Band of Survivors Team Update 24

We had a great morning today; we got to sleep in and woke up to my brother, David, cooking up some scrumptious chocolate chip pancakes!! After we stuffed ourselves with some food we all got our bags packed up and cleaned house! With windows open and Windex in hand, we scrubbed, vacuumed, and mopped up our CFOT home for the remainder of the morning.

After lunch we had our final Salvationism class covering the final chapters (9-10) of The General Next To God. We covered the years of the Salvation Army’s work in China and on Devil’s Island in French Guinea and also how the Army continued after the promotion to glory of William Booth. We’ve had a great time reading and talking through this book. I think everyone can say they’ve learned a lot of the SA history and have been inspired to live a more radical life in Christ through the part of the Church that is The Salvation Army.

The final highlights of the day were in the evening. Personally, I’d been waiting for this outing since last July, but all 23-25ish of us trooped over to the Thai Restaurant “COZYS” for dinner! We had a great time sitting in tight community with each other and enjoying the various dishes (plenty of sharing!!). Once we got back to CFOT we had a massive ‘free-for-all’ Dodgeball night followed by a group viewing of the video of BOS outreaches so far this summer. We had a really fun and joyful day of working together and enjoying each other’s company.

Kirsten Witthoff