Author: Adventures

Nashville Flood

An enormous storm hit Nashville last week and caused massive flooding in the area. It’s said to be the worst flood in middle Tennessee in the past 500 years.   A week later, the community is still recovering.   It rained nearly 14 inches, which is over a quarter of the annual rainfall, in two days. The Cumberland River flooded, homes were ruined, families had to be evacuated by boat in some areas, and many businesses were shut down due to water damage.   While the waters subsided in most places after the rain relented on Sunday evening, there was still more flooding...

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Praise and Worship on the Mission Field

On any AIM mission trip, worship is an essential element to keeping the group focused and re-energizing them after a long day of work and service.   One evening during our last mission trip in Nashville, the trip leaders turned the worship portion of the evening over to the group. Here is a clip of the college group leading one another in praise and worship:  

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Hearing God’s Voice in Unlikely Places

Jeremy shares his experiences from the Nashville mission trip:    My expectations of God, life, poverty and myself have all been blown to pieces this week.  I’m still not sure what I expected coming to Nashville, but this was certainly not it.  I came to a new understanding of God this week in the realization that the more I think I’ve come to know about Jesus the more I understand I have absolutely no idea.  I heard God speak to me this week… in both clear and nondescript ways.   One of the ways I came to experience God in an incredible...

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Life-Changing Conversations in Nashville

One of the trip participants shares how their mission trip to Nashville impacted them:   This week was incredible. God opened up my heart to a new city and new people.   Today, I met Allen, and my heart broke for him. He had been homeless for three hours before our group approached him.  We walked up to him, and he was very kind.   The conversation was very natural. We talked to him about God’s love and we told him about our friend Thomas at the Mission.    I don’t know whether he will end up at the Mission, but I pray that God will protect him...

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