I have been working at Riverside Christian School since January. I work with about fifteen elementary kids. I get to Riverside Mondays and Wednesday around lunchtime. We enjoy wonderful meals and then head over to recess. For recess we usually end up playing variants of tag and sharks and minnows. I have come to the decision that 10-year-olds are surprisingly fast, like what the heck, they are quick! After we thoroughly exhaust ourselves, we go to chapel. At chapel, we sing three songs and dance our hearts out because somehow we still have the energy to do so. Then I share from what we are reading through, Hebrews 11. As we come across stories that are mentioned we go and then read about the story in the Old Testament.
It is the next week since I wrote that and wow it feels like a year away that I penned that paragraph. Last weekend I had long planned to head up to my girlfriend to be a plus one at a wedding. However, bad weather was predicted so in order to avoid flooding I left earlier, Thursday afternoon, to my parent’s house. Then Friday, once more bad weather was predicted, so to avoid icing I headed to her parent’s place on Friday evening after a delicious supper of lasagna. After making it to my girlfriend’s house and the wedding etc. etc., I got ahold of Cody to see if I should come back Sunday. In Kentucky there were floods and mudslides. Where I was we had snow and flooding. I stayed an extra night, but at this point I was ready to get back to my bed. Monday morning I once again got ahold of Cody and once again we postponed my return until Tuesday, but I did return to my parents since the roads were now clear. Finally on Tuesday, I embarked on my return that was slated for Sunday.
Upon arrival at Riverside School, where Cody told me to meet him, I was encountered with the wonderful job of disaster relief. The old gymnasium had, at the highest point, three feet of water. When we started working it had about three inches of water. So after five volunteers and a dumpster arrived we managed in less than three hours to fill the dumpster and clear all of the gymnasium. This weekend/week has been all about flexibility. I am reminded of our Monday night Bible study where we’ve observed that often Jesus’ agenda changed to meet the needs of people around him. My opinion of mission work being filled with the need to be flexible is being affirmed through this crazy week. As of right now, Cody and I are snowed in and plans are once more changing.
45 But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter.
7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea
20 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat.
22 Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet 23 and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” 24 And he went with him.
48 And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them,49 but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out,50 for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.” 51 And he got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded,
Mark 1:45 3:7 3:20 5:22-24 6:48-52
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