I am so incredibly tired. To those of you who get my newsletters, this will probably be a bit of similar stuff, so I apologize in advance but I’m still struggling through the same things. I’m so glad I’m here. I’m so glad I decided to do this. I’m so thankful for the people who made it possible for me to be here. I’m so glad God is more faithful to me than I am to Him. But despite all …
So after three and a half months of living in Roseland, working with women and children in a shelter, getting to know our neighbors, and getting used to the idea of being the only white people around, we all got to go home for two weeks to celebrate Christmas with our family and friends. I was really excited to go home, and I certainly had fun, but it was a lot different than I expected it to be. For one, …
To the desperate eyes and reaching hands To the suffering and the lean To the ones the world has cast aside Where you want me I will be I will go, I will go I will go, Lord send me To the world, To the lost To the poor and hungry Take everything I am I’m clay within your hands I will go, I will go, send me Let me not be blind with privilege Give me eyes to see …
Mark 9 – A man brings his son to Jesus. His son is possessed by a demon. And “Jesus asked his father, ‘How long has this been happening to him?’ And he (the father) said, ‘From childhood. And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘If you can! All things are possible for one who believes.’ …
PRoP stands for Pauper’s Rite of Passage. A day for us to take a glimpse at what homeless people experience on a daily basis. I went to the library and typed out a two page post about my day on Saturday, and then got to Panera and realized two things. First, that my Word document wouldn’t open on Kerry’s Mac computer, and second, that I wanted to go in a completely different direction with my post. I started out wanting …
Being here is messing me up. I don’t really know how to process everything I’m seeing on a daily basis…the poverty, the pointless bureaucracy, the education system. The problems are so overwhelming and the cyclical that I find it hard to know how to focus on what I CAN do or even how to think about it. All the Mission Year teams did PROP on Saturday – that stands for Pauper’s Right of Passage; for us, it was a day …
I’m assuming most of you reading this blog have heard the worship song “Obsession,” but in case not, it goes… “Give me one pure and holy passion Give me one magnificent obsession One grand ambition for my life To know and follow hard after You.” This past week or so, I’ve been struck by how obsessed I’m becoming with Christ, with talking about what it means to live as a follower of His in this world. It’s the only addiction …
The words to that song have been replaying in my head continually in the past week. For those of you who do not know, I’m living in Roseland in the south side of Chicago. My team of 7 (5 girls, 2 guys) will start working at Roseland Christian Ministries tomorrow morning. I’ll be working at the thrift store with Steve who lives on Skid Row (our block) too. Honestly, when they first told us the different jobs they needed people …
Hi everyone! My name is Sara Shackelford. I’m 22, and I’m almost through with my first year of teaching math a private Christian high school…I can’t believe the beginning of Mission Year is getting so close! I am so excited and scared at the same time… I want to be a part of this because I want so much to see Christ in a real, living way. I want to understand what it means to pour out my life for …
