Week Eight

Sunday

11-1 Church
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 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
12:30-1:30am- Inventory

Friday
7-8 Lead Clean-Up crews/ Fax papers
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: 490 hours)

Personal Reflection

This week was rather rough. We had to send two people home due to family deaths. First came Roger, who lost his brother to Luekemia/heart disease. He was an older man though and while it was hard to see that happen for him he did get to say goodbyes before he left. However, the second death was not quite as laid out. A fourteen year-old girl on the trip got a phone call on Wednesday afternoon while she was at her work project that her mother had passed away due to a heart attack. What a blow to the heart… I can’t stand the idea of losing my mom now, let alone when I’m fourteen. This girl, Erin, will totally have to step up as she has an older sister with Down’s Syndrome and a much younger sister. This girl reacted amazing though. Her youth group is really her family so she decided to stay until the next morning and fly out then. She wanted us to keep everything the same so she went to our Buffalo Feed and then came back and even laughed throughout club. My first reaction was to take all the hilarity out of that club, but then I realized, this may be the last time for a very long time that she’ll be able to block out life for a while and just laugh and if she’s numb enough to it right now to do that, then okay, laugh. God really showed Himself to me this week through these groups. They were like family and so supportive.

Spiritual Reflection

This week there was a student named Max who has only been a Christian for three years. Almost directly after becoming a Christian the fire within him was so fueled that he stepped up in FCA and grew their group of 6 to a group of almost sixty. His passion for God and to communicate His love really hit me. The line from Create in Me a Clean Heart sounded in my heart and mind, “…restore unto me the joy of my salvation.” Oh, Lord that I could have an inextinguishable fire for you!