This Saturday we leave for New York bright and early! Our team is very excited to see what God will do in us and through us this coming week! We will be working at The Bowery Mission (http://www.bowery.org)
The Bowery serves the homeless and the hungry of New York. We will be helping with chapel services, serving meals, helping out with needs at The Bowery, and most of all sharing the love of God with the broken. Each day we will wake up early, go to chapel, serve breakfast, work at The Bowery, go to chapel, serve lunch, work at The Bowery, go to chapel, serve dinner, and then have some time to relax and go on runs to get ice cream or Whole Foods down the street! Last year we did a lot of sorting food into crates. All the food The Bowery serves is donated, and it comes in by the truck loads! Each day an outreach truck goes, and some of our group will get to go. On an outreach trip, food is taken to parks or neighborhoods around New York and people literally line up and walk down the line receiving food. Outreach is a favorite of many veterans to the Bowery.
On Sunday we will go to worship at the Brooklyn Tabernacle and have lunch in Time Square. Thursday night we are going out to eat and to see the Sister Act on broadway and have Juniors Cheesecake for dessert! Our last day will be a sightseeing day! We are going to the Top of the Rock, Union Station, on a NBC Studio tour, and on a speedboat ride on the Hudson River! It will be a busy day before we head home that night.
Please be in prayer for our trip! Pray specifically for the people we will come in contact with, that we will be a loving light of the Lord. Pray that we will have a heart full of compassion for the people there and be willing to serve no matter what, even when it takes us out of our comfort zones.
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