When you’re a kid you always look forward to christmas break, thanksgiving break, and especially spring break. But let me tell you when you get to college those breaks are GOLD, a blessing, much needed! Some people road trip with friends, go see family, or whatever they please to do.
For my spring break I went to South Padre Island (party on right.) I went on a mission trip call Beach Reach. Now let me tell you something beach reach is not for the weak or for the people who can’t go without sleep because booooy you barely sleep. A typical day for a reacher looks something along these lines
wake up around 11ish am (whoop sleeping… ha you thought.) You could have to wake up earlier if you were doing mooring pancakes but if not this is the time for lunch.
next we would either have some free time, beach evangelism, or fishing (riding in the vans picking up people not actual fishing.)
then we would get ready for dinner and worship.
after worship we would get the hotline ready or get ready for van rides or even get to the bars to get ready to load people up on the vans
the hotline is open from 8pm-3am so night time is where you’re really doing the work.
the way it works is people call into the hotline tell us how many people and a slight description of themselves. we then call to tell me what van is picking them up. each van has a name. my group was van buns like man bans. pretty rad i know. so in the vans we have our driver, navigator, a door momma (best job ever,) the females in the first two rows and two or three males in the back rows. Guys in the back girls in the front. chug it or chunk (no alcohol in vans)
so you may be wondering how does this work because i sure did the first time i went. so i have a perfect story for it.
We’re on breakfast duty this particular morning and some of us load up in van its a mixture of people not just everyone from my van. we’re driving and we see a guy walking, we pull over and asked if he needed a ride. he said ” nah I’m good I’m just headed to get a rental.” we told him several times we could take him to the rental spot, he then ask if we could just look it up for him so we tried… our breakfast people are about a block or two down the street. the guy continues walking we continue driving. we find a guy named nick, he gets on the van heads to the back and sits down and says ” i already feel safe,” he wants breakfast so we go with him and we’re having good conversation with him. we stayed behind to eat breakfast with nick. nick WAS and atheist. he told us his struggles and explained why he believed what he believed. we continued to talk to him he wanted to know more about the God we loved so much. He told us we he’s done bad things and we explained God forgives and loves us. He accepted christ that day and left the beach and went home the next day.. lets fast forward on the last day we do beach baptisms.. we saw the guy that turned us down for getting on the vans there, i also saw him at breakfast that same day he turned us down talking to some people. YALL he was getting baptized. He said he saw people holding free breakfast signs dancing and said he went because thats not the dancing he’s been seeing all week it was different it was fun. he then started hanging with reachers all week and got baptized and he said “i’m going all in.. y’all changed my life this week.” i was in tears i told him that God is already working in his life that if he wouldn’t have turned down getting in our van we would’ve never picked up nick who also got saved that day. he said its y’all timing and we said no thats God.
during that week 167… 167 people accepted christ!!!
this is only a brief part of that week.
we were tired and barely going by the end but our God is bigger than that and that weeks was so amazing!!
so yeah, spring is so cool and God is so rad!
*name was changed
