Flexibility - a learned virtue

Groups typically come in on Sunday nights, therefore we had the first part of Sunday free for church(check out the previous blog) and laundry and starbucks hot chocolate of course. Then we had a little party for one of our girl's birthday, then it was briefing time. We learned about our groups - mine is from a Bible school in colorado- and received our schedules for the week. We barely had 10 minutes to prepare with our partners for the week (mine is Becky, a beautiful, wonderful, laid back woman of Christ) then the groups were arriving. Ah!! Our group was 30 minutes late and only had one vehicle with room for the 12 of them and no one else. Now, they were planning on getting a vehicle the next morning, but the first night is very important because we do something called a prayer tour of the city. It's what we've been practicing the most all week. (PS thank you Caleb Presson for letting me read the whole thing to you!!)

We aren't legally allowed to drive anyone in these groups around, so we had to take a separate car and just have them follow us. Then after dinner we did our prayer tour and it was a little awkward because I had to call them and they plugged their phone into their car so they heard me through the speakers. One important part of the prayer tour is seeing the students faces as they process stuff b/c otherwise it feels very much like there is a lot of empty time in it. The bonus of having them in the other car was that my partner kinda knew the route of the tour and I wasn't as stressed about giving directions as we drove around. The down side, I wasn't really giving her directions and we missed a turn. Haha! But we realized it and got ourselves around and they didn't even know we had messed up. Well done.

So God is already teaching me what it means to be flexible with the groups and realize that not everything is going to fit into the cookie cutter idea of what we had for it here. We have a schedule, but things change constantly and not everyone is going to have the same experience. But now I have to go brief them on our next activity and deliver food to some people with AIDS/HIV. The love of God is all through the streets of San Fran, I'll tell you more about how wonderful He is in a bit.

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!