Beach Reach: Day 1
We made it to South Padre! Our first day on the island is under our belt and everyone is ver eager for Beach Reach to start. Yesterday (Saturday), we spent more time training the students on what to expect on the beach throughout the week as well as helping unload trucks with all the Beach Reach supplies. We gave the students most of the afternoon off to settle into their rooms and rest. By the evening, we got to meet all the other teams as they were arriving at dinner. FBC Port Isabela fed all 700 of us! After dinner, we all loaded in our vans, prayer-drove the island and then ended up in the parking lot of Island Baptist Church, which is our base of operations for the week. The students spent about 2 hours mingling through the crowd and praying for each new person they met that God would move in them and through them this week. After that, we all hit the sack and got some rest.
Today is our first full day of ministry, so please pray for us:
1) That no one get’s sunburned or sick on the beach
2) That students begin to feel confident in being a “friend of sinners”
3) That God would go before us and begin to soften the hearts of those we will meet
4) Pray for Chris, a security guard here at the hotel. I’ve already had a few conversations with him answering his questions about what we are doing here. He seems very intrigued by it all. Pray that I have more time with him and that I am able to share the heart and reason we are here ministering to people.
Thanks! I’ll update again tomorrow.
