LAST DAY AT "GOOD NEWS"
Friday was our last full day at the camp. We went to Victory Church to get our assignments. They had us join the girl’s team in handing out flyers. Steve and I split off into a mini-group of our own to walk the streets and staple posters. We walked for about an hour and a half doing just that. Then we had to go fill up our van with gas and headed for camp for our daily choice of peanut-butter-and-jelly or ham-and-cheese sandwiches (those varieties never tasted as good as they did this week). Even after I got back from Louisiana, I started having cravings for PB-and-J.
That reminds me of another daily occurrence… the once-a-day shower that we were so graciously offered. It was like a little slice of heaven each day! The temperatures were so consistently hot and the humidity so consistently high that there was hardly ever a time that we weren’t all just covered in sweat. Even right after one stepped out of the showers, no matter what time of day, one would start a new layer of sweat just minutes after drying off. But, as I overhead many say this week, “At least it’s a clean layer of sweat!” True ‘dat.
Yet another daily occurrence was frequent small group prayer, which I really liked. We sought God’s direction (and protection) before almost any endeavor.
In the afternoon, we got together for our team’s first ATL (“Ask the Lord”). This exercise had us praying, seeking direction, and then going out and doing whatever we felt we were being led to do. Part of our team ended up painting fence at the New Orlean’s park, a couple of the girls went back to some people they met while they were “flyering”, and Deanna, Steve, Herb, and I did some “prayer-driving” (smile) in the French Quarter district. It was really intense and focused.
Debriefing time, which (oh yeah) was another daily occurrence, was always a really cool experience, too. Everybody got together at the end of every work day and shared their stories.
Our Tulsa friends were planning a party for the Good News camp staff that evening. We were invited but didn’t stay for long as we were planning on getting up very early the next morning to hit the road. We said our good-byes to everyone and headed for the sleeping quarters one last time.
That reminds me of another daily occurrence… the once-a-day shower that we were so graciously offered. It was like a little slice of heaven each day! The temperatures were so consistently hot and the humidity so consistently high that there was hardly ever a time that we weren’t all just covered in sweat. Even right after one stepped out of the showers, no matter what time of day, one would start a new layer of sweat just minutes after drying off. But, as I overhead many say this week, “At least it’s a clean layer of sweat!” True ‘dat.
Yet another daily occurrence was frequent small group prayer, which I really liked. We sought God’s direction (and protection) before almost any endeavor.
In the afternoon, we got together for our team’s first ATL (“Ask the Lord”). This exercise had us praying, seeking direction, and then going out and doing whatever we felt we were being led to do. Part of our team ended up painting fence at the New Orlean’s park, a couple of the girls went back to some people they met while they were “flyering”, and Deanna, Steve, Herb, and I did some “prayer-driving” (smile) in the French Quarter district. It was really intense and focused.
Debriefing time, which (oh yeah) was another daily occurrence, was always a really cool experience, too. Everybody got together at the end of every work day and shared their stories.
Our Tulsa friends were planning a party for the Good News camp staff that evening. We were invited but didn’t stay for long as we were planning on getting up very early the next morning to hit the road. We said our good-byes to everyone and headed for the sleeping quarters one last time.
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