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Today I'm writing about my memories from New York City. My church took missions trips to NYC two years in a row. Each day we would have a permit for a different park or city location. After taking the metro to our destination, we would set up a big sound system and hook our violins and viola up to bottle-cap microphones. My sisters and I would start playing sacred or classical pieces while the rest of our team handed out tracts and talked to people. Sacred string music over a loud speaker in the middle of New York City was quite an oddity, so people would actually stop and listen! Some brought their babies down to rock them to sleep, others held their phones out for the person on the other end of the line to hear because they couldn't believe what they were seeing. Some people cried. And best of all, some got saved!
When we weren't on outreaches, we did some sight seeing. The first year was less than a year after 9-11. We went to Ground Zero and saw all of the rubble and destruction that had yet to be cleaned up. We saw the fire station at the foot of the towers that lost every single fire fighter on call that day. We saw the church that survived without a single scratch, and we saw the cross formed from the main support beams that workers discovered in the wreckage. Our team visited the Empire State Building, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, Central Park, and many other places.
One of my favorite aspects of NYC was the night life. We'd go see Time Square and do some shopping after 11pm. After midnight if we got hungry, we'd walk to a pizza place and then get smoothies with giant tapioca balls in them. Word of advice -- never give a guy a smoothie with giant tapioca balls and a big straw. You're putting your life in a dangerous place! :-)
I have so many more detailed, wonderful memories from NYC, but this will have to suffice for now. More stories to come later on this week.
1 comment:
hey kayty. i realy miss you guys and wish we could have come to shannon sooner so we could have spent more time with you. i really want to get caught up with all yal. ive just been really busy. amber was telling me about a blog you posted on modesty but i couldn't find it. i was wondering if you could share your views on it. my email is chatterbug_08@yahoo.com if you would want to share with me please! luv ya lots
ditzy britzy.
btw, say hi to shan and whitney for me!
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