Some big things

Well, I've been here for over a week now, and I'm still super excited to be here, I miss home and my community there obviously, but I can totally see why God has me here right now at this point in my life. There is so much going on here that I'm so excited to be a part of. First of all, there's a worship night tomorrow night (Saturday) for all of the youth in the churches. I'm really excited about that, and you can be praying that God would speak to the students that come.
Another thing that I'm excited about is a recycling program that we're trying to start. There is no recycling center here, and so plastic bottles just get thrown away in the trash, and there's a lot of money to be made that can be put back into the community if people would just recycle instead of throwing everything in the trash. First of all, It will help clean the town up, and second it will make money to fix up parks and such. There are many parks with non-functioning playground equipment, just because no one maintains it so it all gets run-down.
A third thing that I'm excited about many of you already know about and that is the Our City event that's coming up here at the end of November. We've been preparing for that and its really getting me fired up. This city is like right on the brink of change, and it just needs a couple of pushes to get it over and I think this is definitely a way that God can show the people of this town what love really looks like when its lived out.
One last thing that I'm excited about that's kind of a ways off in the future is a dream that the staff here has had for a while that is starting to come true. We want to open a coffee shop here in town, and we have a location now, and an opening date (approximately), and God is really opening doors for us that we weren't sure He would open. It is really cool how much has come together in even just the week that I've been here. The plan is to start paying rent in the middle of January, and open the first of February once everything has been fixed up to our liking and such. So we're all super pumped about what God is going to do in the next two months.