Jr. High Embrace Chicago

It has been a great trip so far with the Jr. High students.  This is their first experience on a trip like this and they are all doing great.  We are working at Carole Robertson each morning in their head start program.  Yesterday, we worked at the Good News kitchen and served a hot meal to about 125 guests (picture above).  Tonight we worked at the Greater Chicago Food Depository sorting and boxing over 4000 lbs of bread!  It was a great experience for our students to work behind the scenes and to not necessarily see what was going to happen with all the food or get any credit.

I am excited for the small steps our students are taking:

Realizing that there are some in our world that really struggle just to make it every day.  

That they can make a difference.

That the world is not all about them...at least we talked about it a little!

Please continue to pray for us...tomorrow we will be headed into the city with only $2 each to buy dinner.  We will be put in the situation of feeling like we are homeless.  I hope they experience something like never before. 

I love being a part of what God is doing in the city of Chicago and watching Him do even the little things in the lives of jr. highers.