Community within the body of Christ.

Training camp was an opportunity for me to become a acquainted with and ultimately become a church body with the people that i would would be going to share the gospel with for a year. we learned about what it means to be a community. How to unify as a body while yet being diverse in every way, we learned how to give one another feedback rather it be encouragement or correcting one another in love unto good works, we also learned our roles of being the body of christ. As we all got closer throughout the week we began to see each other’s strengths and weakness and observe each other personalities. we encouraged each other to use their strengths that maybe that person wasn’t aware that they had and brought out the best in one another. The best part was watching how the spirit would account for one persons weakness by allowing the next person on our team to be able to make up for another person’s weakness because it was their strength. It showed us how to embrace and step out in our strengths and be dependent on the rest of the body to achieve a goal, which in this case was bringing the kingdom down on earth through the power of the Holy Spirit working within each of us. When working as body, to be efficient you have to be willing to trust that your brothers and sisters beside you have your best interest and truly love you, and you also have to be willing to be vulnerable so that your brothers and sisters know how to pick you up, encourage or pray for you and love you well. coming in to training camp i knew these would be things that i would have to address because they were weaknesses and made me very uncomfortable to do this. especially with new people because ofth fear of judgment,ridicule, and rejection. if it wasn’t for God and his constant encouragement i probably would of let it cripple me, but He poured out enough grace upon me to strengthen me to deny myself and move forward in what he had for me that week. That week end up being full of pivotal changes and blessings,i found some things that i needed to get rid of, like letting people in and trusting them with my emotions and vulnerability and allowing them to help me manage and overcome them. it was a week full of iron sharpening iron and so much love and grace that was shown by my new brothers and sisters in christ as we faced giants, weakness, broke chains, faced demons and past pains and strived together toward the goal of glorifying God and becoming who are in Christ. I can’t wait to do life with each and every one y’all for 11 months next year as we tear down the gates of hell together and grow closer to God as a family. God truly showed up and showed out within us and our leaders that week and i am excited to see what else he has instore for us!