Just thought I may as well throw up some of the design work I have been on as of late as well!

Well let me start off by blowing the dust off of this blog,  Sorry for the lack of consistent update, I am absolutely horrible at this stuff.  Let me drop a few videos here on what I have been up to!

This was our last dodge-ball tournament in April...was good fun.

Yes, we did a Harlem Shake video...deal with it!

I have a VLOG coming at you real soon peace!!

Watch Your Mouth!!!

Just sitting here trying to sleep but my mind is racing with ideas for my talk next week.  I have been assigned to do a talk on the power of the tongue.  I have to laugh because we all know I could use a lesson on watching what I say...  Oh humility how you ever so love to kick us so swiftly in the arse!  My biggest hurdle here is trying to come up with a talk that isn't super cliche and cheesy like these talks usually are.  Meh I am actually getting some focus on it tonight...sheesh though 5:00 feels rough when you're trying to sleep!

It's been too quiet in here!

Hey everyone,  I am working on a big newsletter when I have some free time that should be sent out soon!  While your waiting I am going to post my new Vlog, so yeah here ya go!


https://vimeo.com/home/myvideos

Here is a video I edited for our lockin this Friday!

Hello again!  Just a bit of my newsletter to post on here!

            

            October was a very busy month for me, along with challenging.  This was in a good way though.  I think that I have finally found my niche and role within the church.  I find it quiet funny that I seem to have always run away from working with youth and young-adults even though I had my mom always telling me I was good at it, well now I am starting to believe her.  I am not sure if it was the fear of responsibility and leadership or just that I didn't trust God enough in what to do with my life.  Either way I am continually blown away by what God has been doing with these youth over here.

           

            A staple to the Vineyard Church is to be naturally supernatural. One of the problems I have always had with so called healing ministry is the production and pizzazz of so many of its proponents.  The whole philosophy here is that we expect God to heal the sick and hurting because he said he would.  Nothing more and nothing less.  The focus should always be kept on God and not on what we can do.  One of the things that has challenged me lately is this thought: We are always asking “What can I possibly do God?”  While God is asking “Who am I”? I find it really easy to keep my focus on my strengths and failures instead of finding out who God is.  I truly believe that if we focus on our relationship with God those other things will fall into place. 

            

Just a few prayer requests for you all back home: 

            Continual prayer for the opportunities to work in the schools.  This has been an amazing opportunity to bring light into the schools.  I find myself being in a position of running groups 10 -20 kids and it has being amazing to see these kids asking questions about my faith.  I also look at it as an opportunity to use my social work training as a councilor.

            Prayer for open hearts and safety with the street work.  We are hearing some great stories of renewal and healing in the community.  So continued opportunities and safety for our teams.

                        Finances, that God will continue to provide for me while I am out here.  God has blessed me with amazing friends and family.  I love you all!!!

            I guess my last request is for me to be diligent with school work, so that it does not affect my work as an intern.  I have been finding it difficult to balance the two of these lately and it has been causing a bit of stress. 

            Lastly I just want to mention that I will be attempting to start up a video blog along side my current blog.  I think it would be a great way to just have some fun with this whole thing.  Feel free to check out my blog as I will be updating that more frequently.  Any thoughts on this?!

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