So I've gotten a little behind on keeping this blog up to date so I'll be summarizing a lot. I've been here for almost three weeks and things are going really well:) I've got a bit of a routine down and I feel pretty settled in. I sang for last weeks service and did the prayer and announcements, which was a first time experience for me and I still need to work on my speed of speech but I think I was a little better this Sunday. Another thing I'm working on is the service series for July. Christ Community Church (CCC) is going to have inter-generational services which means all the kids will stay for the whole service and participate. We have a bunch of curriculum from another church that has developed these services so part of my job has been to read through it and think of a basic template for how CCC will do the services each week. On Tuesday and Wednesday I talked about it with Chelesy and Turk and we pulled something together so now we can start focusing on what each week will look like individually. At first it was kind of overwhelming because there is a lot of curriculum, but then I just went to the Bible verses assigned for each week and everything started to fall into place after that. So hopefully things will keep falling into place as we get closer to July.
Another thing I'll be doing each week are hospital visits. I had my first few this Thursday afternoon and they went pretty good. I visited with two women. I think it's going to take a little bit of getting used to and just becoming familiar with the hospital and the people. Fortunately one of my friends from CCC is a nurse in the area of the hospital where I'll be doing most of my visits so I have a familiar face around. I'm also going to arrange three hymn sings in the little chapel in the hospital, which is often done by different groups but drops off during the summer so I'll keep that going a bit.
I've also been involved in the youth as they end their year. This Saturday they had a rock concert to raise money for the Life Campaign to build wells in areas that need clean water. It went really well with over 70 tickets sold and over $900 raised! And it was a lot of fun to help with!
Today has been going really great so far. I did announcements and prayer again and we had some deacons and elder installed and 4 guys made profession of faith. After those services, I went to Isable's (she's the youth director) house with Chelsey for coffee and then Chelsey and I headed back to the church for a "Royal Tea" that was being held there for women. It was a really great time to get to know more of the women of the church and hear about their passion for this community. I can really see the Kingdom of God moving and growing in this community through the people. They live with such a beautiful passion and care for each other. Tonight I'm hanging out with the college and career's group which will be a great time to just relax and then tomorrow I'm planning on going to Vancouver to watch the game downtown!!! I'm so excited!!! I'm going with some friends from church and I can't wait to see the city, especially at such an exciting time! So hopefully I'll be able to say I saw the winning game in Vancouver, we'll see!
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