AZ: Monday

Monday in Fort Defiance, AZ

An update from Pastor Josh Winkler:

We started our work assignments today. We are in five different sites, including two kid's club groups, two painting groups, and a gardening group. Our team has enjoyed bonding with each other over our two FULL days of travel (complete with 5am wakeup calls three days in a row!) and a day of service. We all came back from our work sites and got our first showers of the trip today, which improved everyone's spirit and smell. 

Faith Balster and Elizabeth Montgomery led worship today for the big group of around 70 people, which was a time of honoring and praising God with our voices together.

I've been so impressed with our students and how they've been dedicated to their every task. I've only received compliments from people about their hard work and willingness to integrate with and lead the other church we are serving with as well as love the children and Navajo people we interact with. 

A few prayer points:

 -Continued energy and hydration in the hot and dry desert

-Health and safety of all students

-God would speak to the hearts of the Navajo people through our service and testimony

-Students would experience and feel God's love for them in an undeniably tangible way and that they would abide in that love (1 John 4)