This past Sunday I was able to serve my church family at Brookside by working in the nursery and helping with the backpack giveaway!
Working with these people is one of the greatest feelings, standing in the nursery holding baby Sara while talking to her mother about her struggles with life and only being nineteen years old. It is me helping ten year old Genesis blow his nose because he was born mentally challenged and is unable to do it himself. It was me loving on a three old girl while her mother is listening to the sermon. As I walk out of this, one of a kind nursery, I can smell poverty on my clothes from being with all of these young children who just need some loving.
The backpack giveaway was an awesome event, we were able to supply the kids from Brookside church and surrounding neighbor with backpacks filled school supplies according to their grade level need. There was a bounce house, shirt making and face painting. It was great to see the church people having fun with each other! I am looking forward to getting to know the church family better :)
LOVE God. LOVE People.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Brookside
I have recently started my internship at Brookside Community Church. This is one of the best opportunities that I have ever been given.
It all started this past May when a fellow student of mine brought his pastor and secretary to Papa Roux(the Cajun restaurant where I am employed). It just so happened that I was clocking out as they came in to eat. So I sat down with them as they ate and they started asking me questions. I began to talk about my dilemma of where I was going to church. I told them I was at this great church that was solid biblically and I was really growing but it was not urban ministry focused and I really needed to be somewhere where I was able to practice and experience what I was learning in the classroom. They invited me to attend Brookside and then I visited the following week and went out to lunch with Pastor Stone and his wife.
In the following weeks we began to discuss an opportunity for me to be the first intern at Brookside. It was an exciting time for me as I had been offered something that was greater than I had ever imagined. I then continued to attend Brookside on Sunday mornings, meanwhile the details for this internship were being nailed down. I am in the second week of ministry at Brookside and I absolutely love it! I know that God worked out all the crazy details and only HE could make this possible!
It all started this past May when a fellow student of mine brought his pastor and secretary to Papa Roux(the Cajun restaurant where I am employed). It just so happened that I was clocking out as they came in to eat. So I sat down with them as they ate and they started asking me questions. I began to talk about my dilemma of where I was going to church. I told them I was at this great church that was solid biblically and I was really growing but it was not urban ministry focused and I really needed to be somewhere where I was able to practice and experience what I was learning in the classroom. They invited me to attend Brookside and then I visited the following week and went out to lunch with Pastor Stone and his wife.
In the following weeks we began to discuss an opportunity for me to be the first intern at Brookside. It was an exciting time for me as I had been offered something that was greater than I had ever imagined. I then continued to attend Brookside on Sunday mornings, meanwhile the details for this internship were being nailed down. I am in the second week of ministry at Brookside and I absolutely love it! I know that God worked out all the crazy details and only HE could make this possible!
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