God Sets Us Free.

Galatians 5:13
13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.

This is the ideal verse for what happened on the mission trip to Bayou La Batre, Alabama this past week. It was definitely an experience that will never be forgotten. Everything fit together perfectly like a puzzle, especially considering the bad vibes I had; on the first night we were told we could only get 3 minute showers, and we couldn't get one until the next day and the fact that it was the middle of the day (after getting back from working). But God NEVER fails!

It was a pretty long trip, but not as long as D.C. It was a mere 11 or 12 hours to Alabama including stops as opposed to the 17 hours it took to get to D.C. As you could probably tell from last week's posts, the D.C. trip was well worth the time. In great similarity, the Alabama mission trip was worthwhile too.

Why you ask? We were free from the world and free to live and dive into God's word. (I'll be talking more about that this week). Secondly, as the second half of the scripture says, we served each other in a loving manner.

We were even split up into groups. The group is who we did the work with or traveled with to our ministry sites during the day. There were groups from Georgia, Ohio, and Minnesota. Personally, the Minnesotans were in my group and as a result I got the closest to them. It was just amazing to see how we clicked just like that! The first day couldn't have gone smoother and we definitely built some strong relationships by week's end. I just can't believe how well we served the southern community using great teamwork!

Now that we're back I pray that God will "Reign in Us" (by Starfield).



P.S. If you have trouble with the video stopping and starting, keep the video paused, and let it "buffer" (load) as it's called for a while. You will see the red bar along the bottom advance (speed depends on your Internet connection). Wait until that bar gets pretty far along (I'd say more than halfway) before you play the video and it shouldn't pause.