typical day

One of our most common phrases around Two Rivers is that there is no such thing as a typical day.

Why is that? 

First, we desire to live by the Spirit rather than the flesh.  When you are willing to follow the Lord’s leading (although we are not perfect in doing that of course!), He will connect you to the people or places He needs you that moment, that day.  It could be the other way around too.  Perhaps there is someplace or person that you need to be connected with as well.  These may never be the same or they could be.  This keeps life interesting!  We often have people stopping at our center and house of prayer that we’ve never met before, we’ve even had people just stopping by as they drive through Cairo etc.

Secondly,  We work with people.  When you work with people, there is no typical day.  There is always something changing.  God is constant, we are not.  This is especially true with children, whom happen to be the majority of the people we work with.

But, you say, STACY , you’re not answering my question, what do most of your days look like? 

A Basic Typical Schedule is this:

1.Meet as a community  (as a staff) to worship/pray TOGETHER.

2.Meet with God in the prayer room for my own time before Him, listening, studing His Word and interceding for the people/places I’m involved with etc.

3. Go out into the community.

Here are some of the main things that I spend time doing right now…

~ We spend four of our mornings in worship and prayer together as a community.  We pray for the town, for specific circumstances, for understanding, for a deeper relationship with our Father to name some things we commonly pray for.  We focus on specific passages in scripture.  We praise our Father.  We share what God has been teaching us.  We do Bible Study together.  We listen to a teaching.  This keeps us close to our Father and each other.

~ I spend my individual time with the Lord in the prayer room.  This is when I study what I’ve been studying on my own, read, pray, praise, whatever I feel led on a particular day. 

~ I volunteer in two of the schools in Cairo.  One afternoon I help out in a first grade classroom.  I help out in a fifth grade classroom two other times during a week.  I am there to encourage teachers, to pray for the schools, teachers and students and to help students academically as well as personally and spiritually.  God has given us great freedom in sharing Him in the schools.  Within the schools it is a lot about relationships and intercession in those places.  These are children that God really wants to use now and in the future.

~ I mentor and disciple one child as well as work with their family.  This is my real heart, dicipleship.  I disciple that encourage many children in little ways, but right now I really focus on one.  I will begin with another one soon.

~ I am doing a bible study with a single mother.  I am also involved with her children. 

~ I help in a older children’s bible study that another teamate leads.

~ I work with along with other teamates in a children’s ministry once a week in one of the housing projects in town.

~ I volunteer once a week in a soup kitchen nuns in town run.

~ I spend time once a week visiting with friends in the nursing home in town.

~There are other office type things that I do such as being in contact with other local ministries, writing, preparing bible studies etc.  Then there are the random conversations and minstry with people that stop by the center or as I go and meet people where they live etc.