Day of Rest

Today was my day off and I spent it going to church twice. :) This morning I went to a church that was south of Amsterdam called Crossroads. I’ve never been there before and I really wanted to experience it. It took us an hour to get there by bike (which I really wasn’t sure if we would ever make it); but it was a nice experience. I’ve been going to a really small house church of about 50 people (which I went to this afternoon), so it was nice to go to a large church for a change. I’m not sure I picked the best day to attend the church for the first time because they had a Gospel Choir, that didn’t really sing gospel music, they just really got into the songs through dancing; but the preaching was really good. He talked about Jonah and about following God’s will. It’s funny cause it went alongside the message for the afternoon, which was about having a deeper prayer life. I felt it was great because with a deeper prayer life, you can better fulfill God’s will. Prayer is kind of the theme here in a lot of aspects of The Shelter. We’ve started having 12 hour prayer every day; and each of the staff signs up for 1 hour to pray for The Shelter and the guests and the staff. It’s a way for us to help decide where God is leading us.