Back in God's Country

I am so excited to finally be back in Auburn after the tough summer in Birmingham - and I can't think about how this is my last year! There is a a busy schedule ahead, and I am pushing myself aside and seeking after His face. These past few months have been so self seeking, and after going to 8th Street at First Baptist Opelika, God spoke through the leader there about how the MORE we look at ourselves, the LESS we look like God. That hit home hard and I prayed that God would help aim my focus at His heart.
After seeing the desires of those in the AUMC college ministry to serve their neighbor, God put it on my heart to start up a local outreach team within our ministry. It is called Mission 1.27 (after James 1:27, which says "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."). This weekend (Aug 28th) we are teaming up with the Wesley Foundation to serve some houses just outside the Auburn area. I spoke with Alabama Rural Ministries (ARM) and they set us up with a roofing and painting project. I told them our budget, and they said we could probably do half the roof. I said no, we need to do the whole roof - we'll go outside our budget if we have to. We looked in the basement of the church and found 850 SF of the same shingles that would be going on this project house - which allows us to do the whole roof and have money left to buy paint! That is just one way that God has blessed us - and I don't doubt there will be many more to come. He loves all of us and I am so excited to serve Him in every way I can!
Please pray for our freshman getting involved in our ministry or other ministries - that God would work in them. That we could all unite for His glory and serve this town with love that He has poured on us. Amen.