Friday was our day off. We hung out around the historical areas of Philly – visiting monuments and eventually ending up at South Street where we hung out, ate Water Ice and Philly Cheese Steaks (at Jim’s), and wandered around.
Six of us wandered into a bookstore (a small bookstore with a clear liberal bias) and started to look at the religion section – all 20 books. As John Sullivan started reading off the list of titles and commenting on how none of them were about Jesus, out of the corner came the comment,
“Jesus was a pimp, but it didn’t work out for him so he became a prophet.”
That began a long (1.5hr) conversation with “Stoch” – a very well-read man in his late twenties eager to talk about philosophy and religion. We left recommending that he read Tim Keller’s “Reason For God”, as he’s very into reading, and reading about religion and religious ideas. Pray that he would follow through!
Tonight was a Good Friday service at Pastor Frank’s son’s church, followed by debriefing and evaluations. A number of us took internship applications – pray for wisdom and God-given desires as we pray and seek God about whether to intern this summer.
Yesterday (Thursday) was our last day of VBS, last day of construction, and last day of street outreach. In the morning we finished up hauling debris out of the building across the street (that will eventually house summer missions teams – pray that this building gets built out in the next few months, in time for the summer teams.) The other team finished painting the entire apartment they were working on.
Our VBS numbers dwindled as some of our kids were away, some were occupied by a basketball league, and some just didn’t show up, though many did. Our skit was about the Healing At The Pool from John 5 – explaining how Jesus heals physically but also heals spiritually – giving us freedom from sin and freedom to spend eternity with Him in heaven. For the craft, we confessed our sin by writing them on keys and gluing them to crosses. Pray that little hearts would understand sin and understand salvation and be saved!
We reluctantly travel home tomorrow morning – we all want to stay, but alas our trip is over. Pray that Paul and I would stay awake.
-Ben
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