The Potomac Team: Unique Nursing Home Visit

This morning the Potomac team went to a local nursing home. This one, however, was a little different than your typical nursing home. It is a home for the elderly who have little support financially. So to put it plainly, the home was not very nice. In fact, during the program the room(inside the nursing home) we were in was about 80 degrees due to not having a functional air conditioning system(remember these are sick and elderly patients being cared for). In fact, some of the students had a full time job simply by getting the patients enough water to keep them hydrated during the morning-afternoon heat.

The patients were very impacted and encouraged as a result of our ministry there. A theme when we were leaving was 'Ya'll (remember we're in VA) gotta come back again now ya hear?!"

I tend to usually shy away from boasting about decisions made for Jesus because I think that every witnessing opportunity is a success and when we only celebrate first time decisions we tend to get discouraged when we don't see immediate results. However, let me say this, today at least two first time decisions were made today due to our ministry! (both decisions were made by the nurses at the home) And that is something to really rejoice about!

In the afternoon the students left the nursing home and headed to the James River. While here not only did the team get to cool off in the water, but almost every students claimed to have some kind of spiritual conversation while there. A few students who had great conversations with people were: Joe H, Heather S, Beth F, Briana D, and Sam M.

From the James River the team headed back to the church to grab a late lunch and to do some manual labor. Half the team stayed back at the church to work on chores while the other half went out into the community to share their faith.

Today the students planted a lot of seeds. Please pray that God would water them and send out other Christians to reap the harvest.