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exhausted.
exhausted. that word sums up how i am feeling. i just finished a long yet amazing week of training for the summer. i met a ton of new people and made relationships with most everyone. the week was long but very much worth it. even during a training week I was challenged in some ways and to think, summer hasn’t even started yet. which really gets me pumped to see how God will work in my life and the lives of students that we work with and people in the community. God rocked my world this week. i learned something new in my daily quiet times preparing me for the summer. one thing that really stuck out to me this week was something we did on our last night of training. we had a time if worship and footwashing. our directors washed the feet of all of the stuff. I’ve never actually experienced that before. which let me tell you, that is very humbling and emotional. it was amazing to see people your own age wash your feet then pray for you. one word. amazing. so that went down last night. today we had to get up by 615, pack up, clean the building and then head to our ministry site in St. Paul. we left around 915 or so. then traveled for about 30 min and made it to our site. it is interesting. we are staying at a church called bethlehem lutheran for the next 9 weeks. it is 100 year old building with no air conditioning. so that might take some getting used to. but I’m excited anyway. this next week is called “prep week”. which means…you guessed it, a week preparing for the summer at our sites. we will do grocery shopping, planning for devos, bible studies and calling and meeting with our community site ministries. this week will be very busy, important and stressful at times. my prayer is for patience with the work we must do, and also patience between me and my team members. i also pray that this will also be a week where I can continue to mentally and spiritually prepare for the summer. i know i will get very tired at times but i know that my strength and energy will only be found in Christ and I know that is what is going to keep me going. a verse I read this week that I am going to keep close to me for the summer is -psalm 34:10 the lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.- when I get tired or frustrated I am going to turn towards that verse and remind myself of that scripture. please continue to pray for myself and my fellow teammates. that we would be strong in Christ. that we would work in great ways together. that we would have patience. that we would do Gods work and not our work. also please continue to pray for the hearts of the students coming to serve with us in the city of st. paul. that Christ would be glorified. walls would be torn down. mercy would flood all our hearts and we would be broken for the sons and daughters that Christ is calling us to minister to. -drew
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hello minnesota
after a long morning of traveling, I have made it to minneapolis. left at 6, had a layover in milwuakee, and got here around noon. I am not getting picked up until around 2, so I have some time to kill. tomorrow starts training week. I’m not exactly sure what to expect but I’m ready. while I wasn’t sleeping I was praying, praying that God would be glorified this summer and he would do great things and work in the lifes of people who are ministered to this summer. i am excited. which I find kind of odd because most of the time when I go to new places not knowing anyone I am very nervous. but not this time. so that kinda gets me pumped for what’d going to happen this summer. i’m going to keep this post brief. I ask for prayer. prayer for the twin cities, minneapolis and st. paul. pray for the people. also I ask for prayer for myself. for strength, boldness and energy. at last I ask for prayer for my other 3 staff members whom I’ve yet to meet. pray that we will all connect and get along easily. well, that’s it for now. I’ll try to post at least once a week. -a
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summer
for 10 weeks from may 24-august 10 i will be in minnesota ministering to youth and helping them minister to the community i will be in. since i will be gone and not be able to be in contact with people i decided to start a blog and write updates of the summer and how things are going where i am and asking for pray and what not.
over the last few months i have been praying and figuring out what to do for the summer. i really wanted to do something with youth. so i applied at several different churches to do youth interning. by the time i applied it was too late, most churches had already hired their summer staff. i then applied at some camps and other youth ministries. after a couple of months had passed i got an email and a phone call from an organization called YouthWorks. it is a youth mission organization where different youth groups go on mission trips all across the country. they offered me the position of service coordinator, where i will be partnering up with different organizations and planning service projects for the youth groups that come through my site for the week. i was very excited to accept the position. the way it all fell in to play was all God. for sure. after a week or so i was getting excited thinking about all the sites they could put me at. places like, new york, california, florida, illinois and several other areas. i found out today that i am going to be at st. paul, minnesota. no exactly high up there on my list. i know that is where God wants me to be for 10 weeks of my summer. so i am okay with it. i am just praying for a soft heart and an open heart for the summer. i am also praying that i will be used by God how he wants me to be used. i dont want to come home with stories about me and what i did for the summer. but stories about God and what he did for the summer. i do not want this summer to be about me and what i am doing or where i will be, but about God and what he will do and how he will do it. i leave may 23 for minneapolis for training. then i return to texas on august 10. like i said before i will use this blog site as an update and let you all know what God is doing in the lives of teenagers and people that i am able to minister too. i ask you to pray as well, for myself, for the teenagers i work with and lead and for the people of St. Paul that i will minister to.
in him
-andrew
glorifiy the LORD with me; let us exalt his name together psalm 34:3
st. paul, minnesota
