Fall Tour, Day 3
December 7, 2011(Friday, December 2, 2011)
We worked with Habitat for Humanity all day today. For the first part of the day I wasn’t doing much, and had a feeling I wouldn’t be the most helpful individual on the job site, seeing as I am small, and not talented in any construction-type field. Thankfully, the houses that we were helping to work on were already partially completed – enough that we got to spend most of our time inside; other than when we were running to the truck and other places to pick up tools. In the afternoon I got to use a skill saw and a drill. Using the skill saw was rather exciting, and slightly terrifying. I was basically a pro. Or not. But it was fun to try it out at least once anyway. Anyway, other than that, the day wasn’t overly exciting, but it was still fun to serve the community in a different type of way.
Then in the evening, we went to City Center Church, where they had a recovery program going on. It happens every Friday night, and has been going on for about the past year or so. First, there was half an hour of fellowship, then we went and did worship for a little bit, then a young man shared his testimony – which was kind of an impromptu thing.
He shared about growing up as a Christian, but not really understanding it, and getting into drugs, sex, drinking, partying, and how he finally connected with God. He has more fun now, going into a mall and saying “Okay God, what adventure are we going to have today?” and going up to random people (as the Spirit prompts him) and praying for them, than he did using and selling drugs. Half the reason he used to sell drugs was because of the excitement and adventure to it. It was really cool to hear his testimony of how God had made Christianity so exciting to him that he didn’t want to go back to his old way of living.
He had some really interesting things to say, and some kind of sweeping generalizations that I disagreed with, and that offended a couple of the girls on our team. But overall I really enjoyed him, and I felt like it was very encouraging to hear. It was a definite reminder to pay attention to God’s voice, because He talks to us more than some of us realize. It was a good addition to the class that Brad Jersak did at school at couple of weeks ago. Then we split up into 2 groups, guys downstairs, girls upstairs, and we discussed peoples’ issues and what they were dealing with.
A couple of the students seemed to really connect with the people there, and it blessed my heart to see it. There was one student in particular that seemed really exhausted and sad when we got to the church at the beginning of the evening, but was doing incredibly well by the end of the evening, because of connecting with a guy there. He was so hyped up. It made the entire evening worth it to me.
