Week Three

Sunday

11-1 Church
-Speaking/promotional work
2-5 Prepare for Groups
5-7 Prepare Dinner/ Mingle with groups
7-8 Leader Orientation
8:30-9:30 Prepare Club/Participate
9:30 Staff Meeting
10:30-11:30 Hang out with Youth/ get them to bed

Monday

7:30-8 Devotional Time w/ Students
9-3:30 Work Projects
4-6 Prepare for Hike (prepare water coolers, make snack, organize First Aid kits…)
7-9 Lead Hike/ Lead with Club (night service- lead worship, speak, coordinate)
10-10:30 Staff Meeting
10:30-11:30- Spend time with students/ get them to bed

Tuesday

9:30-11:30- Lead students to museum
12:00-3:30- Help with Kids Club
3:30-5:30 Give out snack/ take students to Wounded Knee/ speak
5:30-6:30 Hang out with Students (playing games, mixers, talking)
8:30-9:15- Lead Club
9:15-9:45- Staff Meeting
9:45-11:30 Hang out with Students

Wednesday

9:00-3:30 Inventory Work/ Random Site work (cleaning refrigerators and such)
4-6:30 Dinner Prep/ Make/ Clean-up
6:30-8:30 Coordinate Evening Activity/ Make/ Give out Snack
8:30-9:15 Lead Club
9:15-9:45-Staff Meeting
9:45-11:30 Hang out w/ Students

Thursday
9-3:30 Inventory (yes…it’s the bane of my existence ☺)
3:30-6:30 Hang out with students
6:30-7:30 Dinner Prep/ Make/ Clean-up
8:30-9:15 Lead Foot washing Service
9:15-9:45 Staff Meeting
9:45-1:30am- Inventory

Friday
7-8 Lead Clean-Up crews
8-9 Youth Enterprise work (selling T-Shirts)
9-10 Set up B-fast/ Lead send off prayer and final words
(NAP!!!! ☺)
12-11:30- SHOPPING TRIP
(drive to Rapid City/shop at Sam’s/shop at Wal-Mart/pack it all in/ drive back/ put away and organize $1,100 worth of food/merchandise)

Total: 70 hours
(Running Total: 212 hours)

Personal reflection

There were some bumps in the road for sure this week. Two of our groups were really awesome and so cooperative. However, there was a third group that really was a struggle to get along with throughout the week. One adult leader, Paula, came as the pastor of a church. She was entirely difficult the whole week. She complained about nearly everything and rarely took much of a step to serve. What I learned from that though is that adult leaders really will set the tone for the way a group acts and reacts. It’s definitely a principle I can see applied throughout life. If only I can be a worthy reflection of my Leader.
One of the leaders this week wrote me a letter that really just spoke to every insecurity I hold about what I’m doing this summer. I have to speak every week and I have never felt comfortable as a speaker. He just told me all the ways his students have told him that they were affected by my talks each night. It was just so encouraging. Not that I have all of the sudden become some phenomenal speaker, but that God has chosen to use that aspect of me even when I don’t feel confident in it. He’s so incredible.

Spiritual Reflection

How incredible it is to me that we can truly never stop growing and learning in Him. Just when I feel like I’ve got the hang of life and the way He wants me to live it He opens up new areas for me to grow in. It’s a tough walk, but how amazingly rewarding!! I love that He puts me in positions I don’t understand and then affirms me the entire time. I do not understand His love for me and I hope I never do. I love this feeling of being overwhelmed by Him.


SORRY THAT THESE TWO POSTS ARE ON THE SAME DAY!! OUR INTERNET RANDOMLY DOESN’T WORK ON WEEKENDS AND I HAVE NO TIME IN THE WEEK. I WROTE THEM ON THE RIGHT WEEK, THEY JUST WEREN’T POSTED!