The new interns are here! They are a small, but mighty team, 3 Men & a Lady! They hail to us from, Washington state, North Dakota, the Ozarks, & Wisconsin! Darn Yankees! We'll work in Joplin, Chicago, KC, Oklahoma City, Springfield, & mostly Thailand!
Night one: Traditional Chinese food and awkwardness! :)
Day two: They signed their lives away, no drugs, no dating, and the infamous no "any unspecified egregious behavior!"
Then it was the Springfield Scavenger Hunt - The Mazda vs. The Lexus - Matt put some interesting items on this term's list: Someone who looks intelligent: we had fun finding a bunch of people who did NOT look intelligent, but I found this very intelligent looking crew at MSU:
incidentally this is the largest number of African Americans I've EVER seen in Springfield, MO. (Evidently they still practiced hangings on the square into the 80s here?!) That's only a slight exaggeration. He also wanted us to find a woman OR pet who could be over 90! (For a man that is so political he's not very politically correct!) So I hung out in the Depends aisle forever, but that was no luck, and it seemed in appropriate to converge on the Maranatha Village and do a photo shoot or hit up a funeral home! The end result was we found 7 coffee shops, 15 pay day loan places, 39 churches (when the rapture comes Springfield will be
Day 3: We went to Greekfest, I learned what Eucharist means, Opa!
Oh yeah, we hit up the nature center, and the boys have not shut up about how fast Nancy walked! I think it's the last time they let her set the pace! ha! Reminds me of when we let Sandy set the pace for PT in the desert and she took off sprinting! Never underestimate the grey hairs!
Day 4: We hit up 20/20 for church- Pastor Jordan did a great job! Then Essjaydubb and I made an amazing lunch! Then we napped!Day 5: We hung the summer team on the Legacy wall- man we had a lot to say about that amazing bunch, & we prayed for each of em too! Then we learned about the mission of God, the Biblical mandate for Compassion & heard from some Amazing men that run this place like Kary Kingsland, Jim Batten, & our founder Hal Donaldson! We are Blessed!
Did you know that Convoy of Hope started with Hal and a pick up truck full of groceries in Southern California?
I'm sure you're tired of reading (imagine how tired we were from DOING!?) So, I'll start listening to this session on health & hygiene: Matt just added some great insight, "How do you know if you have diarrhea? If you're in the shower and you feel a shot of power, diarrhea!" This session is going downhill fast!
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