The last of the AC DC days

Without a doubt one of my favorite things about my time in AIM so far has been area church. I was blessed with a great group to go to Denver City with, great assistants, and a pretty cool church family in DC. As finals were approaching, team announcements getting closer, we knew we didn't have much time left together as AC DC.

We had a meeting together to discuss how we wanted to spend our last weekend. We decided to have a long weekend (Saturday and Sunday) so we could spend some more time with the church. On Saturday we drove out right after lunch and went visiting people. At one lady's house, after we talked for a while, we helped pick up sticks and leaves outside. Then we gathered in the kitchen to eat "store bought" cookies and drink some diet cokes. What I found interesting about that visit (among other things) was that while she was talking to us, she mentioned something that I had just heard earlier in chapel from a young student giving his senior sermon. They had the same ideas about families being involved in ministry and not just relying on the youth minister to come up with activities to keep the youth involved and interested. He was just discussing the idea, and she was talking about a time when things were different. It was just neat to see those two perspectives, from two different generations, on the same concept.

After visiting we split up to go stay at our host family's home. Ginger and I went to the Curtis' home. Twice I've stayed with the Turnbough's (an elder and his wife) and once I've stayed at the Young's. So I was glad to spend my last weekend there with Corie and her awesome family. And, I got to preview some delicious desserts Corie's mom made-cake balls! We watched the movie Radio, which I hadn't seen before, and it is quite the movie! I laughed, cried, and laughed some more.

On Sunday I visited the high school class (normally I go to the semi-bilingual class) and for lunch we ate in the fellowship hall with Skip's (the preacher) family to celebrate his son's birthday. We ate Thai food and it was yuuuumy :) Skip and his family lived in Thailand for several years as missionaries. Then we found something of a giant tumbleweed oustide-I called it the West Texas Christmas tree.

Then we stayed at the building to put together the goodbye picture and note for the church, rest, and get some homework done. We took off to the nursing home to sing, then head back to the church for evening worship. This is when we gave them the frame with our picture and verse and they called each of us up to give us a book and pray for us. Standing up there and looking at them made me sad because some of them I had gotten close to and didn't really want to say goodbye. Corie's mom even cried after Bryson spoke on our behalf.



Then we said goodbyes and headed out to Taw's ranch for the youth Christmas party. This was so fun and delightful for my tummy :) There was so much food! we ate, mingled, went on a hayride, sang by a fire, had a devo, and rode back up to the house for more merry making. Then we had to say goodbye to the high school kids which was hard and to their families. We drove back to Lubbock, wearing our AC DC shirts with pride, thankful to be blessed with the experience we'd had.