A view into a typical day at Vail.

So it’s been 3 weeks now that I’ve been in Vail, and I love it here, however I also feel physically drained. Thanks to God, He provided me with the energy I need. Just to give an idea of what my typical day and week looks like… here’s what it is.

Monday thru Friday - wakes up around 7 and take a shower, then breakfast (typically 2 eggs, and 4 strips of bacon). I try to have a devotion right before I go into work (leave my apartment by 9:40), but now that business is picking up, I’ll have to be at work at 9am, so I’ll be even more busy!  But this is the main reason I am here on project. Our ministry site on project is workplace, and general Vail community.

Monday night - Family night, where our “family” (a few project staff and a few project students = a family) eat dinner together, and have a devotional type Bible study together. And it also just gives us a chance to be vulnerable with each other. That usually last for most of the night.

Tuesday night - It’s technically free night for us to go out and have fun. I think it has become a tradition for Room 1414 to cook for us that night. I love it when girls make us food. We just socialize after that, and just connect and try to get to know each other better on project.

Wednesday night - Church “college-age” ministry. Where we eat dinner there at 5pm, and have our weekly meeting call touchpoint. During that time, we get to have a time where we get everyone on project on the same page, and just talk about what’s God has been doing in our lives. A chance to put out prayer requests, and also just to praise God for what He has done. It’s an incredible time to see God’s handy work as a project. God is here! He is working in everyone’s life, and the community of Vail. After touchpoint, we would have a worship service, followed by a quick sermon. When all that gets done, we have the option to go play in the church’s gym. This is a great way of inviting other people from the community to just hang out and connect. And hopefully share the love of Christ with them.

Thursday night - We have lifeskills. Lifeskills is a time where the whole project would do something outdoor-sy and a chance to get into the Word. The staff has been doing a great job with getting each week’s themes communicated during this time, and we (as students) are suppose to do the best we can to try and develop these themes in which becomes lifeskills.

Friday night - It is technically a free night, but this past weekend, the project split between the girls and dudes, and had our seperate time to just be ourselves. Guys are farting all the time, and I don’t know what the girls were doing. But it was great! We climbed at a place called Powl (spelling?), and it was 13600ft! the last 1.5 miles were covered in snow. And on the way down, we glacaded, it was epic. I couldn’t feel my butt afterwards, because it was numb from sliding down the mountain with a change in elevation of probably 1000+ ft.  If you don’t know what it is, google “glacading” and you’ll get an idea of what I did.

Saturday daytime - There is usually an activity planned by the staff to get us connected as a group, and also put the lifeskills into practice, by drilling the theme into us a little more with some sort of outdoors activity.

Saturday night - By the time we get back from the activity, it will be late afternoon, and we are drained from the week filled from activities. This is a great time to take a nap, or become a social butterfly and socialize some more with other project folks. Usually there is a group dinner or hangout time that is spontaneous.

Sunday! - Church in the morning. A good friend of mine (Seth) and I are playing our guitars in the services. It is amazing to be able to serve the community with a skill that God has blessed me with.  After church, there are usually a few cars that goes gocery shopping, and just general running errands.

Sunday night - I usually cook for room 1414 and then a few more people. We sorta been trading meals back and forward, but it’s just fun in general to be able to serve the women on project, and just be able to socialize with them. So far in the past 3 weeks, I’ve made pasta with peanut sauce and chicken, a chicken casserole with suppliment pasta and homemade white sauce (thanks to Amanda for the sauce), and today we had homemade sushi.

So here you go… that’s a typical week for me on project. Just work work work, and packed with incredible events put together by staffs, and trying to get to know other project folks better.  Hopefully this gives y’all a better idea of how much is packed into my week, but still at the same time have incredible fun developing relationships with people here at Vail.