Next week the teenagers of the Ashville Road Youth will take their sixth-annual summer mission campaign. This is always one of the most challenging but rewarding weeks throughout the year. Our week will be spent working with the Inner City Church of Christ in Chattanooga, TN. We’ll join the Beltline Church of Christ, and others, in order to be a spiritual encouragement to God’s people there and to also reach out to the lost in their community.
An average day will go as follows. First thing every morning we’ll have a morning devotional and make preparations for the Neighborhood Bible Schools. Next, we’ll conduct the first Neighborhood Bible School of the day. A NBS is much like a Vacation Bible School, except that everything we do is done in the actual inner city neighborhoods of Chattanooga. We’ll canvass the neighborhood for children and then meet in a centralized location. Our group will then sing, have a lesson, play games, do crafts, and so on. We’ll have as many as 2-4 NBS going on at once throughout the city of Chattanooga. Then, following lunch we’ll conduct our second NBS of the day. Our group will then head to the hotel for rest, clean-up, and then supper. At 7:00 pm each evening we’ll enjoy a gospel meeting conducted by the preacher of the Inner City Church of Christ. Each day will conclude on a high-note with a devotional on Chattanooga’s Riverfront.
We’ll certainly have a very busy but effective campaign next week. Please pray for our safety, but, more importantly, for our work. Our hope is that many souls will be strengthened through our efforts. And, that many lost souls will be brought to Christ.