Before Browncroft

Well it's Thursday morning, July 2nd. It's the dawn of my biggest challenge as a leader yet. I await Browncroft Community Church from Rochester, NY. The team consists of 67 students and adults, 43 females and 24 males. They arrive today at 1:27 pm. The simple goal for today is to get the team in safely and get them settled into our temporary lodging site, the church of Fletcher's Grove. We'll only stay at the church for one night. On Friday afternoon we'll move all of our stuff over to the Sandy Bay Primary School, right down the road from the church. That will be our lodging facility for the week. We will be ministering at two different churches in two different communities. There's another church up the hill in Montpelier where we'll help with construction and do some sports outreach with young people. At the Fletcher's Grove Baptist Church we'll also help with construction. There's a third construction job at the Sandy Bay Primary School that we'll help with. We'll also put on a Vacation Bible School at the Fletcher's Grove Church and we'll do home ministry and outreach in the community of Sandy Bay. We're looking forward to having evening youth services beginning on Sunday. The biggest challenge of this week is making sure everyone has enough to do and is busy, while at the same time make sure we're having a big impact in the community and establishing a long term partnership with the church. It is my prayer that God has his hand on this week and that lives are changed, both on our team and in the lives of those we'll be spending the week with. Here's to a great week! I'll make an entry at the end of the week with the results!