Be the change.

T-minus 3 days until I go on the umpteenth trip of the summer (Not counting all the side trips in Italy, I think this is actually only the 4th...but it feels like I have been in transit for half my life at this point).

Saturday evening, I will be arriving in Costa Rica for a week-long mission trip with the youth. We are taking 95 total, around 70 of those are kids. It has been a long and pretty intense preparation journey, both spiritually and physically. I have a personal investment in the worship aspect of the trip, not only because I get paid extra to design the devotional books (cha-ching!), but because it is what I am most passionate about. This trip, our theme is "Be the change you want to see in the world." (see devo book cover above). We will be covering love, peace, renewing your mind, and having a prophetic imagination towards evil and violence. I will be talking about the last one (count on me to have some lofty and over-thought title...ha)

I will post my thoughts later, but prayers are appreciated for now. Specifically, I pray that we all remember the meaning of this trip: SERVICE. It's so easy to assume that going to a beautiful and tropical country with 75 of your favorite people is going to be the vacation of a lifetime, but we aren't going so we will have lots of fun (although I would argue that serving is WAY more fun than vacations). We are going to do work, son. So let's do it.

BE the change.