The best part of the week, in my opinion, is definitely reading the evaluations that everyone hands in. Getting both the positives and the negatives from the week is fun to read and also gives some great insight into what can be improved for BB's in the future. This quote from an evaluation was unanimously the best one we had heard out of them all. "There are streams of living water in Chicago." Sarah, my boss, was the first to point it out and it has stuck in all of our minds ever since we read it. I love seeing how people have remembered and applied what they have learned throughout the week to the questions that are posed in the evaluations. It's amazing how someone can start out with one view point and by the end of the week have changed so much!
Probably the worst part of the week was when the Tennessee groups' bus got raptured. It went something like this...
Jared had just taken the very large group of BB's to the El Experience (see last post if confused). They all happily parked and got on the train thinking this was an ordinary BB outing. Little did they know that upon return they would be 15 passengers short of a ride home.
Jared led the group off the train and back to the vans to return back to Sunshine Gospel after the excursion. Kevin Twit, the leader from the Tennessee group, walked up to Jared and asked him what he had done with the van. Jared, not having a clue what Kevin was talking about, told him he hadn't done a thing and then asked Kevin what HE had done with the van. This is when they came to the very bright conclusion that Jesus must have come and taken the van to a better place since there was absolutely no sign that there had ever been a van there- no glass, no tire marks, no nothing. Simply raptured!
But really, the van got stolen and it was quite an experience having everyone running around trying to figure out how to get the Tennessee group back to Sunshine and around for the rest of the week.
Yikes.
At the end of the week, Joel (head of the ministry and also head of the house i'm living at) had to drive the Sunshine 15 Passenger van and all of the Tennessee group back to their homes and then return. Whew! What a week! But overall, the whole week was a blast.
On Sunday, Sunshine had a very small, community-based church service in the Sunshine building that was literally less than 30 people. I think that's what made it so great though. It was a really nice way to start the day and just fellowship with other believers. Sloppy Joe's followed and everyone had a great time. Dave Clark, Lead Youth Administrator for Sunshine, preached about who Jesus is and how he takes those who are outcasts in society and shows them that they aren't useless. He loves the women, the lepers, the tax collectors, and the children. It was great to hear something that I've heard so many times, the simple basics of who My Saviour is, in a way that made it all seem new again. It was a great refresher and amazing start to the week.
Yesterday was a very chill day with a lot of cleaning going on and that's about it. A full house clean at the Hamernick's and a bit of clean-up over at Sunshine were the only things on the agenda for the day since there was a gas leak at Sunshine...meaning no one was working because the heat was turned off and, well, there was a gas leak.
Today was my day off for the week and it was a ton of fun! The reason I had the day off was because Sarah had class all day at the college she is attending, DePaul University. This morning Paula, Joel's wife and BB Cook, woke me up and got us all kick started by getting us over to the upper offices of Sunshine (no gas leak there....don't worry....) for a staff prayer meeting. It was a great time of reflection and fellowship on John 14. The staff of Sunshine is more like a family than anything and everyone shared prayer requests at the end. It was great!
Overall, it's been great getting to know the group and just in general working within a ministry I love.
Maranatha.
-Kelly
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