In the midst of chaos

So we've been back from break for a little over a month now and we are busier than ever! We're reading our 4th book, we've memorized several verses, we're doing a thorough book study on 1 Peter AND in the midst of all this, the students are in charge of planning a 5 day Kansas City outreach that will be happening in just 2 weeks! And we only get busier from here. Yikes!
With everything going on (and that list only skims the surface), I've noticed that Kairos was taking a lot of hits and we weren't looking too good. We were tired and stressed and worried and we started slacking off on essential things like prayer and worship. We were all getting frustrated at each other and there were a lot of tears. It was not a good situation. For quite a while, I thought it was just me noticing these things and that I was making a big deal out of nothing but on Tuesday, it ended up coming up in my small group time. Every person in my small group had been feeling this same thing so we decided to do something about it. So we prayed.
We normally only have an hour for small groups but on Tuesday, my group ended up sitting in a car in the parking lot and praying for almost 2 1/2 hours. We prayed for each other and for Kairos and for our families and we read scripture and it was wonderful! It was like taking a breath of fresh air after being in the slums in Sierra Leone (trust me, the air there is anything but fresh!). It was so refreshing and great! Later in the week we ended up talking to some staff about our concerns and it turned out that they had been feeling this too and so on Friday, we had a time of prayer with the whole class and it was so cool. You could just feel an atmosphere change. The heaviness of the past month was just being lifted away and the fire within us was once again lit. We were brought together as a family once again and it was so sweet. We're all still incredibly stressed and busy and the chaos isn't about to let up but it's ok because God is good and he is faithful and when our focus is on him, everything's going to work out.