Matt LaCoss, an amazing staff member at The Rock Church just returned from WA DC and MT. Rushmore with our interns. They were on a mission trip to DC to visit the National Prayer Center. Each year, our Quarry Interns have visited Mt. Rushmore which have "chiseled" into it four amazing leaders. The interns reflect on these leaders as well as the Rock our lives are "chiseled" into...Jesus Christ.
This is what Matt had to say...
The trip has been amazing! Being with the National Prayer Center (NPC) was impactful on the whole team and the interns have had some great revelation of our government, our nation, and how they can and will pray for it. We had the opportunity to tour the Capitol, House and Senate buildings, sit in on a Senate debate, watch the House vote on numerous bills, meet with the staff of Senator Cantwell, and also get an excellent perspective of our Supreme Court and Constitutional Law from a Christian perspective by Tom Jipping, counsel to 33 year Senator, Orrin Hatch. We visited the Lincoln, Vietnam, Korea, WWII, and Iwo Jima memorials; went to Arlington Cemetery to see the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (impressive to say the least) as well as President Kennedy’s memorial. The team has been incredible. Great attitudes, desire to keep pressing despite limited sleep, a hunger to learn more, and they have exercised a boldness to pray…an amazing trip!
The NPC was a fantastic host and tour guide for us but when I say tour guide I mean a tour guide as it relates to our Nation – its biblical heritage, pressing and constant need for prayer, and how we, through prayer can impact our leaders, our culture, and our nation. Reverence, respect, and a call to prayer were some of the key revelations and impressions that the team has taken from this trip. I pray that God will cement and seal this experience in their hearts and cause them to act, not just today and tomorrow, but for the duration of their lives.
We spent some time in prayer at the NPC house on C Street on Thursday night and God revealed a different perspective to Proverbs 3: 5,6 – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” We most often interpret and apply this verse only on an individualistic level, but what God showed me is that we need to pray this verse over the leaders and culture of our nation. Pray that our nation would trust in our Lord with all our hearts, rely on and seek Him for counsel and direction, and when our leaders and our culture does this, our nation will return to the foundation of “In God We Trust.” God will again be elevated and exalted to His rightful position of prominence and priority, and in return will direct the path of our nation.
We’re heading back today to repeat the 49 hour road trip! We’ll stop in South Dakota at Mount Rushmore and take a little more leisurely pace so the return might be longer than 49 hours…I know 49 hours! Please pray for our safety and protection for the journey and for God to set in place the things He has revealed to each of us on this appointed trip.
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