March has started out with craziness. I was involved in an Urban Immersion weekend the first weekend in March. It was a part of one of my classes. We visited various non-profit organizations and churches on Sat. and Sun. We started the weekend off with a church service with undocumented hispanics and then went to the Guadalupe center, which is in the Hispanic area of KC, it was really neat to see the building it is on record at a historical landmark because of the significance and history of the building it was beautiful. The whole day was spent going going going, we went to a place called Gracious Promise/Grandma House which is kind of life a restart for people who have been incarcerated and Grandma's House is for babies whose mothers had them while in prison its a really neat concept. Anyways we went to the homeless shelter also, which was my favorite part of the day, we ate lunch with the gentlemen at the center, I met a guy named Jack, he was really open and it was great to meet him and get to know him. On Sunday we went various churches throughout the community, my favorite place was Grand Avenue Temple Baptist Church. Its a church in inner city KC, and most of the people there are homeless. I sat in the floor of the church, there were people laying in the pews and the floor it was seriously an eye opening experience.
Enough of the fun weekend experience, this month has also been full of other things such as my 24th bday!!! Me and a few of my friends went to the RainForest Cafe for dinner, it was my first time there, and it was a Blast!!!! Here are a few pictures from the evening
The top picture is of me and my light up smoothie cup! The one to the left is me and my roommate sarah and the one on the right is me and my friend shaun from MVNU.
It was a fun night, we came back to my house and had cake and icecream and them I CRASHED!!!!
This past week has been reading and research week A.K.A. spring break. I have been trying to become motivated and get some work done, however I have not been productive at all .... not a good things I have so much to do and no time to do it between work, internships and classes. My work at the youth centers is going really well. I have started volunteering at the new sight also, the kids are younger and so its a different atmosphere all together, we took the kids skating on Wednesday and it was a total blast, they had the old school skates no roller blades and i thought i was gonna fall and break my neck!!! On Tuesday i went to power play with the KCUYC and i tell you what it was totally fun!!! I played laser time for the first time in prolly 7 or 8 years!!! and I was ranked #6 of 18 players, i would have to say I am amazing!!!!
Easter Sunday was a blast, we went to Kim Tharp's house for dinner and it was a great time to get to know other people from church and seminary that we hadnt met before. Now its nap time , or at least it was suppose to be ive been all caught up watching movies!!!
Hopefully I will try and update a little more once things start to calm down!!!! Continue praying for me and God's will for my life. I am hoping to come home soon its definately time to take a trip and get away from this place!!!!! Take care and you all have a wonderful week!!!
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Jack's one of my favorite guys at the Mission...he hasn't been around for a few days though.
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