Adventures – Page 3

Hearing God’s Voice in Unlikely Places

March 30, 2010
Adventures
Listening Prayer

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...

How to See Jesus More Clearly

March 25, 2010
Adventures
Life Change

Jeremy reflects on a week of ministry in Nashville: Wow! What a week! I cannot even believe how much I learned about and grew with the Lord. It was simply amazing. Nashville was the perfect city to do God’s work. We came with open hearts ready to serve, but had no idea what God had in store for us. We began the week deep in prayer, training ourselves to really listen to God’s words. As we began our journey at the Nashville Rescue Mission, more lessons were learned. Thomas, the warehouse manager, showed us how important it is to love with your whole heart and...

God is Limitless

March 24, 2010
Adventures
Life Change

The final night of the trip, we asked the team to share some memorable stories and reflections. Amy shares how her mission trip to Nashville impacted her: God is limitless unlike I’ve ever imagined. I came into the week wanting to serve and I knew I would have the chance but I didn’t know what chances God would give me to grow. He gave me the strength to listen, He gave me the strength to speak, He gave me the strength to pray and He gave me the strength to pull Him out of the box I’d unknowingly placed him in. “Break my heart for what breaks yours”...

Nashville Mission Trip: Chaos and Peace

March 19, 2010
Adventures
General Posts

Sara Willard (Harrisonburg, VA), a participant on a college break mission trip to Nashville, recently wrote after her trip: So continuing on the theme of lessons learned during the Nashville trip, I think one of my friends said it best when they said just when they feel like they are beginning to know God and understand him, he does something so incredible and crazy and complex that it feels like you don’t know him at all. I feel like that’s what this whole week was. Just when I felt like I was getting some sort of a handle on God, he blows my mind. As I was...

Photo Blog: People Loving Nashville

March 19, 2010
Adventures
General Posts

A little over a year ago, Ryan Lampa started getting together with a few of his friends on Monday nights to make dinner for about ten homeless people. Today, the core of friends has grown to about 30 people, and the number of homeless fed has grown anywhere from 80 to 150. They call themselves People Loving Nashville. They don’t do it for recognition, they don’t do it because it makes them feel good, they do it because there are people on the streets who need love, a friend, and a good meal. Ryan and his friends gather together before they...

Outreach on the Streets of Nashville

March 19, 2010
Adventures
Listening Prayer

Last week, we had our first AIM mission trip here in Nashville. The group was a college-age group from Virginia (mostly James Madison University students). At the beginning of the trip, I explained to the group that they were going to be challenged to grow in new ones, as we introduced them to situations where they were forced to rely on God. One of my favorite moments (there were plenty to choose from) was early on in the trip when the group got together after supper and prayed together, asking God for direction. As images of orange cones and stoplights and neon signs...

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