Camp!

Man as i sit here its so hard to process everything that has happend over the past 3 months. This summer was one big defining moment in my life. When you say the word Overwhelmed thats exactly how I feel. Its hard to put everything into words. I saw Gods love this summer Go so deep and so wide. I saw lives changed that seemed as though it could have been impossible. Thats right nothing is impossible for God. I saw hearts that were breaking and lives that were restored. I saw the spirit move in ways that you wouldn't believe even if you were told. Habakkuk 1: 5 was so True for this summer and it always is. God showed his grace and mercy to me everyday. I learned that even though I fail him, he is there to pick me right back up and carry me through the times when i feel i can't go anymore. I serve a savior that is risen, and for that I worship. I saw God bring a staff together with the same common purpose and use each and every person in different ways yet pointing people to the cross. God's faithfulness to all his promises causes me to worship. Seeing students and adults that finally realize that what they have been missing all this time was JESUS causes me to worship. God allowed our staff to be His hands and Feet this summer and through that I believe that Christ left a dent in the universe. I am still believing in big things and trusting that their are more defining moments to come!! Praise God for an amazing summer that I will never forget! MY LIFE IS CHANGED! Glory to God, Glory to God, Glory to God FOREVER!

Psalm 34:8 Taste and see that the Lord is good. And I have done that and will continue to do so! Thanks to my beautiful Father (ABBA)!

Romania :)

Well I know its been a while since i have posted. I need to get better about doin it. I worked at Mfuge this summer in Mississippi and it was by far an amazing summer but also very challanging! I love a challange though. I had someone this summer every week get saved in my bible study! Praise him. I also felt called to go serve the Roma people all summer long and I actually get a chance to go this christmas break! :) So i'm goin to Braila Romania and since its the week before christmas we get to go and share about the true meaning of Christmas and share about what Christ has done and its going to be so awesome I am so excited about what God is going to do while we are there. We get to stay in an Orphanage called Home of Hope. I already know that i'm going to fall in love with these people and its going to be so hard to leave. I have to raise 1350 to go and i'm just praying that God will provide! All of your prayers would be greatly appreciated. YAY FOR ROMANIA!!!

Part of my heart is in Africa

John 3:16 Send us to the Nations!

So I went oversea's 3 or 4 years ago and I went to Spain and Morocco, and helped plant churches in Gibraltar and did a lot of prayer walks there, because its known as a very materialistic place and a place that really needs to see the light of the Lord! I also went to agidar morocco and Aluz and did a lot of treking through villages and sharing the gospel with kids there that had never heard of Jesus before! We got to go into people's homes and just love on them and share our lives with them. It was so amazing and I def wanna go back sometime! So like I said part of my heart is there with the people I met there and love dearly. Everyone I got to know there were so wonderful and I'm sad its been so long since I have seen them! I know the church we helped set up is doing wonderful in Gib, and many of the people there were new christians which was cool because we got to encourage them in their faith!! I just loved it there and would give anything to be back there right now! We also got to climb the rock of Gibraltar and man those monkeys were crazy! They threw our Nalgenes off the mountain..you think i'm kidding...well I"M NOT! One chased me down for my popcicle. I had to hide it under my shirt. lol. And did you know that sheep can climb tree's? if not ....you should go to morroco and check it out, i wouldn't have believed it myself. UP at the top is a picture of the beach at agidar!! it was really cool but so hot! But this is where all the people hung out so we did a lot of our ministry there! Its so crazy how many needs there are in this world! I mean not just overseas but everywhere! It blows me away, but OUR GOD IS BIG AND CAN PROVIDE!! WE MUST GO!!!

Isaiah 6:8 says And then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? And I said, Here I am, Send Me!

Made for a purpose!

So I have had a lot on my mind lately about what God has planned for me. I feel as though I have always had things so planned out and how my life should look and for some reason things just have been turning around and nothing is looking like I thought it would. As of right now I have no idea where I'll even be in several years. Its crazy because its like God has just slapped me in the face and told me to wake up and stop planning out my life. I guess i just thought that I was still giving God part of my life but all in all I haven't given up everything for Him. I want to give God my entire life, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I have been praying a lot lately about Missions and what God has for me in that area. I have always been so passionate about it and I want to strive to reach the world for Christ and to really see a change in this world. Our God can move mountains and I want to BELIEVE that. My dream has always been to open an orphanage one day and rescue abandoned kids...and take them in, and Love them as Christ loves us. And I want to serve them and help raise them and share Jesus with them. Its just always been something I have had the desire to do. Its crazy because my best friend Meredith called me the other day and told me about her missions conference and about how this lady is doing that right now in South Africa, and i can't even tell you how excited I got! I mean its my dream to do that ...I want to go, I want to be apart of what she is doing. So it was a blessing for meredith sharing everything with me. I have been reading the purpose driven life and today's was about how God made us for a reason! And this was perfect for me because I have had so many changes in my life lately that i'm really starting to understand that God really does have a purpose for me. And while i'm waiting and praying about what that is, I can continue to serve Him, and praise Him for the awesome things He is doing and will do. I read this poem by Russell Kelfer and it says

You are who you are for a reason,
You're part of an intricate plan.
You're a precious and perfect unique design,
Called God's specal woman or man.

You look like you look for a reason.
Our God made no mistake.
He knit you together within the womb,
You're just what he wanted to make.

THe parents you had were the ones he chose,
And no matter how you feel,
They were custom-designed with God's plan in mind,
And they bear the Master's seal.

No, that trauma you faced was not easy.
And God wept that it hurt you so;
But it was allowed to shape your heart
So that into his likeness you'd grow.

You are who you are for a reason,
You've been formed by the Master's rod.
YOu are who you are, beloved,
Because there is a God!


I just loved reading this because its so true! We are who we are because God created us in His own image and He loves us and has a plan for us! Its just refreshing knowing that God really does have great plans for our lives even when we don't understand it! But I know my God is faithful because i've seen it, and I just have to trust in Him with EVERYTHING!!!!

Proverbs 3:5-6 says

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

A New Beginning

So i'm really new at this blog thing! I use to have a xanga so i guess thats kind of the same but i'm sure this is a lot better! Well i'm starting a new chapter in my life and I have many mixed feelings about it but think it will be a great adventure! My mom and Scott my stepdad are moving tomorrow morning to Richmond Virginia after my mom spending her entire life here in Arkansas. As you can say its quite a shock to her and very overwhelming to leave all her family and friends and well pretty much everything she has ever known. I am sad to see her and Scott go but I feel that if this is best for them God will work out everything else in Time. I am excited to adventure around the world a little bit and experience new states! I love to travel and have always wanted to visit every state one day. So I guess i'm working towards my goal. Anyway I am excited to see what all God has in store for me over the rest of this year!