This summer I did something so vastly different from everything else in my life--something so against my flesh and my selfish desires. Instead of taking that prized internship in Chicago that had actually become a reality, God was convicting me to commit my summer to serving the Ann Arbor-Detroit area through the community summer missions project through hmcc . From the first week of May until this past Tuesday, I've been trained to grow in my spiritual disciplines as we went to morning prayer, memorized the book of Philippians, studied the Word, and learned to share the Gospel. Through our various fieldwork at an inner-city high school in Detroit, the international community in Ann Arbor, an underprivileged group of children at the Bryant Community Center, and even through visiting the HMCC of Austin--I learned about God's sovereignty, His love for His people, and His desires for us to live every moment of our lives to give glory to His name. In the process, he directly addres