Hey, while I'm at it, I might as well post another... post. I wanted to let everyone know that the links I've added to this page are really special for a reason. Sarah's blog is a link to my close friend, Sarah obviously, who has taken a Student Missionary position in neighboring Chad, Africa as a nurse; you can read about her experience there.
My myspace is a link to well, my myspace page. The only reason I included this link is because I have other blog posts there and pictures that paint a much bigger person of who I am, so just because.
The other link, which I am really excited about, is this awesome site that is dedicated to various non-profit organizations that are dedicated to being good samaritans. It is a Christian's proudest dream site that includes stopping hunger, deprivation of rainforests, illiteracy, and furthering breast cancer research, rescuing of stray animals, and children's health. HERE'S WHAT YOU DO: click on my link, bookmark the page (because I want you to do this everyday), then click on the big button that says "click here." You have just donated a cup of food for those who previously did not have any. To continue in your good will mission, click on the various tabs at the top of the page and click on the big buttons for each of those. Talk about free charity, this is the one of the best things ever! Please make a difference and click on each of these donating sites each day (since you can only do this once a day). This means be faithful. EVERYDAY. Make a difference, click everyday. I don't have to tell you thanks for this.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Not too long now...
By next Wednesday I can finally start mentally preparing myself for this amazing journey I'm about to take. All that's left for me to go is that my call needs to be approved by the General Conference, which will happen Wednesday, in turn giving me way to purchase my visa, insurance and plane tickets. I can't wait until I have an actual date set though I suppose I have learned valuable patience this summer in not knowing so far.
I know what my position is going to be over there, but I'm a little sketchy on the details, so there will be more info to come on that. My finances have risen a bit - thanks to all who helped! - but it doesn't change the rounding much, so I'm still at about the same place as last time. I have however received many well wishes and prayers which I am so grateful for, for as the time comes closer and closer, I am realizing just how much prayer I reallyl do need. Seriously, as you read this, please just stop for a second and pray for my safety and my journey in expanding my Christian heart as well as living a witness' life.
Thank you so much.
I am quite excited about giving some of the things I have collected over to the children over there. Working at Toys R Us gave me lots of opportunity to take advantage of the sales and get school supplies at their cheapest when normally I wouldn't have been able to afford such commodities. Also my sister and brother-in-law are collecting the crayons their kids use at restaurants when they go out to eat, and I am using this opportunity to get rid of the crayons I've had stashed away since who knows when because "they're still good." (Yes!) :) Anyway, this hasn't been much more than an update and I am tired of talking about myself so I'll end on this get-off-your-seat-and-do-something note:
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7
I know what my position is going to be over there, but I'm a little sketchy on the details, so there will be more info to come on that. My finances have risen a bit - thanks to all who helped! - but it doesn't change the rounding much, so I'm still at about the same place as last time. I have however received many well wishes and prayers which I am so grateful for, for as the time comes closer and closer, I am realizing just how much prayer I reallyl do need. Seriously, as you read this, please just stop for a second and pray for my safety and my journey in expanding my Christian heart as well as living a witness' life.
Thank you so much.
I am quite excited about giving some of the things I have collected over to the children over there. Working at Toys R Us gave me lots of opportunity to take advantage of the sales and get school supplies at their cheapest when normally I wouldn't have been able to afford such commodities. Also my sister and brother-in-law are collecting the crayons their kids use at restaurants when they go out to eat, and I am using this opportunity to get rid of the crayons I've had stashed away since who knows when because "they're still good." (Yes!) :) Anyway, this hasn't been much more than an update and I am tired of talking about myself so I'll end on this get-off-your-seat-and-do-something note:
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Slowly... into Forward Motion
So we've been officially invited now! It might sound a little late to be invited to you, but this is a formal invitation that gives way for the rest of the process to proceed. Progress is being made, that's the update, and my funding is at about $1800! (that's about 70%) I'm so thankful that God works things out and that I have wonderful support from all you donors out there. Thank you!
My current state is: tired. Not actually physically tired, but emotionally tired of this world. Last weekend I co-planned a church service with my good friend, Becky Perdew, based on how much we need God to have meaning in our lives. The church service went quite well, even my sermonette that God completely took over - it was great. :) Now, in the aftereffects of being so spiritual I feel like I always have to live up to that level of intimacy with God, even though I know I'm not ready for it. This is emotional exhaustion. I am ready to be so close to God that nothing can separate me from him... wait that's the way it is... sometimes I just need a little perspective. ;) [Romans 8] But still, it takes a lot of rising and falling to get maturity and my spiritual maturity is farther behind than I would like it. Unfortunately this means to be closer to God I have to go through a few more trials, but this is hardly a sacrifice when I think of the endgame.
My current state is: tired. Not actually physically tired, but emotionally tired of this world. Last weekend I co-planned a church service with my good friend, Becky Perdew, based on how much we need God to have meaning in our lives. The church service went quite well, even my sermonette that God completely took over - it was great. :) Now, in the aftereffects of being so spiritual I feel like I always have to live up to that level of intimacy with God, even though I know I'm not ready for it. This is emotional exhaustion. I am ready to be so close to God that nothing can separate me from him... wait that's the way it is... sometimes I just need a little perspective. ;) [Romans 8] But still, it takes a lot of rising and falling to get maturity and my spiritual maturity is farther behind than I would like it. Unfortunately this means to be closer to God I have to go through a few more trials, but this is hardly a sacrifice when I think of the endgame.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
The Latest
So for a while there I was considering a position in Malawi, which was teaching and a little more official since it was already set up, but I pretty much think that option is gone now. (Especially because I would have to be leaving this week and I still don't have my visa). I did however receive an answer to prayer in the most recent email from the doctor in Nigeria. He told me that I was an answer to prayer because they had been needing someone to fill a position! I was so excited (I still am) - all I hoped for was to be needed somewhere and now I am. So hopefully the rest of the plans will be worked out smoothly and timely. As for my funds I am technically at $1,500 so only $1,000 more! It's coming close and I am getting very excited.
In the meantime, while I wait for the trip to come, I am busy working at Toys R Us and babysitting my sister's two kids. I also participate in a college-aged youth group called F.L.I.G.H.T. It feels good to be busy and earn a living - I feel really blessed to be kept busy by doing things that I really enjoy. If anyone hasn't heard, my good friend Becky Perdew and I will be putting on a church service this Sabbath talking about the meaning of life with and without God. You are all welcome to come! Sabbath school starts at 9:30 and church starts at 10:50. It's at the Springfield Seventh-day Adventist church in (duh) Springfield. Hope to see you there!
In the meantime, while I wait for the trip to come, I am busy working at Toys R Us and babysitting my sister's two kids. I also participate in a college-aged youth group called F.L.I.G.H.T. It feels good to be busy and earn a living - I feel really blessed to be kept busy by doing things that I really enjoy. If anyone hasn't heard, my good friend Becky Perdew and I will be putting on a church service this Sabbath talking about the meaning of life with and without God. You are all welcome to come! Sabbath school starts at 9:30 and church starts at 10:50. It's at the Springfield Seventh-day Adventist church in (duh) Springfield. Hope to see you there!
Friday, June 22, 2007
So you want to talk to me?
I have come to realize that there are some people that did not receive a special-dilly envelope in the fundraising letters I sent out, and that maybe perhaps, there is someone who is reading this that didn't get one at all. If that is the case, and you would like to send a gift to help with my mission year in Africa, here is the information for that.
For a CHECK: Make check out to "Student Missions Fund" DO NOT PUT MY NAME ON IT!!!! - For CREDIT CARD: Specify company (choose from Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express); Write card number and expiration date; sign piece of paper all this lovely information is on.
- For CASH: Put in envelope. :) No special instructions here.
- For ANY DONATION: Put my name on a SEPERATE piece of paper not directly attached to paper, if my name is on the form of payment, this will not be tax-deductible; Put your name, address, phone and email (somewhat optional) - it will assure that you get a tax-deductible receipt in the mail and so I know who to send my thank-you notes to. :)
- To send: Make envelopes out to: Office of Student Missions; Walla Walla College; 204 South College Avenue; College Place, WA 99324-9986
If you would like to contact me otherwise, let me get back to you on that. I don't really want to put my email address for the world to see, so I'll see how I can fix that. (If you received a donation letter, it should be on there.)
As far as the update on the mission, there is no update. I have not heard back from the doctor still and I have sent in the last piece of information that WWC needs from me. Now I just wait and pray for progress that the doctor is making over there. Thanks for your prayers!
Reflective thought for the day: We all try to better our lives and fix our problems by buying new and improved gadgets and toys. Sometimes I wonder how people could live without movies, cell phones, airplanes, refrigerators, stoves, washing machines and diswashers. But God doesn't think about these things as necessities. If they were, then he would have given them to us. Instead he gave us the things we truly need to live a wonderful and worthy life. "By His divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life." 2 Peter 1:3. So before you start going to the store to get that ultimate chopper, cutter, slicer, dicer to make your freezer-burnt dinner fattier and sweeter, think about what you really need in your life and thank God for his truly amazing power to provide.
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