San Antonio Bound

This afternoon, Torrey left for a week long mission trip to San Antonio, Texas. She is with a group of middle school students from our church ... and 7 brave, brave, brave adults!I would say she was excited to go, but that word isn't exciting enough. We are thrilled that she has this opportunity to go and be a part of something great. And, we are even more thrilled that this is something she desires to do and isn't being made to do.
Torrey and her gaggle of girls. It is nice they are taking such a quiet group to San Antonio ... HA!

Torrey and her girl, Marissa. Such sweet friends!

And, here is the group ... ready and excited to go. I think they were taking 40 this year ... which is 50% more than went last year. God is definitely up to something!
Torrey's van. And, now for the rest of the story. Torrey is in group one (there are 2 groups ... an "outside" group and an "inside" group ... Torrey is in the "outside" group) When they were telling the kids which vans they could go in, Torrey's group had the option to go in 2 vans, one of which the youth leader was driving. Do I really need to say that his van was packed to the gills with kids and the other van only had 4 in it? They told the kids that some of them had to move to the other van .... and the kids did not give any eye contact. They finally got it worked out, but it made us giggle.

6 of "Group One" girls ... Lindsay is the older looking girl on the far left (top row) ... she is a summer intern who has given up her summer to spend it with our kids. The girls love her ... and we love that she loves Jesus and is pouring Him into these girls!

And, after this picture (and a final "You can go now, Mommy!") they were off. We do not do well with the whole putting her into someone else's care thing. Camp was OK ... they were contained, but this ... this is altogether different. This morning in Sunday School we were praying for our kids who are heading out on mission trips this week and one of our pastors said "I always assume they will be safe" ... and it was like he was talking to me. So, I will spend this week assuming she will be safe and instead pray that God reveals Himself to her in an amazing way.

Please pray with us for our girl. Also pray for the weather ... we are in the midst of heat wave ... they are expecting temperatures to go as high as 115 this week. Little girl will be spending her week OUTSIDE ... please pray for gentle breezes so that the weather won't become what they remember of this week. And, as you pray for this group in San Antonio, our church has teens in Chile and San Diego this week as well. We know God is doing something great in the lives of these kids!