Saturday. It’s time to rock. Today is the day. We
are as ready as we can be, and we will fight until we’re finished.
Okay, maybe I’m being too dramatic, but the start of
LJ Week is the start of one of the most exhausting weeks you could experience,
and I experienced it last as a student. I’ve never been on the Intern side of
things before, so I have no idea what to expect. All I know is that I better
know what I’m doing, because there are people out there depending on that.
We all woke up around 9am, because we needed to
clean up the house a little bit before Lauren came over. She needed to go over
last minute details with us, which was definitely a good idea when we got down
to it.
There were just a couple things we needed to go over
like what we would talk about during the leaders meetings, what churches were
sharing on what nights during the week, what we would say during our Intern
introduction, and other minor details.
During the majority of this meeting, I was in the
kitchen doing dishes. I heard the important parts, but since we weren’t going
to be living in our house for the next week—we moved into the dorms with the
churches—we needed to make sure all the dishes were done. We had company over
last night so there were significantly more dishes that needed to be washed
than usual.
After I was done with the dishes, I went out to meet
Francis from the Two Strike community center, and she was able to give me a key
to the center. She said she had tried multiple times in the past couple days to
actually get copies made, but the copies were not working at all.
It’s interesting how minor things like that can be
just enough of a frustration to slow down the work we are trying to do out
here. It was good though, because we have a key at least, and it’s with me so I
don’t have to worry about calling anybody tomorrow before Riverwood goes out to
Two Strike to start their ministry.
After I met up with Francis, John V. and I drove out
to Saint Francis to try to talk to a church out there and let them know that
one of our church groups would be joining them for their service. John V. and I
had a wonderful heart-to-heart on the way out and the way back. Good stuff.
We got back to the school just in time to see a
group unloading their stuff. None of us expected any of the churches to be here
until around 4pm, but it turned out that this church had been driving since
12am this morning. Craziness. But it was good to see them! They were a good
practice run for us as interns welcoming the groups.
The rest of the churches showed up slowly, and we
got everything organized in the cafeteria. After we organized some stuff, we
all had dinner. Thanks to the kitchen crew for making a fantastic spaghetti. So
Good.
Dinner was followed by announcements, Intern
introduction, and worship. Worship was so wonderful, because I have been out
here for two weeks and I have spent a lot of time with God, but not a lot of
time worshiping with music, because none of us really know how to play an
instrument.
We ended our night by having a quick meeting with
just the interns and we took some time to pray. We sent everyone out of the
dining hall, and we had a quick push-up contest before everyone went to bed.
The guys and girls side of the dorms were quiet by 11:30pm, which was
incredible because my friends and I were never that good when we came out here,
especially on the first night. It was nice not to have to deal with that as the
Housing intern though.
Greg and Kelly stopped by to say hi, but everyone
was already in bed, except for Jonny and I. I stayed up to welcome Mr. Cayton,
the leader of the SSEFC/COAH group, who was coming in late because he had work
to attend to. So Greg, Kelly, Jonny, and I hung out for a little bit before Mr.
Cayton got here, and we called it a night.
I can’t wait to see what tomorrow holds. Thanks for
reading!
See
you tomorrow,
Brenden
Things
I learned today:
1.
Spiritual warfare is very real.
2.
I can do 75 sit-ups without stopping.
3.
1 Peter 2
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