If I could say anything to future bumpers it would be this. Don't show up with any expectations other than the expectation that God will use you in ways you may not know or like. He may grow you in ways you don't expect, and He may challenge you in ways you've never been challenged.
For instance God may impress upon your heart to start to see the harassed and helpless with eyes of compassion instead of judgement.
God may stretch your patience beyond what you thought you could handle with almost two straight days of rain.
He may push you to a deeper dependence on Him as plans change and certain projects fall through.
Who knows what God may do? His ways are not our ways, and it's important to remember that.
You see, unmet expectations can be at the heart of discouragement. Had our students expected certain things they may have easily become discouraged. Instead they simply expected that God would use them, then they made themselves available and God did the rest.
He used them to bless the children in the community through leading a VBS. He used them to further the efforts of Sun Ministries in St. Louis and He used them to bless the local congregation at Jubilee Community Church.
And it was all for His glory and not our own.
Over and out.
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