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hampton beach summer mission 2026 🌊✝️☀️

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this summer was absolutely life changing. God worked in and through me in more ways than I could have ever imagined. Living with 27 other people in one house for 8 weeks was not always easy, but it was worth it. This trip was truly filled with God’s faithfulness and love. From early mornings at Hannafords stocking shelves to late night worship, I would not trade it for the world. Thank you God for getting my out of my shell, healing me in ways I didn’t know I needed, teaching me better patience, discipline, and compassion, allowing me to make fruitful friends, and share the Gospel with the people you placed in front of me! 

While in Hampton, our mission was able to initiate over 1000 conversations on the beach, at work, or on the boardwalk. We also had a number of people give their lives to Christ! There were so many seeds planted and hearts transformed by the grace of God! 

to my HBSM peeps: thank you for everything, all the memories, laughter, love, kindness, and most importantly, guiding me closer to Christ. I truly love each and every one of you with all my heart. I am so blessed that the Lord brought us all together on this mission. It has been a privilege to get to know yall, watch your growth, and serve God alongside you. I am excited to see how God continues to work in and through you. This isn’t a goodbye, it is a see you later (aka winter conference) I pray our friendships last a lifetime, but I know they will continue for an eternity in Heaven 🫶 proverbs 27:9

a special shout out to Romania for giving me some of the most beautiful and kind friends who made saying goodbye so hard. I love yall so much, now I have a reason to leave the country and come visit you :) @kulikvivian @saraa_danut @ddamaris10 

“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms” -1 Peter 4:10

✌️ 20 G, you will always hold a very special place in my heart
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Words really cannot express what these last 2 months were like. Incredible people and so many memories that will last me a lifetime. Thank you Lord for allowing me to be apart of your hands and feet in serving at Hampton Beach. Giving you my all is the least I could do for the price you paid on Calvary. Father God, there is no one like You

20G, it’s been real. Love y’all to death 🫡🫡

Galatians 2:20 “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
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Hampton Beach I will never forget you and will never forget what God did there this summer!!! 

When I look back at HBSM, I think abt how I continued to seek Jesus even when doubts and questions arose and that God can be glorified through just working hard and my actions. I think abt how the joy of the Lord still flowed through me even on hard days, I think abt how much joy and peace you have coming out of His presence, I think abt how I literally had 0 hesitation walking up to strangers to tell them about Jesus knowing the Spirit is in me, I think abt all the times the light of the Lord was shown through me wherever I was even when it was hard, I think abt the fact that God wants to use my gift of drumming for Him alone, I think abt how apart from Jesus we can truly do nothing, I think abt how important it is to understand and lean on the grace of God and how to live in it glorifying God, I think abt how important it is to take time to yourself to grieve and cry and not just pretending everything is fine and neglecting that time to take to yourself and lastly I think about how JESUS IS AWESOME!!! Thank you HBSM!!!

1st Corinthians 10:31- So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
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John 15:5- I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
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hbsm 2026, thank you for forever changing my life. 🤍 

I went into this trip thinking I wouldn’t make any memories and that I wouldn’t have that much fun. However I have never laughed harder in this trip and I have made my best friends here. I’ve learned what it means to be a servant of God and to serve others with grace and mercy. Jesus, thank you for allowing me to watch people give their lives to you. How blessed am I to have something to make saying goodbye so hard. These past 2 months have given me hope and to experience true love! Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross and for welcoming me into the kingdom! 

Mark 1:35 “Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.“ 

Peace out 20 G ⭐️💗
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went on a missions trip this summer! 🌊☀️🐚🌺⚓️🏠

1,200+ initiations. 320 gospel conversations. 55 days. 30 work shifts. 28 housemates. 19 boardwalk runs. 8 host family Sundays. 7 cars. 6 servant teams. 3 kitchens. 2 churches. 1 new found family.

Words couldn’t express what the past two months have meant to me. So much joy was found in bible studies, Thursday women’s nights, living room worship, beach outreach, coffee runs before church, shared meals, and the ordinary moments that somehow became the most meaningful. I never expected to leave with such a bittersweet heart, but the people here have challenged me, encouraged me, and loved me so well. I’m endlessly grateful that our faith in Jesus brought us all together to serve others and pour into each other.

One word that kept resurfacing this summer was surrender. Surrender in my plans, in my expectations, in my heart, and my life. The Lord has shown me again and again that my identity isn’t found in where I am or what I do, but in who calls me. The peace that Jesus offers is unlike anything else this world could ever give. I am so thankful for the ways He continues to guide my steps, and remind me of His great sacrifice.

“Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
〰️ Psalm 23:6

Goodbye for now, 20 G St. You’ll always be a home away from home. 💛
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