Day 3

Late night last night! Students hearts were broken from time spent on the streets with homeless and time spent in low income hotels. The students did a great job of listening to the people in both places. I am so proud of the students and their ability to adapt! This is such a positive and encouraging experience! We will spend time on the streets this morning and then head to the beach tonight for youth group! JC the cook is making BBQ and we are all excited to say the least :)

Here is a post from a student:

Wow. It’s already Wednesday and there has been so many awesome experiences. J.C the chef here is awesome. Well because there is only so much space on the blog I will only tell you two or three things. Yesterday we met an overseas veteran named Cindy, and when the third world countries became too dangerous she went to live with a friend in Oceanside, a suburb about 45 min. north of San Diego. When she went to stay with her friend the friendship fell through, and then to make matters worse someone stole her bank account PIN number. So now she is on the streets and no one will help her.

Another person we met was a man that volunteered at the church named Andrew. He’s a very intelligent person and a biblical scholar. One thing he taught me was how the gospel message was written in Genesis 5:1 it seems like a boring genealogy chart. It turns out that when the meaning of the Hebrew names are read in order it displays the message. The names mean this:

Adam: Man
Seth: Appointed
Enosh: Mortal
Cainan: Sorrow
Mahalalel: The Blessed God
Jared: Shall Come Down
Enoch: Teaching
Methuselah: His Death Shall Bring
Lamech: The Despairing
Noah: Comfort

An interesting thing is that Methuselah’s death brought the flood. So “Man appointed mortal sorrow (sin). The blessed God shall come down teaching. His death shall bring the despairing comfort.” Wow this is so true. I also found out that technically there are 14 tribes of Israel. There is Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Dan, and Ephriam. Dan was destroyed, Manasseh and Ephriam were sub tribes of Joseph, and Levi was technically not a tribe because he didn’t receive an inheritance.

Jacob