The Driven Missions trip to Greater Los Angeles 2006
Our Mission
Turn both your pockets and your hearts inside out and give generously to the poor
Jesus
Covenant
1. Do all blog devotionals 2. Attend Driven/Sunday School/invert/small group when not at work 3. Weekly Prayers: 15 min for L.A. & 15 min for team 4. Silence: 1 hour weekly (20 min times) 5. Helping Hands 6. Committed to each other.
Training Schedule
April 22 - 6p April 23 - church services April 23 - 12:30-2pm May 7 - 12:30-2pm May 21 - 12:30-2pm June 3 - 9am-4pm all day advance June 3 - 3pm Parents Meeting June 4 - 12:30-2pm June 11 - 12:30-2pm
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Friday, May 19, 2006
This is a pretty big announcement for all of you team members. The core staff of the missions trip has decided to add Shanda to the missions trip team. Many of you know her already and many of you will get to know her as she willbe at the meeting on Sunday and be doing devotions over the next while.
Let's all welcome her to the team (round of applause!!)
Ok - So this game is a new one and it is going to have a prize!! This is a really funny weird game that is easy to play but I have no idea what is going on!! If you can take screen pictures of your creation, feel free to post them too!! Click here or on the title to play:
The winner of this game, is the one who gets the highest score. Lieing is against the rules.
The prizers will be as follows:
1. First prize gets to choose the first place we stop to eat at for lunch on the way down on Saturday. It has to be reasonable, though, not Outback, more like fast food.
2. Second prize chooses on Sunday, same deal.
3. Third place will recieve 25 random compliments from Aaron and Lacy during the trip.
Here's some things that you all need to be aware of:
1. This Sunday is another of our regular training meetings. A couple new leaders will be there so you can meet them. We'll be doing some training on the gospel, some personality work and talking about a prayer strategy, which includes taking your picture, so make sure you look as lovely as you all usually do.
2. Make sure all your devotionals are done, NOW! (in a gentle, loving way that will get upset if you don't...)
3. BIG SCHEDULE CHANGE! I've had to move the parents' meeting to the end of the day long retreat. Your folks will all receive a letter about this -
4. Be praying...it seems that God might be moving!!
It's saying that money isn't the only "wealth" in life. There's wealth in being able to be yourself with God. You don't have to pretend to be something you're not, because God would see right through it anyway.
But if the only wealth we're after is money, then we're just digging ourselves into a hole. And I think that we really need to remember that while we’re on the trip, money isn’t everything.
I really like these verses, and I think they both apply to us going into LA. They talk about how we should treat people. If we go to LA, yelling at everyone, we won't get the "results" we want, but rather just turn people away. I think if we go and be respectful to everyone, they will respect us and listen to what we have to say. Also, I think this verse can be decieving because it says to treat others the way you treat your parents, but if you don't have a good relationship with your parents, then you would, in a sense, not be able to build a relationship with the people you interact with.
I think these verses are talking about how omnipotent (click for definition) God is. It talks about how people are crafty and try to trick others, but God thwarts them. At the end of the section, it says the "downtrodden are saved by God," and that they are saved from those that would hurt them, by the grace of God. At the beginning it says that you should go straight to God because he is merciful and cares about you. ~ Brianna
sorry this one is late, I've been out for a few, so I'm catching up...
You need to talk to others and try to introduce them to God every chance you have because there are so many other people that have had the chance and pased it up. Also you must stand up for people that might have the same beliefs as you or maybe you can talk to them about God. ~Jacob
