The second week of summer project really is kind of the actual start of the project and getting down to business a little bit...
The first Sunday up in Juneau, I went to this church called Glacier Valley Baptist Church and I would say that it is pretty solid. The preacher's sermon (Gordon Mills) was about putting on true armor for God. Ephesians 6:10-18 talks about the fact that we need to have a lot more motivation to go to the world and put on the body armor for Christ. The is NO neural ground when wanting to serve for Christ; either you are on his side or not. A person needs to develop good character that way other people can come along and follow you. Mills talked about the fact that every time you go to battle for Christ you put the whole full body armor on. I thought that point was really interesting.
Monday was Monday Night Live; what that is all about is getting the entire group together including the ladies and basically planning the projects and the things that we will be doing over the week. The first week of Manhood Development night also started this week as well (Tuesday Nights) and I thought that we pretty good but at the same time very tough because as guys we need to become one and figure out things together. So, all the guys we were hiking to a certain spot and we came up on this rope and each of us was carrying a log which ended up representing the sins that we have committed in the past and we had to figure out how to get OVER the rope without touching it. The rope was sitting half up the tree going across.
That also includes the the logs not touching the ground either. After about 45 minutes or so, everyone finally got over the rope, this was all about building that team unity learn how to communicate with each other instead of working as an individual. Push ups with the logs on ours backs was tougher I think because of the fact that you or anybody else can't drop the log to the ground or you will as least to one more. After that having quiet time with God me and a lot of us came to our reality that Christ is real and he forgives us for our sins. We don't have to work extremely hard to try to impress him. Christ has done all of the work for us. We need to come before us him and confess our sins.
Went hiking for the first time and it was wonderful. The view looking down on top of the city of Juneau was something else. Somehow, someway so far this summer I have overcome the fear of heights with been on the airplane and then the next going hiking on a mountain. Never done that before so it was been an interesting experience so far that for sure. The same night (Thursday) our action group had dinner cooked by our leader James. Had a really good pasta served up with veggies, bread and root beer.
Camping is something that I haven't done in a long time. Going camping on Friday was pretty good, I mean the fact that we didn't really find a good spot to really camp at, we kind of made our own spot and set up shop for the night. Before we actually went to sleep, my action group went down to the beach and saw a huge whale come out of the ocean. I can actually hear some noise coming out of the whale as it sort of went it's own way. The whale itself would make the same noise when we were about to catch some sleep, but after a while the noise stopped. This project is about to head in to it's 3rd week, until then catch you guys next week as the series continues...God bless.
Green-White-Checkered: 3 Questions or Thoughts about this week or beyond
Green: What is God teaching you so far on this project?
A: God has taught me quite a few things so far; one of the things that I have learned to this point is being level-headed. People get way to high or low when things start happening. When it comes to talking about the gospel; I'm not a know-it-all type of person. It all about listening to what the other person is saying and giving him or her the type of answers that they would like to hear instead of debating with a person or a group for that matter.
White: What are the mountains like up there in Juneau?
A: I would say that these mountains are very, very huge. Just looking at them from the outside without even hiking on them can be very intimidating. Hiking on the first mountain Mt. Roberts was nice just to get used to all of the hills and trails. I might be going on a few more hikes before the summer is out.
Checkered: How is the city of Juneau after two weeks?
A: I would say that it's busy with lots of tourists and other things that are going like crew ships coming in from off the ocean and lots of people coming and going is pretty neat. Doing outreach to a city is very different than a on a college campus but it's one of the good ways to interact with people and get their side of the story.
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