Week Seven

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
9:30-10:30 Staff Meeting
10:30-11:30 Hang out with Youth/get them to bed

Monday

7:30-8 Devotional Time w/ Students
9-12:30 Work Projects
12:30-2 Kids Club
2-3:30 Pass out popsicles
4-6 Dinner
6-8:30 Figure out Rainy Day Actitivity (phase 10, uno, extreme spoons, Mafia…)
8:30-9:30- Club Time
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/Read Bedtime story ☺

Wednesday

9:00-3:30 Make Lists/Organize Community Cook-Out/Inventory
3:30-5 Organize/Take students to feed Buffalo
5-7:30 Dinner Prep/ Make/ Clean-up
7:30-8:30 Hang out with students/Get ready for club
8:30-9:15 Lead Club
9:15-9:45 Staff Meeting
9:45-11:30 Hang out w/ Students

Thursday
9-3:30 Host Museum Tour/ Kids Club/ phone calls
3:30-6:30 Hang out with students
6:30-7:30 Dinner Prep/ Make/ Clean-up
8:30-9:15 Lead Footwashing Service
9:15-9:45 Staff Meeting
9:45-12:30 Hang out with students

Friday
6-8 Lead Clean-Up crews/Set out Breakfast
8-9 Breakfast/final organizing/Hang with students
9-10 Lead send off prayer and final words/Take Pictures
(NAP!!!! ☺)

Saturday
2-12 Shopping Trip

Total: 66 hours
(Running Total: 420 hours)

Personal Reflection

It was so wonderful to be back doing my job again this week! It was good for us to get away for a week so we could really see how much we enjoy our work! I probably have the best summer job ever. It’s so much hard work at times, but the results are amazingly rewarding. The adults we had this week were great and I enjoyed working with them.
I just love meeting all of these people. It is hard to connect so deeply with people and know that they are leaving at the end of the week, but at the same time, just having met many of them has helped to change and impact my life. Throughout this summer God has allowed me to come in contact with some really incredible people and I am so thankful to have met them.
I have learned to embrace things I disagree with and find out what really does make me angry. I know behind those things lie my passions. I’m passionate about people having a real and vital relationship with Christ. I’m passionate about people learning from other cultures. I’m passionate about people loving the lowly. I’m passionate about people being respectful of others when it comes to going into their neighborhoods and lives. Thank you Lord for giving me passion that doesn’t extinguish.


Spiritual Reflection

This week I really felt I had the opportunity to give more one on one help with some students and even some college students who came as adult leaders (yeah they were younger than me and really shouldn’t have been here…whatever). I say this carefully and not in any manner as to glorify myself, but I don’t realize how far God has brought me until I have to start answering questions about my faith. I really wonder why He has blessed me so much in my walk with Him so keep it strong and give me the passions He has. People ask me how I have fallen in love with Him and sometimes I don’t always have an answer. I feel like every reason I’ve drawn closer to Him has had very little to do with me and SOOO much to do with Him. He put people like Joy Cash and James Matchette in my life to mentor me. He carried my through my deepest struggles. He blessed me with supportive parents. Granted it was up to me to stay open, but I feel like I am such a small percentage of the equation. So how did I get to where I am…I suppose I let Him love me and since then I’ve never stopped being overwhelmed.