last thursday was our last "normal" ALIVE meeting for awhile. This thursday begins the meetings of the Mexico missions team. I wrote earlier about the upcoming trip...we are going to Nogales Mexico for a week in June with a group of high schoolers - we dont know for sure who or how many yet...that is still in Gods hands...:) and in process right now is a show that we will be doing here in the U.S. and taking to churches and parks in Mexico when we go. just had a meeting with Chelsea Kimball last night - really really excited for the music that is and will be coming together!!! such a huge project, but giving plenty of room for God to wow us!
So we will be taking a break to work on all of that :)
it is sad to think that we wont be seeing everybody every week for awhile...we really do have such a great group of people, and for various reasons, a few of them will not be going on the trip with us, so we wont be seeing them regularly for now.
But for last week, we had kind of a chill meeting. we played games...super fun. its so fun to just laugh and have fun with acting. we played a game where everyone writes down 3 random words on sheets of paper and then we put them all into a bucket and then split into teams and from there you draw one out, and have to act out the words, and your team has to guess as many as they can in a minute. the hard part is then your team has to remember all 3 words they guessed and say them in order. haha...doesnt sound hard, but it is. then we played a game using the same words on paper to create skits that had to include those three words...haha. oh - now that is a good game. :) we have a VERY creative group. so funny. LOVED it.
then we had a short devo time - we all sat down in the living room and i shared 1 cor 2 with them - well most of it.
but it is SUCH powerful stuff. it was a reminder for them all, whether we will continue seeing them every week or not, of what this team is. and how God has gifted us all with this crazy cool stuff - no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind of man has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him - ALL of us have gifts in us that are from Him that have more potential than man can even fathom. but its there and if we let God get a hold of it and really allow Him to have free reign with it in us - whoa. there is no limit to what He can or wants to do. and later in the chapter it says that the Holy Spirit is here to help us understand the things freely given us by God...so we need the Holy Spirit to be able to use these gifts - but He is here, ready to help! so great!!! and then i read a part in John 14 - where it tells us that we are going to do even greater works than even Jesus himself did while here on Earth with the help of the Spirit and God's power in us. SO crazy, but so exciting to imagine what God can do through us...and then KNOWING that it will be even greater and bigger than that - because the Bible tells us that we HAVENT imagined it yet...so just like Tom G shared at Edinbrook on sunday - dream big! TRUST that God can and will do what He says He will. that the dreams He gives us are NOT too big for Him to actually accomplish.
so something God has been drilling into me lately and what i want to pass on to you is that God HAS given you gifts. He has...if you dont know what they are yet - ask. he'll show you. they are in you...and you cannot use them on your own. they only work the way they are supposed to when the Holy Spirit is using them. so go to Him, give Him power to move freely in you and then sit back, and let Him do his thing...and enjoy! :)
and keep us and this trip and the team members (ALIVE and Mission Trip) in your prayers. that God will continue to reveal His gifts and plans...:)
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