Week One!

Ok

Sorry about the huge lapse in communication, but our internet has been down , and the owner of the Peter Pan motel JUST came today to reboot the router.

ANYHOO

Week one of project is done! I am having a blast now and know pretty much everyone here! Since my last post , I have gotten my bike back, which is now officially everyone’s fave, probably almost even better than Justin’s bike, which is a piece of junk =) (Carbon fiber? Full Ultegra? who needs that?)
Also since my last post, we had a group scavenger hunt at the Boardwalk, which my team, the Raging Semicolons lost. We won the prize for the best name, but lost in all other events, including dodgeball on the beach. It was a really fun day.
We had a lot of training on Friday, including how to share the Knowing God Personally booklet, which I’ve been trained on at pretty much every Crusade event (lol) and how to give a good testimony. We also had job training. YAY! Actually I am really excited about working at Whitings’ Food company and being the cook. Whitings Foods, which owns almost every fast food thing at the boardwalk, gives their employees 50% off of food, which means I can eat cheap. We also make 850 an hour, which is way more than minimum wage in NC. Furthurmore, if I sell like a bunch of these boardwalk souveneir cups, I get gift cards to Best Buy based on how many I sell. You can get a 1,000 gift card!
Saturday we actually started our jobs. At Whitings you get placed at random stations, and I worked at Pizza Hut. Hah. Then Saturday night after dinner we did our first official outreach, going downtown and experiencing the true bizarreness of Santa Cruz. My and my two other s got to share the Gospel with 5 or 6 different people. Awesome! None of them accepted Christ then and there, but they have the Truth now %3A) Nothin’ like sharing some Jesus. While initiative evangelism is great, it’s really awesome to work out here and minister to your coworkers. I’m a huge fan of natural, relational evangelism. Already I’ve gotten to share with some of my coworkers about why we’re out here and invite them to dinner with us at the Peter Pan! I can’t wait to get in to deeper conversations with them and really get to know them better.

Today we went to our different churches for service and then to help serve the churches in various ways. I went to a church called Vintage Faith, which was really incredibly cool. It’s really artsy, cool and relaxed. More on that later.I have many more stories from today, but it is already after midnight, so they will have to wait til later. I had no idea I would be so busy.

Love and miss you all
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