BEAUTiFUL FEET

so. i have never had a blog before, but there are so many things i want to tell everyone about my summer so far, and i figured this would be the best way to do it!

i have almost completed my first training week at Mission Indy. It has been busy, but so great! I am literally in charge of the whole VBS program, which is sweet. I moved into my small house in the city last night with another intern. there is a playground right outside our backyard, (the playground and this house belong to this church that is so cool and helps out so much in the community. being the hands and feet of Jesus) so we played with the kids that go to school in the church. so fun. then we ventured out to find food and ended up making delicious spinach salad with chicken, peppers, tomatoes, and feta chesse, with strawberries and wheat thins! :]

the past two days, i was able to visit all my VBS sites and organize the crazy storage closet. the cool thing about this ministry is that we get to do VBS in a trailer part (rural poverty), in the inner city, and in a institutional facility for kids with developmental and emotional delays/disabilities. i am so excited that i get to be a part of this and i am so excited for the church groups that we will be working with each week to help put the VBS program on.

last night, the other intern, Jill, and i just sat and talked for like 2 hours about injustice, and poverty, inner city ministry, racial reconciliation, and God's heart and God's love. we talked about how hard it is to talk to some people about inner city ministry and poverty and race because so people just don't want to listen. those issues are so close to the heart of God it is crazy. if we actually take time to read about Jesus and His ministry, we will see right there that He was all about Justice!

well. i am just so excited about this summer. i get to live with a host family who has four kids (haha...just like home :]) and i am "interning/volunteering" at the Care Center for women who struggle with homelessness and DV. it's funny because this is not what i expected to be doing this summer...i wanted to work with young girls caught in prostitution or something like that. but it is so cool to see how God worked it all out for me to be here this summer and the postition He put me in.

so. i have been listening to Lecrae non-stop. his lyrics are BEAUTIFUL and he speaks so much truth. beautiful feet is one of my favorite songs. and something i think is really applicable to what i'm doing this summer and just a song that i think alot of people need to hear...it's encouraging and challenging.

thanks for reading. im not really sure how long these are supposed to be...but it's my blog, so i guess i can make it however long i want. :] i'll be updating through the summer.

peace.

Carlos was born in killa cali/ was walking down an alley/ he caught a bullet in his head that left him bleeding badly. He lost everything at that moment except his life/ he lost his hearing, lost his movement and he lost his sight/ he laid there in a coma/ but man nobody cared/ the Gospel preached in his neighborhood? Nobody dared/ But los got up out the coma got and was able to hear/ a missionary shared the gospel to his open ears/ He got saved got trained got discipled/ back to the hood/ you could find em preaching the bible/ He led a homie to Christ from his same hood/ part of Church plant/ come on now aint his name good/ This is blessing but I'm stressing that this is not the norm/ we need leaders and believers to help carry it on/ but who would minister in a sinister part of town/ I pray if Jesus is calling you that you would be found/
Eric used to go to bible study as a kid/ he got older and started doing what the hood did/ a rival gang caught him slippin tried to take his life/ but then the gun jammed up so them beat him nice/ he woke up in the hospital singing bible songs/ praise God he had a place to learn the bible from/ but then he gets saved and wanna preach Christ they make him change his whole culture and whole way of life/ he gotta get him a bachelors wear a suit and tie/ go to seminary/ by then all of his boys will die/ Jesus came to invade culture outta Nazareth and used a couple fisherman who people saw as hazardous/ the feet are beautiful if only they'd go/ if ain't nobody in hood preaching how will they know?/ Eric is better used taught trues in his context/ somebody please plant a church in his projects.
In Luke 4:16 on down to 21 Jesus says he's messiah says he's the chosen oneBut more than that he quotes Isaiah/ that shows our savior targets oppressed captive blind and the broke I'm saying/ He had a heart for the poor had a heart for the low/ and 1st John 2:6 is way we should go/ In Deuteronomy even tho they under the law/ the tithes every third year the poor got em all/ I ain't sayin you wrong if you live in burbs/ Im sayin turn your attention to the hood cause we hurting/ man if you ain't burdened please pick up your word an/ tho this world is going down while we here we can serve him/ we bring this to the streets because we knew the streets/ I pray that more would be burdened to have beautiful feet/ you never knew the streets but truth is what you preach/ I pray to God you'd be burdened for beautiful feet.
Go, go, go (run with those beautiful feet)Go, go, goYou hold the truth that saves so run and shout it to the worldThey can't believe in something they ain't never heardGo, go, go and run with those beautiful feet