Tuesday!

Hey Family and Friends!

Tuesday was an awesome day for us! We started the day with a little extra sleep...15 minutes! It may not seem like much, but trust us, it is! We definitely appreciated it. We started our day by heading over to Sunshine to do the Summer Blast (VBS) with the neighborhood kids. A smaller group of us headed over to a friend of Sunshine's house to do some MAJOR yard work! We worked on Mrs. Johnson's backyard armed with axes and attacking all the overgrown plants and trees in her yard. It was CRAZY! So crazy we didn't finish the job in one day and will be heading back over to her house today (Wednesday).

We also got a chance to experience the "L" train today. We rode from the beginning of the train to the very last stop on the other end of the train. We split up and sat on different cars and got to know some of the people who ride the trains. We were pushed out of our comfort zones, but it was an awesome experience. We got to experience the people of Chicago and the city, and we got to watch how both the scenery and the demographics of the city changed as we left one area and entered another. When we were done, all of us had stories to share about what we had experience and about the people we had met.

Finally, we headed home and made a spaghetti dinner. Joel, the Sunshine "boss", came over to wrap up the day by talking about what it really means to be rich, especially in the context of Christianity and wealth in the eyes of Christ.

Today (Wednesday), we're going to get the Chicago experience by eating some deep dish pizza and going to a White Sox game!

Keep praying for us! Pray that our eyes are continuing to be opened and that we keep seeing and experiencing God in this city. THANKS!

~The Chicago Team~