Have you ever been on a mission trip, retreat, or summer camp and you come home and people ask how it was...but you struggle to put into words exactly how God moved? I have found myself in that situation this week. We attended M-Fuge at Samford University in Birmingham, AL last week, which was a great week! God really showed up and did some incredible things in and through our students.
Eyes were opened to how fortunate we are, how God looks past skin color and education, and to a realization that God doesn't work in a set way each time he moves in our lives. My students taught me the value of looking at others the way God sees us as they loved on kids, senior citizens, other youth groups, and each other. They sweated their fannies off last week playing basketball in gyms without A/C, painting and scraping paint on houses, cutting grass, doing backyard Bible clubs and everything in between.
A few of the highlights for me...1. seeing students get excited about doing missions 2. hearing stories of how they were challenged and inspired by other students from other churches at their ministry sites 3. watching as God broke them about sin and disobedience in their own lives 4. seeing former students begin to really take on the roll of adults and leaders as they found themselves on the "leader" end of this trip.
All in all, I know that I saw God work in some incredible ways, but to really vocalize that has been a challenge...partly because of the fact that some of what happened last week was intangible. Conversations between students, with students, moments of challenge and encouragement and moments of sheer dependence on God just to stay awake during worship or church group devotion time. God showed up! And he showed up BIG!!
I will post some pictures later.
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