Planes, Trains and BBQ

We're FLYING!!

 We are off to a great start!
 It's only the end of day two and we have had lots of adventures! After our red eye flight, we took Saturday afternoon to rest and had dinner with a group from Candies Creek Baptist Church! The girls got a new "Hey Y'all" shirt and i'm proud to see them in Tennessee Orange! As the girls are accustomed  to the Dominican sun year around, they are a little cold! Ashley told me she felt like she was standing in front of a freezer :) haha

Today, we attended church at "the Creek" (my home church). The girls were introduced and prayed over as a team; Ileana and Genesis shared a beautiful testimony of how VC Revolution has impacted their lives and how God has changed thier story through this time on the team. Naomy also used her amazing vocal talent to lead us in the song "How Great is Our God". Yeah...we were crying by the end of all this!

Our pastor commented that there was sweet spirit present this morning and I would have to agree. Our church is focusing this season on discipleship. The challenge at the end of the sermon was to come to the front and write the name down of someone God has put on your heart to disciple and many girls responded and went forward to write a name. I was very proud of them! It's hard to explain how God is already moving, I know that he has a great plan for these girls now and as well as when they get back to the DR. God is continuing to show me that even though I have "planned/scheduled" things for this trip, his purpose will prevail, and so far, it is more than I could have known to ask for. God is so good!

PRAYER NEEDS for now:

The girls are now with their host families, pray for their time with the families to be impactful and that they can grow and learn from each other.

Tomorrow we will be painting and doing other service projects with a local youth group, pray that even through the language barrier, they can connect with those their age.

We are praying that God does BIG things in their lives this week!

Thanks y'all

The girls loved riding the train in the ATL airport

Mabelis and I bright-eyed at 2am

knocked out!

first meal out..SUBWAY!

Excited about our gifts...Big Orange T shirts :)

"Freeze out" game yesterday afternoon! crazy what girls will do for some shopping money! 

With the Sunday School Class from CCBC that brought us dinner

"Meet and Greet" luncheon with their host families for the week
Of course we had good taste of the south with some BBQ  and baked beans :)

Carolina and Emmy having fun!

STAY TUNED...