Last year TSheng invited me to be a part of one of our SPACE (Students Prepared to Act for Christ's Empire) overseas mission trips. It was my first overseas mission trip, and I was honored and thrilled to be a part of it! We had an excellent team of 7 high school students, 6 leaders and 2 elementary students assembled. We served Christian Associates International, which is a group of people who left the comforts of their homes to live and serve all over Europe trying to spread God's word. We took care of the missionary kids while their parents were in sessions for their annual staff conference. The week of the conference is such a blessing to each of the families. Its a time for them to come together and be encouraged by others who are experiencing the same thing, and to be rejuvenated for the next year of serving.
Our students wrote a whole kids program about finding God's treasures, including a skit with Pirate Sven who was searching for the treasure and learned that he needed God's treasure.
I'm excited to see the kids that we bonded with last year, and the missionaries that I have kept in touch with over the past year. I'm looking forward to stretching myself and having meals with the different missionaries and hear about their lives and experiences. Please pray for safe travels, team unity, and that we can really go over and above to serve these families.
Our flight takes off tomorrow around 5:30pm and we fly all night to Vienna, Austria where we will spend 2 nights to try to get over our jetlag. Then we will drive about an hour to Sopron for the 7 day conference. From there we take off for 2 nights in Paris to debrief and meet up with the Cameroon team...
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