Elliot Stokes, CO staff for Northwestern College and the leader for the CCP team here, will be giving the theme training today. He will unpack more on what it means for a Christian to be an exile in this world. As mentioned, Garden City Baptist (GCB) has been burned down, so Theme Training will be…
As of this week, everyone on project is employed. With the staff leaving among other things, this week is proving to be busy in many ways, yet disciples had the opportunity to spend a quiet morning together in prayer. This morning, many of the disciples chose to meet on the beach and pray for the…
Theme Training this week was organized by Jack Thompson’s team. After a great video and amazing testimony, Matt Reagan spoke on “Grace: an Exile’s Gospel.” The Christian life is not one of duty, but of celebration.The recording from this session will be joining the others soon. Eric Lonergan’s Bible Study Training from this week is…
Monday was a challenging day. The day started with the entire staff and the few students without jobs going to look for one. The staff and around 14 other students prayed before making their way into town. After going around Garden City, we got the news that a couple of students were able to get…
This first week made students feel at home. Through the different activities, seminars and small groups, we have been able to build strong friendships. Moreover, this morning at our Life Training Seminar, Matt Reagan talked about how we as Christians should embrace the idea of receiving and giving money. Later in the morning, the students…
Our first theme talk from Andrew Knight was last Thursday night. He talked about we are separated from relationship with God because of our sin. Jesus who died for our sins is our substitute, so that we are called righteous by God. This is not based on anything that we do (our works), but solely…
There were not many complications on our way to Garden City. On Thursday night, we started out with our first seminar. Andrew Knight talked and introduced us to the theme of this Summer Project 2009, “Exiles”. Friday and Saturday were the days to look for jobs. Most of the students by now have obtained jobs…
Today at 4 PM we are expecting the caravan of disciples to arrive at SBP. When they arrive, we will help them get registered, take their bags to their room, and enjoy pop-ice to help cool us off in this heat. We have our first meeting tonight where Andrew Knight will talk about our theme…