Hope that your weekend has been great. It's hard for me to believe that we just arrived here yesterday. It feels as though we have done a ton! Here's a quick summary:
Saturday
We arrived at our hostel shortly after 3pm. Our flights got delayed a little because of rough weather in New York. After a brief orientation from our coordinator, Bobbi Jo, we ventured out into the city. We hopped onto the subway and made our way to Central Park. Andrew and I got particularly excited when we thought we spotted the bridge that the main characters of the movie "Cloverfield" took shelter in.
We then headed over to Rockefeller Center. We bought tickets to go to the "Top of the Rock." It started to rain as we got in the elevator to go up 67 floors, but fortunately the rain stopped once we got there. We had an awesome view of the city at night. Everyone loved this part of the evening.
After that we needed to get back to our hostel, so we made our way through Times Square to the subway station.
Sunday
We got back on the subway and traveled to the end of the line so that we could go on the Staten Island Ferry. Not only was this free, but we only had to wait ten minutes. We had a great view of the Statue of Liberty.
We wrapped up our afternoon by going to Ground Zero and then back to Times Square to check out the Virgin Record Store and Toys 'R Us.
After all of our sightseeing and running around town, it was time to remember why we are really here. :-) We participated in worship at Uptown Community Church, a church plant in Washington Heights. At the end of the service, one of the kids said to me, "Look! They've got a table of snacks just like our church!" We followed the service with our final orientation as we prepare to go to Operation Exodus tomorrow morning.
Thanks for praying for us! We made it to all of our destinations safely and without getting lost! Catherine is also feeling better. Please continue to pray for us. Please pray for our first day at Exodus tomorrow. Pray that we'd start making relationships with the kids and tutors there and that we'd work well with the other church and individuals that are also here.
I'll try to get some other people to share their thoughts in the next few days.
Jason
2 comments:
Glad you guys have had a good weekend. We prayed for you all at church this morning. Give Rileigh a big hug for us.
Thanks for the updates. Sounds like you guys had a fun weekend. :-)
We've been praying for a great first day w/ your students in WH today.
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