Pics from Sunday

The team on the Swan Boats in Boston. The same boats have been doing this since 1877!




George Washington statue




Eating a great Italian dinner in the North End

It was a great last day. Now we are getting ready to leave the hotel and head back to Dallas!
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Movie in the Park

We had a great day today! The day started with our team making 500 boxes of popcorn for the movie in the park that we were getting ready for tonight. You should have smelled our car after storing the popcorn in there for the afternoon.

We gathered at a local park this afternoon to get ready for the movie in the park. We had to unload a trailer with inflatables, sound equipment, and all sorts of supplies. We got the park set up and were ready for families to arrive...and arrive they did. There were somewhere around 400 to 500 people that came. Probably 95% of them totally lost with no connection to any Gospel preaching church. Our students were amazing...they worked from 4pm till 10:30...painting faces, making balloons, making snow cones, cotton candy, and manning bounce houses. It was an awesome night. Several of the families mentioned that they were going to try to come to Grace Church tomorrow.

I could not be more proud of these students. They are unbelievable. We are looking forward to going to Grace Church tomorrow morning. Then in the afternoon we will be going back into the city of Boston to relax and enjoy the afternoon.

Thanks for all your prayers. God is using these students in great ways!

Matt

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Pics from Saturday

We started today making 500 boxes of popcorn!




A trip to target for supplies...we were impressed with the escalator for your shopping cart!




Fun times making balloon animals!




Our girls painted hundreds of kids faces!




Making snow cones...





Mitch manning an inflatable





Robbie holding up an inflatable


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Friday Overview

Today was another great day here in the Boston area. We spent a full day passing out fliers about the upcoming Movie in the Park in the Canton, MA area. Our team is breaking ground this week...it is the first advertising done in the Canton area. Our students have done a fantastic job representing Grace Church in this new area.

This evening we had the chance to get dinner with Sean Sears and his wife and kids. Sean is the pastor of Grace Church. It was so awesome to get to hear his heart for this community. Canton is a town of 22,000 people and there are NO churches sharing the Gospel there. Can you believe that? Sean is passionate about reaching this area for Christ.

One of the cool things i learned was that it is directly because of their partnership with Lake Pointe that they are able to do this Movie in the park in Canton. If not for funding that Lake Pointe is providing they could not do it. I'm so proud to be part of a church that is helping new churches reach their communities.

Tomorrow is our big day. Pray for us as we get to be a part of the movie in the park. I can't wait for our students to be able to interact with the people of this community.

Matt


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Thursday Overview

Today began early this morning as we gathered together at Grace Church to get our plans for the day. They gave us 4 maps and tons of fliers to pass out. Here is a picture of one...







As we got out on the roads of Canton, Ma we got a call from Taylor, the student pastor at Grace. He said that the parks department had just called and decided they would not host a movie in the park. They asked us to immediately start praying for a change of heart as they went to meet with the parks director. About an hour later we got a call that we were back on, but that they would be changing locations. We were excited to get back to passing out fliers. We divided into two groups and got after it. Our students did a great job. Many had good conversations with people as they invited them to the movie in the park. We are looking forward to another great day tomorrow finishing up passing them out.

We worked till 6pm this evening before wrapping up and heading to dinner. After dinner we found a local ice cream stand called Daddy's Dairy...they literally had 140 flavors of soft serve ice cream in addition to 30 flavors of regular ice cream. It was amazing!

Pray for us tomorrow as we go back out into the community.

matt
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Pictures from Thursday

Just a small part of 4 maps we are trying to finish...




Let's just say some of the driveways were long and steep. If you look hard you will see Michelle at the top of the driveway.





Mitch with his "Girly" ice cream cone at Daddy's Dairy...it was awesome ice cream! We made their Facebook page...


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Wednesdays fun...

We had a great first day in Boston. This morning we met Taylor at Grace Church and learned a lot more about the church that we are serving with. Taylor and his wife are the volunteer youth leaders at the church. I can't imagine having to work another full time job, while still being the youth pastor of a church. He is a great guy and God is using him in great ways. It is incredible to hear about the things that God is doing in this church. It isn't easy to start a church up here, but God is doing great things.

Taylor then took us around Boston. WE started at Harvard, which was pretty cool. We got to walk around Harvard Yard...

We ate lunch at the most awesome Burger Joint...it was on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives...Bartley's Gourmet Burgers. The names on the menu were pretty funny, there is a picture of the menu on my other post. After that we went to Fenway Park and got a tour...AWESOME! Then onto downtown Boston and we began to walk the freedom walk...in the freedom RAIN...

Since it started raining we ran in one of the million Dunkin Donuts for a snack. We saw Paul Revere's grave, the state house where the Declaration of Independence was read, Park Street Church...and many other famous old sites.

We ate some pizza for dinner and came back to the hotel to get some sleep and get ready for a great day of ministry tomorrow. We are going to be passing out 10,000 invitations to a "Movie In The Park." Pray for endurance for our students.

Can't wait for the morning...i will update more tomorrow night...


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