DAY 1 IS IN THE BOOKS!

Hard to believe that it was just this morning we were loading up at the church and heading into Chicago! We hit the ground running and haven't looked back yet! First thing right out of the gate we did was hit the city to do our Prayer Walk. What that basically means is our team split up into 5 smaller groups and physically walked, put their hands on and prayed for the people of every building throughout a HUGE section of downtown. For real, it was HUGE! Anyone familiar with Chicago it was from Michigan Avenue all the way West to Wacker Drive and from Congress Pkwy all the way North to the river! You'll be able to see pictures uploaded soon as the team prayed for the people that live there, work there, shop there, go to school there and on and on. It was a PHENOMENAL way to start the trip by praying over the city.

In our debrief time it was cool to hear all the stories of the experience the team had throughout the prayer walk but one of the coolest parts was hearing how students were feeling "nudges" from God and responding. Students stepped out and talked to some of the homeless and prayed for them, they talked with people who asked what they were doing and one group even decided to randomly but very sincerely compliment people they walked pass on the street!

We had some team time in the evening to hit the pool and a big group played a game called "Noun" which I've heard is something similar to charades! A great way to relax after an amazing first day!

Keep praying for the team, keep leaving comments on the blog as the team loves hearing from all of you and stay tuned for more updates and follow along on Facebook for real-time updates here or simply search for Granger Student Ministries when on Facebook.

And finally to clarify the hotel situation, we got a last minute phone call (aka this afternoon) that the hotel system had cancelled our reservation and they didn't have any rooms...But they've put us up in another hotel and are covering any extra costs and we're just a few minutes from where we were planning to be. So all is well, team did a great job being flexible and is by now fast asleep getting ready for an awesome day tomorrow!