Monday's activities with a note from Madelyn...

What a blessing Monday has been! We had our time with the spirit this morning. Everyone wanders off to a spot where they can have some alone time with Jesus. We were all given devotional guides to help us through the time but mostly it is your time to find your self and seek God's guidance. We then got our orientation on what our day would bring. It was painting for all. The Wisdom group (Angie, Beth, Bill, Josh, Tim, and I) were assigned to paint a poll barn storage building for the school we are staying in. The other half of Wisdom is made up of an adult leader and four high schoolers (3 girls and 1 boy) We will work with this great group of people tomorrow when we paint a few rooms at the only church on the reservation. The Seek group (Dan, Madelyn, Drew, Jessica, and Caitlin) were assigned to paint at the Kids Club building. The other half of their team is made up of an adult leader and five high schoolers. Both jobs were a challenge and had a few other odd jobs thrown in, but the connection our crew made with the others in the group was a true wonder for me to see!

From Madelyn Degener....
Group: Seek
Today we painted one of the walls in the boys and girls club. We finished way early and then had lunch while we waited for it to dry. After we painted the second coat, we went to help unload a truck at the church for a garage sale that they were having. Then we came back to the school we are staying  at and talked to the kids who were skating. Most of the kids here crave attention, because they come from broken or poor families. Some of the kids we talked to were only like 6 or 7 and they were swearing and throwing rocks at our van. It's really sad to see the situations that these little kids are being put into.
Then for showers, we all came into the school, and only about half the kids could get showers in before all of the water was in that section was shut off. We waited for like a half hour before we could go to the high school locker rooms - which are much nicer anyways and had individual stalls with water that had adjustable temperatures - and which was great after three days without a shower for a lot of us.

We closed tonight with the usual Club Time and then our own Church Group Time. Tonight Tim and Drew lead us in that discussion of our evening yesterday and our day today. So much great input from our kids. It is truly an honor to be with this group of young adults!!

Please continue to pray for us and keep us in your thoughts,
Yours in faith with Dan and Angie,
Mike.