Today we spent a lot of time working on painting projects. You can see some of the photos below. Just in case some of you don't believe we're actually working, we've got photographic proof:) We are having so much fun! The kids were a little bummed out that we spent the whole day working instead of playing with them like we did yesterday. But I'm sure we'll make up for lost time this weekend. Tomorrow morning we're planning to visit a mine and go see the dump and the cemetary and some other sights in town. I'm sure it will be a very sobering day for all of us.
We stayed up late last night talking and getting to know each other better. It was well worth the sleepiness this morning though because it was very cool to learn more about each other and talk about how God has impacted each of our lives and brought us all to this common place at The Pines. We each have totally different life stories, but through Christ we all have a similar purpose and passion to do all we can to give back to others what he has given to each of us.
This morning Steve led a pretty cool devotional time and we talked a lot about tithing. It was an extension of some our conversation from last night. Point of Grace is getting ready to enter a series about sacrificial giving and we were talking about what that means. Brian said something that I think really struck a cord in all of us and gave us a complete paradigm shift. He said "We should never think about what we are going to give to God. We should really be thinking about what portion of what we've been given we should keep. Everything has been given to us by God and belongs to Him." That's a pretty powerful way to think about giving. The Niehoff's and the O'Tools are extremely inspiring people and we all feel very blessed to have been given the chance to be around them and get to know and learn from them.
Thanks be to God.
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