Man, this week seems like it was a lot longer than 5 days of "work." But I loved every minute of it! Each day we had students from 10-10 to do our La Vida Local mission trip. We started each day with a group devo and reading and discussing a chapter of James and then we were off to work on the Summer of Lunch activities. We had an average of about 3 kids a day come for free lunch, games/activities and a short bible story. It was kind of a slow start, but it was still fun and we are hoping more students will show up once summer school is out.
In the afternoons the some of the youth would go out into springfield and serve the community by sweeping sidewalks, cleaning bathrooms, and working in the community garden. We also did a $100 challenge where each of the two teams of students got $100 to spend to bless the community. My group spent $10 on cookie supplies and delivered them to the Ronald McDonald House and spent the other $90 on diapers, lotion, shampoo, blankets, onsies and wipes for the pregnancy care center to give away to their clients in gift baskets.
Two nights of the week we went to families homes and just hung out and ate dinner together. I really enjoyed the time to just get to talk, swim and play games with the students. I also got to have some great conversations with Adam about ministry and life and such things. I'm so blessed to be able to work with him this summer. He's really great at finding time to invest in me, I feel like I've learned a ton from him in these first couple weeks.
I'm a total kinesthetic learner, I could sit in 4 years of classes and read 65 books and still feel totally unprepared for serving as a youth leader. But actually getting out there and leading devos, praying with people and working together with a team has taught me a great deal. Its also been a good confidence builder.
This week was wonderful, but being the introvert that I am I'm going to retreat into the woods tomorrow and spend half a day alone to get reenrgized for next week.
I have the best summer internship in the world!
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