AIMing For Him

This past month has been amazing yet tremendously busy at the same time. At the beginning of this month the entire AIM class took a trip to Mexico City and what an eye-opening experience that was. We got to hand out flyers for the church service and for a free medical clinic the first full day we were there. Then the next day we had services and saw a man baptized because he had received a flyer from someone the day before. The next day we handed out sack lunches to homeless teens which they call "street kids" among the locals. That was in eye-opening experience in itself because we got to see the immense poverty that is in just one delegation of Mexico City. The next day we went to a St. Guadalupe’s Cathedral and got to see the major dominating religion that is present in Mexico and also many other places around the world. The final day on our way back from Mexico we stopped off to see some Aztec pyramids. Here is a picture of our AIM class in front of the pyramids:

(If you look closely you can see me with a sprite bottle sitting on my knee, I was pointing to it before the picture was taken but took my hand away)

A week after Mexico City trip I was able to go with 6 other AIMers to Winterfest. This was a really awesome experience for me because just a year before at Winterfest is where I met one of the AIM directors, Pat Schaeffer and found out He was a missionary, that was in AIM at the time and that I wrote to him for about 6-8 months and then lost contact with him. We figured all this out because the missionary that I was writing to had the same birthday as me and come to find out that we did. This event convicted my heart to go to AIM and coming back to Winterfest as an AIMer to hopefully make some kind of impact on someone there as Pat did with me was the goal that I had in mind. Though nothing as impacting as what happened to me happened while at Winterfest, I did through my talks with people and through the other AIMers, managed to speak to some many people and we had about 30 people signed up for next years class from just this event alone. If these numbers stand and are added to the other people that have said that they are going to AIM next year then our directors, Kris and Pat, said that there could be record breaking numbers for next year's class. It was also really awesome to see the Metro Youth Group and to hang out with them some, I've realized since being in AIM how really blessed I am to have such an awesome and spiritually driven youth group, which I attribute to an awesome godly man named Travis Verge. Many people that I have talked to in AIM have come from youth groups that were not strong at all and many were close to falling apart, then they came to AIM and experienced for the first time the joy of feeling real Christian community as a class.

The rest of this past month was spent in a lot of bible and team training, with some added activities such as traveling to a church this past Sunday to see them start on their new building growth.

I want to thank you as I usually do for the your support with my Adventures In Missions and as I continue on the field to do the Lords work.