Friday, July 25, 2014

Friday Night.  Late.

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




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