go missions las vegas 2008 (4)

(check out all the other vegas posts before reading this! :) )

on monday we got to sleep in again until 7 30 :D (other days we had to be in line for breakfast at 6 55 am EKK i know !) we didnt have any breakfast at all that morning because at the ywam base they had a 'special bunch' prepared for us. when we got there, we each were given a number and there were 6 spots. one table had AWESOME food with people to cut their food and everything, and then there was a table with p b and j sandwiches and juice. and then it just got worse from there. (rice, bread, dirty water, eating on the ground) and then there was one group that just had to sit there and eat ... well air i guess. and then another group of people were at the garbage can. i was really excited when i got # 2 -- p b and j sandwiches! i love them, (i usually eat them with cheese, but there wasnt any :( haha ) so i ate like 1/2 of my sandwich and then put some of my crusts in the garbage can to see if people would eat it (pastor mike ended up taking it out and eating it) so then kevin (ywam leader) 'demoted' me to the garbage can to eat. but dont worry i ran back for a handfull (actually) of my sandwich with most of it getting smudged on my face by kevin. i found some good stuff in the garbage can. i didnt go hungry. i found some stuff to recycle, and i ate part of a english muffin that people at the 'rich' table dropped, and some apple.

we were told to fast for the rest of the day until supper came around. im glad they had good food at the shelter that night !! haha. doing that activity made us really thankful for what we have and how greedy we really are. a whole village in some poverty filled place would love to eat like just one of us for a day, and we throw so much food out too! one of the ywam leaders also read us some statics too. i cant remember the numbers, but the amount of money that is needed to end poverty is less than the amount of money that women spend on makeup in a year. ending poverty is possible!! good thing i dont buy any makeup.

we also learned about the 10/40 window/focus. check out http://www.1040window.org/ . the 10 and the 40 are for the longitude and latitude lines on a map. the people that fall into the 10/40 are people that have never heard about the gospel. check out the site. heres a pic of the 10/40 window.

they also talked about missionaries there, and ywam in the window.

that night we went to the strip again. outside the bellagio hotel by the fountains. they are way cool, and i ll put a video up furter down in the post. we did 'stomp' while the fountains werent going off. stomp is making beats/music with garbage cans and sticks. 4 of the guys from our team did it, and crowds of people would stop on the side of the road to watch/listen. then the rest of us would go up to the people watching and explain to them what we were doing, and ask them if they wanted free prayer. that night i was with jessica and we had a really good time. we got to talk to a lot of different people, and it seamed like a lot of people we asked were Christians, which was awesome and they were very encouraging and suported us too, but we were going after the a's and the w x y's, not the z's (read last post to understand) stomp was a lot of fun to do, and we pretty much got a chance to join in and help.

this is a pic of marc andrew, matt, dan, and ryan doing stomp.

this was our last out reach , which was really sad. we all had a really awesome time, and didnt want it to end. even as we were walking back to our vans, some of us couldnt stop asking people if they wanted free prayer. it was awesome. i miss it already.

one more post left to sum up the rest of the trip! im getting good at this whole blogging thing eh?! i bet briggins is proud of me :)

heres the video of the fountains like i promised !

next post-- grand canyon !