This past month has been pretty awesome. I admit, it got off to a slow and rather boring start, but the last two weeks have been pretty amazing.
Last week my brother went on a mission trip to Ohio with our church's puppet team. I knew from experience that he would have a great time. The whole team that went came back changed. They returned on Friday. My brother went straight upstairs and a short "Hey! How was your trip?" "Great!" was the only interaction we had until Sunday. I was sitting with my parents in the balcony that morning and was simply watching the congregation during the invitation like I always did when I saw my brother stand and go forward. Even though he had said nothing to me about what happened that week other than it was "great," I had a hunch on why he was going forward. And I was right. During his mission trip, my brother accepted the Lord and became a Christian. I admit, I cried. I was so happy. And he wasn't the only one that had gotten saved that week! Four others had prayed to receive Christ as well!
This happy news was followed by VBS this week. I had one action-packed, exhausting week with a great group of fifth graders! They were truly a blessing as well as the people I worked with. On Thursday during our Bible time, we separated into smaller groups of about 5-6 kids and talked about our Bible story for the day. We were studying the story of the woman at the well and our question was "How does this story make you feel?" I guess up to that point, I had never sat down with kids that age and got deeper into the Bible than "normal." The amount of insight that some of these kids had was amazing. Our question seemed easy enough to answer. I never expected that these fifth graders would go as deep as they did. I didn't get one word answers like I thought I would. I heard paragraphs about how amazed these kids were by this story and how shocking some of the facts were to them. It truly blew me away!
Overall, I look back and feel humbled and amazed at how God has worked in just this last week-two weeks! Our God really is an awesome God!
This week, I will be attending the dreaded Driver's Ed! As an (almost) eighteen year old, I feel like I'm doing this extremely late. I definitely will be praying that God would give me some humility this week! If you guys wouldn't mind, please be praying that God would give me humility and compassion. Not only this week, but every day of my life. I find that it's an area I struggle in quite a bit!
Much love,
Andrea
