Wow, what a blessed day. Now what does one mean by blessed? Well I wanna start off by talking about the community. Today Tommy Rutledge sent us out to a neighborhood community behind the church to do outreach. Tommy and Ross Duncan put together a plan to do family portraits at the Grace Fellowship Church (GFC) for the whole community for free. We were sent out to pass flyers and inform the people of Kingsport. We passed out 250 plus flyers and we were excited to see the community get excited about this free opportunity they were given. It's just like God gave us with the death of his son on the cross and our free opportunity for an eternal life in heaven. Anyway, I was lucky to get to knock on several individual's doors and inform them. One in particular was a former pastor who has been looking for a church in the area to attend. He was very welcoming,and was the only one who let us in his house (which we did not expect anyone to do). He even gave us a mini sermon and said "Todays world is so I'm this and don't like that and those are not really christians cause they don't do and believe exactly how I do. We need to learn and realize that whether you're Methodist, Pentecostal, Baptist, Nondenominational, or whatever we all are christians regardless. We all believe, follow, and preach the word of God (the Bible) as the body of Christ we should be working together." It's funny how true that is we are all so wrapped up in who we are and how and what we do is better than what someone elses does when what we need to be doing is laying all down on one margin and one criteria that being GOD and him alone.
Later this afternoon a few of us got to go with Jason (guy from GFC) and myself Luke heading up a team for painting a couples garage. This couple is having a hard time with their physical bodies. The husband has a broken arm and is very weak. The wife has to cary around an oxygen tank at all times do to an illness that she has. However, this couple was very happy, joyful, and thankful for our help. We only did prep work for the garage by cleaning outer walls of the building. However, I found termite damage in some of the walls in a limited area. So luckily we caught it early so it can be taken care of easily and swiftly.
After a long day's work though we all need to satisfy one very important thing: our hunger. So we made a trip downtown to a local barbque place to eat some ribs, pulled pork, chicken, and more. The food was more than amazing as we all satisfied our stomachs and our need for fellowship as a team. Now hunger not only comes to us physically, but also spiritually. Tonight we all sat down as we do everynight and reflected as a team on the day. Philip gave us a devotional and several of us gave our testimonies. He talked to us about expectations of this trip and what we wanted to get out of it. So he had us open up and read Jonah 4. So what does one take from all this? I know for a fact that would be blessing. God blessed the community, blessed the the couple, blessed our hunger, and last us as a team as a body of Christ as a church.
Luke Haug
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