Short Term Team in Nashville

Passion Play (Crucifiction of Jesus)

This past week at the base we had groups from churches (from other states) doing short term outreaches. On the first night we did a suprise passion play after having a service on purity, and living a life whole heartily for Christ. We had a time of repentance of sins, and at the end of the message we took the audience on the journey of the people witnessing the crucifiction.

Afterwards we had a time of talking and praying with the groups. A group of our youth from church also joined us, and It was nice for them to be apart of what we were doing. We got to pray for those who do and don't know the Lord -it was a beautiful moment and we believe the youth left transformed.

DeWayne was Simeon (carried the cross) and John (a comforter), and Tara was one of the ladies with Mary (a comforter).

Flood Relief

Friday we went down and helped the team with cleaning a house in Nashville that had been damaged by the waters. DeWayne and Tara were helping clean out the belongings destroyed by the flood in the back garage while the others did demolition in the house. The woman we were helping was really blessed by our work.

Driving through affected neighborhoods reminded us slightly of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. We saw a house that had been lifted off of its foundation, piles of evidence of cleaning out houses, and some houses had waterlines on.

We have overheard the people of Nashville feeling forgotten. We were there to give them hope, one person at a time-YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN.

Volunteer Work / Teaching Missions

Ministry-

There are times when we don't have to "go into all the world" to reach the nations, because the nations can be in our backyard. We volunteered to manage the ticket booth and sell t-shirts at the Nashville mini World Cup. There were teams represented from all around the world- from Mexico to Swaziland to Sudan to the Congo, and many more! For us it was refreshing to be amongst internationals again...we openly handily ask God if He'd like us to get more involved in the international population in Nashville? And if so-to lead and guide us.Church-
On Sunday we got to be the guest missionaries for the children of Red River AG. Our main message represented was spreading the gospel through understanding and accepting the differences in different cultures. We went through some of the differences in the places we've been. Acknowledging that just because people do things different, doesn't always mean it's wrong. Going into a different culture we need to be open hearted and have humble spirits to understand WHY people do the things they do. Love people for where they are. And bring the Truth accordingly. The children were a blessing to us, and I'm pleased to know that some are already called to missions!