As our team prepared, each day, for the work ahead of us, it was evident that God was in every detail. He taught us through His Word and His people, His Spirit strengthened and encouraged and led us. His children, the kids of City of Refuge inspired us as they showed up to each day’s activities. There were moments of joy and hours of fun. Sweet devotion times and fierce competition. God’s grace poured out lavishly on all of us, team members and children and staff alike. Behind and under the beautiful smiles and laughter are piled many personal struggles and insecurities, immense suffering at the hands of abandonment and abuse, real fears in the present and for the future and God, in His great mercy, offered us all each other for the week. Discipling, encouraging, enjoying, and loving one another as family. Adults and children normally separated by geography and life circumstances and yet, at our cores, all alike, souls yearning for God and needing a Savior.
