So in July the youth group went on a mission trip called BUMP where we went to Cross Cultural Church in the Twin Cities and helped them with Vacation Bible School and service projects to bless the church. It was a great week of God working, but it was also a great week of God supporting us with strength and energy.
One of the hardest lessons but most fulfilling things we need to learn is to fully trust in God and allow Him to work through us. A lot of the time we plan a long time and structure every second of the day. This leaves no wiggle room for God to move and we hardly let it go if God has something else for us. It is hard to give Him full control, but it so much easier when you are sick. That week on BUMP most of our team was sick and most of the stuff we did and the energy we had to do things is thanks to God.
No matter how much we planned or practiced it was all in God's hands and He was working in the hearts of the kids and us that week. One of our goals for the week was to double the kids we had the first day to the end of the week. We had 30 kids the first day and by the end of the VBS week we had 61 kids come to VBS. Praise God for the work that He does and allows us to experience! All I can say that God is awesome and even takes a team that is sick and does something amazing for His Kingdom!
Fully relying on God might of been what God wanted to teach us that week and that we need Him to do amazing things! Prayer was our friend that week and we did see a lot of answered prayers through Him. This reminds me of a mission trip that I went on in college. We planned and were ready and the week before going our leader prayed, "God please let our plans fail so You can move." WHAT!!!! Well of course our God is awesome and listens to us and guess what...a lot of our plans failed that week and we had to rely on God to come! With wrong rental vehicles, it snowing in Arizona during spring break, to daylight savings confusion, and missing plane causing us to be stranded for 3 days. But the cool thing is that no matter what we plan God has something better for us. God knew what we needed and let us have a powerful trip of kids getting to know God for the first time and for us to see God in a new way.
That is what I love about God...no matter where we are God is moving! If you are sick God can use you, if you are stuck in New Mexico for three days God is going to use you, if you see the same person at a coffee shop every morning God wants to use you! God is awesome! So if your plans fail look to God and see what He wants you to do!
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