Midterm

I have been featured with Andrw at the Mission Adelante official blog!

http://www.missionadelante.blogspot.com/

These past 5 weeks have been incredible full of memories and growth day after day. We just finished our midterm break and Andrew and I went to a music festival called Cornerstone in Bushnell, Illinois, about 6 hours away from KCK. It was a great break to the busy city life. We lived in a tent for about 4 days among thousands of other patrons of music. It was completely in the middle of nowhere, with nothing except encouraging music and speakers. We just got back yesterday, just in time for 4th of July festivities at mission adelante!

The previous weeks, we have done 3 VBS camps, one of the them being a soccer camp for both for the Bhutanese refugees and the Hispanic kids. There have been so many other highlights that I would love to mention, but processing them in my brain seems daunting and long, so I will save you the time.

One thing that I would like to share is the Teen girl's Bible Study that I have been helping lead. We have been reading and discussing from the book, Lies Young Women Believe, and the Truth that sets them Free. Megan, Brooke and I (Teens Adelante people) have been preparing for this study since the end of the last trimester in April and have been extremely excited to finally kick off last tuesday. I led the first study talking about lies about God. Preparing for it, I knew it was going to go deep and personal with some of the discussion. One being that we shouldn't look at God as our earthly father, many of the girls in the study don't even even know their dads, so I knew talking about it, we would come across words such as bitter, resent, even hate. And we did. it was so amazing to break some of the lies that these girls look at God like and really find God to be not a distant, far away being who is like our fathers who doesn't know us or love us conditionally, but something much more, more real, close and perfect. It was so amazing and I am still trying to process what all came about from this time with the girls. It was more deep than I ever thought I had planned. God is working in these girls lives and its amazing to be present for it!

I am overwhelmed by the encouragement and the growth that I have received from the staff at MA, its great working here. Its great living in KCK and I feel right at home. I want to continue to remain in this community, live and dwell with these great people that I now call my friends. We will see what happens in the fall with opportunities on remaining to live here as I finish my last year with school and student teaching at the neighborhood school that so many of the Mission Adelante Kids go to! (I am so excited for this!!)

This coming week, I plan on doing some great contact work with some neighborhood kids, like swimming, going to Deanna Rose farm and treating some kids to yummy ice cream or lunch.

Continue to pray for the willingness to reach more of the teens that have been rather unreachable and hard to really have deep, intimate times with them this summer, also pray for the Girls Bible Study, pray that we continue to see more of the Lord's work during that time. ALso, pray that someone's heart will stir to help me raise support. I am behind in receiving my final $800 dollars or so and that I keep putting my hope in the lord that he will provide.

Thank you readers for following me, praying for me and seeing the hope that I see for the KCK community.

Blessings to you all.