{"id":1760,"date":"2010-03-31T23:36:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T03:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2010-04-03T21:44:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T01:44:48","slug":"baltimore-2010-day-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore 2010: Day Five"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finally…a beautiful day here in Baltimore! \u00a0After a few days of wind and cold rain, today was gorgeous! \u00a0God planned a great day for us to visit Oriole Park at Camden Yards. \u00a0We started our day with a devotion by Coach Dukes about the game that God is calling us to go into. \u00a0We rode the bus a few stops and hopped off at Camden Yards. \u00a0Everyone really enjoyed seeing the ballpark and hearing the history of Baltimore. \u00a0Bob was our tour guide and he did a fantastic job!<\/p>\n

After the tour, we hopped back on the Charm City Circulator bus to ride back to The Gallery Church offices. \u00a0One of our favorite drivers, Evonne, was driving today and we were so glad to see her. \u00a0Chase Carroll had his picture made with her the other day and she calls him sweetie! \u00a0We have been so blessed to ride on the CCC bus because it has provided us a lot of opportunities to meet people and share about what God is doing in and through The Gallery Church here in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

Once we arrived at the offices, it was time to eat our incredible lunches. \u00a0Be sure to ask your student what they had for lunch each day. \u00a0We hung out at the office and got ready for the afternoon. \u00a0We went back to FAST to help with a Block Party designed to draw people in so we could tell them about The Gallery Church and their Easter services. \u00a0Our job was to help hand out flyers in the neighborhoods and then come back to the school to help with inflatables, kickball, football, soccer, games, and other activities for the kids. \u00a0We had a blast! \u00a0You will notice all of our sun when we get home tomorrow. \u00a0It is not the deep kind of tan that some of you are hoping to pick up over Spring Break…more like a farmer’s tan, but a tan nonetheless!<\/p>\n

As the afternoon unfolded, it was great to see all of our students venture outside their comfort zones in order to meet new people and share the love of Christ with them. \u00a0This whole week has been about God giving us a new perspective on things and revealing to us where we can join Him in His work here in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

We have had such a great week that we decided to celebrate with dinner and games at the ESPN Zone. \u00a0Kids never get too old to play video games…even those of us that are adult kids! \u00a0After dinner we walked back to the hotel for our last night team meeting.<\/p>\n

Our team meetings this week have started by everyone sharing their favorite part of the day. \u00a0We have really enjoyed hearing everyone’s highlights. \u00a0We have also talked about what God has taught us each day. \u00a0It has been incredible to see the way that God is working in our hearts and confirming our theme verse of John 3:30, “He must become greater, I must become less.”<\/p>\n

Ellis, the lead pastor at The Gallery Church, joined us for this meeting and expressed appreciation to our team and all of their hard work this week. \u00a0He said that we helped them build relationships in the community that would have taken their staff months to accomplish on their own. \u00a0We enjoyed visiting with Ellis and look forward to continuing to partner with The Gallery Church through our prayers and other opportunities to serve them.<\/p>\n

We finished up our meeting with prayer requests, group prayer, and our team chant (ask your student about that). \u00a0Tomorrow will be an early morning as we check out and load up to ride the CCC bus over to the church office. \u00a0We are doing a project at Patterson Park, eating lunch at the church office, and then riding the train to catch the plane. \u00a0We are hoping to arrive in Atlanta a little after 6pm around the same time as our friends on the Guatemala, Paris, and New York trips. \u00a0The Washington, DC crew will be back closer to 10pm. \u00a0Please remember to pray for all of our Short Courses as they will be wrapping up and the College Tour as their bus rolls back in around 7pm.<\/p>\n

This has been an incredible week in the lives of our students and staff that were privileged enough to participate in the first ever NCCS Spring Term. \u00a0Thank you for your prayers and support as we embarked on our adventures. \u00a0Please be sure to ask your students to tell you what they did over the course of the week and challenge them to share with you what God taught them.<\/p>\n

TOGETHER…Cultivating Hearts. \u00a0Challenging Minds. Impacting Culture.<\/p>\n

Megan Strange<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally…a beautiful day here in Baltimore! \u00a0After a few days of wind and cold rain, today was gorgeous! \u00a0God planned a great day for us to visit Oriole Park at Camden Yards. \u00a0We started our day with a devotion by Coach Dukes about the game that God is calling us to go into. \u00a0We rode […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","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=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}