I'm Made It!

Hi everyone. I know that it has been a while, sorry for that. These past few days have been crazy busy. I arrived on Tuesday, May 27th, I get settled in my apartment, and met the staff that I will be working with. Just from that first impression I know that it is going to be a great summer. I will be working with two other interns this summer, Camille Conely and Rebekah Stewart. They are great teammates.

Wednesday, the staff put us right to work. We had some orientation and got more details about what we will exactly be doing this summer and what jobs we will be assigned to accomplish. One of these tasks is putting together an event called Love NYC Day. This is a time when churches from all over the Northeast come to NY and partner with Forefront to be a part of a huge servant evangelism project (I will give more details about this as they happen). This is set for Aug. 2nd. That afternoon, we had our first of orientation--we had to go to Union Square and pass out free granola bars as wells as a little card with the information of the church and just telling them that we care about them and we wanted to show them by this small, free gift. We all had to pass out 100 and go to separate parts of the park. It was a great time. Something people sometimes say about servant evangelism is that it is only marketing the church, getting the name out there, which is a part of it. But more importantly it is about showing the people that we are a church who care for them. About half of the baptisms at Forefront have been from projects like this.

Thursday, we did another project like this, only this time we went to other strategic corners of the city. It was a great day. After work, we went to dinner in East Village and then we went to the Brooklyn Bridge. It was a lot of fun, though it was a long walk. Here are a few pictures.