So here I am just a week away from Spring Break, which means that it is just one week until we leave for Hays, Kansas on our GO Trip. And last night we had our next to last team meeting, planning for this trip. So what do I know so far? I was going to wait until closer until the trip to give you some of the details, but I think I will go ahead and fill you in on some of them today instead.
We leave Saturday morning (at some point) from campus and have an 11-12 hour van ride to Hays, Kansas. We are taking a 15-passenger van for the 11 of us, and we have to get all of our luggage and supplies in this van as well. I think it will work.
On Sunday we get settled in and go to church with some of the students that we are going to be working with throughout the week. I am not sure what else we will be doing on Sunday.
Monday will be the start of the week at the university, working alongside the BCM (what they call Christian Challenge). We will be promoting the BCM in various ways throughout the week, such as a Bingo night.
Tuesday night is the BCM's weekly service, and along with a missionary that is coming in that same week, we are going to help out with their service that night. One thing that we are currently working on is a skit to use that night.
Wednesday, or at least I think it is this day, we are going to do some service projects. The BCM meet in the church and in the leader's home. So we are going to help those buildings in some way, basically doing whatever it is that they want done.
Thursday will be a day of prayer walking on the campus of Fort Hays State. We will intentionally be on the campus each day building connections, spreading the Gospel, possibly going to class with these students, and eating lunch with different students that we meet. But on Thursday we will spend a good part of the day on campus in prayer for the university.
Friday will be the last day we have in Kansas, and they are giving us the morning off. So we may venture out to the Fort that is in Hays Kansas, hence the name of the university. It is our free day, and we are going to find some type of tourist activity for the day. But then that night, the BCM is hosting a "Cowboy" theme international meeting for international students. We are helping out with the party, and yes, we are to bring and wear cowboy clothing. We have also been told that there might be a mechanical bull there as well.
Then the second Saturday of the trip will be our trip home. I do not know when we are leaving, or when we will arrive back in Jackson. But the trip will be over, and I might be able to give you an update about the trip at that point.
Now during the trip I will be offline and away from my phone. Technology like that is not allowed on these trips. Our focus needs to be on why we are serving in these places during our break. So we will be away from phone calls and text messages as well as facebook and the blog. But I will give an update as soon as I get back.
Matt
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