Knock, Knock is anybody in Mexico?

God Sure is!

Saturday and Sunday Corey said some pretty profound things especially for the team. So profound God took some of them as a personal challenge to be apparent as our week went on

1. Go fetch the water- He told us all we needed to do all week was "go fetch the water". Go fetch the water AKA. God calling us to do the little things that we may not nessicarily want to do because they are so little and our God's plan is so big that we can't wrap our little minds around the bigger picture he is painting us into. and we need to Fetch the water because without it Gods perfect, complete will cannot be finished!. So...God had some plans up his sleeve! Monday at the Monatial De Amor i started playing with kids but amanda got wore out so God called me to Fetch the water. Literally. I was filling buckets of water and taking them to the cement mixer for the guys! Thursday he also showed up. Corey and i talked on Thursday morning. It was good encouragement. It was a good talk. A talk i would have never expected from a youth pastor. but our God's Amazing at Amazeing us. Then during the pouring of the roof Corey and I together got to fetch water. I think it was one of those moments. One of those moments we both realized what exactly we were doing and what that meant.

2. Stand inside and watch or step out, open the doors wide and let yourselves get drenched in his renewing,merciful,loving rain.- i don't think that was an exact quote. I think alot was added to that when i wrote it in my journal. But Corey had a point. God pours His blessings on us everyday!. every hour! every minute! and what do most of us do. we stand back. take the beautiful scene in. We wait until the downpour stops. even though it never does. And we do nothing with it! We take it for granted and want better ,want more. But why don't we try something!..Why don't we step outside. better yet open up the doors of our homes. our work. our schools. And let not only ourselves get drenched but also the people we love. the people we hate. the people we can't stand. the people we don't even know! And just let them get changed by his rain! Why don't we take as much of it in as we can and then share it with those whose fields are barren and there is drought! So God..in his Power sent us Rain!...Lots of it...Some of you read about it on Corey's blog. But it was so much more than that! Courtney and i danced in it. We rejoiced in it! We stood in it and got soaked to the bone.&& yet we still watched as people stood inside. behind the doors. Huddling together afraid to get wet! And so many people are like that. They are afraid of what would really happen if they let God change them. If they let God use them. They are afraid. And i'll admit it I was there once so your not alone. I used to hate the rain. Hate when i Got the least bit wet! but I know from experience. You do it once and you'll never want to quit.

3.The bigger picture- As corey and i were once again fetching water for Douglas we were walking together and there among the cracks was a puzzle piece. I told corey it was sort of like a penny. He laughed!. It was a good day! God and His glory ultimatly showed through then too especially when it was hot. early. and we were already weary

4. Go Fish- Do any of you know what its like to Humble yourselves before God! If i didn't know before i sure found out this week! Thursday at our pool party God had other plans!. It was a good thing He did. I didn't feel as though the Kids were being as loved on. (all the kids in the pool && 8 or nine students sitting inside the palapa) So God again sends another batch of rain. Ultimatly putting us all in the palapa. A little girl who tried to thank me for putting her bathing suit out to dry (in the rain i might add) and i started to hang out! All week i had been hoping to do the Big things. Pouring cement. painting. digging a trench. So God decided He would use thursday to Humble me before Him. This girl was probably about 8 -or- 9. There really wasn't much to do especially since i can't talk in any spanish. So she pulled out the deck of Go Fish cards. And i tell you what i haven't played Go Fish probably since i was six. And i have never loved the game more than when i was playing with that girl. we played in complete silence! i don't know what she was thinking especially since she beat me every time! At first I didn't care if she won so i sometimes threw her cards knowing she had the other card in her hand. but no she was really Good. Then after Go Fish we Colored. A coloring Book page. (agian i haven't done that since i was six). God really showed me that day that I can't communicate with Him as easily as I would like but He accepts me as I am. And he makes me lose sometimes. He doesn't try to let me win since i've lost for the past hour. He showed me that sometimes i have to look past The level of spiritual maturity i'm on and take a step down for a while. My spot is still there. Im still going to be able to do the big stuff later! But at that moment i just need to be a kid again. Lay there in the palm of His hand and just play Go Fish with Him. Give all my cards over to him. let Him color my picture. And Hand me the crayons.

this is extreamly long and im sorry for that. it really doesn't matter to me if you thought it was good or not.It was just to show off My God!.
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So i look to You
So i look to You
No one else will do
No one else will do

This is Cinthia, Rosalind (her mother), and I...They live in the cadereyta which is a very poor part of town...Rosalind knew very little english so it was hard to talk to her!..I don't know her story very well but i would love to find out about it!..On the day of the all day outreach at the cadereyta Rosalind and cinthia invited Jen and i into her house and let us pray with her!...She is building a building in front of her house so she can start a little shop!..
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Cinthia........what can i say about this beautiful girl...She was always very full of joy and it broke my heart to leave her...When i gave her a kiss on the cheek she didn't want her friends to be left out so she asked me by pointing if i could give them one too...



This is Hosea Emmanuel..This little guy touched my heart..He too lives in the cadereyta..The day of the food outreach he followed us all along the Road he lives on..The whole time he was holding my hand or asking to be held in my arms while he carried a bag of rice or beans for the next family..when we got to his house and asked his mother if there was anything we could pray about she said yes..He was having a surgery on his eye!...He is adorable



This is aramyeni AkA monkey girl...I met this girl at the VBS we held for all the kids from all of the Casa Hogar's and the cadereyta and the rio!..I have no idea where she lives or what her name really is (every time we asked he she would give us a different name)...but she's so cute!


Here she is again...everytime you pick her up all she wanted to do was flap around in your arms...spinning...falling backwards..flailing her arms!...Agh...i want to see her again!...
thats all for now!...

ill post a little bit of what we did and some other things later on this week before i leave for vacation...might just happen to put somemore pictures on if it lets me upload any more
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Mexico 2006.....Mucho Cheeto!!!!...

Just got back from Mexico about 5 hours ago!..

What a week..It was hot, sweaty,miserable,wet,and tired...

But oh boy did I love EVERY single minute of it!..

It changed my whole perspective of poverty,wealth(and me not being wealthy..[explain more on this later])...I gained a whole new perspective on Kids, our team, my friends,our hearts, youth ministrie in action,Love in action, God in Action. I gained a new perspective on Grace and mercy and kindness,Love and Hope and Future!..I basically gained a whole new perspective on life!..Take a week out of your life and live like they did.

God worked in that city so much you could feel it getting off the plane!...God worked so much through us i don't even know what i would have done without his "glory strength"...God worked so much through the kids down there trying to get to us, My life is going to change...Right now!..

I dont know what it is im going to do yet...but its going to get done...

I still need to wrap my head around the simple fact that there are some kids there that i played with,. that i smiled at, that i handed out hot-dogs to, that God loved on through me that dont know where tomorrow's meal is coming from and are hungry cause trying to stretch the rice and beans God used us to bless them with didn't work as well as they thought it would!...

Be sad...because the situations that we faced were sad..Be sad because those kids, as happy as they were when we were playing with us, are crying them selves to sleep at night because their dad's are gone. or they have no food. or their 15-16 year old sister is pregnant and doesn't know what she is going to do with another mouth to feed

Be happy...be happy that God's will was done this week...That his hands and his feet were in constant motion and continue to be in motion, that He shook a city this week and he rattled a bunch of highschoolers...

But most of all Love God...because He is so much bigger than happy or sad...so much bigger than borders..or nationalities..He so much bigger than anything we could ever imagine and 30 of us realized that this week

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Camp Adventure 2006

1 High ropes course

+1 Blob

+1 Corey

+1 johnny

+1 cup camp beautiful (oh yeah we won on the first and last day)

+105 students

+30 counselors

+22 songs (on communion night)

+1 frisbee

+2 ransom notes

+3 boys dressed like girls

+a dash of rain

+a hint of heat

+2 slip and slides

+200 pounds of food

+85 bribes

+7 gallons of detergent

+3 pairs of goggles

+2000 pictures

+25 hours of video

+12 volunteer cleaners,cookers and right hand women

+8 valley games

+a little bit of OOoooooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxFffffforrrdddd

+some A- unit A unit

+a sprinkle of Suzanna

+1 amazing Senoir pastor

+2 more amazing youth pastors

+Angela Keim

+A pregnant Debbie Mann

+the Vurkomichs and The wagners

+5 little daughters

+Some tether ball

+some more beach volleyball

+ultimate frisbee

+Feeding the fish

+Tears

+Freindships

+worship

+ whole lot of God ::

=A wild week of Fun and Crazy Worshipping at camp adventure 2006

So many stories...

Ask me about it some time

Facts:::::

This is to all my blogging friends out there...

please don't have a cow or a moose or any other type of animal that is large and not supposed to come out of a human...

I will be gone at camp for a few days starting on Sunday...That means no posting..

Just for Amanda my love i promise her a major post after camp...maybe with pictures...

or a video...

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(i have come to a realization... i love this certain person...[they shall remain nameless]..and i just can't get over them)

a quote and a conversation

I am having the best conversation about this quote::

Life's deepest spritual lessons are learned by [god] making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are honestly able to say your will be done.

That is my mantra..

God::: Your will be done...

In EVERYTHING

XOXO

Here we Go again

So here i am posting...

A month later than Amanda wanted me to..but posting nonetheless.

June was the craziest months i can ever remember..

Hung out with Garrett....ALOT...

got a lot of Sun...

And worked!...

July is going to be crazy..

..work..

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++Mexico++

GOD= FEROCIOUSLY FANTABULOUS + The Official LOVE of my Life...
He has been a part of everything that i have done this summer...(excluding the TPing of jeremy Laws house)..
Giving me strength for work on those nights where i stayed up late..
Being a part of my Wednesdays..during bible study and then showing up when garrett and i hung out..
Coming up in Random conversations...
And blessing me enough so that i'm able to be a camp counselor and be a part of the Mexico Team..

He deserve's ALL the GLORY!

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