I’m in Nashville this week helping some of my coworkers with a mission trip. I’m primarily leading worship, helping facilitate debriefs, and going out and doing ministry with them. Most of my blogs this week are going to be updates and stories from the week.
This group is way more awesome than I expected. I know that sounds pretty judgmental and maybe slightly lame of me, but I honestly wasn’t expecting a group of college students so ready to go tackle the streets and who every single day are asking God to do crazy supernatural things, to whisk them outside of their comfort zone and to use them to see His Kingdom come in unassuming ways.
We had an intense time of prayer and worship last night. During prayer these students were completely exposed, renouncing fears and asking God to come in and fill them up. Again, it’s the last thing I would have expected but it’s inspiring to see what happens when a group of people want the same thing. It results in transformation, it results in empowerment, and ultimately, it ends with a world getting changed through changed lives.
It’s just cool.
I stayed at the church last night with these guys. It had been awhile since I slept on the floor on a really thin mattress. Needless to say, my back woke up not so happy with me this morning. I’m hoping that things realign themselves today. If I was smart I would stretch, but then everyone in this coffee shop I’m stealing wi-fi from might think I’m a bit nuts…
We’re doing ministry in the park today. What does that look like? It looks like all of us being really intentional in listening to the voice of God. I’m really excited because we’re working primarily with the homeless community. I love homeless ministry. It’s just been forever since I’ve had the opportunity literally staring me in the face to get involved. Tonight we’re helping with a feeding down by the Nashville courthouse. There were a lot of nerves in the group this morning and I think that they were a bit intimidated at the thought of walking up to complete strangers, but as usual, nerves usually flutter off pretty quick.
Hopefully I’ll get some pictures up of the week in the next few days. I’ll keep you all updated. Also, I’m going to be updating my Facebook and Twitter statuses (something I’ve never done on a mission trip).
Keep us in your prayers and raise up a quick one when you finish this sentence!
