so i am not going to wright 9 more blogs for the nine more days I was gone because right now im using a really slow computer so it takes forever to wright a blog and post it but I will tell you about most of it in this blog.
So we finally make it too New York and we all were very excited. They pulled the bus up and told us to leave our stuff in it that we were going to eat lunch, so we had good ol peanut butter and jelly lol, and we met some of the metro staff. we were suppose to have to eat pb&js for the rest of our trip but the people who worked for metro found that mean so they said we would only eat pb&js for lunch that they would cook us supper. and after all that they took us to where we were going to stay and it was in a really run down building and there was only 4 showers for 50 some girl and we only had 30 minutes in the mornings to get ready and we had to clean the place every morning but we had no cleaner so we just had to find ways to make it look clean, I found out since our group was so big that I would not be going to Manhattan I would be going down in the Bronx which is a really ruff part of New York. and then we went to church later that night and got to meet a bunch of the kids from around there.
after a few days we started going out and starting side walk Sunday school, it was so much fun to get out there a play with the kids, but it was not all fun and games. We started out doing alot of games and giving out prizes and as it got later we would get all the kids to come sit down and then we would start our lesson and drama it was amazing at what alot of these kids had came from and how broken they felt, when alter call came they would just come up front and start crying and asking how they could know more about Jesus. But the first few day I really did not feel I was doing much good I had not really got into a conversation about God with any of them and so I started praying that the Lord would just use me in whatever way possible. Through side walk Sunday school we did not only try to reach the kids but we tried to reach the adults too, after I had prayed it was the first day we got to do our drama and a little old lady came up to me and gave me a hug and told me I had changed her life, I told her it was not me that God had only used me. and come to find out she was the grandma to some of the children there and she was trying to raise them by herself so before she left I made sure that she got a bag of food to take with her. Its amazing how God works I saw him do so many things while I was in New York, its way to many to ever tell. The last day that we did side walk Sunday school that asked all the teens with teen mania to come up front that they wanted us to pray with the children who wanted prayer so we were standing up front and a little girl who i had played with all day came running to me, she was 9 years old, I cant remember her name to save my life but I remember everthing she told me, she asked me to pray for her mom and dad that they were always really mean to her and her sister but she would not tell me what they did to be mean to her so I prayed with her and when I was done I told her that God loved her and that I loved her and she looked at me and started crying and just kept saying YOU LOVE ME, I dont know if anyone had never told her they loved her or what but she just sat in my lap carying and then she begged me not to leave her when it was time for me to go and I just started crying, and I knew right then and there that thats why the Lord wanted me on this trip to show the kids that people did love them and that he loved them so much that he would die to save them. I know I want to go back to New York sometime I just dont know when. Oh and I talked to one of the ladys who works with Metro and she told me that that little girl got saved.
Its amazing a how great God is and yet we take him for granted everyday, he died so that we can live yet most people in the world today are ashamed to even tell there friends about Jesus Christ and what he did for them, I challenge anyone who is reading this blog right now to be the one to make a diffrence in this world to step out of your confort zone and tell atleast one person about the love of Jesus Christ. People talk about all the time how bad schools are getting and how bad we need jobs, and what all this world is coming too. Sure they can talk about how bad it is but they wont step up and try to change that, as many churches there is around the world im sure if atleast one person out of every church steped up you could see change in no time. So if you are reading this I challenge you to step up and make that change, nothing will ever change if no one even trys. I never realized how lazy we are about our faith until I went on this trip, as many people as there are in New York you would think that these people would know about the love of Christ but 99.9% of the people I talked to in New York had never even heard about Jesus, I think that I remember talking to one person who really knew about Jesus, and we should feel ashamed for that, because we are the ones suppose to being spreading the good news of Christ.
I dont know why I wrote all that I just felt that someone really needed to hear it.
Until Next Time,
~Jessie~
