Crazy Adventures With God

Our adventure started yesterday at 5:30am with the smell bacon wafting through my room because the guys had to have some before left :) We were suppose to pack at 6:00 and then leave at 6:30 but... the van didn't start...We got off on the road! and then realized we were missing a passport :) but Andrew saved us and meet us with it! We finally got to O'Hare but not before the windshield would freeze and the wiper fluid didn't work so Derek would spray it with solution at the toll booths :) O'Hare though was a breeze, thank you God! Flight to Atlanta and Guatemala were chill! On the way to Guatemala there was a family with two young kids! The little girl was getting a little anxious and I had a open seat next to me, decide I should get out of my comfort zone already and asked her to color with me! It was so rewarding:) but she spoke minimal English mainly French so I couldn't even practice my Spanish :)  Got to Guatemala and got our luggage, but Sarah's was not ...

Time has moved so fast! I can remember ten months ago when I had catch-up coffee with a friend and that is when God opened the door for the mission school! Then four months ago I moved in to an apartment complex with  ten other people! We went on a camping trip to get to know each other. And now we have gone through 13 weeks of life together and we are still alive :) We have gone through 13 weeks of trying to drink out of a gushing fire hose of information! It has been great, but now my brain is like dead! It is so good don't get me wrong, just very hard to now process everything. Time to dig for the gold nuggets:) In 11 days we leave for Guatemala on January 3 for two months! I am so excited to see what God is going to do there and in us! I believe He has already started doing things there and here! We are going to be helping the Christian schools in La Limonada. La Limonada is a large slum in Guatemala City. The first couple of weeks we will be helping get...

This week we had Jeremiah Briggs a former worship leader come speak to us on the topic of worship! This man had a true heart of a worshiper! It was really cool to listen to him speak because he just has a genuine passion to bring glory to God! He has doesn't have a college degree in worship leading, he just taught us from what God has revealed to him through worshiping God. Worship: Submission to and dependence in the Holy Sprit to bring the Father glory through Jesus! The concept of worship is usually just the time of singing before a sermon which is a form of worship, but it is also so much more then that! Worship can be anything in your life that you are bring glory to God! It was really cool to watch this new concept sink in over the week for the community. In the beginning of the week Jeremiah challenged us to think back to our first memory of worship and also where we have seen a true worshiper.  And I thought of this guy for both :)  And as we talked about wors...

So on Sunday we had a really chill day and one of the students decided to make a video! This is the first one, but he is hoping to do more and feature each student. Attached a link, hope it works and enjoy!              

Oh how time flies, a month ago I was moving in! With that I want to apologize, I was planning on at least blogging once a week and to be honest I just have not gotten on my computer that much. Yesterday I actually did get on my computer and had a whole blog written up but my computer has some major issues and in the shorten version I couldn't connect to the internet and I really just need to get a new computer!   So the past couple of weeks we have had a pretty intense schedule, but starting to get the flow around here. We have had some really cool teachers too. Two weeks ago we had Allen and Debbie Kemp who talked about the Father Heart of God, and last week we had Reverend Royce Evans talked about the Lordship of Jesus Christ. It was really cool with have such diverse teachers and teachings. It was a really good reminder of God's diversity and how easy it is to put limits on God from what we know and yet He is so much more. This week is Holy Spirit week!!! I am super...

Wow! This past week has been incredible! It has been really great getting to know everyone and living in community with them. There is eleven of us living in the Lincoln house. B:Mitchell, Chris, Alica; M:Sarah, Josh, Ryan, Lauren: M: Vicki, Derek, Heather, Kelly; T: Brandon, Alex, Jeremy. Missing: Anna   We went camping for a couple of days in the Flat Platte River Campground, which is by Sleeping Bear Dunes. It was a great time spent in close quarters that brought us all together as we spent time finding out who each of us are and where we have come from. Slack Lining! There was this crazy dune that looks like a wall! a After we got back we had Ryan speak to us on hearing the voice of God! We spent some time asking God who we are to Him and why He has us here? God has revealed some pretty powerful things already to all of us. It is really going to be cool to watch as each of us grow in the identity that God has spoken into us! And this week we...