We played volleyball all the time. Romanians are AMAZING at basically ALL sports! This is me jumping…and I’m pretty sure there is no ball coming…oh well…:)

We definitely thought that these horses were…wild…but they weren’t. Someone around this camp property owned them and they wandered around in the pack eating the grass. This one actually got loose and was really annoyed about something. We followed him…from a distance…and he went back home himself.

Me, Hannah and Katrina helped lead this small group of girls every day. We had a good time, it was very hard to get the girls talking and open. But by the end of the week the Lord was moving on a lot of them. It was really amazing.

This is Abby and I. They “adopted” me into their family so she is like a little sister! This was her first missions trip and she is 14 years old! It really changed her life in an amazing way! I love it when God does things like that. Especially at a younger age! Keep her loving you Jesus!

Just a random picture of me sitting and hanging out.

This was mud games week 2 and I did NOT participate. That is me in the background with the hat on observing. That was all I was going to do this time. AND some boys put some cow manure in the mud and so it SMELLED TERRIBLE!! There was no way I was getting in that. But it didn’t stop those kids! They had a blast!

Me, Kirsten and Becca. This was one of our last nights there and we went out to dinner at a pizza place. It was such a treat and it was soooooo good!!! We were having fun outside taking jumping pictures. I think this is the only one that came close to getting all three of us in the air.

This is when we were saying goodbye to the campers and to Bazna House of Prayer. They were the Romanians who helped translate and were just AMAZING we could not have done it without them!!

The last day we were there we went to a church service. It was all in Romanian except for the preaching, because our Pastor from here in America preached! It was really amazing, I LOVE being in church services in other languages and watching them worship the same wonderful God as we do!

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Thats all the pictures I have of the trip. It was amazing, and challenging and maturing and hard all at the same time. God is amazing and I am glad that He could use me in some small way in another country bringing Jesus to people!!!

Here is my August Newsletter! It is a new layout and I’m really excited about it!! Hope you enjoy! I look forward to being back in the blogging game.

YOU look forward to more posts…this time hopefully I’m for real.

August Newsletter!!

This is the team on the way over to Romania! Want to hear a funny story? While most everyone used the escalators to go up or down levels, I would race them and use the stairs, to see if I could beat them. Some of the stairs were incredibly steep. One time, I think it was in Paris, I was racing down the stairs. But the first person from our team was beating me down! There were about 5 more steps left before I was at the bottom, so I jumped them all to make it down first! Well I made it before that person, but I hit really hard and I had my backpack on, so I dropped to the floor. Totally involuntarily. There were tons of people all around looking at me. And it did hurt, haha, my knees had carpet burn!

All of us in Paris! We had a four hour layover, and the part of the airport we were in didn’t have chairs, or benchs. So we found this staircase, and it had a platform at the top. We played cards, ate each others snacks (Paris is EXPENSIVE!), and napped.

Here we are again…this is the FUNNIEST picture ever! I think we were pretty tired by now…this is in Romania, but still one more flight to go!

Katrina and I, first day of camp! We were put to work! We were painting some pieces of wood that were going to be used for something…can’t quite remember what.

Here are the game leaders!!  L to R: Me, Dragos, Claudius, and Jesse. See the paper in my hand? Basically I wasn’t a real game leader. I just kept track of the VERY important scores. One member from the winning team one an MP3 player. Which was a pretty big deal!

I just LOVE this picture. Thats why I’m putting it on here…no story. We just posed for a picture!

This is me with Persida. She is from Bazna House of Prayer. She is an intercessory missionary just like me but in Romania! There was a team from BHOP that were there leading the camp with us. They were AMAZING! God has anointed them so much! They had a HUGE impact on the campers AND the American team! They also were the ones that translated to us!

I zoomed in on this picture because its really funny. I think the reason I look like this is because of BUGS! The bugs there were crazy!!! We were outside like 90% of the time, and the bugs were crazy!!! This day the leaders were together having worship outside…and I kept getting distracted by the bugs crawling and flying around me.

Like the 2nd or 3rd day of camp, inspectors came to inspect the camp to see if it was up to standard. So we had to evacuate the camp. All leaders and campers climb up this mountain and played games on the top of it! It was really BEAUTIFUL! This is me and Jen, you can see some of the mountains in the background.

One of the days for games we did a MUD DAY! I didn’t play games usually because I was a game leader, but this day I totally had to participate! I can’t pass up MUD!!! This part of the game was to get as MUDDY as possible! It was SOO disgusting. My hair weighed like a ton, I could barely lift up my head, and it took FOREVER to get the mud and sticks out of it!

This was BEFORE the last picture. We had to put our hands in the mud pit, and our legs outside of it, and hit a ball with our heads through the OTHER players hands. Kirsten and I played against each other…this is my winning pose. Haha!

Week 1 of camp is over. Jen was heading back to America. We were sad. I think this is really cute.

This is the last day. All of the leaders and campers of week 1! It was a blast!

Here is a peek at my time in Romania! This is me sitting up, covered in mud!!!

June and July newsletter in one!!! Check it out!

P.S. Hopefully I’m back. More to come about ROMANIA! First check out my newsletter!

Me and Kirsten today! Yes, we are HAPPY in this picture! We are excited because we are leaving for Romania tomorrow MORNING!!

In 24 hours we will be:

Praying together as a team

Prophesied over by intercessors at IHOP-AC

Really excited!

Packing up the van

Driving 5 hours to Washington D.C.

Checking in our luggage

Getting ready to board the PLANE!!!

Flying off to ROMANIA!!!

Here is a picture of my last trip to Romania on the plane:

We all had our own ROW of seats. Thats 4 seats. We had a great time sleeping! That would be awesome of this plane ride was like that! But I doubt it!

So I won’t be back on here posting until AFTER I get back.

I will be back in the United States the 13th. So if I’m not exhausted I’ll post. And I’ll make sure to post some pictures too!

Farewell! Bless you all!

Training

Swimming

Teaching

Laughing

Team building

Getting to know new people

Eating together

Shopping for shampoo, conditioner, snacks

Shopping for long shorts from the thrift stores

Counting shorts and t-shirts to make sure I have enough for 20 days

Realizing I will have to wear some clothes more then once

Packing it all up

Going to bed!

All preparing for ROMANIA IN 2 DAYS!

Me and my daddy at Christmas!

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!

Me sitting in the prayer room at IHOP-ATL!!

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!

So this part of the post isn’t about Romania…yet. But this is a picture of me and Jess and Kirsten 5 minutes ago!

We are at IHOP-ATLANTA! We were blessed to be able, at the last minute, drive down and attend the Passionate Pursuit Conference.

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:

UNITY

fall in love with Jesus

LoVe
 

death to LIFE

BREAKTHROUGH

REpeNTanCE

walking in the Spirit

Abide

HuMiLiTy

FREEdom

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.