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Good Evening Family, Friends and Prayer Warriors,

What a Beautiful Fall day it has been! The weather is getting a slight colder, the leaves are changing oh so fast! It makes me think of how life changes so fast in the midst of all the different seasons of life!

It's been awhile since I have written you all, my apologizes! First off let me thank you for being so patient with me! Also, thank you for all you encouragement and prayers it means so much to know there are people out there praying for me and investing in my life as so many of you have!

So where to begin, well I am still in the kitchen working and learning a lot about cooking and serving at a different level. Even though it has its tough days its been a VERY good learning experience for me! I have to say I wouldn't trade it for anything. I've learned things like measurements, food prep., serving, cooking different things and even cutting up vegetables and fruit! I have to say its been humbling, at times I don't know measurements or even what simple ingredients are, but I have some really awesome coworkers to help teach me along the way, for instances I work with a guy name Anders and as simple as it may come to some he took the time to show me how to add and subtract fractions! Now, that was definitely a humbling moment! Over all I have really enjoyed serving in the kitchen even though it's challenging I'm always up for a new one!

The other part of the time I am serving in the Physical Planet Department (PPD) on the Grounds. I have a lot of previous experience with grounds, but I have never had a lot of experience with trimming and punning plants thats a totally new thing to me! Plants are an interesting thing, theres so much more to just cutting a flower or snapping a limb on a tree. You have to take into account the cold weather, frost, where on the plant to cut,what part of the plant needs to be trimmed or doesn't, its been cool to learn different things about plants.

Though my time so far serving here at the Bible School as an Intern, I have seen a lot into ministry. What I have come to a conclusion, and by all means I don't have this all figured out yet! Sometimes it's the LITTLE things that can make a big difference! Even though you can't see the end result now doesn't me what your doing goes in vain! Though life I have always been a person who likes to see progress and when I don't, I think their isn't progress. How silly of me to think this! God takes time to work, God maybe using these challenges in my life to challenge me and grow me!
I know I have A LOT of growth to do, and less self and more dependence on God! It's not easy but its a learning process and I'm ready to take it on!

Prayer Request:
1. Dependence on God, and NOT Self.
2. Decisions for future
3. Investment, Honesty, and Vulnerability
4. Time Management!

Back to The BI

As the summer sun and long summer nights come to a slow end, with fall just around the corner; I see ahead of me a busy yet again school year. So before all this starts let me fill you in a bit.

Just about a week or so ago, I moved back to Jackson, MI to the Bible School to start my internship for the next year. It was a crazy weekend and also a start to the week. As I packed my car up and moved into a lovely dorm I would call home for the next year.
Monday started up bright an early for a school wide cleaning day. After a summer of construction their was a pretty heavy tasks ahead of us all to get the school back in some sort of order for the students to arrive.
The following day started with my first day in the kitchen, we began to prep and prepare for the cook out for the Student Leaders (STP) and staff that would kick off Wednesday night. Just after one day I had already learned so much and I was extremely exhausted.
As the Student leaders began to fill in on Wednesday, I myself was getting ready to head out! Already? Yes, if you know me you know I don't stay in one place very long! Actually, I was headed out to the Upper Peninsula with Rivers Youth Group! ( Youth Group I have been working with while I was a student at New Tribes.)
It was filled with lots of driving, eating, Laughter, Fun and games, Great Conversation, Beautiful sites, oh an also a lack of sleep =)

Pictured Rocks

Ben Sanford

Falls

Some of the boys

Some of the girls

But the whole weekend was totally worth it! What an amazing group of kids that are so hungry for the Word and want to know so much more about their creator! Our evening Camp fires was the highlight for a lot of the teens, the youth pastor Craig did something different this year an instead of him teaching he asked them what they are learning and how their relationship with God was and they were free to share! Praise God for the things he is doing in their lives! I was incredible encouraged by some of their testimonies it also even made me think about my own relationship with God!
As a youth leader this last year or so I have been stretched myself but most of all I am so encouraged and beyond excited for these teens to grow in their relationship with God Looking forward to this next year with them.

Whole group

Hiking group

So, as my semester kicks off this coming weekend, I will be working in the school kitchen as an intern. I have decided not to go to Community College this fall for a couple reasons, one being I want to seek investment from staff here at the bible school and also I
want to pour so much time and relationship building with the teen girls in the youth group!

Here are a few things I would appreciate prayer:
1. Continue growth in my relationship with God!
2. For the incoming Freshmen, Returning Students and Student Leaders as they start this semester out in their new roles!
3. Investment from staff and relationships with youth group
4. Finances
5. For staff and missionaries here on the campus have rest as they kick off the semester the busyness that it brings.

Thank you for your prayers and support!

Summer 2014

Hello Friends, Family, Church Family, and Prayer Warriors!

My goodness! Can you believe we are already half way though the summer? I hope you all are having a wonderful summer, and keeping safe on those long travels. 

Maybe wondering what I have been up to the last few months! Well here's a little update. 

In May I finished up my two years at bible school. (At NewTribes Bible Institute) YES folks I graduated from college! I did it! Truly I am so thankful and beyond amazed at all the hard work it took but the incredible everlasting reward it holds. These last two years have been AMAZING, CHALLENGING, UNDESCRIBABLE but worth it All! Even though I have graduated from bible school, I still don't know it all! Actually I see now how much I actually don't know! But oh boy! I am so excited to be studying on my own it's been so eye opening. Specialy trying to learn how to articulate what it is that I am learning and understanding. 

Thank you to all of you that have been praying for me these last few years, also for your encouragement and support it has been such a blessing!

So, I started my summer with a wedding of a very very dear sister/friend of mine! It was a beautiful wedding and I was so honored to be apart of it and share this special day with them. 

Then it was home bound to Saginaw, MI for this chicka! Whhhoooo I was beyond excited to see my family! Jason (one of my brothers) graduated also this year from high school and will attend cornor stone in Grand Rapids this coming fall. Jeremy (youngest brother) received his drivers license and also his first job! My parents both working so hard, trying to be home in the evenings to see us kids as we all have grown into teenagers an adults. What a blessing my family has been!

My summer job came as a surprise! My dad asked me if I would like to work with him. I said sure why not! Well little did I know what I was getting into! But I work at Michigan milk producers of Ovid Michigan a milk factory. It's hard work, long hours and long weeks! But it's a job that I am so thankful for! It's been a joy working with my dad and learning so many more skills, but specially really connecting with my dad which at this stage in life isn't so common!

This summer has been busy! This last week I got to help volunteer for Vaction Bible School with my brother Jeremy an a bunch of other volunteers from Immanuel Bible Church! What a joy and crazy, fun time it was hanging out with the kids but also getting to know some new people! what an incredible week!

Also this summer I received a lovely package from a family (Brandon & Heather Young) we choose as our senior project from school (NTBI). It was from  Papua New Guinea (PNG) how excited I was! I can't wait to hear about their trip! Such an encouarging couple!

Please contuine to be praying for me as the summer rolls on. A couple things you can be praying for:

1. Contuinly reading Gods word & Looking to him!

2. Fall plans, and desscions.

3. Finances 

4. 38 Students that have graduated from New Tribes Bible Institute and how they are now impacting this world with what they have learned.

Update coming soon for fall.

Romans 15:4-7

"For whatever was written in former days was written for ourinstruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.