HS Mission Trip Day 3 - LOVE

Today was another great day up here in Camden.  Tonight’s post is probably going to be a little shorter because we are all exhausted form the work that we are putting in each day.  There are so many projects that need to get done and Ernie and Linda’s house that we didn’t end up leaving their house this evening until about 5:30.  During the extra time that we spent there nobody complained or asked once how come we haven’t left yet until I joked with them that since we work a little late that we weren’t going to be able to get back to the high school to shower.  Other days missing the shower might not have been a problem but since today we ended up tearing down two sections of the kitchen ceiling (something that was not on our to do list but then somebody’s foot went through the roof again… so what’s another project).  Ernie and Linda we actually thankful that it happened because that section of the roof so bad and had been leaking for so long that the sections of ceiling that we took out really needed to be replaced anyway. 

This week the students have been reading through the book of 1 John during their devotion time in the morning and then we have been discussing the passages of scripture at night before bed.  It is great to see everyone working so hard during the day, I enjoy cooking dinner with the students, I have laughed so hard countless of time, but I love the time that we get to spend in the evening and dive into the Scriptures and be in dialogue with the students about how God is working in their lives and what He might be asking them to do when we come home from this mission trip.  My prayer for these students is that they will come home with a new understanding of God’s love and how that love is going to transfer to how they are going to love other people. 

Before I log off and get some sleep I want to share with you a passage from 1 John that we talked about tonight and I ask that you would spend some and meditate on the passage and ask God how he might be asking you to show love towards others.


This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

1 John 3:19-24

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