Summertime is officially here!! As you may have noticed, quite a few of us were not here last week. That is because we were on the Music and Mission’s Trip. We loaded up the bus and headed to the small town of Ahoski, North Carolina. We worked on a community playground that meant a lot to the town. We pulled weeds, sealed the playground equipment, washed everything, and did a little landscaping. We got the opportunity to meet a whole bunch of wonderful people, and just in case you didn’t know, we got to see how much of a rock star Danny is! Everywhere we went, people were coming up to hug him and welcome him back. It was a truly great experience. Then we packed up and headed to McLean, VA which is right outside Washington D.C. Here, we split up and did some needed cleanup around the church and also went to a community clothes closet and cleaned up there. All in all, we really got a great chance to serve two different communities in a variety of ways.

The theme of our trip was surrender. We looked at defining surrender and the different ways that it could look if we applied the idea of surrender to our lives. That is what we are going to continue to look at over the course of this summer. We will have many different opportunities to serve and surrender to the will of God. The verses we looked at in North Carolina and Virginia were 2 Corinthians 12:9 “ ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me…For when I am weak, then I am strong.” If this seems to go against human nature to you, you’d be right. It does. It usually doesn’t sit well with us to think about deliberately being weak. We usually come up with our own plans, our own agenda, our own methods, and then resort to asking God to bless those. So this will more than likely be a challenge for us this summer… learning how to surrender. Learning to give of ourselves to serve a greater purpose. Learning to be in the place where the words to this old hymn become powerfully alive in our lives: All to Jesus I surrender, all to Him I freely give. I will ever love and trust Him, in his presence daily live. I surrender all, I surrender all. All to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all.

Kristy

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