3 for 1

so hey guys, I know it's been a few days, it's been crazyyyy, so now I have 3 days to update you on, and it will have to be the spark notes version because I only have like 11 minutes. Maybe that gives you an idea of what my schedule has been like.

Sunday:

Church. Outreach. The end. Just kidding, but yeah that was basically it only they were both way too exciting to just leave it at that. Church was great because the service and worship was amazing and we get to help out with the children's ministry all summer! I am working with 3-4 year olds :). Then the outreach was probably my favorite thing on project so far, which might be why I'm on the evangelism team planning them but anyway, it was super successful, the staff said they had been part of similar outreaches before but that they didn't even compare. Tons of people heard the Gospel, we even had a guy sharing it in sign language with a group of deaf people. It was amazing, we did a tug of war on the beach and gave out water and watermelons and attracted hundreds of people wondering what was going on, and then went from person to person explaining who we were, what we were about, and why we were in Santa Cruz, and hopefully getting into spiritual conversations.

Monday: First real day of work (not orientation). I got taught in like 5-10 minutes how to run one of the games and then got left to work it for 8 hours. It was a lot of fun though when I got the hang out it and people were actually coming (morning hours were kind of empty). I got to get really enthusiastic about it (most boardwalk employees aren't) and high five the kids and make their days and just make it more fun than just playing a 10 second game and getting a dog if you win. Then we had our first Monday Night Live, which is our weekly meeting with worship and a speaker, Mike Mehaffie talked about How To Walk With God for a Lifetime, which if you know Mike, it was a perfect talk for him to give. It was amazing and super practical, and the worship was awesome too especially since they only had like a day to practice.

Tuesday:

Basically same deal as Monday, I worked 8 hours, but then instead of Monday Night Live we had our Time of Reflection which was basically just like 2 hours with the Lord, and it was really really awesome. Now we are about to do s'mores outside so bye!