Day 3....NASA Johnson Space Center and Galveston Beach at sunset

Sorry I’m slacking it’s the next day! 😳 so here we go.... The day at NASA gave us a small taste of what it is going to be like being surrounded by Lutherans and matching t-shirts! There was so much information to take in as we learned about space exploration, walking on the moon, and everything in between. With it all, Krista noticed that in multiple descriptions, the astronauts talked about having faith. Having faith in their team, the engineers, and most importantly they had faith in God to be sure they were safe on their journey to completely unknown places. This is a little bit like this journey we are on to the gathering. We have faith in our bus drivers, faith in each other and faith in our God to keep us safe. As we left NASA and made our way to the beach in Galveston I watched in awe as kids and adults who haven’t been to the ocean or weren’t comfortable with the ocean walked in faith. They held hands and walked in faith into unknown waters and it transformed them. God was with us and we heard the whispers. We came together in prayer as a whole group. With the moon shining down we came together and prayed. We shared our thanks to God for what we have experienced and asked for continued safety on our journey. We shared thankfulness for our senior FLY youth and gave them time to share their journey through FLY. With the moon shining down and the waves crashing in the background, we all grew in our faith together. God has blessed us on this journey and we can’t wait to see what he has in store for us!