Wow. I’m still kind of speechless about what
happened last night. But I think that I need to push through this to write
because if this is any indication of what I’ll be feeling while I’m in India
then I know that you’ll want/need to hear it (regardless of whether it makes
you or me a little uncomfortable).
We’ve had some guests at our church for the past
couple of days and they’ve helped start a reformation in Boone. Last night we
took that and went out into the community, ready to love on the sweet people in
this town. We went on this thing called a treasure hunt. Seriously the coolest
thing. We started at the church office and just began praying for specific
“clues”, now these clues can and did get very specific. I’m talking shirt
colors, tattoo placement, hairstyles, names, health issues, locations, you name
it really. Already this is blowing my mind and I’m almost starting to doubt if
I’m just making this up to make myself look better. But then we split up into
teams and we’re sharing our lists and ours are starting to match up. Mind still
blown. Our team immediately knows that Wal-Mart is the place to headfirst. We
get there and I start walking around looking for things on my list and nothing
is really jumping out at me, and oddly I’m not getting frustrated (so take that
stupid devil!), I’m too excited seeing other people from my team succeed. Then
all of a sudden three clues came back to back to back. Now only four of mine
happened last night but this fourth one still gives me chills. Hollie and I
were standing up at the front waiting for our team leader to get done so we
could leave and this girl walks up to us and asks where we go to church. We
were both a little shocked but told her and she said that she heard a man
talking about Jesus (pointing to our team leader) and had overheard another
girl praying and assumed we were with them. We can barely get out “Is there any
way we can pray for you?” before she started telling us about her sister who
lives in Boone and had recently had a baby. Now pregnant was one thing on my
list so my ears perked up a bit. We asked what her sisters name was and she
said her name was Sarah (also a clue on my list!). With shaking hands I show
her my list and to my surprise she knows exactly what were doing and she had
done one of these with her church a couple weeks before! Well long story short
but we prayed for her and for her sister and then exchanged phone numbers and Facebook
info to keep in contact. That one clue was totally of the Lord and I still
can’t really sit still thinking about good He was last night!
Now if I told you that that was all that happened
that would still be a great story but that also wouldn’t be true. I got up at
my usually early time today but got ready fast enough so I could go to Wal-Mart
and get the new Carrie Underwood album (highly recommend it btw) and as I’m
walking back to the back I walk through the meat section (not really sure why
because it’s not exactly on the way) BUT hamburger was on my list so why not?
Shocker of all shockers but there is a woman over there stocking the hamburger.
OK so now I’d like to insert that I also had the name Linda on my list and
thought this was for sure the Linda that I’ve talked about in earlier posts,
but Jesus had something else up his sleeve. Now back to my early morning trip
to Wal-Mart, the lady stocking the hamburger turns to ask me if I need any help
and I see that her nametag says Linda. Pretty sure my heart stopped for a
second. So I told her about this treasure hunt I was doing and asking if there
was anything she needed prayer for. She told me that her daughter is overseas
in the Army and she has very little contact with her.
There are so many stories of God’s amazing
outpouring of love last night and hearing how the Lord is continuing this treasure
hunt into today and who knows how many more days is seriously the most
incredible thing. This is something that can be done anywhere and anytime
though, so sit down and ask the Lord to give you clues and watch them fall into
place right in front of your eyes and then just get out there and love on
people. It doesn’t make you weird if you do it. It might feel a little awkward
at first but just push through and your mind will be blown at how great God is!
In
other news, I’m going to India NEXT MONTH! The time is flying by and my
excitement is growing more everyday. This is the last week of fundraising and I
have $700 more to raise before I reach my goal of $3,200. I’ve come a long way
and I couldn’t do it without everyone of you. If you’d like to support me
financially on my trip to India you can do so easily here, if you would like
for your donation to be tax deductible then you can also mail a check to our
church office:
Cornerstone Summit Church
869 Highway 105 Ext Suite
3
Boone NC 28607
