The end of a full day..

Our day in pictures...

 {Morning worship with Dave and Tara Powers}

{Getting ready to clean the streets of St. Louis}

{Our sweet bus driver, Alexandria. She has just started driving bus for the school and scored herself a little extra work driving us around all afternoon.}

{These guys MAY or may not have found this in a trash pile today...and they MAY or may not have been given official permission to bring it home with them. Seriously...look how HAPPY they are!}

After showers and dinner, we walked a few blocks to the Cardinal's stadium, where we literally walked up to the very highest row of seats. The view was spectacular, but not necessarily so if you wanted to actually watch the game. 

{Those itty-bitty specks right there are fans..}

{The Arch was right over our shoulders...}

{And the sunset was gorgeous..}

One of the highlights of the game was a little FRIENDLY competition that went on between a group of students and Jason to see who could be the first to make their way into a seat the closest to home plate. We got millions of group texts updating us on everyone's latest position in the stadium. It started as a friendly competition...and because a clear winner could not be determined {they ALL think they won, of course} the most competitive of the group have decided upon a tie breaker that will take place tomorrow. I can't reveal secrets spoken to me in confidence, but let's just say that perhaps we will be seeing some of our students manipulating their way onto Center Stage tomorrow. 

I am sitting in the Hotel Lobby and these

two literally had me howling 

as I watched their plan unfold. 

{The iphone didn't pick up the hue of the pants, but I promise they are VERY BRIGHT PINK}

{Need I remind you that we are staying in a REALLY nice hotel?}

The elevators were backed up with hundreds of students when we got back from the game, see that floor number up there? That's how many flights of stairs some of us walked up to get to our rooms...

This is night #2 of Bedtime Stories with Jason

Every night before bed the group gathers in one of the rooms (Intended for a max of 5 people) and Jason reads a story from Jonan and Rosalyn's bedtime Bible Storybook. I'm not going to lie...remember those 15 flights of stairs the kids walked up? There was no time for showers before storytime, thereby creating a stench so strong in that crammed room that it was almost impossible for certain corners of the room to stay focused.

In the end, we all had a great day.

Thank you for praying for us. The sessions and group times were full of a lot of good things. One of the students who admits that he doesn't usually enjoy worship music, stated that he has really enjoyed singing here and is beginning to understand what true Worship looks like. These are the kinds of things that make it all worthwhile. There is so much more to experience and we anticipate another great day tomorrow.The kids are spending a lot of time together...and they are bonding and laughing A LOT.

One last picture to share....

Look who we keep running into- 

I think you might recognize them!!

{Edna and Jerry Mapstone & Dave and Carol Kruft}

PS...Cody Fisher, just wanted you to know that we prayed for you during out group time tonight. We will be getting ready to go into a Session tomorrow as you go for your MRI...we'll be praying for you.

GOOD NIGHT from St. Louis!