Leaving
I’ve got one more week here in MD, maybe for my life, maybe not. People keep asking me if I’m sad or excited to be going back home. Honestly, I’m more saddened than excited. Yeah, I love hanging out with my friends from home and I miss them, but I know I will see them again. It’s the ministry I’ll miss here. Gigs have been going well. The guys are connecting and feeling more open to sharing each passing week. They were sad that I’ll be going and they want to continue to meet. Praise God for this opportunity to step out of my comfort zone and rely on his grace to do these Gigs. I pray that God will continue to work in this place. I’ll miss my other friends here at work. Honestly, they have become close friends to me. I know that if I need help, I can rely on them. It’s sad that I think I can rely on them more than on people from church. I feel better connected to them and will miss them, esp those who I know won’t come back. I’ll miss my CHESED (I’d rather spell it HESED, as that’s what I’m used to seeing). I praise God for the opportunity to serve with them this past summer and pray that God will continue to use them to reach the college age group at CBCM and in University of Maryland: College Park. I’ll esp miss the other leaders, Bobby, Debbie, Howard, and Doyle. It was my privilege to help out along side and it was great to see the CFC influence here. 
Gather to scatter, right? I’ll miss CBCM. I remember my first time here and they took me out to lunch and treated me. They know the way to my heart is through free food . I just wish I got to know them better during my time here. It’s hard being 30-40 minutes away in the wrong direction.
But I think God for my time here. It was a 6-months well spent. If you care to hear more of what and how I’ve been doing, sign up for my Newsletter. I know I missed the end of the Spring semester deadline but I figured I’ll send one out at the end of my work tour when I can collect all my ideas for this time frame. I’ll send out an email which you won’t be able to read here due to the personal nature of it. Sign up if you care, if you don’t, that’s cool too. I don’t care about you either 
, just kidding I do. At least people are coming back from missions so I can take them off my prayer list. AHHH! I’m just kidding again. I’ll pray for your post-missions. Don’t stop doing the awesome work you were doing on the field. You’re mission field is all around you. Ok, that’s enough.