Countdown to Departure
Wave one for our team will leave for Fort Worth tomorrow. We will be making sure that all of the places we will be visiting are ready for us and putting together the last few bits of technology that we will need for the musical.In the meantime, I love the way that our group has come together. Most of us are inexperienced in doing this kind-of planned, mission trip, so - while this may be a familiar expeirence to some of you - almost everything is new to us.
We have such a deep well of gifts to draw from. Susan Piersall, Julie Douthit, and Karen Gilliland, along with our kids, have done a great job putting the musical together. We have people who can pull trailers and move stuff around. We have artsy people to help the kids with crafts (Cindy Seaborn springs to mind, though there are others). We have musicians (Grant Boone has already coined the phrase "Michael Gilliland and the VBS orchestra"). We have people who love to play games with kids. We have people who can organize and set up meals. We have people who are donating time and supplies and materials that they were never even asked to give. We even have someone (Susan Lewis) who is going to journal our experiences in video and photographs.
Oh yeah, and - in addition to taking care of our other technology issues - I get to blog!
I'm sure that we will encounter adversity during the next four days, and I hope that you'll be praying that - when it comes - we'll be ready to face it. But for now, everyone seems to love what they are doing, and everyone seems to be doing what they do best.
posted by Matt @ Tuesday, June 21, 2005
1 Comments:
Man, I wish we could have been there with you guys. Know that Kim and I will be (have been) praying for you guys and that we are confident that God is going to use you all to do amazing things!
Keep the posts coming this week.
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