We made it!

Wow, it's been a crazy twenty-four hours. We managed to get ourselves safety (and relatively efficiently) to Indianapolis! We started out with tours of our host church and a little circle soccer in the parking lot for good measure. We had our first evening program at 7 PM which included a lot of pertinent information for the week. Emily and I played and sang three songs, which was a lot of fun! We were divided up into work crews, so we all got to find out who we'll be spending the week with and approximately what we'll be doing. A lot of us wound up in a food pantry, so we'll be sorting, cleaning and organizing a large food pantry within a church in Indy. Some from St. Mark's are going to a homeless shelter and at least one person is going to help with a children's program at an inner city church.

Our theme for the week is "repair." We are to see not only what types of physical, mental and emotional repair we can have with/for others, but we'll witness first-hand the repair that Jesus will have on our lives if we are open to it. "God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing." - Ephesians 2:10 We have all selected titles within our work groups and been given different responsibilities within our group. (We brought a lot of "organizers," go figure.)

We had Youth Group devotions after our meeting and then we stayed up too late playing knock-out in the gym/multipurpose space.

All in all things are going as well as can be expected. I'm excited to see what the week holds for us all!

The picture below is us at dinner and before the opening program/worship.

Rob