Many people write these blog postings. All of us belong to a group called SLY (St. Luke Youth) and we are on a mission. Our mission took us to the city in the middle of the desert where there are a lot of homeless people. Our group is going to try and make their lives a little bit better. We think that our friends, family and other people out there should hear the stories of these people, and how they have changed our lives forever. Here is our story.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Things Are Heating Up!



Less than 18 hours till we fly out to Las Vegas. We are ready to serve God and help were we can, touching the lives of others who have experienced homelessness and poverty. We will "Be The Change."

Just a few hours ago, we were commissioned and sent by the children of St. Luke Lutheran Church. We have been prayed over, blessed, trained, taught, and have alreadty begun serving those in Portland who have needs.

Monday at 4:44 AM we'll say good bye to our family and friends and head out to the HOT HOT HOT city of Las Vegas. It will be a great experience and I hope each of us will be changed in some meaningful ways and have some experiences we will remember for the rest of our lives. Here are a couple of photos of most of the group. We have all been so busy,
the whole team has not yet been together in one place. Though for each day of this upcoming week, we'll be together serving, learning, helping, growing, laughing, playing -and maybe even getting some sleep. We have a great youth group with a great bunch of young men and women. It is a privilege for me to be one of their leaders.

Thanks for praying for us and following this blog. Many thanks to Hailey and Cara for taking the leadership in setting this up.
>>> Scott
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2 comments:

  1. SueJuly 21, 2010 at 7:15 AM

    I'm so excited about your blog & being able to keep up with your "adventures" in Vegas. As someone who greatly enjoyed your SLY group last year here in New Orleans, I know what a very special group of young people you have. I agree that it seems like just a few weeks ago we were having a picnic in the rain at Audubon Park here in New Orleans. I hope that you all can come back again in the near future not only for all the hard hard work that you do but so we can see all of our new young friends again. We so enjoyed meeting all of you. Have a wonderful week and God Bless you all. Sue & Tom

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  2. UnknownJuly 22, 2010 at 9:53 PM

    Cool. And even more amazing when it is "cool" literally. Back in my day we too would be "prayed over, blessed, trained, taught, and serve." As in "back in the THE day," i.e., 1950's, with no air conditioning. A/C is one of the great modern "miracles." It allows us to go places we might not otherwise go. And it changed Washington, D.C. from a southern town (I was there in the 50s and it could be ugly if you were not light of hue, and A/C allowed folks from the west to come, to stay, to serve. Hence a literal place to express the vernacular, "pretty cool."

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