Three day outreach with five teenagers-thankful??
I recently hosted a group of five teenage girls from Indiana who are interested in missions and the lives of a missionaries. How do missionaries live? What are their days like? What are some of the struggles they have. Plus, this group wanted to do some outreaches as well. I at first was not sure how life would be like with five teenage girls in my house at once. But I know the gal who was leading the group and I trusted her judgement on all things. Plus I knew that if anything or anyone got out of hand, well…it just wouldn’t happen is all. So I volunteered to have five girls stay at my house for three days. They all slept in my front room! It was fun! Like a BIG HUGE slumber party-minus the popcorn and movies. But the girls laughed themselves silly, but were also serious about their relationship with the Lord. Sure they were teenagers, but the best well behaved, Godly teenagers I have seen ever!
I thouroughly enjoyed my time with the group of girls I hosted recently. Five teenage grils! Most would cringe at the thought, BUT, the girls were EXCELLENT…well behaved, kind, considerate, no one complained (not even one of the girls when she was running a temperature and a bad sore throat). AMAZING!!! They were servants to us here and to each other, without even thinking about it or being asked to do so, everyone got up when they needed to and no one complained about the hour or lack of sleep, they were considerate, loving, the BEST group that I have hosted in my house since coming to Ukraine. For a group of teenage girls, and two of them being sisters, I was amazed! They were fun to be around, goofy, serious, Godly examples, you could see God and feel Him through them, but yet they were teenage girls, they were not putting on a show-they were simply themselves and I think we had a good time together! This shows me that whatever their parents have done to raise them, has worked. I am thankful and blessed to have shared my life and their life these past three days. I pray that we might see each other again sometime.
Anyway, just thought I’d share since it is national blogging month (as Michelle has duly notified us bloggers about).
During this month I am going to be posting little quotes and thoughts about “thankfulness” seeing as how thanskgiving is fast approaching. Keep looking, I might even quote YOU!!!
