Free gifts

So I can't believe that this is our last full week here! It is so bitter sweet! I can not wait to get back to Caswell but I really really don't want to leave the city, im sort of in love with it!

The past several days have been pretty sweet.  Friday we went to a Coney Island Cyclones game (minor team of the Mets) with our international buddies...except my international buddy couldn't come so I invited Chris(the guy who came to Christ the other day) instead.  I thought it would be good for him to meet some fellow believers...Aaron sat with us and we all had a lot of fun.  They shot off fireworks after the game, and they played America The Beautiful by Ray Charles...For those of you who know me pretty well, you know that the Sandlot is my all time favorite movie so this was an exciting moment for me.

Saturday (JULY 4th) I slept in (praise the Lord), hung out/threw the friz in central park.  That night we went down to the Hudson with the rest of New York's population and some...seriously millions of people.  It was sorta frustrating...but once the fireworks started I was just a tad bit amazed! The fireworks were INSANE! SUNDAY I WENT TO A YANKEES GAME :) I think I am an official Yankees fan now.  I loved the game, it was so much fun!  The Yank's played the Blue Jays...beat them 10-8, shoulda smoked um even more than that but you know how it goes.

TODAY

Today was such a great day!  We started off the day with a history lesson about the New York City Metro Team.  We learned when it started, how it has evolved, and what the vision has been and what it is for the future.  They would love to see some of us come to NYC on stint (year long staff intern) or eventually come on staff...to make a long story short, the need is so great here!

Today my team decided to do a give a way table.  So we gathered all the stuff we needed, books, bibles, high lighters, water bottles, laundry bags...AND since we had so much stuff, we got to take a cab out to Kingsborough which was cool because we are always underground when we go there, it was cool to see the commute above ground...it was beautiful.  We get there, set up, and not even 30 minutes later had given away all of our stuff/done a lot of surveys...it was really neat.

However I did notice something that sort of got me thinking.  I noticed that there were tons of people that just kept right on walking.  We were saying "free stuff, its free, free free free,  would you like some free stuff?"   and no matter how free it was, still people kept right on walking.  I have done the same thing before, especially on campus...somebody is  handing out free stuff and I usually don't give them the time of day, much less take time out of my schedule to take their survey.  I feel like this relates so much with Salvation.  Here is this free gift...Jesus gives it FREE, no strings attached, you can't earn it, purchase it, or lose it...its just  free and all you have to do is take it.  Yet people walk on by, turn their nose up, and just don't take it.  

After the table was done  Aaron and I had a follow up session with Chris.  We had lunch with him and just talked with him about how he was processing his decision to follow Christ.  We talked with him about assurance of salvation and all kinds of stuff.  It was very challenging at times because we had to break down every little thing.  However towards the end of the conversations I could tell that he understood a lot more which was really cool. AND when we asked him on a scale of 1-10 how sure he was of his eternal salvation and he said 10 really enthusiastically!   it was so great!

Tonight we had our monday night meeting and it was inner city's night to lead.  They did such a wonderful job.  We ate, sang, were spoken too, prayed, and then we went with our dinner groups out to give homeless people bag dinners.  It was so neat...we had some good responses and some not so good  responses, but overall it is going to be an experience I won't forget and one that has taught me a lot about how I need to treat others, especially the homeless!

so anyways thats a basic rundown of the coolness but im so tired and its 2:03 am and i am wondering what in the world I am doing still typing right now so goodnight!