Its late and I have to get up early tomorrow morning and drive the crew back so unfortunately I have to make this quick.
Today went really well. It started off a bit frustrating as it was cloudy and rainy all day for our picnic with the kids. The team and the kids, however, made the best of it and ended up enjoying the rain. We went to the park at 11, then got the kids at 12. When Sophie, Joe Randall (HFIC's Bible Club intern) and I got to the apartments to pick up the kids, only 3 were there with their permission slips in hand. However, there were many other kids who wanted to come but just didnt have permission slips (ask one of our team members for details on that). So we decided to quick run back to HFIC, copy some more slips, and went back to the apartments and picked up 6 more kids that way (9 total). Thus, we had a good size crew for our grow group.
Grow group quite well, considering we had to shorten it due to getting the extra permission slips. All of our team members were able to talk about Jesus with the kids one on one, and some of their conversations went extremely well! You'll have to ask them for the details. Praise God! Thanks for the prayers!
After Grow group, we had a 1 1/2 hr powerful debriefing time with Paul Green, the HFIC Executive director. He asked the many ways we saw God working this week - and it was extremely moving and encouraging to hear everyones testimonies. He also challenged us to take the things we learned back to St Louis; so pray for that!
After debriefing, the team went out to eat downtown and walked along the riverfront, while I (Ross) went to a friends wedding. We're all cleaned up and packed up now and ready to go - please pray for our trip tomorrow!
Here's some pics from the grow group picnic day:
One of the HFIC staff members surprised Hope with a pretty awesome birthday cake!
Standing on the walking bridge in Chattanooga
See you all Sunday Lord willing (and family tomorrow;))
Crossroads Chattanooga team!
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