Dear Interns...

This summer will make you stronger.
It will break you. It will push you beyond what you think you are capable of, and then some. But if you continue to endure; it will make you stronger. This summer will empty you until you have nothing left to give and replace it all with Christ.

There are college students around the world doing internships and summer jobs right now. They are camp counselors, lifeguards and baby sitters. But right now YOU are in Juárez, México and Acuña, México and San Raimundo, Guatemala building a home for a family that doesn't have a place to live. You are pouring the last of all that you have to give out to a family in need. You are becoming the hands and feet of Christ to a family and to one another.

Your summer will look completely different from everyone else you know. You may not have group led quiet times and devotions. Your worship may look like blisters and sweat. But every second that you give yourself away, you are being made stronger.

You have been chosen.
You have been chosen to be a part of something that no one else will ever understand.
Stay strong. Finish the race that's set before you. And know that every challenge, every mistake, every moment you want to quit, is the exact moment that you are being made stronger.

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted."  Hebrews 12:1-3

Jess, Debbie, Jessica, Zach, David, Andrew, Dave, Armando, David

You will never be the same