Flexibility

Hello again Crossroads!

As the name of the posts suggests, today our team had a good experience of what it means to be flexible. The staff here at HFIC emphasized in our training that a key ingredient to inner city missions is flexibility, and they asked us to be flexible with them, and they would seek to do so with us as well. We had a job all ready to go yesterday that we were planning on doing this morning, then, right before we left for our job, our supervisor said we wouldnt be doing that anymore today, that we would have to wait for an hour while he went and worked something out with someone for a different job. He gave us a couple of tasks to do around the HFIC campus, but we had to be creative in order to put everyone to work - which by Gods grace we were. 

When we finally got to the job site, however, we had a great time working on a HFIC facility that they are trying to resurrect for further urban missions use. We cleaned up a couple of bathrooms, cut the grass and weeded, sweeped up lots of floors, and generally tidied the place up. 

After our worksite, we had a wonderful time going over to the Woodlawn Apartment complex where we canvassed for the Bible Club we will be putting on in their courtyard for the kids tomorrow and Wednesday. There were lots of kids running around at these apartments and they were incredibly warm and receptive of us. We are truly excited to go back tomorrow and present our Bible club. 

After canvassing, we went up to Covenant College for dinner and a tour - followed by a trip to a bluff near Covenants campus where we watched some hanggliders fly in the beautiful Georgia evening sky.

Great day!

Please pray for:

- Our Bible club tomorrow - for smoothness, boldness and clarity in presentation. And for kids to be receptive of our message

- For flexible attitudes to be able to adjust to the many curveballs we may still be thrown this week

- For energy as we have lots of work to do in the hot southern sun yet this week

Here's a few snapshots from the day:

Worship with James Ward and the New City Fellowship worship team in the HFIC gym this morning before we left for the job site - we worshiped with some inner-city teenagers who are attending a camp this week at HFIC.

The New City Worship team had us get down off the bleachers to do the electric slide to one of the songs :)

Melody and Hope cleaning some windows at the job site

Canvassing to the kids at the Woodlawn apartments

Some weirdos up at the scenic overlook on Covenant Colleges campus

Standing on a hangglide launch pad on a bluff on Lookout Mountain - Malachi scaring the girls by walking close to the edge;)

More bluff

Final Bible Club preparation

Thanks again for the thoughts and prayers!

Crossroads Chattanooga Mission Team