Highland Urban Musical Mission

We're Home!

Well, it looks like everyone on our team has returned safely to Abilene!

We had a great day on Saturday, with VBS in the morning and a musical performance/hot dog supper at Open Arms on Saturday night. We also enjoyed visiting with the mothers of some of the children that had spent the last three days with us, and there was a lot of sadness when we finally had to leave at around 8:00 or so.

Also, on Saturday night, we were joined by a group of Junior Scholars from ACU who helped to serve ice cream sundaes after the musical performance. They also helped to clean up, which was really great because most of us were starting to run out of gas by Saturday night.

I wish that I could tell you stories about our experiences, but one of our commitments when we went into Open Arms was that we would be careful not to do anything to reveal the identity of these families to people outside of our group, and I don't want to say anything that might put these families at risk. Suffice it to say, however, that our team members made a lot of connections to some kids and mothers this week, and that neither our team members nor the kids and mothers are going to forget the experience any time soon.

On Sunday morning, we had a time of worship with most of the members of our team at the Community Enrichment Center, beside the Richland Hills Church of Christ. It was a rich, and often emotional, time of closure for the entire group.

Many, many thanks to everyone who kept us in their prayers last week!

posted by Matt @ Monday, June 27, 2005