LAUP has begun! On Thursday the student and recent alumni who are leading the nine teams throughout urban Los Angeles arrived and began their training.
As a parallel of our journey with Jesus through the inner city this summer, I took them on a literal journey...a three hour hike to the top of a mountain! To their surprise, as the hike began I pointed to a radio tower at the peak of a mountain and told them, “Meet me there,” and took off running. As they figured out their way to the top, they discovered who they were as a team, and how to trust themselves to make decisions. (What they didn’t know is that all paths they could have chosen all led to the same place.) At the top, we took time to look at and pray for Los Angeles as a team, that God would prepare the way for his work this summer. By the end of the day, they had taken away a number of leadership lessons, one of the chief ones being the importance of not losing sight of the people for the sake of the goal.
We've had a great three days of getting vision for where we're leading students, gaining spiritual eyes to see the issues of the inner city, and committing to making space to gain God's heart for the poor.
Today is our last day of preparation before the interns arrive tomorrow!
Pray for God to protect and shape our kick off to LAUP, especially tomorrow as we arrive, and Monday as we launch the content and curriculum of our summer.
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