Thursday afternoon...

So around 4 o clock this overcast Thursday our youth team paired up with a small group from the International Hope Center to help lead a Backyard Bible Club. The purpose of the club was to gather kids from the area together to play games, make crafts, and get taught a lesson from the bible. So normally when you hear that you're going to spend an hour and a half with a lot of kids who are all under the age of 12, you might usually just want to hide under your bed sheets and cry but... not for this Hamtramck crowd. With the 10 kids who showed up, we had a lot of fun tossing footballs, playing soccer, and dodgeball. It really is an awesome thing (I think) to see the children of a struggling community come together and open themselves up to us (the youth team). It brings a smile to my face to see a 7 year-old little girl laughing and getting along with the people she had just met 20 minutes before. This experience was for sure one of the highlights of this trip for me. BBC is a huge testimony to the fact that Christ Jesus is making his way into the world everywhere.

Alec S.

P.S. As you can see, we finished the fence at the community garden!