A Busy Week

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Martin Luther, Learning Mandarin Chinese, and staying with the Vandercar's

Parkersburg Catholic High School Retreat

This past week was pretty busy. After the Parkersburg retreat we headed to Inez, Kentucky where we did a program for juniors and seniors from a public school in the area. We were surprised that we were able to do that but our contact Taye said, "There's pretty much no separation of church and state down here." The kids really seemed to enjoy our program and it was a really neat experience. We also really enjoyed staying at the Christian Appalachian Project Johnson house.



On Saturday night we got to go to a Thrivent Financial dinner in Bristol, Tennessee and got to sing a couple songs. We learned that Bristol is a city that is in both Tennessee and Virginia. We drove down the street and one half was in Virginia and one half was in Tennessee. We also found out that Ua had been to the church that the dinner was at when he was on the Cross Fire team a few years ago. On Sunday morning we helped lead a worship service at Concordia Lutheran in Kingsport, TN. Next we headed to Oak Ridge, TN where we are now and did a program last night. During the program we have a time of prayer where we set up prayer stations that people can go around to. One of the stations is a map of the world and people put little arrow stickers on a place in the world and then pray for it. I was near the prayer for the world station and saw an older woman who I later met, named Lillian. She walked over to the map and knelt down on the floor to put her sticker on the place she was praying for. She could barely kneel down but there she was on her knees praying for our world. That was kind of a cool moment for me.



Today we are on our day off in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and we are all just relaxing at our host homes. I think this last week kind of wore us out and some of our team is not feeling so great. I think we have a cold going around our team. Hopefully we don't all get it at the same time. Tomorrow we head back to Kentucky with the Christian Appalachian Project where Jenny, Ua, and I will be helping at the Child Development Center and Luke and Dave with be helping repair some housing.