Thanksgiving

Cough, cough, cough yea sums up my week.  This week I honestly have been sick for the most part, and it sucks.  Spending my thanksgiving sick and spent a lot of time with my family sick.  Didn’t really get much done due to sickness. 

But for what I have gotten done, I completed 8 hours of work, which consisted of painting table watching kids, and yard work at the church.  Also helping with the young men on your youth group nights.

But on Tuesday night I started not to feel good, and woke up Wednesday with a fever of 102.  Which meant that I wasn’t able to do much, later that day we traveled to Charolletsville to have thanksgiving with my grandmother.  But through sickness I have came to the realization, that the devil attacks those who are doing work for the kingdom, have known that I am mentally stronger than what I thought I was.  For the short time I was able to spend with the church and the youth group I found myself being useful to the young men in the church.  My favorite part of this week was obviously Thanksgiving and my least favorite would probably be being sick.  God has been telling me, hold on and push through great things are in store.

Thanksgiving Practicum

 Practicum!  Honestly I had no idea how this was going to turn out.  First I thought it was going to be miserable, but I was wrong.  This week was different, I arrived home from school on Monday and did absolutely nothing but sleep.  Some say its lazy but it was much needed. 

  So technically my Practicum didn't start until Tuesday, over our break we were required to have 35-45 hours completely.  But for this week I would like to say that I have recorded 36 hours so far.  I love my home church, and the people that are surrounded with it.  I have done it all this week and literally when I say done it all I mean it all.  I have raked the leaves at the church, cleaned the vans and buses, volunteered at the food distribution center, changed diapers, worked at the after school program, I ran the kids ministry for youth group night.  But I did it not really thinking about the hours, honestly I don’t even consider these things work, because its something I love.

Kids, and making people smile, those two things seem to be key for my Practicum.  I have learned that no matter what you do everything has to prioritize things especially when it comes the ministry part of life.  With ministry I have learned to preserve.  God has been telling me that over this time I have spent here at home that I need to continue to allow him to work through me and that my calling is defiantly with kids. 

So as we go throughout the day, I encourage you to persevere though difficultly times.

Most Like Christ

Mark 10:45 quotes, “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”  Here at Mission and at Freedom Church we believe that we are called to become fully devoted followers of Christ Jesus.  That we are made in his image, and we are called to be set apart, “We are most like Christ when we are serving others”.  Serving is a way to show Christ in our lives and help others while being selfless at the same time.  Mission challenged us with going out of our way to serve in our local community.  So for the month of October me and my brothers that I came to school with, decided to serve at our church and local community at the same time.  At our church we have some young students who just so happen to play football for their local high school.  What better way to served two in one.  So on Friday’s a group of us go and we run:  film, scoreboard, clock etc. whatever needs to be done to make the game a success we find it and do it.  The games usually run usually anywhere from 2 hours to 2.5 hours.  While serving it’s a great opportunity to minister to others, the good thing about serving is that you don’t have to speak to serve.  Your actions speak louder than words.  We were just fortunate  to be able to have the chance to witness to some people in the process.  We represented Freedom Church, Mission Baltimore School of Ministry, and most importantly Jesus Christ.  Remember, we are most like Christ when your serving others.  So as you go throughout your day I just challenge you to let your light shine be like Christ and let your light shine.  

Thank you mission

Life!  Don’t you just love life, haha I do, and I love the community and unity that comes along with it.  Here at mission, we believe in a New Testament community living, everyone is tight knit, and you really can’t hide anything from anybody.  You see the same people for the majority of the day.  Now I’m what you would call a people’s person.  But sometimes you just need to get away, not saying that it’s a bad thing, but over time I have realized that no matter how much you try to get away you’re always going to be around people.  Sometimes just listening to a story or sharing a story can make people smile.  Brighten days are something that I found out that we all have in common.  Its 9 unique individual’s right?  But overtime the chemistry can grow to become something amazing, that’s something that I have found out over time with this new group; that the community has grown.  This past week we went out to Helping up Mission and that’s when it all came together.  That’s where I saw our chemistry come together, that’s were I saw the even the simplest smile from our community/team/family can brighten someone’s day.  How we came through and made it possible to positively affect others.  As one of my favorite movies say, “Attitude reflects Leadership”.  So with that I just want to say thank you to everybody who works with Mission, you are doing a great job.  Love you guys.