While I'm Waiting

A few days ago, each member of the LowCountry Ministries team for 2010 received a confirmation email with some questions, topics of information, and (most exciting of all!!) a list of the other team members. I think it's safe to assume that we're all pretty much as ecstatic as we can be, especially considering the immediate friend requests that bounced around Facebook and the groups that were formed in preparation for the quickly approaching adventure! As excited as we all are, we want others to be just as eager to support God's glory and mission this summer in Beaufort and Jasper counties. It is my hope that you will take maybe one or two of the names of the students to pray for as we prepare and go about God's service. We are broken up into 4 smaller teams, each serving in different ways. The Community Ministries Team travels to local communities and neighborhoods to hold short day camps. The children will spend a week playing games, singing songs, making crafts, and hearing a Bible story. The Sports Ministries Team works in various Boys and Girls Clubs teaching kids how to play different sports and also about Christ and His love for them and how they can know Him. The Performance/Resort Ministries Team has a more difficult mission, in my own opinion. As hard as it may be to learn music and create dance routines, as nerve-wracking as it is to perform in front of large groups of people or walk up to complete strangers on the beach to share a Christ-like gesture, these missionaries live in Hilton Head for the summer among people who are well-off and find no real need for a God. To live and serve and witness in such a community that is so confident in themselves is a struggle indeed. Lastly, but the most recent addition, is the Kids Connexion Team, which will be working with children similarly to the Community Ministries Team but will be serving primarily with local churches doing Vacation Bible School. I'm not exactly sure what all that entails, but that's the description as I understand it. Either way, I'm sure it's going to be great!

Now that you have a little background on what each team does, I ask that you would pray for each team member. We will pray for each other of course, but I know from experience that, as we pour ourselves into the children we'll be working with and loving on, we will need to draw from other Christians as well. Your encouragement and support is so dearly desired!

Community Ministries:
Jessica Welborn
Jessica Walton
Elizabeth Legendre
Rachel Ivey
Diamond Black

Sports Ministries:
Anne Crane
Tim Laurent
Kurt Rogers
Blake Johnson

Performance/Resort Ministries:
Cynthia Wagner
Erica Malo
Nathan Ogle
Lainey Wilson

Kids Connexion:
Tola Akinsola
Zach Jordan
Patrick Kelly
Haley Vickery
 
So, this is my team! 17 students whose primary mission is God's glory. We would love to lead children and teens and adults to Christ, but if God is not seeking to expand His kingdom through us and rather has something else in mind, then we are all for it!
 
I feel like things since I've been home have been slightly hectic, although I know that they truly haven't been. It's as if time can't make up its mind about what pace it prefers. Some days seem to drag on forever, but in fact, I have already used up my second of three weeks! Today I heard a song on the radio, "While I'm Waiting" by John Waller, and it sort of struck me.

"I'm waiting
I'm waiting on You, LordAnd I am hopeful
I'm waiting on You, Lord
Though it is painful
But patiently, I will wait

I will move ahead, bold and confident
Taking every step in obedience

While I'm waiting
I will serve You

While I'm waiting
I will worship

While I'm waiting
I will not faint..."

I am in a state of waiting. And I will be waiting all my life, for different things throughout it of course, but waiting nonetheless. As I wait for my mission to begin at the end of this month, I will serve God, I will worship Him, and I will not grow faint or weary or restless or impatient or doubtful. I will put my full hope and trust in Him, to use this last week that I am at home for His glory, and I will find my joy in Him, whether I am singing his praises or crying out to Him. If I have to wait, which I do (and we all do), then I am going to wait on GOD and no one else, boldly and confidently.