rest of my life who will provide love, support, and wise counsel when I need Godly advice or just someone to talk to. I love each and every single one of the people on this mission and will miss them all dearly at the end of the summer.
Enough sappy stuff! We still have three weeks left right? So allow me to fill you in on the happenings of OCMD. This past week three of the women on this mission were baptized in the ocean with members of their churches. It was awesome to see their proclamation of faith and pray over them. On Friday night we drove up to DC and stayed in the Cru houses at George Mason University. Saturday we took the metro in and waited in line for two hours to get into the National mall for Together 2016. I don't know if any of you knew about this festival, but it was amazing! A bunch of speakers and musicians alike came together to help reset this generation of Christians to be servants of God in this evil and violent world. If you are at all interested in what it was all about and who was there, here's the link: https://reset2016.com/ It was amazing, over 300,000 people congregated to praise Jesus and talk about what we as Christians can be doing. Being a part of something like that made me feel thankful to have a father and savior who loves me and wants to have a relationship with me. Thankful for the community that I have despite not knowing the vast majority of them, and thankful for the freedom to worship our God publicly and without persecution.
Prayer requests this week are pretty simple. Pray that we will get everything out of these next three weeks that we can, pray that I will continue to lean into God and his word, and pray that I won't let the fear of this summer end affect what God has in store.
Lots of Love,
Maddy
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