It is spring time in the ATL

I have been trying to think about what I wanted my first blog of this trimester to be about and sorry it has taken me two weeks to write it. There has been a lot going on since I got back from spring break. We only have one more week of the s.a.y yes program before we take three weeks to plan a killer summer program! I'm really excited about getting to be involved with the kids during the summer. There are some great things planned. Every Thursday we will be going on a field trip, and four of the students are going to North Carolina for a Bible Camp. I can't wait to see the kids growth over the summer.

We started new Wednesday night Bible studies. I am going to one that is about the post resurrection appearances of Jesus. We started with his appearance to the disciples while they were fishing, then studied Jesus' appearance on the Emmaus road, and last week we look at his appearance to the twelve in the upper room. It has been awesome looking at the power in his resurrection, and talking about what that means for us today.

It has been great being in the community for the past couple weeks. With the weather it seems like the neighborhood is coming more alive. There is the smell of bbqing, horseshoes clanking, and laughing. I'm pumped for the summer, and ready to see what it is going to bring.

This is the community garden.

Speaking of bbqing, a couple weeks ago one of the guys in our church threw us a bbq cookout in the churches garden. It was great! It was a lot of fun to get to hang out with neighbors and folks that go to the church. The food and fellowship was an awesome welcome back from spring break! Tomorrow night in the garden we are having a community movie night. This is following our weekly community dinner. I'm hoping that there will be a good community turnout.

Sorry that this post was so jumpy there are just a lot of great things going on. Continue to be in prayer for Atlanta, the English Ave community, and my mission year team! Thanks for all you do.

May grace be up on you.

Shalom,
Adam