Sunday, June 5th

We had time before church to get together with the people from our schools.  Andrew Knight, the adult project director, came to sit with us and facilitate the meeting.  The USF students at Project are:  Lindsey Fowler-Wacholz, Maura Bickner, Amanda Johnson, Crista VandePol, Jodi Blackinton, Lara Wilson, Suzi Erb (she is from ND, but is with our group and we are trying to sway her to come to USF next year), me, Ethan Graham, Tyler Spilde, Eric Sazama, Chris Hull, Kyle Richards, Matt Harsch, and Kreath Karlen.  We went around and gave our reasons for coming here this summer.  Haha, a lot of people credited their discovery of STP as being a results of conversations with Chris.  So way to go Chris!  :)  Then we played a hand slappy game...I was one of the first out because I am not coordinated and get confused by those kinds of games.  It was fun to watch how into it other people got though.

We were assigned which church to go to based on the team that our room was with.  The name of our team is Fun Fun Fun and we were matched up with Garden City Chapel.  It is a cute little white church located between the condos and hotels of Myrtle Beach and only a few minutes from our hotel.  I believe I heard that it was started as a summer church because there are a lot of families that come here for the summer and they wanted to have a church to call their own.  We drove up to see a lot of Southern high school/college guys greeting in their suits.  They showed us where to sit and a few of them played guitar/drums during worship.  The pastor is really welcoming and announced to the congregation who we were and what we are doing here this summer.  They seemed enthusiastic to have us and it will be nice to get to know them.

After church, our team went out for lunch at a sandwich place.  Linds and I split a chicken quesadilla in an attempt to save money.  It was delicious.  :)

We had about two hours of free time, so Linds, Suzi, Maura, and I went to Krispy Kreme to get some internet access and doughnuts.  It was refreshing to have so chill time and to hear each others' stories of how Project was going.

A large group of us wanted to go down to the Pier, but then it started raining and we figured that it would be safer to just stay put.  A few people brought guitars so we sat in the hall and sang Praise and Worship songs, with rain accompanying in the background.  It was a nice time to just reflect on the fact that we are all here for the same reason:  we want to grow in our faith in a community of believers.

After a while, a group of us went up to the porch and did a few silly worship songs until it was time to go to bed.