Unending Love!

Hey Everybody. So I'm just about done with my 3rd day on project and it is pretty much awesome and it's looking to be a very faith growing summer for everyone here! I feel like I've already been here for a month but it's only been 3 days. Every day I'm getting to know each student here and it's just been a blast. (4 hours later) So I was planning on putting the title as "Gearing up for Battle" and wrote a bit of my blog but decided to hang out with some people and take a break. So I went to the area where we hang out (A.K.A. The Promise Land) and they were just starting up some worship. And after about 45 min I'm pretty sure that all 71 of us college students were worshiping God with all we've got! It was AWESOME! This was definitely one of the best worship sessions of my life. Every one was so on fire for God and I could just feel the love of God with us. So Good!!! People were talking about how encouraged they were and how God is just working in them. Then we were praying and it was amazing! I got to end the prayer and I could just feel God speaking through me. Such a good feeling. Isn't it awesome that this feeling is what we were meant to feel and what we are going to feel in eternity with Jesus? God's Love is just so BIG AND THICK! Then we decided to go to the beach and pray and worship there for the next 3 hours. I just love my Santa Monica family so much and I've only known them for 3 days! Anyway that's what I wanted to share with you all. This is what we did the rest of the days.

On Friday:

We got in our Action groups (groups where we meet and talk/learn/grow) and we talked to each other and spent a good amount of time getting to know each other. Then we had some quiet time with God and it was pretty awesome as we we spent the time trying to surrender everything to God this summer so we could fully grow. Then we were to the 3rd street Promenade and asked questions to people to get to know what the people of Santa Monica's world views were. It was pretty cool to talk and meet with people. There were people there that were just yelling at people telling them that they are going to yell and there were just so many people that were angry. I can just see that people were just hardening their hearts to the Gospel and it was pretty sad to see. But God can definitely turn something into a good thing.

On Saturday:

We learned a new approach to share the gospel. It's called the "Backstory". The four spiritual laws is a Systematic approach and we were then learning about a Narrative approach. It was pretty cool to hear but sort of confusing. We then went out and tried to talk to people about Jesus in Santa Monica. I got to talk to three people about Jesus and it was really cool to see how they just didn't push it away but were willing to listen. When lady even said "I wish there was something I could believe in that wasn't religious." Or something like that. It was a perfect opportunity.

On Sunday:

We went to church and then we heard a speaker talk about affecting the lives of the people we want to share with and just connecting with them. Then 2 others and I went to our staff meeting for our job at UCLA Summer Camps. It was really long and after we went to eat at In-N-Out and what a surprise it was to see about half of our summer project there too! Then the events a stated above happened. Worship! Thanks for all the prayers! I start training tomorrow for my summer job! Woot!

Prayer Requests:

1) That we would continue to grow in Jesus and build in our relationships with each other.

2) Health: My cough is almost gone! Hopefully it's gone soon!

3) Support: I'm not really sure how much I need at the moment but I believe it's around $500.

4) I'm still trying to work out getting my certificates and I need them by next monday! But I know God will just work everything out!

Romans 8: 31-39

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died - more than that, who was raised to life - is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

"For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.