guffey love: #enditmovement

New Year's Day. 7am. K and I boarded the Marta train and headed south to the Georgia Dome. We packed for 4 days. We left our kids and my visiting family asleep in our house. We traded our bed for a shared hotel room with 3 other girls. We didn't sleep much. We ate trail mix for dinner. We walked close to 30 miles. We froze.

We went to the Passion 2013 Conference.

It. Was. Insane. Way back in the olden days, K and I attended Passion cough2005cough in Nashville. As college students. Well, we aged out. This year, we went as doorholders.

"Better is one day in your courts

than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked." -Psalm 84:10

There really is nothing like it. You know, I'm not a hand-raising, fall on my knees to pray kind of girl. But night one, in the dome, 60,000 students singing and praying and worshipping together, and all of the sudden there they were. My hands. They were up. In the air. Night two, the entire dome prayed out loud, individually, for different areas of Africa that the Passion conference had been hosted in last year- and the strangest thing. When I was done praying for Uganda, I realized that I was on my knees. It's like the Holy Spirit just took over my body and freed me somehow. I don't know what else to say about that. But it was ah. maze.

K worked on the Meals team and I worked on the Worship & Justice team. He got to feed 60,000 students and I got to take donations from 60,000 students. I think I got the better job ;) For the sole reason that I got to actually talk to the students and hear what was on their hearts throughout the week.

If you didn't know already, Passion 2013 partnered with 23 organizations and all donations were given to these organizations and towards the End It Movement. HELLO. Have you not seen all my twitters and facebooks? There are 27 million slaves in the world. Today. Like, right now. I'm just not OK with that. That's more than any other time in history. Ever. Not making this up, folks. You can go to www.enditmovement.com and PLEDGE to end it. Do it! Really, it takes 4 seconds. Also, you should Like it on Facebook. Here. Seriously. If you can like Mountain Dew and #2 pencils on Facebook- you can certainly like this movement to end modern day slavery. Right? Thanks boo.

Anyway, my team was awesome. I made some really sweet forever friends. We had a really good time. And we will definitely do it again. If you are 18-25 (do I know anyone who is 18-25?) I highly, highly more than anything else in the world recommend that you go. If you aren't, you ~~should~~ have to volunteer. It's. In. Credible. Life changing. Powerful. Refreshing. Fun. Exhausting. Worth it.