Debriefing Starts...

Not much to blog today but it was a really, really, great day! Got to wake up a little later and then headed to the airport to pick up Margaret, who is on staff with our national EPIC team, and is here to help with the debrief portion of our summer project. It was soooo great to see her and to get some time with her! We then met up with Whitney and Mary for lunch at the one and only Pietro's. Yum Yum! Afterwards, headed back to the house and just hung out, talked some more, and started to look over and plan some of our debrief time. Realizing how important this time will be for our students as they start finishing up this summer and head back to their respective campuses and home. Praying that it will be a really good time of processing for each of them and to really celebrate and reflect the ways that they have seen this summer change their lives & what they are taking back - both in the good ways and even the harder ways. During that time, Chris called and shared that today at KCC (one of their last campus times), their team was able to engage in a few spiritual conversations as well as see a few people make decisions for God!!! :) It was awesome!!! After that, headed out and went back to the airport to pick up Brent!!! It was so fun to see him again after spending the whole summer with him and in his tiredness and deliriousness, we went to Zippy's to grab dinner and planned a little bit more. Then headed straight over to meet with the student project directors, Bandy (Chris), Pang, and Melody, to hear how the summer has been for them as well as what will be happening in the next few days. It was just an encouraging time to hear how the past couple weeks have been going and to see them work together was just fun and encouraging! They are a great group of leaders and have worked really hard! I think for me the neatest thing was to hear them step out of a place of just trying to figure out logistics and details for the team, which were important, but to really focus on prayer and God first - and when this happened, everything else just fell into place. To know that they led the rest of this summer with God as their #1, taking themselves out of these roles and really seeing the Lord's hand in it, was just encouraging and exciting to hear! I am looking forward to these next few days and just really closing out this summer well, especially for these students! They have poured so much of themselves into this summer and have given me excitement for this next school year! Praise God!

Melody, Chris, Pang
(student project directors)