The name of the trip was Sabbath. It was a mission trip with the Sevens ministry in Boulder. Benny and Niki Nowell are the leaders of this ministry. They are "friends on the street" to the enormous homeless teen population in Boulder and Denver. They taught us to "mozy" and notice the story behind everything we see and that many stories are not so far from our own.
The kids (our youth group kiddos) had a great time and really learned a lot. They experienced God's love for us in the beauty they saw in Colorado, walking a mile in someone's shoes by "flying a sign" on a street corner to get money for supper, and ministering the the most unloveable of God's children both by inviting them to a meal in "our " territory and then going to "their" territory and trying to find conversation and show the love of Christ there. Chris has several write ups on his facebook that go into more detail about what exactly happened and some of the kids even added to it, so check that out if you're more interested.
Here are a few pictures from the trip. The mountain we are on is Mount Evans - as yes - At 25 weeks preggo, I summitted a mountain! (It helped that we drove all but about the last 100-150 feet!)
I love your belly!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou look beautiful my friend! Thanks for all the updates!
ReplyDeleteOn Sunday morning there were several youth group parents bragging on what a good job you guys are doing. And yes, I'm impressed Preggo!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I came back to your blog because I thought I had posted a long comment yesterday about how cute you are pregnant and how good it was to hear about all your recent activities but the internet was acting up over here yesterday and apparently it didn't actually go through. SO, you look SO cute pregnant and it was SO good to hear about all your recent activities! Love you.
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful pictures!
ReplyDeleteYour Chris did a great job of keeping us at home updated on your activities via facebook.
So glad you got to go and experience it all, too! (and we enjoyed keeping Ollee!)