First Trials

So today was the first day that I have really been tried since being here, and I don't think that I passed.

The kids showed up today for our first camp of the summer. It just had to be one of the hottest days that we have had to date. So what did the kids and counselors jump at first? The water! By lunch it was gone. We had no drinking water left on the property and the next water run wasn't due for another hour.

I just had to get away from the stress. I grabbed my bible an ran to my quiet spot. Then I remembered the passage that we had been reading all semester at UAM, the woman at the well. I open my bible to John 4 and verse 13 popped out at me:

"Jesus answered, ' Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst"

This made me think of the well that is being dug on the property. A fresh water well would provide so much for this camp. When the water starts flowing from that spring there will be nothing but praising and dancing going on and all of it in the name of Jesus.

Spring up oh well!

God's Word Alive

So today was pretty amazing and I loved every minute of it. We took our tourist day and went to the Acropolis. The parthenon was magnificent and it was really cool to see history come alive on the top of that hill.

But the most amazing part of the day was when we went right next dorr to Mars Hill. Acts 17 is a story of Paul talking to the Areopagus. Athens' city market was full of objects of worship to gods. Paul stood in front of them and declared:

"Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription : To An Unknown god. Now that which you worship as unknown I am going to make known to you."

He then went on to tell them about Jesus and a number of them were saved that day. And even later many more were saved. Paul used their culture to teach them about Jesus as Savior and Lord.

It was like the word of God came alive in the moments I was studying and reading his word on that hill. For the first time I really understood that the God of Paul in the same God we worship now 2000 years later. It just really hit me hard and is was a great realization.

I GOT MY PASSPORT!!!!!

Finally and I am so excited to finally have that off my back...now all I have left is raising the rest of my money...