Goal/Purpose;

Operation Golf is the name of the 2010 Juneau mens summer project organized by campus crusade for Christ. This blog is about my journey to Juneau this summer and how God is working in and through me and in and through the people I come in to contact with on this journey. This will include the support raising and preparation process leading up to my trip, the 6 day road trip there, my ministry experiences while in Juneau, and how those affect the way I live out what I believe back in Arkansas. Essentially its about a journey in learning about how to follow what Jesus is teaching me to do, which I believe is primarily serving people that need serving and making disciples that will also follow Jesus.

Monday, May 31, 2010

I made it to Alaska! our week long road trip was awesome. We spent a night in Fayetteville Arkansas, spent a night in Columbus Nebraska, a night in Wyoming, a night near Calgarry, a night in British Columbia, Canada, a night in the Yukon, and a night in Haines, Alasaka. It was probably the best road trip of my life. We were fifty feet away from mount rushmore but couldn't see it because of the fog, we went through yellowstone national park, custer state park, Banf national park, and Jasper state park. I will post some pictures pretty soon. The Lord really blessed; we didn't have any injuries or accidents, despite getting snowed in at Dawson Creek, Canada. Yeah, we got snowed in in May. Banf was one of the most beautifull places I have ever seen in my life. I have raised all of the support necessary to pay for project now! God is good. Any other donations will help pay for our gas expenses traveling out. Thank you everyone who donated, I feel really blessed. I am staying in the on-campus housing at University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. I am still looking for a job; please pray that i will be hired in the next few days, and that God will bless me with a work place where I can share my faith in how I live, work, and talk at my job. We went out sharing our faith down town today! It was a huge step of faith for me, I had never done anything like that before. We talked to three women watching there kids at a park. One of them was very involved with the Orthodox church and encouraged us to work with them this summer, which was neat, and I feel like it was a good conversation because it helped strengthen the church as a whole in Juneau. The second lady we talked to, name Jamie, seemed to know the Gospel and what it meant. We went through the knowing God personally booklet with her and then prayed for her. Please pray for Jamie; she is a single mother who has been on the road looking for a job and a home for a little while and is moving next week to Wisconsin. Please pray that she will feel God and walk with him, that she can witness to her children, (she told us how she had tried but was not sure how to answer all of there questions) and that she will find good work, a home, and a good church family in Wisconsin. The third woman we talked to did not want to talk to us because she did not like that we were using a survey to start conversations. We were not using it for any research or scientific means, but to start religious conversations, which offended her. We decided to start calling it a questionaire and confessing we were just attempting to start conversations. I feel really blessed from today's conversations; I learned a whole whole lot and got over a lot of the fear of talking about my faith with people. God is good! It was really encouraging to just come to terms with how God's grace and the Holy Spirit is what affects people, not our debating or marketing skills; the Gospel is not a used car.

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