Hey folks... Sorry I haven't updated this blog in a while. We're about 3 weeks into Kaleo and already I'm worried that my time here is quickly running out. I never really explained my day to day life here in Gulf Shores, so I'll go ahead and describe what we do.
Sunday:
Attend church at Liberty Church in Foley--this church used to be an old movie theater!
A little bit of spare time to do errands and group bonding
Soccer Sundays with the campus
Monday:
Work at McDonald's Orange Beach, AL (usually 7-3)
TVT-(Stands for Tuesday Vision Training, because in previous years it was on Tuesdays): We learn about how to apply the bible to our daily lives.
Tuesday:
Work at McDonald's Orange Beach, AL (usually 7-3)
D-Group night (Discipleship group); inductive bible studies (Greek roots, observations, interpretations, applications of the Word) and group bonding
Wednesday:
Work at McDonald's Orange Beach, AL (usually 7-3)
Free night--usually some sort of social or a game of basketball or something
Thursday:
Work at McDonald's Orange Beach, AL (usually 7-3)
TNT-Thursday Night Talk-very similar to our Stumo nights at K-State (Music, lesson, worship)
We invite our coworkers and beach friends to TNT to help them learn more about Christ
Friday:
Work at McDonald's Orange Beach, AL (usually 7-3)
Group date night: Our male D-Group takes a female D-Group out on most Friday nights. It's a different group each week, and there's somewhat of a competition between male groups on who can have the best date plans--i.e. most awesome activities.
Saturday:
SLT-Spiritual Leadership Training-we learn about evangelism and discipleship
Beach Evangelism-we go out on public beaches and share the Bridge illustration with strangers.
Free night-usually a casual group date of some kind
What we've been learning and doing:
The focus of Kaleo is intense spiritual training and growth. The twofold objective of this summer is to prepare each person to "finish the race," which means to labor and share the Gospel and live our lives for Christ until we die. For most of us, that means 70 more years ahead of us, and it has to be our goal to serve Christ harder then than now.
For now, we're applying lessons from the Bible on how to share the Gospel every single day, how to reach out and disciple at least one person at a time, and how to impact our campuses and future workplaces for Jesus Christ.
Simultaneously, we're learning about how to have romantic relationships in a spiritually healthy way, which we'll learn a lot more about this next weekend as all three Kaleo locations (Gulf Shores, Destin, and Panama City) come to Gulf Shores. We'll see OU, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, and TCU, on top of KU, K-State, and Missouri, which are part of our Kaleo location.
A few weekends after that, we'll learn a lot about world missions at the missions conference in Destin. We'll end the summer with Back to Campus Week, where we invite believers from our colleges to come share in our vision for the next school year. We'll even get to see many of our friends who have gone to India for the summer and hear about their progress there.
I'll hopefully update more often and I'm hoping to be taking a lot more pictures hopefully soon!
Until then,
-Brock
