At this point we only have a few more hours until we begin our journey back to Wake Forest. Everyone is asleep, safe, and tired. It has been an amazing week. Some highlights of this entire experience:
- Commissioning by the Children of Wake Forest Baptist
- Being the VIPs to a screening of a new documentary about Hurricane Sandy and meeting the people in the film
- Visiting the Statue of Liberty
- Helping over 12 families return to their homes
- Seeing New York City from the top of the Empire State Building
- Singing and working in a soup kitchen
- Donating quilts and books to a shelter for abused women and their children
- Evening Devotionals and Worship
- Singing at First Presbyterian Church of Jamaica New York
- Hearing rapping preachers
- Riding in a Double Decker Tour bus to see the City and the newly finished One World Trade Center
- Jack and Josh winning the award for working the hardest and being 3rd
- Meeting the Salvatore's
- A skype call to our church family from 1,000 miles away
- Getting in the ocean at Rockaway Beach
- Getting to see a home finally completed with no more work left to do
- New York Pizza
- Working on a worksite alongside our bus driver Stephen
- Celebrating two youth birthdays while on the Mission Trip
- Guest preachers: David, Roy, Lee, and Adam
- Brooks, Chandler and Meghan serving communion
- Being 3rd
- 500+ confirmed 'God Sightings'
See you on Sunday as we share our experiences as Worship,
In Christ's continued service,
-Rev. Rob