Happy Father’s day to the best dad in the whole world!
I love you daddy, so much! I love so many things about you. I love the way you have ALWAYS made sure I know that you love me. You never let a day go by without telling me how much you loved me. There was never a question in my head whether you loved me. I KNOW YOU LOVE ME SO MUCH!
I love how you would tell us stories in the car when we traveled about your life before having us. You always have the most interesting and cool stories!
I love how you would sing with us in the car AND make up songs about us. I always felt so special.
I love how proud you are of me. I love how you tell everyone about me and my love for Jesus.
I love that you never meet a stranger, and that you instilled that in me and Meagan.
I love that you would do ANYTHING in the world for me that you could.
I love that you have been married to my mom for 36 years(?).
I love how you like to make me breakfast in the mornings, like Coco Wheats or this last time you wanted to make me blueberry pancakes.
I love that you flew me home to surprise mom one year and it cost a fortune.
I love YOU so much!
When I was little, I never wanted you to be away from me, or I wanted to go with you places because I thought I would keep you “safe”.
I love that you drove to Lynchburg like 10 times in my first 2 years at college.
I love that you call my phone and when I don’t answer you leave me a voicemail that says “I just wanted to hear your voice.”
I’m sure there are more, but I’ll end with these. I love you so much. I am so thankful you are my daddy! I think I love you more and more everyday! I’m praying for you!
Love your favorite 24 year old daughter!
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Only 3 days left until I am headed to the airport and boarding my plane to fly to ROMANIA! Tomorrow we have some training with some girls that weren’t here a couple of weeks ago. We’ll have some good time in the word, and fellowship together over lunch and pool time. What fun!!!
I just got back from ATL tonight around 9. I have a pretty full day tomorrow AND Tuesday. Very little time to pack for the 20 days. Lord, help me!
So I didn’t get a chance to write yesterday. I spent the day laying by a pool here in Lawrenceville. It was really awesome. It looks like a kids pool, and it was FULL of kids. Its called a leisure pool. We played in it all! It even had a lazy river to float down, and a whirlpool area.
Then I spent the evening listening to Lou Engle of the Call. It was powerful night of contending for issues such as abortion and the homosexual agenda and the spirit of Jezebel. We were praying over the men of the church who are struggling with issues of compromise and immorality. God desires a bride who is righteous! And He is able to deliver us out of our sins! It was powerful!
Today has been a day full of the Lord! I am about to go into a session where Corey Russel is going to speak. I’m excited! Have Your way God!
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I leave for Romania in 4 days! It is quickly closing in on me! There are 3 of my team members (one is my team leader) who live in Georgia, actually in Lawrenceville. So we met up at the prayer room and had a meeting about what I will be doing in Romania! Me and my friend Stephen will be teaching small groups about walking in the Spirit. And God is preparing us! Its really exciting. We also talked about the game time, I will be helping lead the games! This will be a really fun time, and a time where we build relationships!
Break in God! Prepare us for this trip! Do what you want to in us and through us! Change these campers lives forever! Let them fall more in love with Jesus! Amen!
We are staying with Kirsten’s parents who are so awesome! They just rented an apartment two minutes from IHOP-ATL for 6 months so that they can do an internship!
They love Jesus so much, it’s incredible!
So we don’t even have to use the car at all while we are here. We grabbed our backpacks and walked the short distance.
So here we are, ready to hear from the Lord!
We are here until Sunday afternoon then we head back to Burlington!
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We leave for Romania in 6 days! It is crazy! I feel as if there is so much to do, and then we go away for three days! But God is good!
Here are some things I am praying for, for out team and Romania and myself:
This is Camp Lighthouse. This is where I will be spending ALL of my time while I am in Romania.
This is inside in one of the main rooms. This is where all the services and worship times will be held.
This is a good picture of the buildings that are on the land. I am pretty sure that they might have built more buildings since these pictures were taken. These were in 2007.
And the place where we build the relationship with the kids is during GAMES! This is a pivotal time during camp, this is where we get to know them and love them!
We are staying in Buteni (pronounced: Buten), Romania. I couldn’t find a map with Buteni on it in relation to other cities etc…so I made my own. I think this is around where Buteni is. But that is not 100 percent. Its for sure 2 1/2 hour car ride from Timisoara, which is kinda covered in the red circle I made.
Hey everyone! I’m back! (After I really didn’t come back last time, sorry about that). So much has been happening. After I last posted I went to GA for 3 1/2 days and then to Florida for 3 1/2 days. And for the past week I’ve been fasting from the computer. So that makes it 2 weeks!!! AAAHHH!!! I’m really sorry.
Here is a slide show from the last Romania trip I took. Yes, I had blonde hair!
I have some news for you all! I AM GOING TO ROMANIA!!!! Woohoo! I’ve asked for prayer about this and wrote about it a few times and God is AMAZING! It is completely paid for and I leave in exatly 10 days!
I will be gone June 24th until July 13th. There are two teams that are going, but I will be there for both teams. There are 21 of us in all. Our team name is Pursuit. We are in pursuit of Jesus!! It is going to be an incredible trip, one of the best yet for me I think! The team is going to be amazing as well. I’ve got close friends going, the pastor of my church, young girls, people I don’t know at all, and its just going to be beautiful to watch the Lord use us all in the lives of the Romanians!
This will be my 5th missions trip! 4 of them have been to Romania, but this will be my first time to this area in Romania. I am going to Camp Lighthouse. A youth camp. Usually I go to Bazna, Romania, to the house of prayer there, BHOP. I am looking forward to this change and going back to this beloved country!
We had a day of fellowship and training for our team yesterday and it was a blast! Oh how I love the preparation for these trips, and the way the Lord speaks and teaches all of us to be a team. It is incredible! He is so amazing! To get a group of people to do something together for 19 days, and learn how to do it IN LOVE and not kill each other! Only God can do that! Haha!
So again, I apologize for the posting lapse. It is getting harder and harder to keep up a blog, but I still want to! I really do enjoy doing it. And I love that people actually read it sometimes. I don’t know how these people who post every day or more then once a day for YEARS do it. It is crazy, I guess it is some of their jobs, and well they are much better at it then me. But I’m going to keep chugging along as best I can. Come back if you want, hopefully there will be something to read!
It was a pretty busy weekend last week, and a busy end of the week for me.
Here are some pictures of what I did and/or am doing!
Katrina and I at our friends Kelly and Ben’s wedding this weekend!! I took my glassess off in this picture. And I like it SOOO much better then the next pictures with glasses.
I got to visit with friends that I don’t see that often during this wedding! Here is Jen! My closest and oldest friend from college!
Then that night a group of us decided to head down to the Dance Barn. That is the official name of the place we went. It was very country, to say the least. There were professional line dancers and a live country band. Everyone was dancing, and I think we were the youngest ones there by about 20 years! And if you were a woman sitting without a date then men of all ages came up and asked you to dance. So I danced with 4 guys ranging probably from 17 to late 60’s. Haha…but it was fun. Here is me and Katrina swing dancing to country music.
Here are the 8 of us that went. Although Katherine is taking the picture. The older woman and older man at the very end of the table were random people that we sat with. I feel bad for them! We were very new to this place and everyone knew it!
This is what I have been doing the past couple of days! I am been having dress rehearsal for a liturgical dance that I am performing in tonight! We are worshiping the Lord through dance! I have been taking classes all year and this is our finale. This is my first time ever dancing in my life, and some of the girls in my class are 10 or 11. Its very funny but I had a great time doing it! Hopefully next year I will get to take another class and keep learning!
Pray for me tonight that I will worship the Lord and not get nervous!
I’ve been busy most days, not busy other days and some days just too lazy to post. I was going through another period of time where it was just easier not to post. So I didn’t. I’m sorry.
But here I am!!! I’m back!! I have lots to update about…and lots of different things that are going to be take place in the next couple of weeks.
This post is basically just to let you know that I’m back to posting regularly. So be checking back! I am really going to put myself back into this and try to post every day. And to include pictures. To keep the posts interesting, and to keep you guys coming back!
That would be awesome of this plane ride was like that! But I doubt it! 
