Connecticut - What We Did!

Posted by Jourdan

(Liz under the pretty blossom tree in CT...I convinced her to let me photograph her :) Success!)

Well! Our road-trip to Connecticut proved even better than any of our highest expectations. Our host families were amazing, the churches we ministered at loved us like family, and our days at UCONN were awesome. It seemed like everywhere we went we had favor.

First we visited Wellspring Church in Berlin, CT and ministered to the youth there for a few days. We got to talk about dreams and prophetic words with the 'Clearvoice' youth prophetic group, which was very cool. Then we met with the rest of the youth and split up in smaller groups to talk to them about intimacy with God and the prophetic. All the youth were very hungry, so it was easy to minister to them and talk with them about how God speaks.

The next day we met with the adult Clearvoice team to just encourage them with where they're at and help them take some steps toward where they're going. They are an awesome group, and it was so exciting to talk with them about stepping outside of the church walls and doing ministry on the street. Their hearts' desire was to reach people outside of the body...those who need it most. It was amazing to minister to them and encourage them in this new season!

The next day we went to River of Life Church in Tolland, CT (about 45 mins away). The interns shared lunch with them then we teamed up to do Dream Surveys at UCONN.

Dream surveys are basically just tools to help us interact with people about dreams without them feeling pressured or awkward...It's really just a clipboard with four or five questions on it, asking about how often they dream, if they have reoccurring dreams, if they have one we could interpret right now, etc. We say we are students learning about dreams and just ask them to help us out with a quick survey. They love it! Sometimes it even opens the door to talk about deeper stuff, without it being weird or offensive.

So that was our first day at UCONN. The next day, however, we got to do the big stuff :) We finally got amazing favor with the people there to set up our tent and do Dream Interpretation and Life Readings on their 'Spring Weekend' event. Spring weekend is basically a big festival where they do oozeball tournaments (mud volleyball), have live music, games, blow up toys, and everybody gets drunk. It's awesome.

There were SO many good testimonies of college students that got touched by the Lord, I'll have to save them for another post...

After a full day at UCONN we went back to Wellspring for their college-aged group called 'Elevate'. That. Was. Spectacular...truly. We didn't really do much ministry there, but we did get to worship and sit in on the message, and just get to know some of the youth there that were actually our age! We did end up doing some personal ministry at the end with a few individuals, but that's to be expected. It seems that when "the interns are in town" people want to get the most out of us while we're there, so we usually end up doing ministry even if it's not planned :)

After that we went back to River of Life Church on Sunday morning and the interns joined in on the worship team then hung out with the church members after service for a relaxing afternoon. That night we had another youth group to minister to, so we had to get our rest in! James did worship with some of us interns then we got to lead the whole service and talk with the River of Life youth about dreams and prophetic words. We even did prophetic exercises with them, and that was a blast.

That night we left Connecticut for our beloved state of New Hampshire. It was a fun trip...exhausting, but fun.

Hopefully I can get up some pics and testimonies about our outreaches in CT next time. I feel like there's still so much to tell! Oh well. This post already seemed a bit long. You get a gold star if you read it all the way through :)

Blessings everyone,

Jourdan M.