on next summer...
So... since May, I've been thinking about what I want to do next summer (I only thought about what I wanted to do this Fall since the end of June!), and one thing has been foremost on my mind, Houston's First Baptist Church's Intern Houston project. I had met the guy in charge (Jarrell Altic) at a weekend conference in may. and we talked about it several times since. Only $1000, it would have been completely within my budget, and it focuses on serving in the greater Houston area, a place I feel conviction and love and the desire to spread the gospel for. So I went to the website last week to print out the application, and I discovered something. There's another option. A spin off of Intern Houston, "Houston, Africa" is also a ten-week summer program, but instead of spending all ten weeks in inner-city Houston, two of the ten will be in Kenya. And the cost is an additional $3500.
I saw it and my heart leapt within me. I am excited and anxious and afraid and confused and sure. I am sure that just staying in the Houston-based internship would be sinful (for anyone who knows what he must do and does not do it, for him it is sin), but I am fearful of that sort of commitment. I am fearful of what it means for the plans I made. I am fearful of what it means for how I should use my money and what it means for how I should conduct myself for the rest of the school year. I am fearful that I won't be up to the task of being disciplined.
But God has not given me a spirit of fear. He has given me a spirit of Love (for Him, for myself, for Houston, for Kenya, apparently), Power (over my reactions, over the demons of doubt and lies and fear), and self-discipline (discipline to pray, to meditate, to learn, to study, to read, to give of self and of finances and of comfort and of faith and of everything God has given me).
And I am more than a conqueror in this through Christ.
peace and grace,
Galen
I saw it and my heart leapt within me. I am excited and anxious and afraid and confused and sure. I am sure that just staying in the Houston-based internship would be sinful (for anyone who knows what he must do and does not do it, for him it is sin), but I am fearful of that sort of commitment. I am fearful of what it means for the plans I made. I am fearful of what it means for how I should use my money and what it means for how I should conduct myself for the rest of the school year. I am fearful that I won't be up to the task of being disciplined.
But God has not given me a spirit of fear. He has given me a spirit of Love (for Him, for myself, for Houston, for Kenya, apparently), Power (over my reactions, over the demons of doubt and lies and fear), and self-discipline (discipline to pray, to meditate, to learn, to study, to read, to give of self and of finances and of comfort and of faith and of everything God has given me).
And I am more than a conqueror in this through Christ.
peace and grace,
Galen