Hey Everyone! Wow, what a trip it has been so far in LA. Today has been filled with cool conversations, milkshakes, food banks and fun memories. Today we had the opportunity to serve the LA Regional Food Bank. After a few hours of sorting food and putting them in boxes to distribute to the community, we altogether sorted close to 12,000 pounds of food!! We felt so accomplished with how much of the food we
Today was our first full day on our Los Angeles trip! Our class was split up into two different van groups; Van Group 1 and the infamous Van Group 2. Personally, I was placed in the second group where we woke up before the sun did and headed to a charter school in Compton. The school was started by a woman who felt called to start an after-school program, which long story short, God multiplied
It’s Wednesday… actually it’s Friday! Don’t judge, we are up at 5:00 in the morning writing this. We are on our third day of 5:00 am’s. Yay! 5:00 am’s are where you have to be in the Great Room at 5:00 in the morning to do chores until 7:00 before breakfast. It is a consequence for slacking on our regular chores for each day and stretching the rules. So far we have been trying our
Last week we had the privilege of having Sherri and PJ Lewis come and speak for us about being confident in trusting God in good or bad situations. They presented something to us called the “Bottom Line,” which tells us that God is in control, God knows what’s best, God loves me, and that we can trust God and His Word. The concept of having this bottom line is to give key points to having
What a day to be alive. Last week we got to hear from the incredible Mr. and Mrs. Lewis. It was a great week of hearing their different stories. P.J and Sherry have shared with us the importance in always trusting God’s love for you, control, and knowledge of what is ultimately best. Our previews also left last week and of course we were sad to see them go. It is always nice to be
Coming off of a very busy four day weekend, we are happy to invite the second set of preview students into the Joshua building. We have twenty students that are coming to see the Joshua experience and almost every single room has one preview staying with them. The previews seem very excited to be here and to learn more about Joshua. We sincerely hope that they all get in and are apart of next years