Updates....I've been busy sorry

Wow I dont really know where to start. Its been like a month since I have posted. Since then project has pretty much gone on in the same way; its been really busy, especially since the staff left. Our week goes as follows; We work monday through thursday from 8:00 to 5:00, do service projects on Friday. Go camping on friday night, share down town on saturday morning, go to church sunday morning, and we usually have social events saturday and sunday nights. Monday nights we meet as a group to discuss the past and future weeks and encourage one another and share about our conversations at work or with locals. Tuesday nights we do an activity with all of the men, usually involving hiking or some other type of physical activity with a lesson. Wednesday nights we have the campus crusade meeting for the campus here, thursday nights we meet in small groups for bible study and accountability. So our week is packed. Lately I have been serving at the Methodist church camp on Fridays, which has been really rewarding. It has been neat to see the way the really solid people who run the camp invest in kids as a way of ministering to the future of Juneau. I have gotten in to a couple of spiritual conversations at work, which has been a huge blessing, but some times I get kind of frustrated by how difficult it is to talk to people at work; I am usually working by myself. Lately God has been teaching me to lean on his spirit to lead me and realize that I do not have the discipline or ability to even be positive all the time at work, much less be sharing the Gospel in my conversations. PLEASE PRAY that God would bring up spiritual conversations at work, especially in these last few days. As part of the evangelism team, I am helping plan a big event for this weekend. We are calling it an evangelism event but its really sort of a revival. We plan to have two events. The first event will be in the morning targeting churches; we are hoping to get as many of the churches in Juneau as possible to come for a worship session and pray, as the church body in Juneau, for the city. Following that we will give everyone the opportunity to come down town to share the gospel with us. We hope that God can use it to unite the church here and give them a vision for evangelising Juneau. The second event will be in the evening and will target non Christians. We will provide free food and have worship and a Gospel message. PLEASE PRAY for this event; that people will show up in numbers and that God will work in their hearts, and that the church will become more united here and that people will get plugged into churches.

Batesville

Lately God has been convicting me about the way I left my home town, Batesville, both physically and emotionally/socialy. One of the things the evangelism team leader was challenging us to do was to attempt to share the gospel with or just tell about what God had been teaching us to our old friends, whom we had already built relationships with. That made a lot of sense to me and I got all psyched up cause we are trying so hard to build relationships here in four months in order to share the gospel while already have quite a few relationships back home. Right?... Well I got on my computer and started thinking of people to share with and I realized that I hadn't really talked to anyone from home or old friends at all in a really long time, years even. Sharing with them what God has shown me after not keeping up with them for years wouldn't do any good and might weird them out. then it started to hit me that I had dropped all of my friendships back home when I left for Philmont last summer the day after graduation. The last time I talked to one of my best friends was in the parking lot after graduation. i think because I had a hard time socially in high school I kind of withdrew from everyone, in some ways even before I left. If you are from Batesville, especially if you are an old High School friend, I'm sorry. I didn't really realize what I was doing and I failed to show Jesus' love to a lot of people. I realized recently that Batesville is a ministry opportunity already set up for me. Instead of viewing at as an opportunity though, I tried to remove myself from it. Since leaving I have also failed to keep up with people through e-mail and stuff. Again, I am sorry to anyone who I ditched or judged. On the bright side, God has shown me grace by loving me through great friends in Fayetteville. I feel like I can be myself for the first time in a while, and that people like me like when I do. Its been pretty freeing. God is good.