MOWA In 2010 - College Missions And Cold Weather

Happy 2010! I hope everyone is having an awesome new year, because ours started off with a real bang! A college missions group of 20 came down for the first week of January to serve the center and the community, and even though the weather was frigid (yes, even in southern Alabama), we were all so blessed and filled by God's Spirit during our time together. It was great to see old friends from Western and NC Yearly Meetings and to make new ones as well.

I'll try to list some of the projects and activities they accomplished, but they did so much I'm sure to miss something. We will have to get some pictures up soon, but until then...

• Visitation to the local jail
• Volunteered at McIntosh Elementary School
• Tutored, organized games, and led devotions at our After School Program
• Led Youth Group
• Painted/redecorated part of the lodge
• Home visitations in the community
• Replaced underpinning on the lodge
• Massive amounts of yard work around the property
• Daily group devotions, which were personally so challenging, encouraging, and literally dripping with God's presence - I'm serious, there was nothing that could have served us as staff here more than those simple worship times

Thank you so much, all of you who were a part of this trip. I hope you received as much of a blessing as we did here at MOWA Choctaw! I'll leave you with a piece of God's Word that really lingered on my heart after one of our devotions - ahem, sermon - led by Steve Pedigo.

The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment: "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.  -1 Corinthians 2:15-16 (emphasis added)