Last year, mostly on a whim and a desire to try and find an opportunity for families to serve alongside one another (parents and kids working side by side), we "adopted" a local apartment complex and had a mini-VBS style program for the kids in that complex. For our church, it was a stepping stone to our Engage Hope Here emphasis...actually getting outside our walls and ministering to others. It was a fantastic week, and this year, we are doing it again. This week is our annual service to this apartment complex and the kids/families there. Please pray for us this week...it's supposed to be awfully HOT!
What I'm most excited about is this idea that there a bunch of kids who will have someone come to them for a week...on their turf...in their world...for them. It reminded me of when our Lord and Savior left the perfectness of heaven, put on flesh, and entered into the world. What was His purpose? "To seek and to save what is lost" (Luke 19:10).
I'm pumped up and excited that I get to leave the comforts of my little world this week and enter into someone else's for the God-ordained purpose... "to seek and to save that which is lost."
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