{"id":762,"date":"2014-01-18T17:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T23:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/?p=762"},"modified":"2014-01-18T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T23:26:14","slug":"mission-day-3-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/18\/mission-day-3-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission, Day 3 – Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

I failed to mention this in the previous posts.\u00a0 Each day we start off with devotion to set the tone for the day.\u00a0 I lead the devotions and I do not have a laid out pattern for what will be read in the morning.\u00a0 I have just been letting the Spirit guide and guide it has.\u00a0 Each morning has had through \u201crandom\u201d picking of devotion material, relevance to what we have been doing each day!\u00a0 God is amazing when you do not refuse the help.\u00a0 God is amazing, when you are open to seeing God in action!\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it\u2026\u2026GOD IS AMAZING!!!!<\/p>\n

Day three is a little stressful for Travis and I.\u00a0 He has been sick since the beginning of the trip and now he is getting worse.\u00a0 His head cold that has now moved into his lungs, we are out of town and know no doctors around and need to seek out an urgent care.\u00a0 Upon going to Urgent care, we are having problems with the insurance and this is getting to be a nightmare for coverage not only for the doctor visit but for the medicine as well.\u00a0 Time to go pickup the group that I left at another mission site while we were at the doctor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

I cannot speak to the experience at Crossroads today. I do encourage anyone reading this, to ask any of the students that are on the mission trip, for their perspectives of the Crossroads mission experience.<\/p>\n

Our next stop is Dabar Grill, an Indian & Pakistani delight of food.\u00a0 Our lunch is again superb.\u00a0\u00a0 The multiple selections and the amounts are perfect.\u00a0 Some great dishes containing rice, curry and cheese.\u00a0 There is a homemade dessert, similar to an ice cream, serve on a stick in small paper cup.\u00a0 Now that we are full, it is time to head off to the Houston Food Bank.<\/p>\n

Each of us are assigned a variety of tasks to prepare food to be given out to those in need.\u00a0 Some of the food goes to schools, others right to the families.\u00a0 Time to wash up so we can begin our processing of food.\u00a0 Several are assigned to chopping broccoli and garlic.\u00a0 A couple is assigned to making corn bread.<\/p>\n

They take a couple of the young men\u2026.not me and David, to unload the trucks full of food.\u00a0 David and I get something very special.\u00a0 We get to cut open tubes after tubes after tubes after tubes of thawed ground beef.\u00a0 Yum Yum this is fun. Next we are working on a few hundred pounds of pork rib roasts.\u00a0 Time to cut the bags open, rinse them off, drain and put on the rub for sweat and sower pork.\u00a0 These will be cooked the next day for a future lunch.\u00a0 So much fun\u2026YES it is.\u00a0 David and I have fun doing this work, it is what you make of it.\u00a0 In the end we find out that we find out that we have helped prepare over 2,200 pounds of food amounting to 1,833 meals with a total savings through volunteer work of $1,339!\u00a0 I have to say, we all are amazed and feel great today!<\/p>\n

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It is now 4 PM and we are not done yet!\u00a0 Time to go explore Caninos\u2019s Market place.\u00a0 We are arriving at Canion\u2019s and the smells\u00a0are great.\u00a0 There is spice in the air, fresh fruit and a bakery across the street.\u00a0 Boy am I hungry now.\u00a0 Walking through the market, we encounter small individual sellers contained within the overall large complex, kind of like a flea market but oh so much better.\u00a0 There are so many foods that we have never seen but everyone is friendly and helps us out to tell us what the foods are and how we can prepare these fruit and vegetables.\u00a0 We are hungry and need a snack, oh what to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our host, CSM (Center for Student Ministries) offers to take us to the Mexican bakery and purchase one sweet item for each of us!\u00a0 So do we say no?\u00a0 Not a chance.\u00a0 Walking around here is so difficult because of all the choices.\u00a0 There must be 50 plus different fresh baked items.\u00a0 Actually I think it is more but I am not sure, the smells must be getting to my brain\u2026.I want some food!\u00a0 Like in good fashion when away from home, we are having our dessert first then dinner.<\/p>\n

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Time to head back to our housing, make some dinner and debrief about our day.\u00a0 Wow oh wow, what a day this has been.\u00a0 We are really looking forward to some sleep and the start another day\u2026\u2026Check back for some more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I failed to mention this in the previous posts.\u00a0 Each day we start off with devotion to set the tone for the day.\u00a0 I lead the devotions and I do not have a laid out pattern for what will be read in the morning.\u00a0 I have just been letting the Spirit guide and guide it … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,37,10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-762","6":"format-standard","7":"category-campus-ministry","8":"category-discipleship","9":"category-jesus","10":"category-mission"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2m6h5-ci","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1017,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/12\/respond-step-out-and-trust-jesus\/","url_meta":{"origin":762,"position":0},"title":"Respond, Step out and Trust Jesus","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"August 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Audio Link [youtube:http:\/\/youtu.be\/lW2vcgw0pa0] 1 Kings 19:9\u201318 Psalm 85:8\u201313 Romans 10:5\u201315 Matthew 14:22\u201333 Our God comes to us in many shapes and forms.\u00a0 God loves us and wants the best for us always.\u00a0 God loves all of humanity and wants the best for all of God\u2019s creatures.\u00a0 Do you believe that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Evangelism"","block_context":{"text":"Evangelism","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/category\/evangelism\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/lW2vcgw0pa0\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":710,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/16\/mission-day-2-houston-student-thoughts\/","url_meta":{"origin":762,"position":1},"title":"Mission, Day 2 – Houston, Student Thoughts","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"January 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's post will be a collection of thoughts of the students participating in the mission trip. 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