Another FULL day of ministry in New Mexico by FBCK youth

What a blessing today has been!  Praise God for answering many prayers we’ve made about this mission trip:

• For our youth to serve others,
• For discipleship with the people of Carlisle Community Baptist Church,
• For people in this community to come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord & Savior,
• For our work to be done without injury or incident to anyone,
• and many other prayers…

We completed our 2nd day of work at Love INC (In the Name of Christ).  We completed 3 days of setup for block party activities/engage with the community/take down block party activities.  This labor of love has been SO rewarding to both youth and adults alike.  Again, may God be praised for His hand upon all of us.

A team of 9 of our youth and 2 adults made a delivery of furniture this morning to a family in need. We prayed over that family as we left and encouraged them to participate in a place of worship where the Bible is preached, such as Carlisle Community Baptist Church.

In the afternoon we setup the final day of block party activities.  Today’s turnout was more than we had attend the previous 2 days.  Four youth stood on the sidewalk corner next to Carlisle Street which is a block away from the actual church and waived in as many passing cars as they could.  We know this seemingly silly technique was blessed by the Lord because one brand new Christian told us so.  She was a nurse coming home from work who had avoided coming to the block party yesterday, but when she passed the enthusiastic youth pointing to the block party area and holding a sign, her two young kids convinced her to stop today.  This stop was no accident, it was a divine appointment that changed her life starting today.  Praise God!

After shutting down the block party today, we met in the church sanctuary to recap major events of the day and give “shout outs” to those we observed serving Christ throughout the day.  We heard two youth tell about leading 4 different kids to the Lord who came to the block party.  An adult leader spoke of the nurse who accepted Jesus as her Lord as well. Another youth who was a brand new Christian spoke of an opportunity she had to pray for the needs of an individual today.  By this time it was almost 8:30pm, but they could have gone on talking about how God was working in our midst today that we probably could have kept testifying for another hour!

Instead, we loaded our vans and enjoyed a great meal at Fuddruckers where we celebrated Meredith Freer’s 15th birthday by eating some cake afterwards.  

Today we saw the wonderful work of God’s powerful hand upon our youth.  All the adult leaders were glad to see the love of Christ shared with this community in such as powerful way today through our youth. 

We’ve added even more pictures of the past few days posted to our picture site:
www.fbckeller.smugmug.com/missions

Please continue to pray for this mission trip as we get some rest tonight and do a little clean-up work at the church following our block parties in the morning.  After that we plan to visit a nearby reservation and do some sight-seeing in the afternoon on Sandia Peak.  Tomorrow night we plan to have a worship service at 6pm and many of the folks who came to the block party have promised they’d come to the service tomorrow.  Please pray for even more opportunities for us to share the love of Jesus Christ tomorrow!