What an incredible journey so far. On Sunday I started my journey at 5:00 am after only 4 hours of sleep from the Youth Rally. I started to listen to the Bible on my way but I am in the middle of 1 Chronicles and I started to feel my eyes getting a bit heavy...lol.
I met up with my immersion team at Wesley by 9 am and we headed out to Rising Hope United Methodist Mission Church off of the route 1 corridor in Arlington VA. We got there in plenty of time to worship and it was a wonderful experience! The music was incredible, the preaching was sound, and we were welcomed from the time our feet hit the floor. One of the things that I loved about the service was that every time someone sneezed almost the entire congregation said, "God Bless You!" and no one missed a beat. After the service we were invited to stay for lunch and their church council meeting. For lunch we had pigs feet, black eyed peas, sweet potato casserole, etc. I must say it was good! Council meeting went well and I look forward to formatting our meetings a bit more like they have them.
On Monday we met with New Hope Housing, took a tour of the area, and did a lot of work at the Kennedy Shelter. Too much to write about for my first blog...(you'll have to hear about these experiences in my sermon on the 20th).
Today Andrew Ware and I led the worship at Rising Hope Church and it was incredible. We ate lunch (not pigs feet) and then we went to the Mondloch House. This is a house where people who are chronically homeless and have documented mental illness can stay for a period of time while independent housing is found for longer term. We served at the Kennedy Shelter and we were supposed to work with some children tonight but an emergency arose in which the van that is used to pick up the children was being used for food distribution so we had to reschedule for next Tuesday.
All in all it has been a very eventful, eye opening, and heart wrenching/warming three days. I miss my family immensely but my experiences that I am having here have been priceless thus far...
For my first blog, i don't think i did too bad, lol...until next time...i hope i have time to write these reflections each day so I don't have to rush through three at a time...
Esperanza!!
Pastor Scot
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