JUNE HAS COME AND WITH IT THE NEXT PHASE FOR REOPENING CHURCH... The awaited time where all interns would serve together once again would take place, the purés form of intership was lived. A long side with the vision of church and fully supporting our leadership we said ¨Here I am¨. No one had an idea of how it would look like, all we did know was that our hearts for those who have missed in person church needed it (i needed it), with our safety social restrictions in place we welcomed everyone and it was as exhausting as expected lol. The first two sundays I did nothing but go home a sleep, felt like I´ve ran a marathon, even though I have never run one nor I plan to lol. However, the emotional exhaustion was not there, quiet the opposite, I found I had a full heart. Every Sunday I have been expected to see people I usually would only see on Sunday, however I have come to find that not everyone is ready for physical church and that’s ´s ok. Is a reminder to me of how reaching out thro
MAY It has only been the 5th month of 2020 and so much has happened already. And to think that I’m doing life alongside people I have never being in the same room at once. I’m also grateful for our leadership´s wisdom to guide us and identify how this cohort is different from others and set boundaries and guidelines on our communication until we are able to build in person relationship equity. Specially with all the opinions and perspectives around POC, other’s intentions can and will be miss interpret really wrong and really fast. I know at least I was, I could already see how I was drifting from interacting with specific people due to their comments disguised as prayers, and it just wast not feeling good about it. I had to repent of passing judgment to people I don´t even know, not really anyways. My heart truly pumps for “I Love This City” project, since starting my internship I keep searching on how my personal ministry looks like within church (which is the whole reason b