Yes you read that right i will be in TEXAS in two days. Just so you know tomorrow two of my friends are getting married after the wedding i will be heading to spokane for the night. I am staying in a hotel and then arriving at the airport at 600 for my 830 flight. Please pray that my flight is not canceled..
SEE YALL SOON!!
Friday, December 19, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Count down is on!!
Well only about five more days till Dallas is home again!! you better be making time to see me! haha but seriously, i can not wait to see all of you! and i will only be home for about 2 and half weeks!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Meet the Staff and interns!!
Top Row: Molly, Trisha, Kim and Josh
Second Row: Drew Worsham
Third Row: ME, Megan, Drew Young, Matthew, Sam, Keith, Karson
Fourth Row: Matt, April, Ella, Karis, Paige
Monday, December 1, 2008
HOw was the break you ask?
My break was fabulous...Like i said earlier i started in cannon beach and got to kinda of reflect on my time here in pullman so far. It was a great time with the Lord and searching for the things He is giving me for next semester and looking backwards at the months i have been here. It was a blessing to hear from the different speakers and to just hang out with the five interns and the keith (the pastor) and his wife.
Then i headed towards seattle. I stayed with a good friend there for three days and spent one day in down town seattle!!!
As you can see we had a great time!! Went to the pikes place market..got a fish thrown at me!! haha we then headed to the space nettle!! i am such a nerd it was fabulous fun!! then we ate some Ethiopian food for lunch, did some shopping and then headed back home!
On thrusday i went to pastors house and had thanksgiving with alot of people who where here in pullman for the break. the closes thing to family i have here. it was nice!!
Now here we are and there is only 20 more days till i leave here for texas. I will be home for about three weeks!! can not wait to see all of yall
Then i headed towards seattle. I stayed with a good friend there for three days and spent one day in down town seattle!!!
As you can see we had a great time!! Went to the pikes place market..got a fish thrown at me!! haha we then headed to the space nettle!! i am such a nerd it was fabulous fun!! then we ate some Ethiopian food for lunch, did some shopping and then headed back home!
On thrusday i went to pastors house and had thanksgiving with alot of people who where here in pullman for the break. the closes thing to family i have here. it was nice!!
Now here we are and there is only 20 more days till i leave here for texas. I will be home for about three weeks!! can not wait to see all of yall
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Keeping you in the know
SO this is what my life looks like in the coming days. I am about to leave and go to canan beach Oregon, NAMB is having a weekend long retreat to discuss the semester and what all we have done and how to improve in the coming weeks and next semester. After that i am going to Portland, just long enough to drop some friends off at the airport and then one the journey i keep going. I will make my way to Seattle. I am spending the first day with my friend alayna and hanging out with her family and seeing her town. THen on tuesday i am going to go to downtown seattle and see the sights with my friend stan! We are hopefully going to see alot of fun things and have a good time. On wed. i am going back to pullman and having thanksgiving with some people from church. I am so excited i think it will be a very relaxing week ahead!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Jim and Casper go to Church and I went to CAMP!
So here are some pics from this weekend!! It was wonderful, it was a blessing to spend time with people I truly enjoy and get to know more people! The speakers were good, I left with a challenge of action. To love people with without words and then allow them to ask why? Over all it was a good weekend!
Friday, November 7, 2008
On the Road!!
So, i am off to fall conference. It is in Oregon, about a 6 hour drive! There are 38 people going just from Resonate not to mention we are meeting school from all over the Northwest. I am really excited, the authors of the book, JIM AND CASPER GO TO CHURCH are coming. These town men one a pastor and the other an atheist went to all the mega churches and wrote a book about their perspective of them..it is very interesting seeing what a nonbeliever thinks of these really big churches.
Well i will be gone till sunday night and get back just in time for church at 7oo pm.!!
Well i will be gone till sunday night and get back just in time for church at 7oo pm.!!
Friday, October 31, 2008
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
SO this weekend we are putting on a dinner theater thing! it really is the game of clue. ME and some of my friends are dressed up as the characters from the game and then resonate people come in in costume and interact with us. we drop hints, eat dinner and some dies...well not really but then before desert they must find out who did the killing and why and with what!! It is a fundraiser for missions and it was alot of fun! it is a three night thing that involves alot of people! here are some pic from night one and i will most more as the weekend goes on!
Can you guess who i am in the game of clue!! dont worry it is paper rolled up in my holder thing!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Joshua 2
You see for me Joshua 2 has a few things worth highlighting.
1. I love that that Joshua knows which men to send in a head to check out the land. Joshua knowing what happen the last time men were sent in to look around, I am sure he did not take this role lightly when picking the two men to go into the city gates! But he makes this decision in what feels like no time at all. His walk with the Lord is so close that in a time for making a decision he knows who to send with no questions asked.
Is your walk so close to the Lord that making decision come easy? Decision making is from time to time one of those thing that we “Give to God” but in reality we keep praying till we get the answer we need or we finally find peace with Gods answer in our time. The hard thing about this is that we miss out on so much of God plans for our lives. Listening to God over a period of time is a good thing but sometimes listening to Gods will means dealing with it when it is not our will for ourselves!! It also means living in God’s time and not our own.
2. Rahab!!! I love that in Joshua one God paints this picture of being STRONG AND COURAGEOUS and then follows that up with Rahab. Rahab was willing to risk her life and the life of her family for doing what God called her to do. She took in two men that could have gotten her killed for being in her home, she lied to the soldiers to protect these men and then she hides in her house with her family while thousands are being killed outside her door. What a great example of a women to look up to. She was willing to risk everything for the glory of God.
I have struggled with the fact that she lied to the soldiers about the where abouts of these two men and the other day God laid this peace in my heart over the fact that in that moment that was what she needed to do to be in the will of God. While no I do not get that all the way I am willing to place trust in the Lord and take it has that Gods will for Rahab.
Because of Rehab’s willingness to take these men in and house then for one night she lived! How AWESOME is that God is great and mighty and if we do the same as she, take time to listen to what God is saying and act on it glorious things will happen in our heart.
3. I just recently learned that when you see LORD in all caps in the bible it is referring to Sheppard
Well you see this in verse 11, Rahab referring to Lord as Sheppard, and then later on she ask for kindness to be shown on her and her family. How cool is it take we can call on God by a specific attribute. We need to take the take to get know our God more personally and on a first name bases.
While giving out granola bars on the U of I campus I meet a ton of people, some I may never see again but some that I saw in the days to come! Knowing that at some point I knew their names and talked with them but not remember who they were the next time really was upsetting to me. So I gave myself a two time limit. If after meeting and having two contestations with them I should know their name! No questions and if I didn’t it was because I did not give the conversation all of my attention. How many conversations have you had with the Lord? Can you call him by name? Maybe we should have a two conversation limit with God as well. We need to be actively involved in getting to know our God and that means taking the time to listen to what he is saying and becoming familiar with who He is.
4. I am such a visual learner and terms that paint pictures in my mind mean more to me then most others. And in verse 18 Rahab is told to put a scarlet cord around her door as a visual meaning to leave her door alone! For me the first thing that comes to mind is a book called the scarlet letter. And while I wish I could say I read this, I wont lie…I did not…I probably spark noted the book or cliff notes. There are many options and I chose one and now don’t really remember that much HOWEVER!!! I do know that the lady was force to wear a scarlet letter that represented who she was and what she had done. In the book it is a negative, but here in Joshua it is a positive. To think this one color and one item defined Rahab for years to come.
Is there one thing right now that defines you?
Is there something from your pass that you feel people see when they look at you?
At first glance I don’t know if I would ever want one thing to depict me for the remaining time I am alive, but after thinking about it there is nothing I would want more then to be know as a daughter of the King. Someone who loved God with all her heart and that over followed to loving people in every situation. If that can be seen in one object and one color I will take it!!!
1. I love that that Joshua knows which men to send in a head to check out the land. Joshua knowing what happen the last time men were sent in to look around, I am sure he did not take this role lightly when picking the two men to go into the city gates! But he makes this decision in what feels like no time at all. His walk with the Lord is so close that in a time for making a decision he knows who to send with no questions asked.
Is your walk so close to the Lord that making decision come easy? Decision making is from time to time one of those thing that we “Give to God” but in reality we keep praying till we get the answer we need or we finally find peace with Gods answer in our time. The hard thing about this is that we miss out on so much of God plans for our lives. Listening to God over a period of time is a good thing but sometimes listening to Gods will means dealing with it when it is not our will for ourselves!! It also means living in God’s time and not our own.
2. Rahab!!! I love that in Joshua one God paints this picture of being STRONG AND COURAGEOUS and then follows that up with Rahab. Rahab was willing to risk her life and the life of her family for doing what God called her to do. She took in two men that could have gotten her killed for being in her home, she lied to the soldiers to protect these men and then she hides in her house with her family while thousands are being killed outside her door. What a great example of a women to look up to. She was willing to risk everything for the glory of God.
I have struggled with the fact that she lied to the soldiers about the where abouts of these two men and the other day God laid this peace in my heart over the fact that in that moment that was what she needed to do to be in the will of God. While no I do not get that all the way I am willing to place trust in the Lord and take it has that Gods will for Rahab.
Because of Rehab’s willingness to take these men in and house then for one night she lived! How AWESOME is that God is great and mighty and if we do the same as she, take time to listen to what God is saying and act on it glorious things will happen in our heart.
3. I just recently learned that when you see LORD in all caps in the bible it is referring to Sheppard
Well you see this in verse 11, Rahab referring to Lord as Sheppard, and then later on she ask for kindness to be shown on her and her family. How cool is it take we can call on God by a specific attribute. We need to take the take to get know our God more personally and on a first name bases.
While giving out granola bars on the U of I campus I meet a ton of people, some I may never see again but some that I saw in the days to come! Knowing that at some point I knew their names and talked with them but not remember who they were the next time really was upsetting to me. So I gave myself a two time limit. If after meeting and having two contestations with them I should know their name! No questions and if I didn’t it was because I did not give the conversation all of my attention. How many conversations have you had with the Lord? Can you call him by name? Maybe we should have a two conversation limit with God as well. We need to be actively involved in getting to know our God and that means taking the time to listen to what he is saying and becoming familiar with who He is.
4. I am such a visual learner and terms that paint pictures in my mind mean more to me then most others. And in verse 18 Rahab is told to put a scarlet cord around her door as a visual meaning to leave her door alone! For me the first thing that comes to mind is a book called the scarlet letter. And while I wish I could say I read this, I wont lie…I did not…I probably spark noted the book or cliff notes. There are many options and I chose one and now don’t really remember that much HOWEVER!!! I do know that the lady was force to wear a scarlet letter that represented who she was and what she had done. In the book it is a negative, but here in Joshua it is a positive. To think this one color and one item defined Rahab for years to come.
Is there one thing right now that defines you?
Is there something from your pass that you feel people see when they look at you?
At first glance I don’t know if I would ever want one thing to depict me for the remaining time I am alive, but after thinking about it there is nothing I would want more then to be know as a daughter of the King. Someone who loved God with all her heart and that over followed to loving people in every situation. If that can be seen in one object and one color I will take it!!!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Water everywhere?!?!
SO, I thought I wpuld tell you a little funny story really fast!!
Yesterday i walked into my house to find towels all in my bathroom and laundry room. yes the bathroom above me in the house i am staying in over followed and then leaked into my apartment downstairs!! haha
Dont worry the family cleaned it all up and it is fine but it was really funny at the moment and still is the only sad part is part of my clothes in my closest got wet as well and will have to go to the cleaners bc they were all of my dresses i brought with me!
Yesterday i walked into my house to find towels all in my bathroom and laundry room. yes the bathroom above me in the house i am staying in over followed and then leaked into my apartment downstairs!! haha
Dont worry the family cleaned it all up and it is fine but it was really funny at the moment and still is the only sad part is part of my clothes in my closest got wet as well and will have to go to the cleaners bc they were all of my dresses i brought with me!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
See and Wash
So over the past month resonate has done a series of sermons about the postures of Christ. While some were good (there were four) two really stood out to me.
See and Wash! How simple can two words be. But in the place I am at right now both of these words resound in my heart.
To be seen and to see others. For the first time in about three years i am making new friends, and meeting alot of new people. Nac. Is only so big and when you find a good group of friends, you keep them. I was that lucky i had four or five really close friends in college, girls that let me into their hearts and knew mine as well. I move to this city about the same size as nac. at least in my mind and find that my friend making skills are there but lacking. Letting people see you for value is hard, letting people see you with faults is hard. but then I realize this is where God wants me so be really Liz!! come on! So i grow up and be the girl, women God created me to be.
In the process of growing up i realize that if i want others to look at me and really SEE who i am SEE the value God has given me, SEE the art I create in my daily life, SEE faults that make me human, SEE my scares that show growth in God. I must first be willing to see them for all of these things as well. To look at people on the street and give their words value, to meet students and give their passions worth, to talk to people before resonate starts and give their hearts and their lives the time and energy to really care about what is being said. Not just the casual nod or the ever so meaningful "I'm good" but truth and that means sometimes it is messy and sometimes it is neat with a bow on top but it is who i am and it is who they are!
To see past the casualness of the everyday and into the heart of the matters. To see where they are coming from and why they came that route. To see the longing in their eyes and the worth that is to be had.
A week later Keith talked on wash, some might think wash the feet got it serve. But do you serve to glorify your self or God. Do you serve to show you are humble or because you truly are, do you serve to boost your pride or because serving allows the focus to be shifted from you to God.
PRIDE - man hit me in the gut, pride gets in the way of so many daily trails of my life. Simple task become complex because of pride, Pride hinders God from getting the glory and makes me the center of attention. LAME!
I desire to not be seen or heard for the words i say and the actions i complete but for the God who gives me the strength and the life to complete each of the tasks from day to day. How do you serve someone when it is all about ones self? can you? or is that even serving? I dont think it is i think it is serving when the other is placed before me. When I am no longer searching my own heart for areas where i need satisfaction and worth but realizing that my worth is guaranteed from God and that my serving is a way to put others first to SEE their hearts and meet their needs.
They go so hand in hand, I choose to see you and to wash (serve) you. I daily give up all the right i think i have and place God as number one, giving him all the glory and honor. Because i in and of myself can do neither serve or wash on my own. Through Christ I can bring God glory in both!
Wow, these two topics have been rocking my world. I mean how do you do this what does this mean. I want to live in a way that daily i am seeing the value in people not their dots and starts, and to (i would say wash people but that sounds weird) serve people. and doing all of this with no selfish ambition, with no personal guarantee of satisfaction. To live the life of the postures of Christ.
See and Wash! How simple can two words be. But in the place I am at right now both of these words resound in my heart.
To be seen and to see others. For the first time in about three years i am making new friends, and meeting alot of new people. Nac. Is only so big and when you find a good group of friends, you keep them. I was that lucky i had four or five really close friends in college, girls that let me into their hearts and knew mine as well. I move to this city about the same size as nac. at least in my mind and find that my friend making skills are there but lacking. Letting people see you for value is hard, letting people see you with faults is hard. but then I realize this is where God wants me so be really Liz!! come on! So i grow up and be the girl, women God created me to be.
In the process of growing up i realize that if i want others to look at me and really SEE who i am SEE the value God has given me, SEE the art I create in my daily life, SEE faults that make me human, SEE my scares that show growth in God. I must first be willing to see them for all of these things as well. To look at people on the street and give their words value, to meet students and give their passions worth, to talk to people before resonate starts and give their hearts and their lives the time and energy to really care about what is being said. Not just the casual nod or the ever so meaningful "I'm good" but truth and that means sometimes it is messy and sometimes it is neat with a bow on top but it is who i am and it is who they are!
To see past the casualness of the everyday and into the heart of the matters. To see where they are coming from and why they came that route. To see the longing in their eyes and the worth that is to be had.
A week later Keith talked on wash, some might think wash the feet got it serve. But do you serve to glorify your self or God. Do you serve to show you are humble or because you truly are, do you serve to boost your pride or because serving allows the focus to be shifted from you to God.
PRIDE - man hit me in the gut, pride gets in the way of so many daily trails of my life. Simple task become complex because of pride, Pride hinders God from getting the glory and makes me the center of attention. LAME!
I desire to not be seen or heard for the words i say and the actions i complete but for the God who gives me the strength and the life to complete each of the tasks from day to day. How do you serve someone when it is all about ones self? can you? or is that even serving? I dont think it is i think it is serving when the other is placed before me. When I am no longer searching my own heart for areas where i need satisfaction and worth but realizing that my worth is guaranteed from God and that my serving is a way to put others first to SEE their hearts and meet their needs.
They go so hand in hand, I choose to see you and to wash (serve) you. I daily give up all the right i think i have and place God as number one, giving him all the glory and honor. Because i in and of myself can do neither serve or wash on my own. Through Christ I can bring God glory in both!
Wow, these two topics have been rocking my world. I mean how do you do this what does this mean. I want to live in a way that daily i am seeing the value in people not their dots and starts, and to (i would say wash people but that sounds weird) serve people. and doing all of this with no selfish ambition, with no personal guarantee of satisfaction. To live the life of the postures of Christ.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Picture time with LIZ
So the 5 interns went to bend Oregon for a north American missions board meeting!! for three days!! we went rafting and claimed a mountain!! we went to meetings as well!!
Hope you enjoy the pics!
Story Time with Liz
WEll, i guess the time has come for some stories!!
There are about 10 to 12 freshmen involved in the village i co-lead at U of I...
One of the things that the staff highly encourage is meeting with the girls one on one and seeing where they are in life, maybe mentoring or discipleship, or just being in their lives outside of Tuesday night. Well recently i have hung out with many of the girls and to my surprise and Gods grace three of them have expressed interest in getting together weekly to meet and talk with. two girls and i are going to start going through a study of scripture, another girl and me are meeting weekly to just talk an hang out.
I fell like life is starting to become normal. I have a schedule, i know what is coming and what the next day looks like. While there is normal, everyday is different and that allows me to live with a passion!!
I am loving the culture up here and the how open people are to hear why i am here.
I have one more story for you and then i will let you go!!
About a month ago, i work a block party one Sunday. We could not have church in Moscow bc of it but we were allowed to have a booth with information on it! So i sat a table all day and talked to people here and there!! Sometimes this is very taxing with little reward, however, this time was different! I talked to a girl and told her the basics of resonate and what not...she went on her way and i went on with the day. Sadly the next Sunday i was unable to be at church, (i was in bend, Oregon) but when i got back into town from two people i heard the the same thing. "Liz there is this girl and she meet you at the block party and because of that you said to her she decided to come to church and she said everything you said was true and that she was so Happy to have meet you." WOW what a complement an ho exciting!!! So the next Sunday i was sitting at the front of the Church and for some reason i decided to move to the back, at the end of the service the pastor asked us to find someone and just talk about our week and what all we are going through. Well i looked across the aisle and found a girl and then we started to talk!! IT WAS THE SAME GIRL!! HOW AWESOME IS GOD!! we were able to share and talk and she was so thankful for meeting her and talking with her, i just loved it!!
God is doing amazing things and i am privilege to be apart of them!
liz
There are about 10 to 12 freshmen involved in the village i co-lead at U of I...
One of the things that the staff highly encourage is meeting with the girls one on one and seeing where they are in life, maybe mentoring or discipleship, or just being in their lives outside of Tuesday night. Well recently i have hung out with many of the girls and to my surprise and Gods grace three of them have expressed interest in getting together weekly to meet and talk with. two girls and i are going to start going through a study of scripture, another girl and me are meeting weekly to just talk an hang out.
I fell like life is starting to become normal. I have a schedule, i know what is coming and what the next day looks like. While there is normal, everyday is different and that allows me to live with a passion!!
I am loving the culture up here and the how open people are to hear why i am here.
I have one more story for you and then i will let you go!!
About a month ago, i work a block party one Sunday. We could not have church in Moscow bc of it but we were allowed to have a booth with information on it! So i sat a table all day and talked to people here and there!! Sometimes this is very taxing with little reward, however, this time was different! I talked to a girl and told her the basics of resonate and what not...she went on her way and i went on with the day. Sadly the next Sunday i was unable to be at church, (i was in bend, Oregon) but when i got back into town from two people i heard the the same thing. "Liz there is this girl and she meet you at the block party and because of that you said to her she decided to come to church and she said everything you said was true and that she was so Happy to have meet you." WOW what a complement an ho exciting!!! So the next Sunday i was sitting at the front of the Church and for some reason i decided to move to the back, at the end of the service the pastor asked us to find someone and just talk about our week and what all we are going through. Well i looked across the aisle and found a girl and then we started to talk!! IT WAS THE SAME GIRL!! HOW AWESOME IS GOD!! we were able to share and talk and she was so thankful for meeting her and talking with her, i just loved it!!
God is doing amazing things and i am privilege to be apart of them!
liz
Sunday, September 21, 2008
UPDATE, UPDATE, UPDATE sorry it took so long
WOW where does the time go, i am so sorry it has taken me so long to get on here and write some more...since the last post alot has happened!!
Where to start. Well for one the freshmen village is going really well, the students are starting to really bond an get to know one another and form a group!! It has been so exciting to watch God in these students.
The Moscow service is up an running today is the third services, we are all praying for it to go well!! The students at u of i have been very welcoming of the idea of a collegiate church, lets just pray they start to come!
There is a youth village that i am going to be helping out with on Wednesday nights, I am kinda of there to help facilitate discussion and stuff. The first real week is this one coming up, pray that the middle school students will long to come to something that is less game centered and more personal growth centered.
WEll i the biggest news i have is that i went to bend Oregon. I was there sunday through wednesday. It was soooo pretty and alot of fun. The five interns drove down on Sunday, all of us in one car!! It was a blast, to just hang out without work and with launch week behind us. God really brought the 5 of us together as one! While we were in bend the NAMB (north american mission baord) but on a conferance for us and all the other northwest semester missionaries. WE learn what is excpected of us, we put together goals to ourselfs, we learned how to sabbath, There was so much information! it was wonderful. We also had the privelage of staying in this really nice resort and hanging out, we white water rafted! And on the way home we claimed to th top of this water fall, it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Well i will write more later, i am on way to lunch and then to set up for th pullman serivce!!
liz
Where to start. Well for one the freshmen village is going really well, the students are starting to really bond an get to know one another and form a group!! It has been so exciting to watch God in these students.
The Moscow service is up an running today is the third services, we are all praying for it to go well!! The students at u of i have been very welcoming of the idea of a collegiate church, lets just pray they start to come!
There is a youth village that i am going to be helping out with on Wednesday nights, I am kinda of there to help facilitate discussion and stuff. The first real week is this one coming up, pray that the middle school students will long to come to something that is less game centered and more personal growth centered.
WEll i the biggest news i have is that i went to bend Oregon. I was there sunday through wednesday. It was soooo pretty and alot of fun. The five interns drove down on Sunday, all of us in one car!! It was a blast, to just hang out without work and with launch week behind us. God really brought the 5 of us together as one! While we were in bend the NAMB (north american mission baord) but on a conferance for us and all the other northwest semester missionaries. WE learn what is excpected of us, we put together goals to ourselfs, we learned how to sabbath, There was so much information! it was wonderful. We also had the privelage of staying in this really nice resort and hanging out, we white water rafted! And on the way home we claimed to th top of this water fall, it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Well i will write more later, i am on way to lunch and then to set up for th pullman serivce!!
liz
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Just an update!!
WEll we have launched the second service...or more like second church! you see at 600 we start in pullman, I then head to moscow at 700 while the pullman service is still going on to set up for the second serives. Around 815 everyone else heads to moscow. Church starts at 830 and then is over around 1000. It is needless to say a long but worth it day!!
This week we had a great turn out and i am so excited to see what GOd is going to do in the coming months. Also the freshman village is going well. I had coffee with the freshmen girls this week and it was a splendid time!! I know i am going to love getting to know them over the coming year!
Womens ministry to about to start in the coming week!! I am so ready to see how this unfolds. There are some amazing women up here and i know God is going to do great things with and through them!
I am getting to know many people up here, pray that friendships are strengthened and held together by Gods hands. God has been faithful to bring people into my walk in the past and he did the same here! I love getting to know people and i know i have some strong friendships and they are just going to strengthen in the coming months! Pray that this be true.
The interns have a retreat in about a week and i am so excited. FOr one we get cool North American mission board backpacks!!! and two we all get to hang out with one another!!!!!
hope yalls week is going well!!
PS just so you know i am working on Joshua two and will post it in the coming days!!!
This week we had a great turn out and i am so excited to see what GOd is going to do in the coming months. Also the freshman village is going well. I had coffee with the freshmen girls this week and it was a splendid time!! I know i am going to love getting to know them over the coming year!
Womens ministry to about to start in the coming week!! I am so ready to see how this unfolds. There are some amazing women up here and i know God is going to do great things with and through them!
I am getting to know many people up here, pray that friendships are strengthened and held together by Gods hands. God has been faithful to bring people into my walk in the past and he did the same here! I love getting to know people and i know i have some strong friendships and they are just going to strengthen in the coming months! Pray that this be true.
The interns have a retreat in about a week and i am so excited. FOr one we get cool North American mission board backpacks!!! and two we all get to hang out with one another!!!!!
hope yalls week is going well!!
PS just so you know i am working on Joshua two and will post it in the coming days!!!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Just a little update!!
So i love when God just shows himself when you are sitting in the car with a friend and talking over the day and go OH WOW GOD IS AMAZING!!
Well you see i just had one of these moments, one of my friends molly (fellow intern) got the job of putting together the tables for the displays that are on campus. The tables have vintage suitcases on them and then inside these are fliers for the church and different items. (they are opened on the tables, they are cool i promise)
Well up till now all i have seen is a cool table layout nothing really more. Tonight we were sitting in my car talking about how when we catch the passion God has for us it is contagious to all those around us. When following Gods will, his passion will grow in us and that will be seen by others and will allow us to let the small things go. TO move on from what is right in front and see the big picture and enjoy the view! While we are talking about this, molly mentions how much she has seen GOds provision over us this week and how He has been in all the little details and putting together these events and the people and Provide strength, rest and peace to us.
I am sitting there and I smile when it comes to mind that all of out tables have suitcase on them. What is a suitcase? It protects, it holds, it carries, to allows movement of objects. I know that to some this may seem like nothing put to me this is a beautiful picture of God in my life these past few weeks! He has been my suitcase, if you will. He has allowed me to move here to Pullman, He has allowed me to see U of I and have a heart for the people there. God has been my protection in times of crisises, he has held and is caring me through many of the tasks set before me here in Washington. and i am loving watching God move in me in and surround my life and incapture it to be all he needs. Which brings me back to the suitcase, that is what a suitcase is, it surrounds the objects in it and takes to where ever one chooses. You see God choose for me pullman and i am seeing daily him protect and surround me and travel with me to where ever he chooses to take me!!
God is awesome!! I am learning more and more!
liz
Well you see i just had one of these moments, one of my friends molly (fellow intern) got the job of putting together the tables for the displays that are on campus. The tables have vintage suitcases on them and then inside these are fliers for the church and different items. (they are opened on the tables, they are cool i promise)
Well up till now all i have seen is a cool table layout nothing really more. Tonight we were sitting in my car talking about how when we catch the passion God has for us it is contagious to all those around us. When following Gods will, his passion will grow in us and that will be seen by others and will allow us to let the small things go. TO move on from what is right in front and see the big picture and enjoy the view! While we are talking about this, molly mentions how much she has seen GOds provision over us this week and how He has been in all the little details and putting together these events and the people and Provide strength, rest and peace to us.
I am sitting there and I smile when it comes to mind that all of out tables have suitcase on them. What is a suitcase? It protects, it holds, it carries, to allows movement of objects. I know that to some this may seem like nothing put to me this is a beautiful picture of God in my life these past few weeks! He has been my suitcase, if you will. He has allowed me to move here to Pullman, He has allowed me to see U of I and have a heart for the people there. God has been my protection in times of crisises, he has held and is caring me through many of the tasks set before me here in Washington. and i am loving watching God move in me in and surround my life and incapture it to be all he needs. Which brings me back to the suitcase, that is what a suitcase is, it surrounds the objects in it and takes to where ever one chooses. You see God choose for me pullman and i am seeing daily him protect and surround me and travel with me to where ever he chooses to take me!!
God is awesome!! I am learning more and more!
liz
Thursday, August 21, 2008
YEAH FOR BEING 22!!!!!
WEll in about an hour and half i will be 22 on the 22nd...big deal i know!!
I will let you know how the day goes!! hope your day is a as GREAT as I am going to make mine!!!!
I will let you know how the day goes!! hope your day is a as GREAT as I am going to make mine!!!!
Monday, August 18, 2008
GREAT DAY!!
So this past sunday i had the privelage of sharing my heart with some of the church!
I dont know how many of you know this but in the long run i would love to be a womens minister and go around speaking to groups of women. Having said this i have not really taken many steps towards this.
BUT this Sunday i got up and spoke in front of about 75 people. i was able to share a little bit of my journey with them and how i got here and why i came!! it was truly i God given experience where the words i said i really dont remember. However, when i was done i had two women come up and tell me how natural i was on stage and how well i did. I also i had two staff member s tell me i did a good job and that this semester i would have many more opportunities to be on stage talking in front of people!
I am not telling you this to gloat but to say that it was a moment of affirmation.
I have had a passion for speaking for years and never had an oppertunity to use this gift i fell came from God! and this sunday i felt completely in the moment and where God wanted me to be.
Lets be honest, this week has been kinda of hard, not being home and missing yall, and realizing that i will not see yall for a while! it just came crashing in on me and so this moment was a total God given appointment!
LIZ
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
BACK IN PULLMAN!!!
WEll i made it back safely, minus some getting sick on the way home it was great and now i am even more excited about the year ahead.
Side note if you ever need to hear a GREAT sermon listen to David Platt, he spoke this past week and camp and he was truely touched by God. i was challanged every night and left with a longing of wanting to know Christ better then i do now!
I have learned over the years that when something good is on the way satan is not far behind and that statement is true here in Washington!! I have learned this week the
JOY FOUND IN FORGIVENESS!!
Sorry this post is kinda of random! My thoughts are a little everywhere and trying to write them is harder then i thought! When i get it all figured out i will let you know!!
liz
Here are some pics from the trip
Side note if you ever need to hear a GREAT sermon listen to David Platt, he spoke this past week and camp and he was truely touched by God. i was challanged every night and left with a longing of wanting to know Christ better then i do now!
I have learned over the years that when something good is on the way satan is not far behind and that statement is true here in Washington!! I have learned this week the
JOY FOUND IN FORGIVENESS!!
Sorry this post is kinda of random! My thoughts are a little everywhere and trying to write them is harder then i thought! When i get it all figured out i will let you know!!
liz
Here are some pics from the trip
Thursday, July 31, 2008
GONE!
Well i am about to leave and get on bus!! So i will not be updating for about 10 days...don't worry though i will write all about the week once i get back!! thanks for your prayers.
love, Liz
love, Liz
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
On the Road Agian!
Well just to keep yall in the know, I leave for New Mexico tomorrow morning around 830 here or 1030 Texas time! We are taking about 30 people to glorieta for collegiate week! I am so excited. I have only heard good thing about this camp and know it is going to unite all of us going before the school year begins!
I was asked to be on the northwest mission committee. This group of people checks into mission trips for the summer of 09 and then goes through the applications and interviews students in the spring and decides where to place them for the summer. I super excited to see where that leads.
We are driving there and so it is very close to same drive me and my mom just finished. I am going in thinking positivly and know that God is going to use this drive just as much as he is going to use the week that lies after it.
Pray that Gods will for all us will be shown. That we will be broken before the throne.
Thank yall so much for you support and if i can ask a favor and that is if you are reading this and you have a moment to spare please leave a comment. I can not tell you how encouraging it is to get on here and see that people are interested in what is going on and well that you are thinking of me.
I miss you all!
liz
I was asked to be on the northwest mission committee. This group of people checks into mission trips for the summer of 09 and then goes through the applications and interviews students in the spring and decides where to place them for the summer. I super excited to see where that leads.
We are driving there and so it is very close to same drive me and my mom just finished. I am going in thinking positivly and know that God is going to use this drive just as much as he is going to use the week that lies after it.
Pray that Gods will for all us will be shown. That we will be broken before the throne.
Thank yall so much for you support and if i can ask a favor and that is if you are reading this and you have a moment to spare please leave a comment. I can not tell you how encouraging it is to get on here and see that people are interested in what is going on and well that you are thinking of me.
I miss you all!
liz
Monday, July 21, 2008
I am HERE!!!
Well after a three day drive, me and my mom made it safely to washington!! There were alot of fun memories made along the way and some very funny quotes that now hang on my wall!
SAdly, i dropped my mom off at the airport this morning, it was alot harder then i once thought it would be. However, My apartment looks GREAT thanks to her help! (Ill post pics soon).
TOday i hung out in spokane (about 2 hours away from pullman, it is where the airport is located) after dropping my mom off. I am starting to get more aquated with the state of washington and finding it sometimes but not always difficult to get around!
Here are some pics taken along the way...sorry they are neat but it is the best i can do!!
Monday, July 7, 2008
The given Charge!
I like to think that when God calls you to do something or live a certain lifestyle He will place a charge on your live. I also choose to believe that if you listen closely He will give you verses to live my and to call on in time of need.
It is nothing new that i am leaving the comforts of home to move to a new place and to live amongst college students and be a witness for Christ in their everyday life's. Well, all semester long I have read the book of Joshua and wondering why God kept bringing me back to these pages and to these verses and then this past week it clicked in my head this is my charge from God. These words are what i am suppose to live my in the coming weeks and cling to in the time ahead!
Joshua 1 hits home in three different place and I know will aide me in different parts of my journey.
first the book starts of by the Lord telling Joshua to get up and move on. This is the place where I find myself right now. Having just finished school the feeling of mourning can very easily come upon me and allow me to wallow in the unknown. Just like Joshua I fell like this time in my life The Lord is saying OK now get up and move on, follow what I said and all will turn out just the way I planned. God clarifies this in following verses. Verse 3 The Lord says he will give him the land that he promised Moses, Verse 5 says no one will stand up against him. Now i know i will face opposition and that there will be times of what fells like nothingness I know that I can claim the call the Lord gave Joshua and learn that where ever the Lord leads you he will go before and prepare and be with you in the time you are there.
This leads to point 2 5B "I will never leave you nor forsake you". what a great verse to claim. I know that this will be a verse i say over and over again in the time ahead. but the great thing about this verse is the fact that one it is truth!! AMEN!! While yes i am going to a new place where there are many unknown the one thing that matter is that the Lord my God will never leave me or forsake me and that alone i know will get me through many a night!
The third i guess charge from this passage is my FAVORITE!!!!!
FOUR time in the next 12 verse the Lord gives the encouragement "BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS" and the context makes these words even more powerful.
1. BS&C- because you will lead people
HELLO- to lead people anywhere with the correct intentions there is a need for the leader to be Strong and Courageous, While i don't know details of what all i will doing i do know there will be some form of leadership and my prayer is that i will lead with the mindset of God given Strangeness and courageousness that is seen as Gods love and not LIZ.
2. BS&C - be careful to obey all the laws
Now i know we are in the old testament days but there still are some guidelines to live my and by living in the way God has called me to live i will Glorify him better then ever before.
3. BS&C - Don't be terrified; do not be discouraged
I think this third one speaks the most to me. I know life come at you so fast sometimes you forget to think about it and you just reacted. the sad thing is that sometimes that reaction is not what is most Christ centered. Going to a far away land and living in the midst of newness is something that is very common in the bible and to find encouragement in that and live by in in the 9 months ahead is necessary. When God calls you to be S&C you need to take it and live by it!
4. BS&C - the last words in the chapter
What a call to place on ones live "Only be strong and Courageous" If nothing else i pray that in my actions my words and my living, that people will see this. A strong women who is living a Christ centered life and who is Courageous with her actions. What good is a live when there is no fruit to go with it. I pray that in the coming season of my life the Strong and Courageous Women i am will grow into a lady of faith and courage not only in words and actions but in daily living.
I will call upon these phrases in the coming months, learn to live a life of being
"STRONG AND COURAGEOUS"
It is nothing new that i am leaving the comforts of home to move to a new place and to live amongst college students and be a witness for Christ in their everyday life's. Well, all semester long I have read the book of Joshua and wondering why God kept bringing me back to these pages and to these verses and then this past week it clicked in my head this is my charge from God. These words are what i am suppose to live my in the coming weeks and cling to in the time ahead!
Joshua 1 hits home in three different place and I know will aide me in different parts of my journey.
first the book starts of by the Lord telling Joshua to get up and move on. This is the place where I find myself right now. Having just finished school the feeling of mourning can very easily come upon me and allow me to wallow in the unknown. Just like Joshua I fell like this time in my life The Lord is saying OK now get up and move on, follow what I said and all will turn out just the way I planned. God clarifies this in following verses. Verse 3 The Lord says he will give him the land that he promised Moses, Verse 5 says no one will stand up against him. Now i know i will face opposition and that there will be times of what fells like nothingness I know that I can claim the call the Lord gave Joshua and learn that where ever the Lord leads you he will go before and prepare and be with you in the time you are there.
This leads to point 2 5B "I will never leave you nor forsake you". what a great verse to claim. I know that this will be a verse i say over and over again in the time ahead. but the great thing about this verse is the fact that one it is truth!! AMEN!! While yes i am going to a new place where there are many unknown the one thing that matter is that the Lord my God will never leave me or forsake me and that alone i know will get me through many a night!
The third i guess charge from this passage is my FAVORITE!!!!!
FOUR time in the next 12 verse the Lord gives the encouragement "BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS" and the context makes these words even more powerful.
1. BS&C- because you will lead people
HELLO- to lead people anywhere with the correct intentions there is a need for the leader to be Strong and Courageous, While i don't know details of what all i will doing i do know there will be some form of leadership and my prayer is that i will lead with the mindset of God given Strangeness and courageousness that is seen as Gods love and not LIZ.
2. BS&C - be careful to obey all the laws
Now i know we are in the old testament days but there still are some guidelines to live my and by living in the way God has called me to live i will Glorify him better then ever before.
3. BS&C - Don't be terrified; do not be discouraged
I think this third one speaks the most to me. I know life come at you so fast sometimes you forget to think about it and you just reacted. the sad thing is that sometimes that reaction is not what is most Christ centered. Going to a far away land and living in the midst of newness is something that is very common in the bible and to find encouragement in that and live by in in the 9 months ahead is necessary. When God calls you to be S&C you need to take it and live by it!
4. BS&C - the last words in the chapter
What a call to place on ones live "Only be strong and Courageous" If nothing else i pray that in my actions my words and my living, that people will see this. A strong women who is living a Christ centered life and who is Courageous with her actions. What good is a live when there is no fruit to go with it. I pray that in the coming season of my life the Strong and Courageous Women i am will grow into a lady of faith and courage not only in words and actions but in daily living.
I will call upon these phrases in the coming months, learn to live a life of being
"STRONG AND COURAGEOUS"
Friday, June 13, 2008
FIVE WEEKS!!
SO, there is alittle more then five weeks until i leave and can i just say I am so excited. It is so amazing how God answers prayers by presenting friendships from many states away!! I got to see some washington friends about a week or two ago and it was truely a blessing. I am seeing that the fear of not have true friendship is jus that...a fear that has no marit at all. Through the power of the internet many friendships have been established and for that I am truely thankful! I love how GOd sees the needs of his people and then provides a way for those needs to be meet! GOd is coltivating a new love in my heart, I can not wait to see where this leads me in the future.
So i sat down with my mom last night and talked about what all i still need to do before I leave and the amount of time I have left and I realize that I need to clean out my room here. (for the record that is really to rooms due to some stuff that happen in my life) and i only have two weeks to do that...then the thrid week i am going to pre-teen camp! and then one week to pack up clothes and make sure it all fits in my car and then the last weeks comes but that really oes not count because I am in a wedding and then I am going to nac for a few days! SO when I think about it like that there really is not much time left in this whole count down to washington!
So i sat down with my mom last night and talked about what all i still need to do before I leave and the amount of time I have left and I realize that I need to clean out my room here. (for the record that is really to rooms due to some stuff that happen in my life) and i only have two weeks to do that...then the thrid week i am going to pre-teen camp! and then one week to pack up clothes and make sure it all fits in my car and then the last weeks comes but that really oes not count because I am in a wedding and then I am going to nac for a few days! SO when I think about it like that there really is not much time left in this whole count down to washington!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
SEVEN WEEKS!!!
WEll tomorrow, or in an hour there will be 7 weeks until my mom and I embark on the journey to Pullman!!
I just got back from gonow's orientation. it was truly an amazing weekend. GOd opened my eyes to being flexible not only in thought but in action too. I also had the privilege of meeting people who have given up their summer to spread the word of GOd around the world. Seeing and talking to the different people just really allowed my heart to find peace with my own trip. you see it hit me about a week ago that this trip is a YEAR...alot can happen in a year. I mean think about college, my junior year so much happened (new friends, pain, healing, happiness, moving, roommate!!, family changes) and to think all that could happen again in washington. This thought scaried me up until about a day ago, when God allowed me to think of the person I was and the person i am becoming and let me tell you, I am truly blessed for this year. My heart and passions have changed my life out looked is so different. and i know that this trip or mission, is not going to be like a fifth year of college but rather a time to grow up and live the life i was called to live and the great thing about GOd is i dont have to wait until July 16 but rather I can start living NOW!!! THat is just so amazing to me, that GOd sees me for who I am and is willing and ready for be to become who He wants me to be. Alot of time people do not displace this kinda of enjoyment in others growing and changing and the fact that GOd encourages it just really makes it all worth it.. I am so in Love this GOd right now and I pray that in the coming months this love and passion continues to grow and reach new heights!!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
What i am praying for!
a. Other-centeredness - The world does not revolve around me.
To remember that I am called to be a servant and to meet the
needs of others.
b. Flexibility - Be cheerful about whatever I am asked to do. Try new things. Have a good attitude!
c. Humility/Teachability - I am a guest and a newcomer. Don’t be
deluded to think that I know what is best in this place of
ministry. Be teachable. Listen.
d. Enthusiasm - Be ready to do what is expected and then some!
Work harder than I’ve ever worked before and I’ll experience
a renewed sense of God’s peace and joy!
These past few weeks God has really shown me himself in many ways. These four things are what GO Now have all of its missionaries praying to be. I revised it to make it more personal for my trip. And these things go hand in hand with an experience i had just the other day.
Last weekend i had the privilege of driving to nac. A drive I have made many times in my college career. But this drive was different, this time I was driving up a hill, and the whole time i was thinking man I can not wait to get to the top of this and see what is on the other side. When i finally reached the top i came to an owe inspiring view of Gods wonderful glory in the world around us. I was meet with the most beautiful sun set i had seen in a while. As i kept driving this view was followed by turns and stops and areas of nothing and then moments of true brilliance of GOds amazing beauty in the world. Then i arrived in Nac.
I tell you this because then I had time to think about what just happen and this segment of time in my journey to nac was like lookinh in the mirror of where I am now and where i will soon be going. Now i am on this upward climb of not knowing whats ahead and learning more about myself and who God is to me and how to convey that to people around me in a way that is not only interesting but will allow them to see their need for God in their life as well. And soon the moment will come when I am no longer on this upward journey but and at the place that God has been preparing me for. When that takes place there are going to be times of twist and turns, moments when I feel like I am at stop and nothing is going on, weeks of sensing there is no end and no time to think and then there will times when God gives me glimpses of just how amazing He really is and in those moments i pray I will look and cherish them.
My prayer is that this drive that I made about 10 times year, but this time was more then just a drive will me to take the time now to make every moment that I am away in Washington, ones that When the stop comes i can look back and say WOW look at what all God has done! God also reminded me that now is the time to prepare for this journey, what I do now is what I will be there, i am not just going to snap and change into this other person. So I choose and chose now to embark on the journey of becoming someone worthy of sharing the gospel with the people that God allows me to, i step forward now in order that each step will allow me to look more like Christ and less like me.
I ask that you pray that those 4 items will become me and that i will become who Gos desires me to me for this trip ahead.
To remember that I am called to be a servant and to meet the
needs of others.
b. Flexibility - Be cheerful about whatever I am asked to do. Try new things. Have a good attitude!
c. Humility/Teachability - I am a guest and a newcomer. Don’t be
deluded to think that I know what is best in this place of
ministry. Be teachable. Listen.
d. Enthusiasm - Be ready to do what is expected and then some!
Work harder than I’ve ever worked before and I’ll experience
a renewed sense of God’s peace and joy!
These past few weeks God has really shown me himself in many ways. These four things are what GO Now have all of its missionaries praying to be. I revised it to make it more personal for my trip. And these things go hand in hand with an experience i had just the other day.
Last weekend i had the privilege of driving to nac. A drive I have made many times in my college career. But this drive was different, this time I was driving up a hill, and the whole time i was thinking man I can not wait to get to the top of this and see what is on the other side. When i finally reached the top i came to an owe inspiring view of Gods wonderful glory in the world around us. I was meet with the most beautiful sun set i had seen in a while. As i kept driving this view was followed by turns and stops and areas of nothing and then moments of true brilliance of GOds amazing beauty in the world. Then i arrived in Nac.
I tell you this because then I had time to think about what just happen and this segment of time in my journey to nac was like lookinh in the mirror of where I am now and where i will soon be going. Now i am on this upward climb of not knowing whats ahead and learning more about myself and who God is to me and how to convey that to people around me in a way that is not only interesting but will allow them to see their need for God in their life as well. And soon the moment will come when I am no longer on this upward journey but and at the place that God has been preparing me for. When that takes place there are going to be times of twist and turns, moments when I feel like I am at stop and nothing is going on, weeks of sensing there is no end and no time to think and then there will times when God gives me glimpses of just how amazing He really is and in those moments i pray I will look and cherish them.
My prayer is that this drive that I made about 10 times year, but this time was more then just a drive will me to take the time now to make every moment that I am away in Washington, ones that When the stop comes i can look back and say WOW look at what all God has done! God also reminded me that now is the time to prepare for this journey, what I do now is what I will be there, i am not just going to snap and change into this other person. So I choose and chose now to embark on the journey of becoming someone worthy of sharing the gospel with the people that God allows me to, i step forward now in order that each step will allow me to look more like Christ and less like me.
I ask that you pray that those 4 items will become me and that i will become who Gos desires me to me for this trip ahead.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Just an update
Just so you know, i recently found out that i will have my own apartment while i spend my year in Pullman. I was really scared of this at first, but now God has reveled a new out look on this.
1. I will have my own place!!
2. I can have people over whenev
3. A place to retreat and get away
These three are great reasons for this blessing!!
Also me and my mom are pretty sure that we will be leaving dallas on the 16th of july and hopefully arriving to pullman on that following saturday!!! ANd dont worry We will keep yall posted the whole way.
7 more days of student teaching!!!!
1. I will have my own place!!
2. I can have people over whenev
3. A place to retreat and get away
These three are great reasons for this blessing!!
Also me and my mom are pretty sure that we will be leaving dallas on the 16th of july and hopefully arriving to pullman on that following saturday!!! ANd dont worry We will keep yall posted the whole way.
7 more days of student teaching!!!!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Spring break came to an end!
I love spring break and this one was no different. I took my sister to horse camp, hung out with my mom, talked with my dad and then slept, and I enjoyed all of it. I found myself realizing just how blessed I am to have a family like mine. My parents are truly a blessing to my life and helped me to grow and become who I am today. Also this Easter my sister was baptised, which was amazing in and of itself but also because I was baptised on Easter Sunday many years ago. Overall spring break was truly a great time of treasuring those that God gave me for a life time.
I was on my schools "homework" site, this place where my teachers can post assignments for the class to take part in. The weekly journal asked us about this time in our student teaching and how it was going and now that it is coming to an end what we thought of it overall. One of my classmates posted this quote
"You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this"
As sat reading this quote I thought to myself, "am i going to miss this, is this something I will someday want back" and as I thought I was reminded that Yes there will be times when I look back on life and go man college was great, or I wish I had taken the time to realize just how good that experience was...but at the same time I know that God leads us into new chapters while closing the door to the previous one just finished. I found that sometimes God slams doors and sometimes I feel as though some are left partly open. However, I know that this door, this closure to college comes like a sweeping breezes, gently enough to close the door, but not hard enough for me to feel the pain that can sometimes come with the moving on, or starting of a new chapter. College was a great time---I meet amazing people, made great memories (making doughnuts, interning, cars, my first apartment, my first "Job", the bsm, going over seas), was lead to the thrown of Christ my some amazing people (the choir at first, the people that came by the CLC and many others). I know that so much of who I am today is because of who God placed in my life over these past four years. I also know that the chapter ahead is one filled with dreams I have not even dreamed yet, people I have prayed for but have never meet, relationships that are truly God centered, places I did not even know where real. So in my life and maybe even in yours there come a time when doors close and i think "Man I am going to miss this, I wish this lasted longer" but then be reminded of the fact that while a new time is coming so is God, our protection. He protected me during many hard times, and through all the great ones and I know that His same protection is going to Washington with me and will continue to be there all the days of my life.
A chapter of encouragement, a few verse that let us in on just how great of a protector our GREAT GOD is------Psalm 121
I was on my schools "homework" site, this place where my teachers can post assignments for the class to take part in. The weekly journal asked us about this time in our student teaching and how it was going and now that it is coming to an end what we thought of it overall. One of my classmates posted this quote
"You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this"
As sat reading this quote I thought to myself, "am i going to miss this, is this something I will someday want back" and as I thought I was reminded that Yes there will be times when I look back on life and go man college was great, or I wish I had taken the time to realize just how good that experience was...but at the same time I know that God leads us into new chapters while closing the door to the previous one just finished. I found that sometimes God slams doors and sometimes I feel as though some are left partly open. However, I know that this door, this closure to college comes like a sweeping breezes, gently enough to close the door, but not hard enough for me to feel the pain that can sometimes come with the moving on, or starting of a new chapter. College was a great time---I meet amazing people, made great memories (making doughnuts, interning, cars, my first apartment, my first "Job", the bsm, going over seas), was lead to the thrown of Christ my some amazing people (the choir at first, the people that came by the CLC and many others). I know that so much of who I am today is because of who God placed in my life over these past four years. I also know that the chapter ahead is one filled with dreams I have not even dreamed yet, people I have prayed for but have never meet, relationships that are truly God centered, places I did not even know where real. So in my life and maybe even in yours there come a time when doors close and i think "Man I am going to miss this, I wish this lasted longer" but then be reminded of the fact that while a new time is coming so is God, our protection. He protected me during many hard times, and through all the great ones and I know that His same protection is going to Washington with me and will continue to be there all the days of my life.
A chapter of encouragement, a few verse that let us in on just how great of a protector our GREAT GOD is------Psalm 121
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Four Months
SO it hit me this week that in four months from now i will be in washington!!!! WOW!
I have 14 more days with the kindos that school, which really means that i have two weeks of teaching and four days of observing other classes. I am so excited, in a going to miss them but ready to move on kinda of way....
If you read this please be in prayer for me, I applied for a job yesterday and i really am in need of a job for this summer and so it would be nice....i will keep yall posted!!
My sister is getting baptisted tomorrow!!! God is sooo amazing!
I have 14 more days with the kindos that school, which really means that i have two weeks of teaching and four days of observing other classes. I am so excited, in a going to miss them but ready to move on kinda of way....
If you read this please be in prayer for me, I applied for a job yesterday and i really am in need of a job for this summer and so it would be nice....i will keep yall posted!!
My sister is getting baptisted tomorrow!!! God is sooo amazing!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Three MORE weeks!!!
SO i only have three more weeks, till the end of my student teaching!!!! I have truely enjoyed this time together with my teacher and the kids. It was a completly different environment then any of the past times i have spent in class. My teacher has been great i really have learnded alot. But saying that i am now starting to count down!!! i have 22 days of school time left!!!!
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Burger Bar
So today i was eating diner witha friend at place called buger bar. While seating at the table i started to people watch (something I do well). At the table next to where i was seating was a table of two girls the whole time they were disussing the churches that they each were attending.
I find it interesting that many times i see people and they are discussing the church they attend and i start to pay more attention to the what is said and how the tone and the words.
These girls here tonight where talking about how church in order for it to be true fellowship there must be community and deep fellowship. HOwever over their disscusions i realized that what they were in need of was not fellowship or community but somewhere where they ould do the things they loved with people they love as well.
People need to know that what they are doing is ok and good in the eyes of those they love. Churchfor many people is about finding a place to belong where you are the odd ball but rather the norm. These girls, from what i rathered what fun activities to complete with their friends that went to chruch.
I just have one question about this theory. How are we who are called to be different, called to live out a different life then those around us. HOw can that be seen when we constantly surround ourselves with Chirstians and go to wordly places with Christians and are seen living a life many non christians would lead themselves. what makes me different from the next person? Is church about proving a place for chirstians to meet and hang out and stay or a place for people to learn about God, learn how to live it out and a place to surround themselves with encourgment, so that when the believers go out into the world they are encourgaged they are built up..after chruch going out into the world should be easy. because GOd is with us and wants us to share His word with people. That means going to a place where people may not want to go. We have to be a light even if it is not the cool chirstian thing to do.
these are the thought that through my head everyday....sorry if they are kinda of random.
I find it interesting that many times i see people and they are discussing the church they attend and i start to pay more attention to the what is said and how the tone and the words.
These girls here tonight where talking about how church in order for it to be true fellowship there must be community and deep fellowship. HOwever over their disscusions i realized that what they were in need of was not fellowship or community but somewhere where they ould do the things they loved with people they love as well.
People need to know that what they are doing is ok and good in the eyes of those they love. Churchfor many people is about finding a place to belong where you are the odd ball but rather the norm. These girls, from what i rathered what fun activities to complete with their friends that went to chruch.
I just have one question about this theory. How are we who are called to be different, called to live out a different life then those around us. HOw can that be seen when we constantly surround ourselves with Chirstians and go to wordly places with Christians and are seen living a life many non christians would lead themselves. what makes me different from the next person? Is church about proving a place for chirstians to meet and hang out and stay or a place for people to learn about God, learn how to live it out and a place to surround themselves with encourgment, so that when the believers go out into the world they are encourgaged they are built up..after chruch going out into the world should be easy. because GOd is with us and wants us to share His word with people. That means going to a place where people may not want to go. We have to be a light even if it is not the cool chirstian thing to do.
these are the thought that through my head everyday....sorry if they are kinda of random.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
GOING TO PULLMAN
SO i just found out that i will be going to pullman for year. I created this journal for those of you that are partnering with me in pray. I hope you will read this in the coming months to see how GOd is preparing me for the fall and then come fall to see what God is doing in Pullman. I am so excited to see GOds hand at work. Thanks for praying for me and for all of your support of the years!!
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