Scott and I just returned home from our mission trip. We had an amazing time. We worked our tails off, but any breaks we had we found new things to see in San Diego. I don't know if any of you have ever been to San Diego, but it is beautiful!! We will definitely be going on vacation there some time. So back to the trip. We went with our church Prestonwood North to help a church plant. This church plant is a little different in that there is not a local nearby church supporting them. The churches supporting them are from around the country. San Diego is not majority christian. In fact if 1% of San Diego county showed up for church on Sunday there would not be enough seats. I definitely realized I live in a bubble. So here is how our trip went.
Arrival on Thursday: Lunch, check in hotel, stuff envelopes, knocked on 200 doors. Now when I mean knock on 200 doors, I mean climb hills. There are so many hills there.
Friday: Morning time we knocked on 400 doors, lunch, run by the beach, evening we knocked on 600 more doors and mad 250 phone calls This time there were doors slammed in faces, someone threatened to sick their big dog on a girl, and a dog came through a screen door at someone else.
Saturday: Kids camp all day. We had a muslim little girl ask Jesus to come into her heart. Pretty amazing!!! Saturday night was our free night, we were suprised and taken to the Cowboys game, left early to see a little of San Diego
Sunday: Church, lunch, church outreach swim party. A lady who had never been to church and whose mom is Jehovah's Witness asked me many questions. I asked her if she had ever accepted Christ, she said she thinks, but she wanted to pray anyways. She has many questions and I am keeping in contact with her. When she left, she introduced the children's pastor to her girls as their new church teacher. Again, she had never been to church.
Monday: Pack up and head home.
Our main job was to do anything and everything this church needed. They have no building yet, so everything is done out of their home. They right now host a ton of community events so that getting people to come will be easier and then the next step is church. They tried at first just inviting people to church, that did not work, so they are doing it this way. The neighborhoods we canvassed were mainly asian and indian. It was amazing to see these people saying they were interested in coming to church. You can check out the church website and crosschurchsandiego.com.
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Glad y'all had a good time and a great experience! I've heard that stat before about San Diego and it's astonishing--you're right, we do live in a bubble! I think everybody in Lubbock could go to church and there would be enough seats left over for the 1% of San Diego!
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Sounds like a crazy time!! It is beautiful there. What a neat thing to help with. Scary dog situations...geez.
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