Meanwhile...

This past weekend was PYC (Pacific Youth for Christ). I'll be honest, I wasn't too crazy about it at first. It was going to be a lot of seminars and whatnot and I was thinking how I would rather stay home or go to the beach or elsewhere. Nevertheless, I gathered myself together and went all four days (long wknd). I'll skip through the regular parts, which were good, to be sure. The speakers were all great and the seminars informative, that's all well and good. The significant part wasn't until later, the last day. We were told that we would be going out into the community door to door as coll-porters trying to get people to sign up for Bible studies and invite them to the free health fair the church and clinic were running that afternoon. Now. There are not many things that make me unsettled. Those of you that know me know that the things I'm genuinely made uncomfortable by could probably be counted on one hand. One of those things is going door to door trying to get people to take Bible studies because truth is, I've always felt like you should be very familiar with the Bible or a little more 'regular' of a Christian to do that. I'm not regular, and I'll admit that there are things that I'm not sure about in the Bible. However, I was the driver and ... overseer... of a bunch of kids and if I was going to run them, I figured I should participate and be the example. We go to the first house, say our lines and whatnot, and the lady invites us in, asks a ton of questions, and signed up for Bible studies. It was really amazing because we had a lot more then after that. And, the other groups had the same thing (I had divided the kids into groups of 2 or 3). It was awesome.

Later when I was talking to my friend Cecilia about this, she told me that at the collegiate Bible study Friday night they had been praying for me. Friday night in Maryland is Saturday afternoon in the Pacific. So while they were praying for me, we were having great success with our afternoons work. Pretty cool, huh?

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Edit: As I thought about this post later I realized an amusing if glaring error. The last day of the program was Monday, not Saturday as stated. Thus, the time of the Bible study groups prayer and our going door to door do not in fact line up. Nevertheless, I reckon that God can hold on to the power of prayer and release it at a later date, wouldn't you say? :p Cecilia, they still counted! I apologize for the mistake. It is due to my being somewhat exhausted by the weekend and not keeping my facts straight!