First Full Day at North Myrtle

What an amazing journey it has been coming to NMB. The 25 hour drive was fun. Driving through the Great Smokey Mountains for nine hours at night leaves something to be desired but we survived. The rolling hills and sharp curves in combination with dense fog made me uneasy but God got me safely to project.

Today was the first day of orientation. Like orientations always go, you learn the laws of the land and what is expected of you. I experienced my first Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich. It was amazing! After a morning and afternoon of sessions we were released in groups of two to go to the beach and strike up spiritual conversations. I went sharing with a guy name Luke Johnson. He is actually the son of two staff on CRU that work at Iowa State University (Kirk & Luann Johnson). What a small world! God really used us this afternoon and blessed us with three great spiritual conversations.

 Just one of the conversations we had was with a man who is an associate pastor at a baptist church in North Carolina. He was very strong in his faith and relationship with the Lord and was passionate about evangelism. He has been involved in the church he has been serving for over 30 years, and he started a ministry for the elderly folks in his congregation. He said even though the men and women in the church are in their 70-90's he said they felt something was missing. The individuals have been members of that church for all their life and knew who God was but never had the chance to know what it was like to have a Personal Relationship with their God and Savior. The associate pastor felt there was a need to reach out to these men and women and share that there is more to knowing and it takes action on our part to ask Christ into our life. That was very wonderful to hear from a brother in Christ who is actively doing God's will and serving those in his church. It was great and encouraging to see how God is working in this man's life and to see how God has equipped him to reach out to those you may not think of first.

Prayer requests:
Please pray for my job searching in the coming days.
Please pray for genuine relationships that I am building with my bible study guys.
Please pray for protection and health as I recover from lack of sleep from driving down here & for the summer.
Pray for a deepened understanding and appreciation of the Gospel.
Pray for boldness in evangelism and sharing my faith on the beach.

Thanks & God Bless!