Here is a review and some encouragements from Anna Wostbrock that attended the entire spring break mission trip:
Armstrong BCM’s spring break mission trip of 2013 was by far the most unique mission trip I have ever taken part in. For starters the trip was split into three parts. Part A: DNOW in Atlanta with Rock Springs Baptist Church and working with Reach the Nations. Part B: working with the BCM at GCSU in Milledgeville, services projects at two churches in the area and some painting at the Pregnancy Care Center there. Part C: DNOW in Rincon with First Baptist Church of Rincon. Each piece was very different and stretched us in unique ways. The DNOWs were both very relational times, working with Reach the Nations was very prayer focused, and the work we did in Milledgeville was all manual labor. Looking back I find it interesting that I was equally exhausted after a day of walking around apartment complexes prayer walking as I was when I finished a day of pulling weeds—big weeds!—and doing landscape work at the GCSU BCM. One was spiritually exhausting while the other was physically exhausting. We ended each day tired none the less and many memories were built along the way. One common way that God grew us all was in our mindset of prayer. Often times we take prayer so lightly. Yeah God listens to us and He hears our heart and we can ask for things. We might pray when a family member is sick or when we are about to take a test we forgot to study for. We always seem to use prayer as a way to make sure God is watching out for us. Some of us just do it out of habit. But how much of our heart is actually in those prayers? Everything we do should be clothed in prayer. If we do something and God is not a part of it, then is it truly worth anything at all? Prayer holds so much power but we must remember that we are not always guaranteed instant results. Sometimes we may never get to see or hear about the results at all. That does not mean God isn’t working. I could write about so many more amazing stories, ways God moved, and what I took from the trip. All in all it was an absolute success and everyone who took part in it came out extremely blessed.
Armstrong BCM’s spring break mission trip of 2013 was by far the most unique mission trip I have ever taken part in. For starters the trip was split into three parts. Part A: DNOW in Atlanta with Rock Springs Baptist Church and working with Reach the Nations. Part B: working with the BCM at GCSU in Milledgeville, services projects at two churches in the area and some painting at the Pregnancy Care Center there. Part C: DNOW in Rincon with First Baptist Church of Rincon. Each piece was very different and stretched us in unique ways. The DNOWs were both very relational times, working with Reach the Nations was very prayer focused, and the work we did in Milledgeville was all manual labor. Looking back I find it interesting that I was equally exhausted after a day of walking around apartment complexes prayer walking as I was when I finished a day of pulling weeds—big weeds!—and doing landscape work at the GCSU BCM. One was spiritually exhausting while the other was physically exhausting. We ended each day tired none the less and many memories were built along the way. One common way that God grew us all was in our mindset of prayer. Often times we take prayer so lightly. Yeah God listens to us and He hears our heart and we can ask for things. We might pray when a family member is sick or when we are about to take a test we forgot to study for. We always seem to use prayer as a way to make sure God is watching out for us. Some of us just do it out of habit. But how much of our heart is actually in those prayers? Everything we do should be clothed in prayer. If we do something and God is not a part of it, then is it truly worth anything at all? Prayer holds so much power but we must remember that we are not always guaranteed instant results. Sometimes we may never get to see or hear about the results at all. That does not mean God isn’t working. I could write about so many more amazing stories, ways God moved, and what I took from the trip. All in all it was an absolute success and everyone who took part in it came out extremely blessed.
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