Trip to Kansas City

Dear reader's of the world,

Sorry I haven't posted much lately. I was on my trip to Kansas City! To International House of Prayer!! It was my first trip away from my family and I was very nervous leading up to the trip and it took a lot of humility to ask for prayer about my anxiety, but when I did I was really happy I had. My team was so sweet to me and were empathetic to my fears. You rock Persisters!!

We road tripped in and it was a 12 hour drive there and back. We took a whole day to drive there and by the time we got to the 7^th or 8^th hour we were all getting a little tired of the road. But we listened to music and play bible related car games and it was good bonding time. We got there and stayed in a cute little house that some of Matt and Moriah's friends found for them. It was a great house, only one problem, six people:one bathroom.

Me and Bethany shared a room and a tiny bed. We had to sleep horizontally, and I almost got pushed off the bed twice! I'm not bitter. We slept long and well and woke up early the next morning to get ready to go to IHOP.

We arrived and went into the prayer room right away to my surprise IHOP was huge! The amount of people in the prayer room was astounding! At least a hundred and fifty and it was 9am in the morning on a Thursday! They had a band on stage singing songs and then just jamming out on the guitar and piano. We sat down near the front and pulled out our bibles and started to sing with the this went on for about an hour and then the band switched with another, careful to always have some form of live music playing. The second band started playing softly and a man walked up to the podium and started to pray for Israel and everyone joined in and chanted a small prayer for Israel for awhile.

We stayed in the prayer room for another hour or two and headed back to the house for lunch. And I nap before we headed back for a teaching on Evangelism by a woman that had a vision of hell. I didn't quite agree with her teaching. I think that it is completely wrong to be scared into religion, God wants us to show his love when we evangelize, not threaten the lost with an eternity of agony. But that is just my opinion on the subject.

That night we ate dinner and got ready to go to the IHOP Awakening Service. I don't know if I've ever seen so many well dressed people! Anyways, there had to be at least five hundred people there! And half of them were all crowded up in a mob in the front by the stage where Misty Edwards was playing Soul Cry. It was really cool to see so many people rocking out and then there were other people wandering through the crowd laying hands on people and people were shaking and falling and laughing and crying and it was so cool! Me and Bethany walked up and joined the mob and started laying hands on anyone and everyone! It was so freeing to be in a place where a bunch of young people were all gathered together in God's name and having a great time and operating in the gifts God gave them!

Well anyways that completes the first night of our trip!We went home at about 10 o'clock that night me and Bethany watched Jurassic Park for the first time once we got home. I thought the people made the funniest faces when they were being eaten.

Thanks for reading!