Friday, June 26, 2009
The Last Day
Today was our last full day in NYC and it was a great day. After our morning routine we headed over to Grace Baptist Church to get to work. We cleaned and finished up our work projects from the week and headed to lunch. Half of our group went back to the Chinese Church and the other half went to Kings to eat pizza. After lunch we all headed over to a nearby park to pass out smoke alarms and interact with people in the community. It was mainly Hispanic and Chinese people so Ryan was used to it. We ineracted with people, played games, and did sidewalk chalk. After that we came back to the church to Italian food for dinner and now we're relaxing waiting for half the group to go to the High School Youth Group at Grace. We leave tomorrow at 8 am, which means we'll be up at 5 am sharp to clean! See you all tomorrow night :)
-Brea and Carla
-Brea and Carla
The Covenant House
On Monday my group went to The Covenant House. Before going we were told not to get hopes to high. Usally there were one 3 or 4 people that showed up. It just so happens that 250 plus people live there. I wasnt exspecting much. When we got there, therewas a circle of chairs with 5 people randomly in some of them. Well we all sat down and got ready. We decided to worship first. Well if you dont know me, I love to dance, so of corse I moved over to where my buddys were so we could dance. As the song went on, I looked over to see Pam Miller trying to get Morgan and I's attention. We walked over and she said, "Your two amazing kids. MAKE FRIENDS!" and pushed us over to where two men and a girl were chillin. We walked over and started dancing like always while the sat and looked at us strangly. lol. After worship, We Listened to Jason, as he shared his story. When he was done, Massey asked if anyone else wanted to share. Nathan, sitting next, Raised his hand to speak. At that point I was surprised. He didnt talk or even look at anyone since we got there. He starts to speak and.. There was just something in his voice. sorrow.. depression. His story was crazy. It was like he had been to hell and back. Then He said. "Sometimes I dont want to be here. I just want to kill myself", and he just falls into my lap and starts crying. I was so scared. I wasnt exspecting that at all! I didnt know what to do, I just kept patting him on the back. Massey looks up at me, and I just started praying. I didnt know what came over me. I just started pray. My whole body was shaking. I dont even remember what I said. It was God. He was speaking through me. Nathan kept saying I just want to be the good guy. I told him he was, in prayer, hes away from all that awful stuff. Hes is that good guy, the good guy whos trying. And after I prayed, everyone was in tears. Other people that lived there came to see what was going on, and before you knew it, there were over 20 people not from our group there. God answered our prayers and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. God tuched us. He touched us all and I thank him so much.
~Brock Slaughter
~Brock Slaughter
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