Guess who's back?

...back again. Well now that you have the good ol' Slim Shady stuck in your head, let's begin.

Let's be honest, I can't stay away from this city. It's as simple as that. Well I guess it's a little more complex than that, but you get where I'm going.

So I went back and forth in my head trying to decide whether or not to keep updating this since my semester has ended and I decided that since I reactivated my facebook, but never go on there (waste of my life) then I'll keep going on here to inform you social media savvy people what's going on. Or you know, you could text me, that usually works to.

My new point of reference: 3728 Cesar Chavez Street San Francisco, CA 94110
I'm doing an internship with City Crossroads (the after school, recreational youth ministry that is associated with The Outpost Church, where I've been going this past semester and volunteering on Tuesday nights).
So I'm staying at the original church's property (before they moved the service to 6th street), in the Mission/Noe Valley district. Awesome location. I can walk to Ritual, Four Barrel, Phil'z, Tartine, Dolores Park, El Farolito's, Chloe's, Bernal Hill and I'm close to Valencia Street (hipster central) and Mission of course.
I'm living on the top floor with Mandi (she leads the groups for SFMO- San Francisco Missions Outpost, another ministry going on here that Pastor Mike started...this is what Westmont's SBIC comes up on) and our other housemate just got in yesterday from Indiana, his name's Justin, he goes to Anderson University and is going to be the other intern here until the beginning of August.  Pastor Mike and Miss Ann live on the second floor and their daughter and son in law live on the bottom floor. 

For this internship I'll be mainly focusing on City Crossroads, that is working with the youth that come Mon-Friday afternoons/evenings.  The younger kids (K-5) come Tues and Thurs while the older kids (6-college) come Mon, Wed and Fridays.  Each night looks different, as some nights are more relaxed and we just focus on hanging out with the youth, establishing relationships with them, while other nights are more structured and we do lessons or bible studies. 

I flew back up here May 18th and stayed with my friend Sunny who goes to State for a couple days and celebrated her bday with her. We went and saw the Avengers, ate at the food trucks, got together with her aunt and cousin, ate some amazing fish tacos and just hung out. I moved in here last Sunday after church, amidst the bay to breakers chaos going on (google it if you don't know) and hung out with Mandi, Raymond and Robbie for the majority of the afternoon and evening.
This week has been filled with trips to the food bank, a kindergarten graduation, 5th grade graduation and a high school graduation, then opening for crossroads at night. It's been busy and it's finally sinking in that I'm back here.

It's been so nice being able to focus solely on this ministry rather than work, classes, and the other communities that I had formed.  I do miss all of it, but I'm enjoying being able to deepen my relationships with everyone here at Crossroads. 
My prayers are that the time I spend here will not be wasted, that I will be stretched in new ways, be a blessing to this ministry in any way that I can, truly practicing the discipline of setting aside time for prayer and just being in God's presence every day, preparing my heart for the semester to come and asking God if this ministry is where I am being called.

I hope you're doing well and that you wake up every morning ready to pursue God.

Just as you continue to breathe and your blood continues to flow, may you pray just as unceasingly.