Prayer Walk

There is no way to explain how amazing our team is! Today's project was not an easy one. It's hot. It's raining. People are looking at me funny. My legs are tired. I'm hungry. It was so easy to get distracted during five hours of walking and praying but our students poured themselves into the prayer walk. Each group walked approximately 4 miles praying for the city, businesses, the homeless, the churches and anybody and everybody they saw. They found ways to stay focused and our leaders were a huge encouragement to them. We were all excited to have DC, Jeff and Johnny with us for a little bit of the day.

We spent some more time talking about how powerful prayer is. We have seen God do so much in our students ministry this summer due to the prayers of many people, you! What if we prayed that the business leaders, who have incredible amounts of influence, would come to know Christ and become passionate about serving him. What would happen to Chicago? So today we prayed that God would move in this city and we know he will.

We got stuck in some nasty traffic on the way back to the hotel. Our 45 minute bus ride took two hours. Most middle school students would whine and complain about how long it was. Not our students. We told riddles and jokes and laughed so hard we almost cried. The two hours went very quickly.

Since it was such a long day we gave everyone some extra pool time to relax. During that time I became the victim of a serious water gun attack. A huge thanks to our leaders Jeremy and Isaac for acting as my official bodyguards. It was the perfect way to end the long day. We are pumped to go back out and feed the homeless tomorrow in a different section of town.

I almost forgot...the students send a huge thank you to all of you who have left comments for us. I read them to the team on our way to our work projects.

• Tammy, you got some major applause and "I love yous" thrown your way. The team says hello!
• Dr. Phil, you are lucky you posted a comment. I finished reading the comments this afternoon and they all wanted to know where yours was. You are loved! There will be great shouts of joy when I say your name tomorrow.
• Megan, pack your bags now! You ARE joining us next year.
• Parents, thanks so much for all the support you give our students. They love the comments from home.