I cannot believe that another week has come and
gone with Summer LINK Clemson. It seems not too long ago that we were having
our orientation and getting to know one another! Now we’re getting close to the
last week of serving with Crosspoint staff this summer.
This week has been, like many others have written
before me, an incredible week of fellowship, teaching, and learning. We had the
honor of gathering at the Welborn’s (yes, parents of BTChubs..) home this
Monday night for Equip Night. You want to know what a true Southern home-cooked
meal looks like? Well let me just tell you how Kathy Welborn blessed the
stomachs of all the Clemson Summer LINKers: picture some home-made fried
chicken, macaroni and cheese, squash casserole, rice, fruit, salad, two
home-made red-velvet cakes, macadamia nut cookies, white chocolate macadamia
nut cookies, turtle cookies, and your choice of either vanilla ice cream or
cookie dough ice cream. Can you say YUMMY!! We were truly blessed and full of happiness
and satisfaction. It was also an immense blessing for us to hear the testimonies
of Mark and Kathy Welborn and how obedient they have been to the Lord’s calling
on their lives. Twice in their walks with the Lord, they have been faithful to
the Lord and have given up everything to help start a church. Mark reminded us
that we can respect God and fear Him, but we must understand what it truly
means to love Him. Our quiet times, our fellowship and discipleship with other
believers, and our prayers should change as our love for Him grows. We’re
thankful for their obedience and faithfulness to help start Crosspoint Church
and for continuing to faithfully serve the body of Christ! We continued our
study of Robert Coleman’s Master Plan of Evangelism by discussing Jesus’ method of delegation unto His
disciples to spread the truth of the good news. We pray that we would be
teachable disciples of Christ and learn how to delegate to fellow believers in
order to teach them more about Jesus and watch them grow in His ministry of
evangelism and discipleship!
We celebrated another special day this week on
Thursday night by honoring Miss Katrina Ross’ 20th birthday! We all
got to indulge in some delicious chocolate cupcakes (thanks to Miss Emilyn
Banfield) and sing happy birthday to one special lady with a beautiful
servant’s heart before CP group. To end the summer socials on a high note,
Summer LINK Clemson traveled to Atlanta this past Friday to spend the day at
Six Flags. This was a day all of us were looking forward to and expecting to be
the highlight of our summer! Although it was a hot summer day, we all had a
blast riding rollercoasters (multiple times), walking around the gift shops,
and exploring the water park to cool off a bit. Nothing like the thrill of a
rollercoaster to drive out the fear in us and draw us closer together as a
group!
We’re so thankful to be under the teaching of
Crosspoint this summer and to be pushed and challenged by the Lord in
evangelism this summer. Ken taught on living in light of Christ’s return last
Sunday and it has been reigning in our hearts all week. It completely changes
and impacts your day when you put the second coming of Christ and His promise
of restoration on the forefront of your mind. We are thankful and grateful to
be in prayer for those that we have gotten to have gospel-centered
conversations with and we pray for more! God is Sovereign and we are humbled to
be used by Him to further His Kingdom.
We pray for our fellow brothers and sisters in
Christ serving in Boston, Honduras, and India and our hearts are with them! We
know God is doing wonderful things in and through them.
Laura Gann
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