Mission Serve 2009
If I could sum up our Mission Serve experience in one word it would be transparency. A transparency that come from obedience and brokenness and getting real with who you are and where Christ wants you. We saw a lot of homes get refurbished and the quality of this earthly life was greatly improved because of the efforts of all of those at Mission Serve. However, we also saw the realization of this earth not being our final home and the quality of their eternal spiritual life dramatically improve as well.
Jesus says in John 14:21, “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest (or reveal) myself to him.” (ESV) We had a week of prolonged obedience that soften our hearts and allowed Jesus to reveal Himself to us. Obedience does that. Obedience allows for us to hear more intimately the voice of God and the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Some of our students saw this more vividly last week in Norfolk, VA than they have in any other time of their life.
We are also blessed to see Elliott Hawkins sense a call into ministry and surrender to that call. This makes a total of 5 young men who have surrendered to a call into ministry this summer. We are truly blessed, but please pray for these young men. Elliott, Eric, Kyle, Nathan and Andrew all have a target on their back now and the enemy is going to be gunning for them harder now than ever.
I was also very proud of Jeff Witt. Jeff surrendered to Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior when he was in the third grade but never followed in Believer’s baptism. Jeff made that decision this week as well and on Sunday, August 2, 2009 Jeff will be baptized.
Finally, I want to recognize our adults who ministered along side our students at Mission Serve. Wanda, Sarah, Zach, Jeff, Mark, Randall, and Scott were all amazing by leading by example. They loved our youth and were there for them every step of the way. They supported me greatly and I was humbled by their servant hearts. But most importantly they loved Jesus in word and deed last week. Our students are blessed to have Adults who love them and our God as much as they do.
