Urban plunge day 3

Hey there everyone, I hope things are going well for you. Our students are so tired from today. They worked so hard. We had 1 team wake up at 5 am and take off towards project Dayton where they served homeless people, while another team took off towards a place where they helped mentally disabled students, and adults. That team served root beer floats and and had a dance party with the adult class. This afternoon both teams served by cleaning up parks, team 1 went to a YWCA and cleaned and indoor park, while team 2 went out to a community garden and helped them lay mulch and weed out some of the gardens. Tonight we had a cookout with some of the neighborhood kids. It was really fun playing games, and eating a ton of food. Then we had a guy named Bryce who plays right guard for wright state come and give a message. He spoke on anger and told stories of how when he was angry how he acted, and then he told stories about how Christ changed his life. God is doing some amazing work in these students our debrief time took almost 2 hours because of all the stories being told of these students serving. Here are some questions 1. How did you enjoy working with the mentally challenged people at urs. 2. How did you like Bryces talk about anger? 3. In yor devotion time in the morning what did you read? What did you get it of your time praying? 4. What's the best dance move you did in the dance party? 5. what did God teach you about speaking to those who are in need? Can't believe tomorrow is our last day. God is doing some amazing stuff! Keep up the prayers we are feeling them!!! P.A.

Urban plunge day 2

Good evening everyone! I hope you are doing well, here is the run down of our day today and also some questions to ask your students when they get home. Both teams spent time in new hope villa, and painting a house for rebuild Dayton. New hope villa is a residential unit for people who have been homeless at one point in their lives, and who deal with mental disorders. Team 1 spent their time playing games, the Xbox kinect, and skipbo. They had great conversations and came away with lots of eat stories, team 2 played chair volleyball. It was amazing, they have an actual chair volleyball team that competes in tournaments, and they have 1st place trophies. Our team won 3 out of the 4 games, but it was pretty close. Today was our poverty day, we broke the students up into 3 families of 6 and they got 10$ to eat all day. Our students did great! Almost every family had food left over, they did a great job. The debriefing time was fantastic with the students tonight. It would be a great thing for you to talk with your student about when they get home. Here are some questions for you to ask your students. 1. How was poverty day? 2. What was your favorite part of painting? 3. Tell me about the people at new hope villa? 4. What was your favorite game we played in the park? 5. Wha did you learn about God in Sams testimony? Hope you guys have a great day! See you Thursday, please keep praying for our team. P.A.

Urban plunge day 1

Well we finally got down here! It was a great trip down today and it was a lot easier than yesterday. The students are all mostly sleeping I just stepped into the guys room and made sure they were actually going to bed, but it was a lot of laughing and bodily noises. Most of the ladies I am told are already asleep. They were really tried. Today we got to spend a lot of hanging out with our team, doing fun games, and eating. We ate a lot today. Tomorrow we will be spending most of our day working in various capacities, and it's poverty day tomorrow. We will be breaking the students up into families of 4 and giving them 8 dollars to feed themselves all day. We want them to understand how difficult it is to be poor and be hungry. Be praying that God does some amazing things through this day. Here are some questions you can ask your students when they come back. 1. How did to enjoy the trip down? 2. Tell me about geocaching? 3. How was playing in the fountain? 4. What was your favorite thing to do at the firehouse? 5. What type of fruit do you think Jesus is looking for in yor life? Hope you have a great day. P.A.

Urban Plunge leaves tomorrow!

Hey there everyone! Last minute details are under way over here at CVMC getting things packed up and into the trailer! Here are some of the things you need to remember:

1. We leave at 5pm tomorrow night from cvmc! We will be stopping on the way down for dinner so make sure to bring some extra money.

2. Make sure you bring a water bottle, not a flimsy plastic one, but a good sturdy one!

3. Bring good clothes to work in, and good shoes to work in as well.

4. Make sure to bring your bibles, and a journal as well.

5. Pack for the weather! It's going to be hot!

If there are any more questions that you have please email me and I will return those as quick as possible.

Thanks guys! Can't wait to leave tomorrow!

P.A. 

Urban Plunge Prayer list

I can't believe we are only a couple days away from taking off on a luxurious missions trip :) Just kidding about the luxurious part we are sleeping on floors, and doing a ton of hard work, but it's going to be stinking awesome.

Here are a couple ways for you all to stay connected during our time away.

1. Facebook - Friend either I (Adam sharp)  or Carter Ammerman. We will be posting pictures and updates through our facebook pages, also we have Cvmc youth facebook page, if you like it, you can see some of the updates there as well.

2. Twitter - If you text 40404 then in the message potion of the text type "follow cvmc_therefuge" you will receive our twitter feed on your phone like a text message, you don't have to sign up for twitter, its pretty much us sending you text messages about our time in Dayton, and this will work for all of our trips. Big Chill, 3dyc, HS urban plunge, EVERYTHING!

3. Blogspot - Obviously if you are reading this you have the blogspot web address, on here we will be debriefing everyday with parents so they can follow along with our trip, we will be posting questions you can ask your students when they come back home so you don't get the typical "How was your trip" "FINE!" answer. We want to equip and help the parents be able to connect with their student as much as possible!

Our Goal is to make it easy for parents and others to follow us on our trip.

As always if you have any questions please feel free to email me at cvmcadam@gmail.com 

Have a great day, and try to stay cool!

P.A. 

Urban plunge prayer list

Hey there everyone, we are just a couple days away from our Junior high students taking off to Urban plunge! We leave July 7th, at 5pm from CMVC! It is going to be such an amazing trip, we can't stinking wait to go. I can't believe its already here. For those who will be back here and wanting to pray for us here are a couple more things you can pray for.

1. For the leaders to get sleep!
2. For the leaders at Urban plunge to connect with our students.
3. For our 2 teams to do amazing work down in Dayton Ohio!
4. For the Poverty day to be really effective with our students.
5. For the parents and students to have great debriefing time when they return.

We hope that you all have a great day!

P.A.

Urban Plunge

Hey there everyone, I hope things are going well for you guys! Here are a couple things to be praying for our students with urban plunge.

1. For God to move in major way in these students and leaders lives.
2. For safety, we will be traveling a lot, and all around Dayton so please pray for safety.
3. For sleep, its always hard to get into a good rhythm of sleep in a new place and when its really hot out.
4. For the students to connect to others while on this trip.
5. For students to have a passion for serving others.

We leave on our first trip in 5 days! This first trip is Junior High students, and our Second trip is all high school students. We are super excited on what God is going to do on these trips.

Obviously during these trips I will be blogging questions you can ask your students when they get home, and for others we will be blogging about what we are doing and we will be posting pictures all the time on facebook, and here on the blogspot.

I will be posting all the this week on different ways to be praying for the teams that are heading out.

Hope you guys have a great day!

P.A.