Current
city: Appalachia, TN
Dates: July
5 – 20
Purpose:
Project Leader for AIM Encounter mission trips
July 2-3: Flew down to AIM for
Project Leader training
July 4: Fireworks! 
July 5: Travelled up to TN,
visited ministry sites.
July 6: Mad day of food shopping
for 25 people for a week. 
July 7: Participants arrive
What happens from here on out I don’t know. I don’t know what God’s
gonna do in this week for this group of families or in the next few weeks with
the different groups.
I had no idea what I signed
up for when I agreed to lead this project to Appalachia. I didn’t even know
where or what Appalachia was. And I only jumped on board 3 days before I was
supposed to fly to Georgia. Turns out that this short term mission leading is VERY
different from the World Race. You have to take care of EVERY single aspect of
everything – assigning rooms to participants, making a menu for the week,
buying all ingredients which takes about 3 hours at Sam’s Club (by the end of
which I was ready to collapse), handling finances for the group, figuring out a
schedule for the week, trying to remember roads (which is very trying for
someone who is bad at directions), coming up with morning devotionals and night
teachings, worship, and every other little thing that comes up. I have to
constantly think ahead. On the Race you handle some parts of all that, divided
up between different people, and because you spend a month at each ministry
site, there’s so much more time just to chill and build relationships. But here
because it’s only a week, it’s go go go all the time. Honestly, I’m already
tired before the real first day of ministry has even begun. Hopefully it’ll get
better when things start to kick in.
Please pray for supernatural strength and good communication
between us leaders. That we’ll be able to play off each other’s strengths and
really support each other. So far Jovoni is the logistics guru, Shannon is the
relational person, and I’m the detail oriented. I think we’re a good team. We
just need to get into the groove of it.
That’s us!
Shannon the Relational ‘Mother’, Hanna the
Project Director (who came and helped and trained us for the first few days),
me the detail-oriented, and Jovoni the Logistics Guru.
