Here is my last while-on-project post.
Thursday morning I got up after a very long and late Wednesday night to go back to UIC for one more campus day. We had been unable to meet with Simon and Alice on Wednesday so we pushed it to Thursday morning. We had a 2 1/2 hour conversation with them, mainly about Spirituality. They asked amazing questions and answering them stretched all of us who were there a ton. It was a great way to end my campus time on project.
Thursday afternoon my mom and my sister came into town. They came a few days early so they could explore Chicago and have a mini-vacation themselves. Thursday night we had a time of encouragement and breaking bread with the group. It was an incredible night! We sang worship songs, prayed with one another, and talked about all the amazing things the Lord did while we were on project.
Friday… Friday was our farewell dinner. We had all been working on “encourograms” for each other over the past two weeks. We got to give them out during the dinner. It was a really nice time and a few people spoke. Afterwards we headed over to Navy Pier and took a ride on the Ferris Wheel. We ran around taking TONS of pictures and our last full group picture. Right after that was when we had to say goodbye to the first person to leave.
At Navy Pier during our banquet
The guys of project have been doing a lot of the women. As a thank you, we wrote a song for the men, about the men, to the tune of Free Fallin’. We sang it to them when we got back to the apartment. It was pretty fantastic and they absolutely loved it!! It was followed by an all night movie marathon before the next person left at 6:30am.
People have been leaving one-by-one since them. Most of us are leaving before 2pm tomorrow. I am so sad to be leaving this place and these people but I know that I will see them again – hopefully at Christmas Conference and on the Big Break spring break trip. It has been an amazing summer. The Lord has taught me so much and done so much in my life. Once again, thank you to everyone for your financial support, prayers, and encouragement, I would not have been here if it wasn’t for you. Thank you!
**I will post one more time within the next couple of weeks.**
