Day Two: Sunday - November 22, 2015

Today the team started our day with devotions and worship before joining our hosts and other ministry partners at Big Apple Chapel for a church service. It was a great time of fellowship and worship, with a message from Bill Cobb about intimacy with God. After the service, we enjoyed lunch and small groups with the church body before breaking out into the city to do some more surveying. We gathered for a meal prepared at the apartment and then hosted a Grove City Alumni Mixer at Think Coffee on Mercer Street. The alumni mixer went much longer than expected, which unfortunately prevented us from going out to do homeless ministry this evening. We did have the great opportunity to join previous team member Adrienne, who is currently living in the city, to visit the roof of the building she lives in (The Vogue) and get a great official team picture. While today did not go exactly as planned, it was a good lesson for us to trust that God will work out the details of our trip in ways that we do not expect - or necessarily appreciate initially - for the good of His service. We're looking forward to a full day of serving alongside of CYT and really doing some homeless ministry tomorrow night!

P.C. Chantilly Alberti

Team Highs and Lows

Tim's high was having a New Yorker approach him after leaving a $0.99 pizza shop with his phone that he had forgotten.

Katie's high was talking with the women in her small group at church this morning and being able to have fellowship with them and learn from them.

Kira and Elaina's high was surveying Julia and Adam, who were probably between 6 and 10 years old, and hearing their very interesting answers to our questions. They were at the age where they were old enough to answer our questions really intelligently but weren't yet disillusioned with the world, so they were very insightful. Talking to Kersten, who was from Germany, was also really cool.

Kira's low was getting lost with Tim and Daniel on the way to Think Coffee. She insists that she wasn't actually lost but just took a wrong turn, but she was lost.

Despite the fact that most people didn't have lows today, Jackson had a few to make up for everyone else. He was bummed that he missed a friend while we were at her building, and also that we didn't have time to do homeless ministry tonight because of how long the mixer went.

Tim, Kira, and Elaina surveyed at Rockefeller Center.
James, Katie, and Jackson surveyed at Union Square.
Arthur, Daniel, and Kaitlin surveyed at Central Park.
Hunter, Rachael, and Julie surveyed at Times Square with Chad and Misty who joined us from church.