{"id":1740,"date":"2010-03-29T16:01:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2010-03-30T07:41:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:41:43","slug":"baltimore-2010-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore 2010: Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monday, March 29, 2010 3:30pm EDT BALTIMORE TEAM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our morning started EARLY today!\u00a0 Everyone had to be in the lobby by 6:30 for breakfast and by 6:50 we were walking to our bus stop.\u00a0 We have really enjoyed the free bus here in Baltimore that they have for tourists in the Inner Harbor\/Fells Point area.\u00a0 It gets us to most of the places we need to go and even has a cool name…The Charm City Circulator.<\/p>\n

We arrived at The Gallery Church of Baltimore at 7:30am for our orientation.\u00a0 There is also a group from Knoxville here this week and we enjoyed meeting them.\u00a0 Derrick, Robert, and Ellis all took turns telling us The Gallery story and helping us understand their plan for evangelism here in the city.\u00a0 For the most part, they talked about intentional relationship building.\u00a0 It fits right along with our “I’m Third” theme…God first, others second, and I’m third.<\/p>\n

One of the major problems in Baltimore is HIV\/AIDS.\u00a0 For so long this pandemic has been ignored here in the US and the church is finally beginning to reach out to this population.\u00a0 Gallery Church has a relationship with a doctor at the University of Maryland that is one of the premier researchers in the nation on HIV\/AIDS.\u00a0 The doctor is glad to see churches reaching out to people to encourage them to get tested.\u00a0 If people who have the virus will get tested, they can get treatment and counseling to help stop the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n

Every so often, The Gallery Church of Baltimore partners with other local organizations to host a free HIV\/AIDS testing site for people.\u00a0 Our group was responsible for walking around the neighborhood handing out cards encouraging people to be tested.\u00a0 We broke up into 4 groups and had 1 adult with 5 students.\u00a0 I purposely split up students that were rooming together and those that normally hang out together.\u00a0 We were given a map with directions of where to go and where not to go and we headed out with our stacks of cards.<\/p>\n

It was a blast seeing our students get excited about talking to strangers.\u00a0 God is developing a real sense of boldness in our team and He is honoring their faithfulness.\u00a0 We handed out all of our cards over a matter of a few hours of walking up and down several streets.\u00a0 Too bad we didn’t bring pedometers, we covered some serious ground this morning!\u00a0 If you are looking for us…we are the skinny ones!<\/p>\n

We headed back to the testing site to grab our lunch and dry off from the light rain.\u00a0 Lunch was great and the fellowship was even better.\u00a0 It was interesting to hear the students mentioned how much they enjoyed getting to know some students they don’t always hang out with. \u00a0After lunch, we handed out a few more cards and then walked the mile and a half back to The Gallery Church to pick up our stuff.\u00a0 Jessie Loya did a great devotion from Romans and 1 Corinthians talking about the roles that everyone fills on the team.<\/p>\n

From there we headed back to the hotel for a rest and some dry clothes.\u00a0 We are heading out to Fells Point tonight to do some shopping and eat dinner.\u00a0 I asked each student to pick up 5 Gallery Church cards promoting their Easter services to give out over the course of this week.\u00a0 I know that many of them are hoping to give out some cards tonight.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow morning we are headed to Ft. McHenry to tour the historic fort where Francis Scott Key penned The Star Spangled Banner.\u00a0 The rest of the day will be spent at the Baltimore Freedom Academy cleaning and painting for The Gallery Church Easter service this Sunday.\u00a0 They are starting a second service every Sunday at BFA to reach the people that are too far away from their location on Fleet Street.<\/p>\n

We are having a blast.\u00a0 Everyone is working hard and has a great attitude.\u00a0 This is an incredible team of students and adults and we are genuinely seeing God at work in our midst.<\/p>\n

TOGETHER…Cultivating Hearts.\u00a0 Challenging Minds.\u00a0 Impacting Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday, March 29, 2010 3:30pm EDT BALTIMORE TEAM Our morning started EARLY today!\u00a0 Everyone had to be in the lobby by 6:30 for breakfast and by 6:50 we were walking to our bus stop.\u00a0 We have really enjoyed the free bus here in Baltimore that they have for tourists in the Inner Harbor\/Fells Point area.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-cobb-christian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}