Scratch one of the list of things to do before I graduate... I finally painted "The Rock!" Spray paint all over my frozen fingers.. but so worth it!

So.. just remembered something really cool! Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham) is doing whats called "A Festival of Hope" in Panama City this Febrauary!!! Thats so cool! A festival of hope is basically a 2-3 day festival with bands and the presentation of the gospel to thousands of people over the time period. I thought it was so cool to see how God is totally working in Latin America right now, the harvest is plentiful, we just need to go down and work it!

Monday morning and here at school for 8am prayer. Looks like no one else made it so I put some tunes on and am going to write down some thoughts and prayers for this time.

Father God I thank you so much for this time, that even though its just you and me.

Haha Amy and Zoe just showed up, it was the C-train. I was right on the transit note anyways. But posting this really quick because I was looking as this passage last night and it was super good.

Psalm 16:5-8 (the message) "My choice is you, first and only. And now I find I'm your choice! You set me up with a houtse and yard. And then you made me a heir! The wise counsel God gives me when I am awake us confirmed by my sleeping heart. Day and night I'll stick with God. I've got a good thing going and I'm not letting go."

This week is going to be nutty with outreach and midterms but I just really ask that as you say in Psalm 62 that you would "lead me to the rock that is higher than I," to the special place of refuge that you have for me, that I would take time this week and be still, knowing you are God.

Just wanted to post an excerpt from an email I got this morning.... because its good...

"I do pray you have a good weekend. May you have eyes to see and ears to hear what God is up to. May you treat time as a gift and not a possession. Your life is to be purposeful not purpose-driven. Yes we all need good time management skills but not the kind that make us grumpy and anxious but aware of the chaos and messiness of life, the delights and the despair, the breakdowns and the breakthroughs. The laughter and the tears. May you live full, rich lives. As Eugene Peterson writes in his rendering of Proverbs 11:24: The world of the generous gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller.May you give yourselves generously first to God and I pray that you will seek other's blessing as well and that in the midst of that you will be blessed. I am thankful to Mark Buchanan and his book The Rest of God for challenging me with these thoughts. "

Just found out yesterday too that our STINT team continues to grow! I was praying for more women because the whole 3-4 guys plus me thing wasn't looking good. But I got an email from a friend of mine I was in Panama with last summer and she has decided to come on STINT. I'm so excited, she's awesome!! So yep, its been cool to see how God is putting together an amazing team for next year. Just people I've totally connected with already this summer, which makes it easier to fathom being away from my family and everything "normal". Just knowing I have people on the team that I trust and can relate too makes everything a little easier!

Just found out Switchfoot is releasing an album in December... party on!


Yep thats all I have for now, thought I'd share the love...

Alrighty, 4 midterms done and 1 to go. Our massive outreach for C4C is this week and its been so cool to see how God is clearing up details for the lectures and mobilizing the students in the ministry to raise the awareness of the whole thing. I was chatting with one of "my girls" during out discipleship time yesterday about time management. Looking back, its been so cool to see how God has totally worked in my life to help me utilize my time the best I can. I remember in my first year God spoke to me and asked, "are you being faithful with your time?" It was an awesome reminder that we have limited time and we need to glorify God with it. Also thinking a lot about the love that Christ has for us. Romans 8:38ish talks about that. I was thinking how cool that is that nothing can seperate us from this love, even when I screw up and make mistakes. There's that verse that talks about "Christs love compells us" (I'll find it eventually) and made the connection. Nothing that I do seperates me from his love and therefore I'm compelled to share with my friends, participate in our outreaches and seek to walk in his will and glorify him with my actions. So a couple of random thoughts but its been good.. life is good, and above all, God is good!

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So its been another crazy week, middle of midterms, but at the same some really cool things have been going on. We (Campus for Christ) are bringing in a guest lecturer named Michael Horner for a series of lectures in November. I'm in charge of booking rooms and it was not looking good at all. There were new rooms at all that would work for the lecture and the lady at the university I was working with was honestly hard to work with. I realized this weekend though that too often I walk in defeat. I kept trying and trying to get rooms booked but expecting that nothing was going to come from it. Sunday at church I was reminded that Gods already got us covered, he's already won the war, or whatever battle we are fighting. Monday morning I called the room booking lady and ran into another brick wall it seemed. But, God is totally faithful she emailed saying there were three rooms available for out lecture, and one that is going to work beautifully. Its so cool to see that God is totally taking care of us. He has huge plans for my campus, I know this to be true and sometimes I just need to claim the massive victories that Christ has already won. More later.. gotta run!

Alrighty... so thoughts. Its been a crazy week and I haven't had any time to work on my application, although its constantly been on my heart and mind. Work has been absolutley nutty, I apparently picked one of the busiest restaurants in the city and therefore the nights are getting later as I'm up studying. Through all of it though its been really cool to see how God is continually giving me patience and strength as I go about the day and totally blessing me with some awesome conversations. Totally encouraging! Our ladies leadership discipleship group has been reading a book called "the discipline of grace," (by jerry bridges) and its been such as good reminder that on bad days (and even on the good ones) we are never beyond the reach and never beyond the need of Gods grace. I know thats true in my life for sure!

Alright, so the pile of papers that is my STINT application is printed and ready to be filled out. Lots of questions so the whole task is daunting, but I'm ready to get rolling and mail the whole thing out by November 1. Seems like its a lot of time, but I know I need it with everything else going on! I'm excited though for sure!

Here we go again!

October has come and its crazy that September has come and gone already! Panama project was amazing and things still remind me of there all the time, the people and the places. Something happened (actually a lot of things happened) in my heart and I've made my decision to apply to go on STINT next year in Panama City. What that means exactly is that I want to go back and invest in the ministy, by lending manpower and support for a period of 10-12 months. Details still need to be worked out, I still need to actually pull together my massive application and get that rolling. I feel like something was left unfinished when I came home and it took my a while to pinpoint thats what I was feeling. So I want to go back!