My Summer At Street Reach

So I am spending my summer doing mission work this summer and it has already been amazing! I am working on staff at Street Reach in the inner city of Memphis, TN. I'm about 8 1/2-9 hours from home so the transition from being with my family to not has been a little hard, but I have made some really great friends here who help me out. Street Reach is an organization in Memphis that does Bible Clubs for the kids of the community and community service type projects for the rest of the community. Also, every week we have multiple teams from different churches come in and they stay at Street Reach and spend a week here ministering to the kids and community. Memphis is not the safest place and it needs a whole lot of Jesus! Street Reach provides Jesus to Memphis and wants to shine God's light over the city! It's a blessing in itself to be able to spend my summer doing what I'm so passionate about, which is spreading the love of God and bringing the lost to Christ, but then to see the smiles of all of the children in the community every week is the biggest blessing! Knowing that I may be the only Bible these people see and the only love these children receive pushes me to leave everything I have on the streets of Memphis! Street Reach has many Bible Club sites and I am working at Whittier this summer. I love it so much already and I have only been working one week! I'm also 1 of 2 people who takes the teams to a local nursing home as part of the afternoon service projects. The nursing home we go to is filled with some pretty great people who have some pretty interesting stories about their lives. I've met a man who was a carny growing up, a man who was an Ohio State football player when he was in college, and the sweetest little 103 year old lady. Week one has been so much better than I could have asked for and there is so much still to come! I'm so excited to see all that God holds for me this summer! I ask that everyone keep Street Reach & the staff, the teams coming in, and the people of Memphis in their prayers throughout their summer! If you would like to keep up with my summer in Memphis, I will put the links to my social media accounts below.

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Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/meredithlynne14
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/Meredith.Lynne.Weatherford?ref=bookmarks

Passion 2016: The Aftermath

Two weeks ago I came home from the Passion Conference. I went last year for the first time and God rocked my world then. This year He exceeded any expectations I had. I knew it would be amazing and I knew He would work in me, but I had no idea that He would completely change me. Last year after Passion I blogged about how God gave me my passion back while I was at Passion. This year He did it again. A month or so before Passion I was in a slump where I just was not in it. I do not know where this came from, but God took it away and made me 10x stronger than I was last year or at the beginning of last weekend. This year I went to Passion with baggage and things holding me back, and I left with faith in God that He would now take care of everything I did not need. I gave Him everything that was holding me back and became a stronger Christian in Him. I knew that it would be hard and Satan has already tempted me with the things I gave God, but all my faith is in God. If I rely on Him then Satan cannot do anything. Satan's temptations are nothing for the strong power of God. Passion 2015 was amazing and Passion 2016 was a wake-up call. I cannot wait to see what God has in store for Passion 2017! Let's go!