WoW really?!

OKay So I haven't blogged in months... Well, that's a lie. I have blogged just not posted them for your enjoyment!

Life has been so crazy, I resigned my church and now live in NOLA. I never would have thought I would live in Louisiana or even be going to Seminary right now... My life is pretty normal, Friends, Class, Studying... It should probably be in a different order, because I spend a lot of time in class and a lot studying! My roommate has moved out not because we didn't like living together, but because she found basically a free house to live in! So, now I live in a 4 bedroom apt by myself! I actually really like it!

One thing that is hard right now is finding a church... I've been to church with friends and haven't really felt like whole heartedly "this is the church for me." UGH! Why doesn't NewSpring have a New Orleans Campus?! haha! But Sunday is coming and it will be a new day and a new church!

I'm looking for a job and have interviewed twice with a Cheer gym for a coaches position! I am praying that if it's God's will that I get it! I love cheerleading and coaching and the fact that it is a Christian gym just adds icing to the cake! Man, I hope it happens and I get a chance to mix my passion for leading teenage girls to Christ and my passion for Cheerleading together!

I have been able to babysit a couple of times and it is just wonderful! I get to spend time with kids and play! Plus, I can be a blessing for parents here on campus that can't find a babysitter or one that their kids like! lol!

Funny kawinkadink, 2 of my best friends at home were Kristy and April... Well, here my 2 best friends are Christie and April! Ha! At least I didn't have to learn new names!

Where does Your devotion lie?

God has really been rocking my world with 1 Cor 7. Some of you know my obsession with 7:17 in the Message, but the whole chapter is full of Godly goodness! So what does it talk about, you ask?! Try staying single and being devoted to God, if you can that is! But seriously, 7: 35 says,

I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

I have found while this month in Seminary that TOO many people are focusing on what I would consider the wrong things. (Some of you are going to laugh thinking that is coming from me, but God is really convicting me.) We are focusing on in a Christian realm would be a worldly thing! WTCrap are we thinking and doing?!

• Marriage and finding the one (UGH! It's driving me NUTS!!! I've even stopped watching "Say Yes to the Dress" that's how much it's bothering me!)

• Theology and NOT reaching people

• Making yourself look good and NOT God

• Their church

• THE SAINTS (okay, I LOVE football and this is SUCH a big deal in NOLA, but we are tending to talk about them and NOT Jesus)

So those are just things I can think of right now, but seriously there are way more I know it! I guess it just kills me that people aren't trying to find a way to reach our city. Now, I am one who is super focused on my studies and very rarely leave campus because of it... Which is a big reason I'm hoping for this cheer job! But the Marriage complaint above is really getting to me... like so much! I hate people asking me "well, have you found anyone there yet?" Okay, really?! Why am I here?! I thought I was here to learn and to grow! hmmm apparently I'm here to find a mate?! Who knew! I wish God had sent me that memo! haha! Okay, so only certain people will get that, but it's true!

Hopefully I will Update again soon!

NEW POST!!! HAHA!

Okay, Okay... I know I have not been very faithful keeping this up, but here is what has happened in my life.

Dec. 2007 I graduated from College and moved back home. After sending out hundreds of resumes and having my resume on the Youth Ministry Job Hunt website. I had nothing! So I moved home to the wonderful small town of Bowling Green. Even though my Dad has been then pastor here for 5 years I have only lived here on Christmas Breaks and a summer. It is like a new territory for me that I know how to get around, but I do not know many people at all my age. The only people I knew are not here or around anymore and others we have grown apart and do not talk to one another except in passing. A couple of those friendships I wish I still had, but they are gone. :'( I guess life goes on. So here I am jobless living at home.
BUT God is so good and has come out of the silences and shown Himself to me once again. I am in an interview process with Round Oak Baptist Church! Let me just tell you how good God is. This church is 12 miles from my parents house! AMAZING! I sent resumes all over the US and ended up talking seriously to a church right here in my community! So Wed. I am meeting the students, Sat. I am meeting the church family, and Sunday I am giving my testimony. They are going to vote the next Sunday (the 10th!) I am excited to see where God is going to take me, but truely sad to leave the students at Bowling Green because we have had some breakthroughs lately with some kids and I don't really want to leave them, but God is working and hopefully He will send someone either full time or permante part time.

OH get this so this morning at Freeway 8:36 we showed a Madonna Video! No worries it was clean! It was Material Girl! Can you (that know BGBC) imagine Madonna in church here?! OH GOSH! BUT guess what..... it went over so well! We have heard only positive feedback so far! We also switched up the worship order and had the video first then the sermon then the praise and worship music then the offering at the end so people wouldn't have to worry about getting it ready early. IT WAS SO GOOD! Oh we also had DRUMS! AmAzInG!

GOD IS SO GOOD!!!!