During our last ATL (Ask the Lord), one of our Jr. High girls received a vision from God about the McDonald’s Golden Arch. She didn’t see the building, nor did she see any words, just the Arch. We really did not think too much about it because there was such little detail to the vision and McDonald’s really was not part of our plan for the day.   The afternoon we headed back to Centennial Park in Nashville for an afternoon prayer walk. We had been to this park the previous two days for various ministry opportunities. As soon as we stepped out of the van one of the kids...

On Monday, we went to the nursing home. We did a skit for the residents there. The skit was about the peer pressures and temptations that we go through growing up. The residents really enjoyed it.   We then went around the nursing home and visited with random people.I had a nice conversation for about 45 minutes with a man named Billie Joe. He told me about his life.   Later that day we did ATL’s (“Ask the Lord”) and we all sat seperately with our Bibles and asked God to tell us where to go. I got a picture of an African-american toddler with a ponytail in her hair...

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...

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 popped...