Grace n Crossroads

One of our focus groups as a ministry is the volunteer teams that come down to serve. We desire to intentionally invest in them and provide an opportunity here that allows God to transform their hearts and lives. This blog is dedicated to ALL VOLUNTEERS who have come to serve, give up their vacation time, raise support, pay money, give up comforts of home, drive or fly hours upon hours, sleep and eat in tight quarters, step out of their comfort zones, step out in faith, do construction, go on prayer walks, talk to strangers, pray with strangers, get up early, stay up late...ALL for the sake of sharing God's love to whoever He puts in their path! As a ministry, we know we could not exist without God's provision of these precious volunteer teams! So yes PRAISE GOD for VOLUNTEERS!!


Pictured Left:
This is the team from Grace Community Church in MD who have come down every winter break since the storm! Terah, the girl behind me, has become a dear friend who came to visit back in November. This team is a joy to serve alongside and seeing their boldness in stepping out in faith was such an encouragement to me! Thanks Grace for not just your partnership in the Gospel but your friendships!

Pictured Right:
This is the team from Crossroads Church in California. They too have come down the last 3 winters to serve God and serve the people of New Orleans. Their flight was delayed until 4am but that didn't stop them from getting up 3 hours later to work a full day at the Porch, Castle Rock's future home. Their team leader Jeremiah made it a point everyday to give his team personal quiet time before they could head to the worksite. Thank you Crossroads for the reminder to start off each day with the Lord because it makes a huge difference on the rest of the day!

This week we have Trinity International University and the Mosher family here to serve! Please pray for them and God would work in them and through them this week! Also pray and ask God to raise up more workers for His harvest field as there is still physical and spiritual work to be done here and we have weeks of no teams coming up.

God bless!
Katie :)

"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." Colossians 1:9-14