Mission Adventures 2010 week 2!

so, we just had 61 crazy kids from scotsdale Christian Academy come through for a mission Adventures week. It was so hectic with that many people, plus they were here for one less day as usual which means we had to cram everything together, pretty much no free time. I learned so much from these kids. Their faith was stonger than I have ever seen in kids that age, even for being rich kids. There were a few of them that I became best friends with, I invented a game called awkard neck tag where you rub your neck on another dude when you hug him sneakily, they loved that soo much! I was so impressed with the stories they would come back with. We do an outreach called five dollars acts of obedience where we take them to a mall and give them five bucks and tell themt o ask God what to do with it. One pair of kids, we always pair them together like Jesus did in the bible, bought a locked necklace thing and gave it to a lady that opperated the carousel, it made her cry. They prayed for her as she said she was leaving in a few weeks. Another group met a lady at a kiosk and bought here a smoothie. She wondered why and they said because they love her because God loves her. Most of the students loved the surveys. I was with a couple kids on their first survey. We talked to a guy named Phil who was really against christianity. He knew that there was a higher power but refused to call it God. His deal was he had seen so much hipocracy and bad stuff in christianity that it was hard for him to view christianity as a good thing. In his eyes, religion is something that you hide behind when you want to do something but not take responsibility for it because it was done int he name of religion. He was a really friendly guy from scotland...cool accent..but he would hardly let me talk...I tried to explain to him that no matter what people do, that doesn't mean that God isnt still good. People sometimes will do things in the name of God but it isnt actually for God, it is for themselves. Then Lauren stepped in and said that she couldnt explain why God is real or why He loves her or why He is so good to us, but that she knows for a fact that He is and that was enough for her. She is a changed, new person because of Jesus. When she was talking, he seemed to shutup and not butt in..Afterwards I was like, well you guys dont need me..they defenetly could handle themseleves and they did..they had like 5 other great surveys that night. Im a little sad that I didnt get to know these kids as well as I could have due to being busy and trying to figure out my role in MA. I have came to the conclusion that my role is kinda the personable person that gets to know the students and adds an energy to the group. God has gifted me with allot of engery and a personality that allot of people can get close to. They all ended up being my best freinds. I got hugs, not normal hugs, but saying goodbye to your bestfiend hugs from pretty much each student this morning, which makes it all worth it. Our friends from the Church of the Way, whichis a church that a few staff go to, Steph and Deb, led worship like three times this week. It was some great holy spirit worhip...anyhow, Steph is really gifted in the prophetic. I was talking to them about how the Holy Spirit is so needed to lead the week or we are all skrewed and have nothing. When I was done talking she just spits out...Brett everyone loves you!!! and i was like...uh thanks..and she was like...Brett God has given you the ability to relate to allot of people, make them feel comfortable, make them laugh and just have a good time. She said it was because of my child like heart... I like dumb jokes..which apparently most of these kids didnt thing was funny..but they still loved me..and i like plaing with bouncy balls and think farts are funny. I never really thought about it I guess. But that helps allot to figure out who I am and what my role is in MA. Sam is the teacher/ explains God in a very learnable way, Beth is the organized one and I am the korky funny weird one..it works, praise God! We also had help form the disicpleship training school this week...4 staff and 5 staff, great help, it was great to see them ministering to the students. They really helped out allot, lead small groups, and just got to know the kids, I am so thank ful for them. Please pray for more short term staff this spring and summer to partner with us and help us minister to kids and bring them to the next step in their spiritual journey. Well that is enough ranting...k bye