Our church (First EFC- Maplewood, MN) youth ministries have partnered with CastleRock Community Church and Urban Impact Ministries in the Central-City of New Orleans since 1997. This blog will highlight the activities of our 2011 team.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

That's The Way We Roll (Theme of the Week)

First of all we’d like to say Happy Father’s day to all you dads reading this! We started the day by waking up at 7:30 and heading over to Castle Rock Church for breakfast. We had a history of Castle Rock and another tour of the city. After that we went to Shakespeare Park and ate lunch. We then trained for the challenge circle, which we will do with the kids tomorrow afternoon. After that we had talks about poverty and why it is important to befriend and be around poor people. Then we discussed racial reconciliation and the unity it is important to have as the body of Christ. Later in the afternoon we trained for the day camp we will do with the kids tomorrow. Right after that we set up and ate dinner. Then we had a concert of prayer with a worship time. We ended up each getting a shirt after an amazing dance off.

Praises and Prayer: We praise the Lord that we had an amazing first day full of team bonding. Praise for the arrivals of McKenzie & Andrew as well as the rest of the Bostrom clan and Gary Weldon. Please keep praying for the hearts of the kids we will be witnessing to; that they will be opened and we will be able to show them God’s love through our example.
Our Day Old Limerick:

We started with devos, and then
Hopped into the van once again
We got here all right,
Learned new cheers all the night,
Fell asleep with our friends Dave and Jen
-The amazingly humble blog team (thank Bekah for the limerick)




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