Wonders

I have spent the past few days with some of God's special people. I am on a Mission Trip and have seen the hand of God move among teenagers, adults who work with teenagers, a community and the churches who are working together. We are in Coweta, OK and are participating in the Central Texas Conference Youth in Mission Senior High Mission trip. As Center Director, I get to work with all of the adults and youth who have come to serve Christ. I have seen youth give up a week of their precious summer time to come to a strange place to dig holes, build porches, cut hedges, paint walls and help those who could not help themselves. Then we also got to experience the presence of Christ through an elderly widower who needed a porch repaired and a disabled single woman trying to adopt four children. We met two young men, members of our host church who gave up their time off to make sure we were cared for as we served others. Wow! I'm not sure what you might expect on a blog site. I don't have anything controversial to discuss or any great revelations. I don't even have any provocative questions this week. All of us miss our families, some of us are sick, others are missing work,but each of us is experiencing the real meaning of serving where we are sent.
No great revelations, just a deep and abiding awareness of the grace of God. Look around and I'll just bet you will see the same thing around you too. I am grateful for the chance to serve our Lord. Amen.