First Blog?

My "first post" comes on a night that I regret a lot... The last week night of summer. Friday, August 9th, what am I doing? Babysitting and getting binders ready for school. It seems like summer just started and now it is ending. It seems like I should still be anxiously waiting to go to  camp. To see all of my friends I haven't seen in months, to see my best friend. I should have that feeling, long nights warm nights layer under the stars. Long hot summer days spent making memories with my closest of pals. But on this last night of summer I am "reminiscing on the good times". Remembering all those nights spent with my friends, all those real talks with folks at camp. Laughing at the pictures from Puerto Rico. Remembering "Hero". Just thinking about this summer, summer 2013, and how great of a summer it has been.
I said I was remembering "Hero". I got the chance to go on a mission trip to Puerto Rico where I met wonderful people, ate wonderful food, and became closer with God. But what changed me the most, was seeing how great full our homeowners were for us to build them a fence. They worked a long side us all week long. Helping to move rocks, dig post holes, and set post holes. It was really hard to leave them at the end of the week but we did what God called us to do. To go and hear the cry of the needy. But last week we got news that, "Hero" had been shot in the very street we worked on, in front of the very fence we built. In the very neighborhood where we shared Christ love. As our youth pastor said,"Maybe us going to Puerto Rico was God giving him his last chance to run to Jesus." That broke my heart when we talked about our homeowner being shot. It made me realize that I am a very lucky human being, and I hope you realize that you are a lucky human if you are reading this right now.
God has called us to be servants for him, and as I sit here making my binders and thinking, I am putting positive quotes on each of my binders to remind me, that what ever I am going through, there is someone else going through much worse. It is going to serve as a reminder that I need to go and hear the cry of the need. Not only in my hometown but in my school. I challenge you to do the same!

Have a great last day of summer you Fayette Academy'ians
"And he said to all of them, Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation." Mark 16:15

-Charley Johnson