Philly Day One

After our family prayer circle we spent the afternoon doing team building, devos, and packing. The girls were amazed that it's possible to miss getting the ball in the basket as many times as Miss Brougham achieved! And we all discovered with hard work creative thinking you can move a group of 11 across the gym floor stepping only inside of five hula hoops. In Philly we met the awesome CSM director Brittany who will be our host in the city this week. We ate family style at a Thai restaurant. Yes, our students were brave and tried everything and discovered they liked a lot of it! We ended the night with a driving Prayer Tour of the city. We learned that Philly is one of the poorest cities in the US. Many of us realized how hard it would be to actually be bedding down for the night under a bridge as we huddled together praying for the people of the city next to a rumpled mattress and partial couch in a very dark, icy breezy underpass. Tomorrow we serve with Salvation Army and Honickman Aftercare program. Thanks for your prayers. "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine..be glory."