Sunday afternoon we departed from Ohio and headed north for our last tour stop for now-Lansing Michigan the home of Hannah Hall. We had the evening to relax and spend time with our host families and rest for work Monday. We worked on various work projects around New Covenant Christian Church on Monday, such as trimming hedges, weeding, and passing out flyers to the neighbors telling them about our program Wednesday night and asking them if we could serve them by helping them with any work projects they might have . Again Tuesday we continued in serving around the Church building by weeding and doing some outside work. Some of us continued walking around the neighborhood looking for people we could serve to bless the community on Wednesday. After a little down time to refresh and nap, we returned together with some of the Church for they called “equipping.” Angela and John were given the opportunity to share their testimonies and they did a great job of sharing their hearts with the small group of people who were there. Then we watched a teaching by Danny silk on the limitless God who enables us with Grace to believe and go beyond limits that we put on ourselves and one another. It was very encouraging and even had some time to pray over each other after the teaching.
Wednesday morning we were invited to present some of our dramas, dances and testimonies to the K-12 grade New Covenant Christian School in their weekly morning chapel. Despite the short amount of time we had to minister to the kids, many were very receptive to what we did and we were able to pray with many of them. A few of them after seeing what the Lord did in chapel, wanted to come back for more later that night when we did youth group. The rest of the morning and afternoon we spent serving the neighborhood around the church by helping them with odd jobs around their home such as washing windows, vacuuming and weeding. Many of the people we were able to serve were older people who can’t do those things anymore and were so blessed to have them done. People were very grateful for the help and were blown away that we just wanted to serve and not receive money for it. The church has done things in these neighborhoods before but it was great to really connect with them bless them with the love of Father. 
Wednesday night we were able to take part in the weekly youth group service which they also invited the whole church to and the elementary aged kids were even able to join us for some time. Levi, John and Jordan were all invited to join the normal Wednesday night worship team to play with them. They greatly enjoyed it and was even a favorite part of tour for some of them. The Lord was pouring out encouragement for many people, he seemed to especially be highlighting the youth and we gave many encouraging words to them. Both Joe and Ryan had people say they really related to their testimonies and they were able to pray that the Lord would move in there situations and prayed that they would be warriors and encouraged them. Levi found the man with a hurt hand that he had been looking for all of tour after asking if there was anyone there with that name. Laura really connected with a girl in the morning and the Lord gave her many words of encouragements throughout the day and she left feeling very encouraged in her walk with the Lord. As well as praying for people many of us received prayer and words from people. We were very encouraged by their body and felt we made many connections with people.
We are now back in Oklahoma city and were able to share testimonies about what the Lord did through us on Sunday at Covenant Life. We were very excited to also be able to share a drama and then minister alone side the youth to the congregation. This coming weekend Washington Master’s Commission is going to be here and we are so excited to be able to not only minister alone side them to the MCOKC churches, but take it to the park and proclaim to the neighborhood. Then in one week we hit the road again for New Orleans Microsoft show and Little Rock Arkansas tour stop.
Thank you to everyone who was praying for us. We are overjoyed to see what the Lord used us to do and couldn’t have done it without your prayers!
Woo Hoo!
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