What God did in West End

     God has been working this year at West End and I am so happy that I had the privilege of serving as the community missions coordinator this past year. Working at Kids Extreme was my favorite thing about my life senior year. I just want to take a few minutes to let you know that God did great things in Rome, and that he answered our prayers.
     Kids Extreme started over two years ago after the spring break mission trip to Mission Arlington. I started working there last year, and became the girl in charge of community missions this year. What did God provide this year?
     A location. West End Baptist Church is a little church, but they know how to let God work. Not every church would hand unsupervised college kids a key to the building and let them come in for free every week. The body of Christ should work together as one church, and West End completely gets that.

Kids. We had about 25 kids in total this year. Some kids from last year returned, but we had a lot of new kids. The kids all live within a 5 minute walk of the church, they are well behaved, they memorized a lot of verses and they learned some songs. Younger kids learned who Jesus is. They learned what sin is, why Jesus came to Earth, and what the Bible is. Older kids learned even more and one of them became a Christian this semester.
     Teachers. West End grew from about 2 classes to 4. Every single teacher was enthusiastic, prepared, full of energy, overflowing with love and patience, and pretty much had perfect attendance.
  









     Prayer. After one particularly rough day at Southeast, we decided to start meeting and praying for Kids Extreme. That was one of the best things we ever did. First of all, a shout out to the fabulous USA for letting us pray in public, out loud, on a college campus. Second of all, a shout out to the college students who gave up an additional 20 minutes each Monday afternoon to pray for our kids by name. It worked.
     Bread. God sent us bread to send home with the kids. He sent us a family of servants who brought the bread. It's just one of the most fun things in the world when God gives you free stuff to give away.
     More Volunteers. Towards the end of the year, we got even more volunteers, which made Mondays even smoother and sweeter. More love to go around.

     God did all of this, and I just want to say thank you to the original core four: Emilee, Emily, Derek, and Hope, to the Smith family, to Eli, Maegan, Anthony, Morgan, and Becca, to West End Baptist Church, to the people who came before us: Mary Blanks, Katie Clegg, to Mission Arlington for the curriculum, and for Mission Centers Houston, for teaching me how to teach, and to DRol for making sure we have snacks and candy each week, and I guess to BCM and the GBC in general. We are lucky the body is so big.