Week Two

Time Spent:
Sunday

11-1 Church
-Speaking/promotional work
3-5 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
9-11:30 Talk with Evening Activity Contacts
12:30-1:30 Go with Adult Leaders to pick up children
1:30-3:30 Help with Kids Club
5-6 Prepare for Hike (prepare water coolers, make snack, organize First Aid kits…)
7-9 Lead Hike/ Help with Club (night service)
10-10:30 Staff Meeting

Tuesday

9:30-11:30- Trash pick up in park
1-3 Work with Area Director on talks
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)
9:00-11:30 Hang out with Students

Wednesday

9:00-11:30- paint/ garden/ pick up trash at community home
12:30- 4 Inventory Work
4-6:30 Dinner Prep/ Make/ Clean-up
7-8 Coordinate Evening Activity
8-9 Make/ Give out Snack
9-11:30 Hang out w/ Students

Thursday
9-10 Meet w/ evening activity contact
10-11:30 Paint House w/ students
1-3 Inventory
3-6 Prepare snack/ drive to/ do evening activity
6:30-8 Dinner Prep/ Make/ Clean-up
9-9:30 Staff Meeting
9:30-1:30am- 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/ fix flat tire/ drive back/ put away and organize $1,100 worth of food/merchandise)

Total: 70 hours
(Running Total: 142 hours)

Personal Reflection

So there’s SO much to stay busy with! I have no free time throughout my week and I’m getting about 6 hours of sleep a night, but having a great time and the Lord is keeping me refreshed! After a tough weekend with conflicts with my Site Director and thinking I wanted to quit my job and come home, God brought some really awesome confirmation for why I’m here. He has place some really incredible support in my life and I had several friends back home find out that I was struggling and then gathered just to pray for me, they are so awesome! I also probably have the most supportive parents in the world who stood beside what I was feeling and while they would have loved me even if I came home, encouraged that God wouldn’t just send me out here for nothing. I couldn’t have felt more blessed.
I didn’t do my entire list of responsibilities this week because I was shadowing another Program Staff person. Basically I prepared more things, hung out with teenagers, did inventory for 50 people to eat three times a day, and ran evening activities. This next week I’ll do all of that and then run club as well, which is our evening service time. It’s a lot of work but it’s rewarding and well worth it! ☺

Spiritual Reflection

Prep week was a long spiritual battle, but I really felt like God was using this week to lift my spirits and remind me what my purpose is. I am to be a servant and everything that comes along with that. My job is to serve my leaders, my staff, the youth, the adult leaders, community members, and anyone else within reach. I am to serve, not to speak loud, bark complaints or demand my comfort. My job, no matter where I am or whom I am with, is to serve. Sound repetitive? Probably. But that’s what’s been going through my head every step of this week. That’s where I’m at.