Serving God Brings Me Joy
My expectations for this trip was a little bit both ways. I was excited to go, but at the same time I was a little bit hesitant about the all the ministries that we were going to do. We had to go to places like Skidrow and thoughts in my mind about drive-by-shootings and other bad things were flowing in my head. Before the trip I never served for the joy of serving God before other than Levites, but now my mission is accomplished. I helped move furniture, painted walls,gave food to the homeless and poor, and even babysitted kids, but it was all worth it because we made not only the people happy, but also God happy. Before this trip although I kind of still had that spark for God after going to the Legacy camp, I felt that I still needed to prove myself to God and get closer to him. I have only been to collide for about a month or so, but hopefully after this trip and when school starts I will still be able to go unlike last year.
What impacted me the most on this trip was the food truck and the worship seasons that we had on both Tuesday and Thursday. First off, the food truck was just a great experience overall. It showed me how fortunate we are that we are allowed to afford to go to a great school and have food on the table everyday. I realized that when I saw so many people lining up to get food. Many of them actually came around and got seconds and some of them even took two out of my hand even though they were only suppose to have one. Towards the end of our first stop, there was even a lady that took three bags from me and that's when a lot of them started to plead and get an extra bag. I learned when you serve for God, although you feel tired on the outside, you still feel spiritually filled on the inside. Although there were so many other ministries, the second thing that stuck out to me was the worship. The men's ministry worship on Saturday reminded me of the worship from the Legacy camp; everybody sang with all their hearts and it was super loud. I learned that I don't only have to have a joy of serving God, but also joy of worshipping God.
Because of the food truck, when I get home I will appreciate whatever it my mom buys and makes at home. I have to learn to appreciate going to a great school even though sometimes it may get hard. When I get home and when we go to church or collide I will just worship to The Lord even harder than when I got back from the legacy camp. But most importantly I have to do all these things not because I have to, but because I love doing it.
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My expectations for this trip was a little bit both ways. I was excited to go, but at the same time I was a little bit hesitant about the all the ministries that we were going to do. We had to go to places like Skidrow and thoughts in my mind about drive-by-shootings and other bad things were flowing in my head. Before the trip I never served for the joy of serving God before other than Levites, but now my mission is accomplished. I helped move furniture, painted walls,gave food to the homeless and poor, and even babysitted kids, but it was all worth it because we made not only the people happy, but also God happy. Before this trip although I kind of still had that spark for God after going to the Legacy camp, I felt that I still needed to prove myself to God and get closer to him. I have only been to collide for about a month or so, but hopefully after this trip and when school starts I will still be able to go unlike last year.
What impacted me the most on this trip was the food truck and the worship seasons that we had on both Tuesday and Thursday. First off, the food truck was just a great experience overall. It showed me how fortunate we are that we are allowed to afford to go to a great school and have food on the table everyday. I realized that when I saw so many people lining up to get food. Many of them actually came around and got seconds and some of them even took two out of my hand even though they were only suppose to have one. Towards the end of our first stop, there was even a lady that took three bags from me and that's when a lot of them started to plead and get an extra bag. I learned when you serve for God, although you feel tired on the outside, you still feel spiritually filled on the inside. Although there were so many other ministries, the second thing that stuck out to me was the worship. The men's ministry worship on Saturday reminded me of the worship from the Legacy camp; everybody sang with all their hearts and it was super loud. I learned that I don't only have to have a joy of serving God, but also joy of worshipping God.
Because of the food truck, when I get home I will appreciate whatever it my mom buys and makes at home. I have to learn to appreciate going to a great school even though sometimes it may get hard. When I get home and when we go to church or collide I will just worship to The Lord even harder than when I got back from the legacy camp. But most importantly I have to do all these things not because I have to, but because I love doing it.
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