Who?? me??

"Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue."

"The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD ? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."

"But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it."
Exodus 4:10-13

I don't know about you, but i've felt like this a lot over this past year. I, like Moses, often feel like i can't think of the right words to say, or that I get tongue tied when I am trying to explain myself. However, as we know, God used Moses as his hands and feet, to do amazing things. If He could use Moses, he can use me, and you, as well.

This week we are continuing our training and preparation for the Summer of Service program. 100 youth arrive on Sunday (the 8th), and will be here with us for 3 crazy weeks. Training last week was pretty good. Having grown up in the humid summers in NC, I loved the weather in California. The lack of humidity and nice warm temperatures were wonderful. We arrived in Charleston late Friday night, and got settled into our permanent rooms Saturday afternoon. The Americorps campus here is located on the old navy base, that is now run by Homeland Security. We have to show our Americorps ID's every time we come onto base and then again to get into our gated dorms. Unfortunately I could go to jail for taking pictures inside base, so you'll have to use your imagination if you wanna know what it looks like here.

We explored a little in Charleston this weekend, and will do a little more of that this weekend, along with planning, preparing and getting psyched up about the youth coming next week! It would have been nice to do SOS in New Orleans with a bunch of my friends on other teams, but i think i got the good end of the deal because the staff here are great and they are on the ball. The other leaders here are a lot of fun too, so overall i think this will be a good experience. I'll fill you in about what all will be going down here for Summer of Service (SOS) later this week once i know more!

Happy first week of July!! (crazy!!)