Last week my church youth group did a missions trip. We stayed at the church, and we reached out to the community around the church and members of the church. It was an aweomse week. In the morning I worked at VBS. I worked with games and got to run around with kids in nice weather....it was awesome.

In the afternoons i did really odd jobs. On Monday i went to a nursing home and played Bingo...haha, it was fun. On Tuesday a group of five squished into a mustang convertible and delivered fruit baskets to the shut-ins. We had a blast! Wednesday and Thursday i went to a Rescue Mission and cleaned some of the building. The Rescue Mission helps homeless people and provides food, clothing, some lodging (i think) and the gospel. It was a privelage to help there! Friday afternoon i worked at a car wash, which was soooo fun. i had an awesome week.

So, the God story...all week we were trained in street evangelism, and thursday night we went to a park to evangelize. There was three of us in a group, and we started out being rejected about 6 times, and then finally we saw an old man with a dog (very important to the story!). So, we started petting the dog and then used the dog to start a conversation. Turns out Tom was roman catholic, which made it very hard to witness. Also, Tom was a very lonely old man, so it was very hard to get a word in while he told us a whole bunch of stories! So, we shared our faith and gave him the name of our church and the times of services. So...Sunday night our youth leader, Merle went to the Resuce Mission to help with serving the meal, etc.  Now, Merle did not know Tom...but he saw Tom at the Rescue Mission. And Tom was very upset. So, Merle started to talk to him, and Tom's DOG had just died, so Tom was very uspset. So, Merle started talkingn to him and figured out that we had witnessed to him at the park. Merle again invited him to church, and Tom is coming on Sunday! Pray for him that he will really hear the message of salvation at our church!

Now that is God for you...