Day 3 - PandaMania

Today's lesson was about how God watches over you, and during Party Time Sing & Play (Worship) I challenged the kids to be on the look out for God Sightings. For those that may remember Alaska, it's similar to our God Markers.

Anyways, after worship, when everyone else shuffled to their different stations, I ended up having a really good conversation with a friend of mine, just about life and I guess the things going on, past stuff, future life, etc. Not only was it nice just to be able to sit down and have a convo with this friend, but as we were talking, I was just reminded of all the things that God has done for me. How throughout my life, throughout my time in college, God has been watching over me. And as he watched over me, he has done so much in my life, and also in the relationships I have with those dearest to me. I realized that God has taught me a lot, but he is still putting things in place for me that I might not realize now, but will see later. So I guess my "God Sighting" was not only a remembrance of all that God has done for me and changed me, but also getting to share the joys of hearing about how God has been working in and changing my friend. A very unexpected blessing, but today all I could think about was how much I want to say "Thank you God!"

Thanks for tuning in...

--xtinee

God is an Awesome Creator

I think being from the city, it's so easy to get caught up in the business to recognize the vast beauty of God's creation. Being in Alaska, however is totally different, because there's less buildings, less busyness, less...a lot of things, and oh there's a lot of light throughout the day. Today we spent the day sight seeing and equipment shopping. Just driving and taking pictures and seeing these huge animals up close, was just amazing to me to be able to marvel in how beautiful Alaska is, even in rain! To see how small I was compared to these mountains and glaciers and just the beauty of how a glacier looks when the sun hits it through the clouds. Amazing.

We also visited the Mountain View Boys and Girls Club to see the facilities and meet some of the kids. I think meeting them really made me realize that it's for real now. We had our few days of break, now was the beginning of getting everything together, starting relationships, creating friendships. It was really cool.

Tomorrow we leave for Glennallen, where most of our trip will be.

Prayer Requests:
- Safety in Driving
- Praise that Perry made it to Alaska safely and for the wonderful creation from God
- that the hearts of the kids we met today will be open and they will come to our camp
- for the hearts of the teens in Glennallen, as we go to prepare for their program, that they are receptive to the discussions and messages we have prepared and just that they will accept us as we try to get them better
- Continued prayer that God will reveal his plans to us throughout the trip and that we will be open and stilll to see what He is trying to show us