College :)

This week was a reminder of why I love college and UNCC:) Minus Wednesday night of course ( I woke up extremely sick and I am STILL recovering)

Here are some of the reasons I love college:

Basketball Games (we beat Temple!!)

got there early to get decent seats


yes, even idiots who build fires on their balconies entertain me (it's a good thing my dad got me a fire rope!)

Sundrop-It just isn't as abundant in the eastern part of the state

hmmmm:)

friends:)))

I will be spending my summer in......

ROME!!!!!!!

I just found out tonight that I will be spending the summer in Rome, Italy. It will be an amazing adventure. I'm excited to see what all the Lord is going to teach me. Please continue to pray for me as I begin to raise support:)

Let the nations tremble!

The Lord is king!
Let the nations tremble!
He sits on his throne between the cherubim.
Let the whole earth quake!
The Lord sits in majesty in Jerusalem,
exalted above all the nations.
Let them praise your great and awesome name.
Your name is holy!
Psalm 99:1-3

I applied to go on Summer Project this summer with Campus Crusade. I applied to go to either, Rome, London, France, or Sweden. I ask that as I am waiting you would pray with me that the Lord would send me exactly where he would have me go, even if it is here in the states. I'm willing to go anywhere or stay right here as long as it is the Lord's will. I'm super excited to see where he sends me. He has called us all to go and tell the nations his Gospel:)

For You I Sing I Dance...WINTER JAM 2010!!!

Sunday afternoon several of my friends and I went to Winter Jam. Winter Jam is a Christian music tour that comes around every year with some popular artists. Some of the artists this year were Third Day(my personal favorite), Newsboys, Tenth Avenuue North, Newsong, Fireflight, and Sidewalk Prophets. At first I really didn't want to go because I knew we would be getting back late and I had an early class Monday morning. My friends pretty much dragged me there. I am so glad they did! It was four hours of praising and worshiping my Savior! It only cost $10! We had to wait outside for a couple of hours to make sure that we got good seats. There were close to 15,000 people there. Samantha brought mad gab cards so we could play in line. It was cold!
Here are some pictures:

me and sam

me and bradley

Tenth Avenue North

Newsboys

Third Day!!

His prayer for us...

Over the past semester I have been extremely stressed with school and changes involving relationships with significant people in my life. The Sunday school answer for dealing with stress a lot of the time is to open up God's word and pray. BUT....I have learned over the past few months that reading and praying can be be some of the hardest things to do when you are stressed and even sometimes frustrated with God. It is easier just to find something else to do that will divert my attention away from the bad situation. Leading a Bible study this semester was a good way to make sure that I was spending time studying the Word but I don't want my relationship with God to be forced. I desire to desire God. I know that my being reluctant to spend time with the Lord comes from my sinful nature and the evil one. A lot of the time I ignore the fact that there is someone out there that hates when I spend time with my Creator. Someone who wants to see me fail and make bad decisions. I have found myself begging God for protection at times. Satan can cloud my thoughts with lies and desires that are not from God. There is one place in scripture that I have turned to over and over again this past semester as I have been battling school, relationship struggles, and Satan. What better way to pray than to pray like Jesus did for his disciples (us!) in John 17. Jesus had given his disciples a message to share with the world. The time had come for Jesus to be glorified through his death and resurrection so that He could glorify his father. Jesus asked God to protect his followers because he would be leaving them soon. He was going to be with the father and the disciples were going to be staying in the world. Jesus knew the world would hate his followers and prayed specifically for protection from the world and evil one in John 17:15. I have found myself praying this chapter over and over again this semester. God didn't take his followers out of the world. He left them here to tell the world the amazing news of the Gospel. You may be wondering why I am writing about this because I am definitely not a Bible scholar:) but I just wanted to share something that has helped me push forward in challenging times. We have been commanded to take the Gospel to the ends of the Earth (Matthew 28) and we have also been promised that the world will hate us. Praying the words of my Savior seems like a good way to take on this life...

A CRU Thanksgiving...

Sunday we had our annual Thanksgiving dinner for CRU. It was delicious and a good number showed up considering it was Sunday and a lot of people had tests to study for before the break. Josiah's parents let us use their house since none of our apartments could hold all of the people.We had some very good food and were very surprised at what some of the guys brought. Who knew they could cook so well?!

Sara, Kaitlin, and me

The group

Hello Christmas Tree!

Monday night, Kaitlin and I decided to put up our Christmas tree. We found some really nice guys to help us put it up! Last year we had A LOT of difficulty trying to get it up and lit ourselves. NOT THIS YEAR!! It was easy and we had tons of fun decorating it. Kaitlin's cousin was nice enough to give us her old pre- lit tree last year. It's huge and we love it!

The Guys at work
Our beautiful tree!

Bradley and I

Kaitlin and Brian