Sorry this post is so late, things have been so crazy these past 48 hours. We left Manhattan at about 2:00 pm on Friday and made it to OKC at about 9:30 after a nice trip to a local diner in Wellington and a couple of detours through about five tollbooths because of a big wreck on I-35.
When we got here, the leader of the Refuge (Tim Ulrich) showed us where we will be staying for the week. The girls are staying in the Refuge building itself with about 40 other Christian missionaries and the guys are staying a few blocks down in a house that is right next to a former drug lord's house! But don't worry, it burned down a few months ago.
The goal of the Refuge ministry itself is to move further and further into the worst parts of the city and be a light to everyone around them and build a positive community. The house that the guys are staying in is the FIRST one that they have moved into and everyone here is extremely excited.
However, for the next three days, the Refuge is hosting a college retreat called The Church 2012 where about 100 students from around the nation come together to learn about the Kingdom and what God wants from the Church. We are going to be helping out with a lot of key rolls these next few days by running errands, running small groups, registration, etc.
We will update more later, but we have to go get something to eat! To bricktown we go!
Serving Him,
The OKC Team
Bricktown! Oh how much we love it. Joe, you should look up Clint and his buggies. Tell him what you guys are doing there...maybe even go for a ride! ;)
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