Yesterday was another great day of serving Jesus and His love here in Philly! The day began with breakfast and youth group time followed by the director of urban hope, Jason, sharing his testimony with us. He challenged us to consider four things that keep us from sharing our faith and living on mission. This has been one of the challenging yet encouraging parts of our trip so far. It is not always easy to initiate conversations with people especially when it comes to issues of faith, but our students have risen to the challenge and have had many conversations with the people of Philly about faith issues. We have also been able to pray with a lot of people as well. It is really exciting to see students getting outside of their comfort zones and be willing and more comfortable talking to people about Jesus. Now, the challenge will be for us to begin to think about applying this back home. Who has God put in our everyday day life path that need to hear about Jesus? Nothing is an accident. Nothing is a mistake. God has placed us at our schools, at our part-time jobs and in our families for a reason and we need to be willing to be used by Him to point people to Jesus in whatever way we can.
Students have been encouraged to use the FISH method when sharing Jesus with others.
F - friendly (be friendly)
I - initiate conversations
S - share your story/serve
H - hope (Jesus is the answer)
Our high schoolers have been doing a great job of living on mission and serving the people before during and after our park program. Yesterday was no exception. They did a great job of initiating relationships and really loving on the people of Mifflin Park. After our park program and dinner, we were able to pass out water ice to people in the community. It was a great way to begin conversations in order to pray with them and talk to them about Jesus. Overall, it was a great day here in Philadelphia.
Please continue to pray for us and the remaining few days here. Pray that God would continue to work in the lives of our students and leaders, that we would finish strong, and that we would begin to be burdened for the people at home who may not know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Sorry for the long post, but God is doing some pretty incredible things among us and we wanted to share it with you!
Here are some pics of our day!
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