School’s Out for the Summer…
…For the remainder of the year, actually.
The GTS 2009 came to a close this year on Graduation day, June 17; but within our hearts we know the learning, growth, and discipleship the Lord desires for each of us is only beginning. This is always a bittersweet time as there are so many goodbyes to be said yet so many happy returns to be anticipated. After 5 months of intense discipleship and community living, going home is the next challenge, the next opportunity to be stretched and to exercise those things that have been stirred and released throughout the year. Each student this year came with strengths and weaknesses, with hopes and fears, with gifts to contribute and wounds to be healed. We have been so privileged to live these months with them, receiving from their unique personalities and individual passion for the Lord while calling them to a higher place. We have cried and laughed together as we shared each other’s burdens and victories. And though it was sad to say goodbye, we are so thankful for this season we had together, so confident in the transformation we have seen in each other, and so joyful to send one another out into the next step on our journeys after Messiah Yeshua.
Thank you to each of you back home (who can finally use the internet and read this for yourselves!), thank you for sharing your lives with us. We love you all and miss you and are praying for you.
Hannah and Marissa (The GTS Blog Team for 2009) : )